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Anne Sexton: American Female Poet

Anne Sexton 1928-1974 This page is dedicated to the work and life of Anne Gray Sexton whose poetry related to the world the social anxiety of growing up as a female and living as a woman in postwar American society. Though disabled by depression and dissatisfaction with life as a suburban housewife,Anne used her poetry as therapy, which undoubtedly prolonged her life.The purpose of this page is to honor the courage and discipline she commanded; allowing her work to overshadow her tragic suicide and attract the recognition of the literary world to her greatness as an American poetess. A look at some of Anne's work A brief biograpical summary A primary bibliographical summary A select secondary bibliography Other sites recognizing Anne

Biography of John F. Kennedy

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Biography of Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell and Black Atlanta Highlights of Margaret Mitchell's Life and Work Books about Margaret Mitchell Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell 1900-1949 "If the novel has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people able to come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualities are in those who fight their way through triumphantly that are lacking ...

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Dragon and the Pearl - On-line Edition of Cyberbil! Pearl Buck Biography

PEARL SYDENSTRICKER BUCK Beloved by millions of readers, The Good Earth has been one of the most popular novels of this century since its publication in 1931. The book won the Pulitzer Prize and the William Dean Howells medal for fiction. For over 30 years, Pear Buck's novel played a major role in shaping Western attitudes toward China. Born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, in 1892 to an ill-matched pair of Southern Presbyterian missionarie ...

Edith Wharton

In her long career, which stretched over forty years and included the publication of more than forty books, Edith Wharton (1862-1937) portrayed a fascinating segment of the American experience. She was a born storyteller, whose novels are justly celebrated for their vivid settings, satiric wit, ironic style, and moral seriousness. Her characters, such as Ellen Olenska in The Age of Innocence, Ethan Fromme, and the charming but ineffectual Lily Bart in The House of Mirth, are some of the most me ...

Edith Wharton

1862-1937 [ Links ] [ Bibliography ] [ Criticism ] [ Domestic Goddesses Home ] Domestic Goddess Edith Wharton once said, about critics and biographers: "After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them & invent others." It seems that there is an abundance of blatantly wrong or just slightly incorrect information about Wharton's life and literature; it also seems that this problem was one Wharton herself faced. Born Edith Jones, Ja ...

Eugene O'Neill

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z by birthday from the calendar. Credits and feedback Eugene (Gladstone) O'Neill (1888-1953) One of the greatest American playwrights, restless and bold experimenter, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936. Among O'Neill's best-known plays are ANNA CHRISTINE (pub. 1922), DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS (pub.1924), MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA (pub. 1931), LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NI ...

Eugene O'Neill | Playwright

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Fiction: Ernest Hemingway

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GREAT FALLS' ERIC NEWHOUSE WINS PULITZER PRIZE (April 14, 2000)

Home | About Gannett | News from Gannett | Investor Relations | Web Links | Jobs GREAT FALLS' ERIC NEWHOUSE WINS PULITZER PRIZE By Phil Currie, Senior Vice President/News, Gannett Wow! It was a great week for recognition of outstanding journalism in Gannett. Highlight No. 1 was the announcement that Eric Newhouse, projects editor of the Great Falls Tribune, had won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism. Newhouse, a 55-year-old newsman with a great white mustache that undersco ...

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John Cheever

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z by birthday from the calendar. Credits and feedback John Cheever (1912-1982) American short story writer and novelist, called the "Chekhov of the suburbs". Cheever's main theme was the spiritual and emotional emptiness of life. He especially described the manners and morals of middle-class, suburban America, with an ironic humour which softened his basically dark vision. Alth ...

John Steinbeck

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John Updike

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z by birthday from the calendar. Credits and feedback John (Hoyer) Updike (1932-) American novelist, short story writer and poet, internationally known for his novels RABBIT, RUN (1960), RABBIT REDUX (1971), RABBIT IS RICH (1981), and RABBIT AT REST (1990). They follow the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a star athlete, from his youth through the social and sexual upheavals of ...

Lewis, Sinclair

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Margaret Mitchell

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z by birthday from the calendar. Credits and feedback Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949) American author of the enormously popular novel GONE WITH WIND (1936), story about the Civil War and Reconstruction as seen from the Southern point of view. The book was adapted into a highly popular film in 1939, starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. At the novel's opening in 1861, Scarlett O' ...

Margaret Mitchell -- Encyclopædia Britannica

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New York State Writers Institute - Frank McCourt

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Memoirist Frank McCourt January 24, 2006 (Tuesday) 4:15 p.m. Seminar Ballroom, Campus Center UAlbany Uptown Campus 8:00 p.m. Reading (Introduction by William Kennedy) Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue UAlbany Downtown Campus Frank McCourt, Pulitzer Prize-winner, and one of the master storytellers of American literature, is the author of the new memoir, Teacher Man (2006), an account of his thirty-year teaching career with the New York City public school ...

New York State Writers Institute - Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham photo credit: Brad Fowler The Writer PBS Series Channel 17 Sunday at 1:30 p.m. October 14, 2001 The Hours Michael Cunningham's novel The Hours (1998), a fictional homage to Virginia Woolf, is one of the most widely-praised books to appear in recent years, earning both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. "An exquisitely written, kaleidoscopic work that anchors a post-modern world on premodern caissons of love, grief and transce ...

New York State Writers Institute - William Kennedy, Ironweed

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New York State Writers Institute - Yusef Komunyakaa

The Writer PBS Series Channel 17 Sunday at 1:30 p.m. October 7, 2001 photo credit: Don Getsug StudiosPulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa is a unique figure in American poetry and the author of eleven poetry volumes. Komunyakaa's poetry is celebrated for its short lines, its simple vernacular language, its jazzy feel, and its rootedness in the poet's experience as a Black child of the American South, and as a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War. Komunyakaa's most recent ...

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Online NewsHour -- A Conversation with Frank McCourt -- March 17, 1999

Frank McCourt discusses his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Angela's Ashes. (4/7/97) Today, 'Tis, the follow-up to Frank McCourt's best-seller Angela's Ashes, hits the bookstore shelves. In March, Terence Smith sat down with McCourt to discuss his upcoming book. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author discusses his life and works. (3/17/99) The following is the full transcript of Terence Smith's conversation with Frank McCourt. (3/17/99) Part 1: Mr. McCourt discus ...

Online NewsHour: Edward Larson -- April 20, 1998

THE GREAT DEBATE April 20, 1998 The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Transcript In our continuing series of dialogues with Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, Edward Larson discusses his book, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion. MARGARET WARNER: Edward J. Larson won this year's Pulitzer Prize for history for his book Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion. It's t ...

Online NewsHour: Pulitzer Prize Winner- April 11, 2000

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER-BIOGRAPHY April 11 , 2000 Now we begin a series conversations with winners in the arts categories of this year's Pulitzer Prizes. Elizabeth Farnsworth has the first. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: The winner for biography this year is Stacey Schiff for her book "Vera: Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov." It's a portrait of an unusual literary marriage. Vladimir Nabokov was the author of "Pale Fire," "Speak Memory," and "Lolita," among other works. His wife, Vera, ...

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Poetry: Alice Walker

Alice Walker (b. 1944) LINKS Voices from the Gaps: Alice Walker http://voices.cla.umn.edu/ From Voices From the Gaps, an instructional site from the University of Minnesota focusing on the lives and works of women writers of color, the page on Walker includes a brief biography, a useful bibliography, and a list of links to other related sites. BIOGRAPHY Alice Walker (b. 1944). Born in Eatonton, Georgia, the eighth child of sharecroppers, Walker was educated at Spelm ...

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Robert Penn Warren

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z by birthday from the calendar. Credits and feedback Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) American novelist, poet, critic, teacher, who became the first poet laureate of the United States in 1986. Warren's best-known novel is ALL THE KING'S MEN (1946), which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1947. His poetic style was, at the beginning, tightly controlled in form, but his later poem ...

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Sinclair Lewis

Search:The WebAngelfire Search Jobs Share This Page Report Abuse Edit your Site Browse Sites « Previous | Top 100 | Next » Sinclair Lewis was born in 1885 in Minnesota right before the turn of the century. As a bright young boy, he attended Yale University after his earlier education. Afterwards he worked as an editor and reporter, neither job giving him very much satisfaction. One of his major topics in all his works was the monotony and lack of spiritual values in every day Ame ...

Sinclair Lewis 1885-1951, 66 years - Inspiration

Inspiration... Sinclair Lewis 1885-1951, 66 years The man who was probably the greatest satirist of his era and who gave us Elmer Gantry (1927), Main Street (1920) and Babbitt (1922) died alone in Rome, on January 10, 1951 at the age of 66. A red-head with a quick temper, he was angry most of his life. His Arrowsmith(1925) won him a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction but he refused to accept it. He did accept the Nobel Prize for Literature for his Dodsworth (1929), the first American to win one, ...

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Sylvia Plath

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z by birthday from the calendar. Credits and feedback Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) - pseudonym Victoria Lucas American writer whose best-known poems are noted for their personal imagery and intense focus. Plath wrote only two books before her suicide at the age of 31. Her posthumous ARIEL (1965) astohished the literary world with its power, and has become one of the best-selling vo ...

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The SALON Interview: John Updike

THE SALON INTERVIEW: JOHN UPDIKE "As close as you can get to the stars" By DWIGHT GARNER Illustration by Zach Trenholm For a man who dislikes interviews -- he has called them "a form to be loathed; a half-form like maggots" -- John Updike is an agile and adept interview subject. In conversation he seems to shed, as the critic James Wolcott has put it, "bright amounts of angel fluff" about almost any topic at hand. At age 64, there is indeed something snow-cappe ...

The Unofficial Neil Simon Homepage - Biography

Introduction: Portrait of the Writer as a Schizophrenic (The Comedy of Neil Simon, Random House 1972) Marvin Neil Simon was born on July 4, 1927, the second son of Irving Simon, a Jewish travelling salesman, and his wife Mamie. He grew up in the Bronx in New York City. As early as 1948 he was writing scripts together with his brother Danny for radio and television. His sketches for Phil Silvers, Gary Moore, Jerry Lewis etc. contributed to his wide acclaim. He and his brother separated a ...

The Willa Cather Electronic Archive

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University of Delaware: EDNA FERBER LETTERS TO FLORA MAE HOLLY

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Unofficial Jonathan Larson site

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Willa Cather: Domestic Goddess

1873-1947 [ Links ] [ Criticism ] [ Photos of Cather's childhood home! ] [ Domestic Goddesses Home ] Domestic Goddess Willa Cather was born in December of 1873. Like many other authors, Cather worked a variety of jobs, from journalist, to teacher, to editor of McClure's magazine. She won a Pulitzer prize in 1923 for One of Ours, however, this was not the only honor she received. Cather once said that she belonged to a world that had split in two and, as a woman of two centuries-- the conse ...

William Faulkner on the Web

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