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/Home/People & Places/Biographies/Pulitzer Prize Winners/Specific Individuals Carol Shields Votes:0 Carol Shields READING IS, BY DEFINITION, a solitary act, and our society tends to look askance at those who pursue their pleasures in solitude. But 25 years from now I predict a rediscovery of the book as we know it. Suddenly people will be saying of books: how portable, how compact, how direct, how cost-effective, how intimate, how blessedly silent, how vivid, how enduring, how interactive, how revolutionary! Quote from the Vancouver Village The youngest of three children, Carol Shields was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1935. She studied at Hanover College, the University of Exeter in England, and the University of Ottawa, where she received an M.A. In 1957 she married Donald Hugh Shields, a professor of Civil Engineering, and moved to Canada. She has lived there ever since. In addition t Read More Go to Site The Tennessee Williams Page Votes:0 &#8230;Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) Tennessee Williams Thomas Lanier Williams was born on March 26, 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. His father, Cornelius Coffin Williams, was a shoe salesman who spent a great deal of his time away from the family. Williams had one older sister and one younger brother. They spent much of their childhood in the home of their maternal grandfather who was an Episcopal minister. In 1927, Williams got his first taste of literary acclaim when he placed third in a national essay contest sponsored by The Smart Set magazine. The essay was entitled &quot;Can a Good Wife Be a Good Sport?&quot; Williams studied for several years at the University of Missouri, but withdrew before completing his degree and took a job in St. Louis at the International Shoe Company where Read More Go to Site University of Delaware: EDNA FERBER LETTERS TO FLORA MAE HOLLY Votes:0 Special Collections Department Edna Ferber Letters to Flora Mae Holly 1911 - 1941 Manuscript Collection Number : 99, Folder 571 Accessioned : Purchase, August 1997. Extent : 6 items. Content : Letters. Access : The collection is open for research. Processed : October 1997, by Shanon Lawson. for reference assistance email Special Collections or contact: Special Collections, University of Delaware Library Newark, Delaware 19717-5267 (302) 831-2229 Table of Contents Biographical Note Scope and Contents Note Contents List Biographical Note Edna Ferber was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on August 15, 1887. Due to her father's poor business sense and the anti-Semitism of their neighbors, the Ferbers moved frequently around the Midwest. After graduating from high school in Appleton, Wisconsin, Ferb Read More Go to Site Anne Sexton: American Female Poet Votes:0 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 Read More Go to Site Auto-Forwarding Page Votes:0 The Sinclair Lewis Website is now found at the following address: http://www.english.ilstu.edu/separry/sinclairlewis/ Please update your bookmarks. Forwarding to the new Sinclair Lewis Website Read More Go to Site Biography of John F. Kennedy Votes:0 PRESIDENT | VICE PRESIDENT | FIRST LADY | MRS. CHENEY | NEWS Your Government | History & Tours | Kids | E-mail | En EspaÑol Podcasts RSS Feeds Tours In Person On-Line Panoramic Grounds & Garden Presidents & First Ladies Presidents First Ladies Kid Bios Kids Quiz White House Art Facts EEOB VP Residence Events & Traditions African-American History Month Presidents & Baseball Grounds and Garden Easter Egg Roll Christmas & Holidays State of the Union Resources Historical Association Presidential Libraries Military Air Force One Camp David Marine One Home &gt; History & Tours &gt; Past Presidents &gt; John F. Kennedy John Kennedy On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullets as his motorcade wound thr Read More Go to Site Cambridge University Press - the Americas Votes:0 Cambridge University Press advances learning, knowledge, and research worldwide. 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She was chairman of the board from May 1973 to September 1993. She was chief executive officer of the company from May 1973 to May 1991 and served as president from 1963 to 1973. She was publisher of The Washington Post newspaper from 1969 to 1979. Mrs. Graham was born on June 16, 1917, in New York City. She is a daughter of Agnes Ernst Meyer and Eugene Meyer, who purchased The Washington Post at a bankruptcy sale in 1933. After attending Vassar for two years, Mrs. Graham graduated from the University of Chicago in 1938. She worked as a reporter for the San Francisco News and later joined the staff of The Washington Post, wo Read More Go to Site Dragon and the Pearl - On-line Edition of Cyberbil! Pearl Buck Biography Votes:0 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 missionaries, Pearl Sydenstricker was taken to China at the age of three months and lived there for forty years. A rarity among white american writers, she spent her childhood as a minority person, an experience that had much to do with her lifelong passion for interracial understanding. Raised in Chinkiang, a small port city in Kiangsu province, by the time she was fo Read More Go to Site Edith Wharton Votes:0 I n 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 memorable in American literature. Often portrayed as tragic victims of cruel social conventions, they are trapped in bad relationships or confining circumstances. Her own life stands as an example of the obstacles that a woman of her time and place had to overcome to find self-realization. E dith Wh Read More Go to Site Edith Wharton Votes:0 1862-1937 [ Bibliography ] [ Criticism ] [ Domestic Goddesses Home ] Domestic Goddess Edith Wharton once said, about critics and biographers: &quot;After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them & invent others.&quot; 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, January 24, 1862, she went on to become the first woman to ever win the Pulitzer prize for her novel The Age of Innocence, in 1921. You can read Wharton's own impressions of her life in the autobiography A Backward Glance. Her life story is as interesting as those of the women in her novels, and the biogr Read More Go to Site Eugene O'Neill Votes:0 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 TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne 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 NIGHT (pub. 1956), and THE ICEMAN COMETH (prod. 1946). O'Neill's plays range in style from satire to tragedy. They often depict people who have no hope of controlling their destinies. &quot;... we all are more or less the slaves of conventions, or of discipline, or of Read More Go to Site EWDQs 10-18-02 document home page Votes:0 EWDQs 10-18-02 document home page The Edith Wharton Society site has moved to http://www.edithwhartonsociety.org/index.html . This page will redirect you to the new site in 5 seconds. If it does not, please click on the link above to go to the new site. 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Outside U.S. and Canada Home International Support Product Information: Catalog Catalog Help Cataloging Service Core-Reference Titles How to Order New Products Product Fact Sheets Product Reviews View Wish List Database Title Lists CD-ROM Databa Read More Go to Site GREAT FALLS' ERIC NEWHOUSE WINS PULITZER PRIZE (April 14, 2000) Votes:0 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 underscores his Montana character, won for the series, &quot;Alcohol: Cradle to Grave.&quot; It ran in installments each month beginning in January 1999. Although Newhouse was the principal writer, the project involved several of the Tribune's 38 full-time news staffers throughout the year. Eric Newhouse hugs his wife, Read More Go to Site John Cheever Votes:0 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 TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne John Cheever (1912-1982) American short story writer and novelist, called the &quot;Chekhov of the suburbs&quot;. Cheever's main theme was the spiritual and emotional emptiness of life. He especially described manners and morals of middle-class, suburban America, with an ironic humour which softened his basically dark vision. Although he often used his family as material, his daughter Susan Cheever has reminded that &quot;of course none of us expected accuracy from my father. He made his living by making up stories.&quot; &quot;He looked at us all bleakly. The wind and the sea had risen Read More Go to Site John Updike Votes:0 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 TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne 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 &quot;Rabbit&quot; Angstrom, a star athlete, from his youth through the social and sexual upheavals of the 1960s, to later periods of his life, and to final decline. Updike's oeuvre has been large, consisting of novels, collections of poems, short stories, and essays. He has written a great deal of literary criticism. Among the writers whose works he has re Read More Go to Site KC's Norman Mailer Page Votes:0 Photo Credit: Picks And Pans Norman Mailer His Life And Works Background Norman Mailer was born in 1923 in Long Branch, N.J. Mailer grew up in Brooklyn and began attending Harvard University in 1939, it was while at university that he became interested in writing, he published his first story when he was 18. He graduated from Harvard with a degree in aeronautical engineering in 1943. Drafted into the army in 1944, he served in the Philippines, as a rifleman in a reconnaissance outfit with the Twelfth Armoured Cavalry regiment from Texas until 1946. Just before enrolling in the Sorbonne, in Paris, he wrote The Naked and the Dead(1948) based on his personal experiences in World War II, it was both a critical and commercial success and hailed by many as one of the finest American novels to co Read More Go to Site Luxury Living Portal Votes:0 Web pages Auctions Shopping Software Home Dog: Friend of the same sex, usually male. A guy who enjoys the good life. If you enjoy the best in Luxury life such as Ferrari, Bentley, Lamborghini and Aston Martin cars, Armani, Boss, Brioni clothes or like Patek Philipe, Franck Muller watches then this is the site for you. The best of cars, fashion, jewellery, wines, cigars, hotels, real estate and latest gadgets such as mobile phones, cameras and computers collected in one place. Luxuary living for the Chic Dogs !!! 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Th Read More Go to Site MSN Encarta : Online Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Atlas, and Homework Votes:0 MSN home Mail My MSN Sign in encarta greeting cards more Hotmail Messenger My MSN MSN Directory Air Tickets/Travel Autos Careers & Jobs City Guides Dating & Personals Extra Games Green Health & Fitness Horoscopes Lifestyle Maps & Directions Money Movies Music News Real Estate/Rentals Shopping Spaces Sports Tech & Gadgets TV Weather White Pages Yellow Pages encarta ® Home Encyclopedia Dictionary Atlas K-12 Success College & Grad School Adult Learning Quizzes More Additional Reference Materials Thesaurus Translations Multimedia Other Resources Education Resources Math Help Foreign Language Help Project Planner Scholarships & Financial Aid Jobs & Internships Online Degrees Coffee Break Ask Bill Nye the Science Guy Top 10 Lists Columns On This Day Encarta Products Help Today's Highlights Novem Read More Go to Site MSN Encarta : Online Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Atlas, and Homework Votes:0 MSN home Mail My MSN Sign in encarta greeting cards more Hotmail Messenger My MSN MSN Directory Air Tickets/Travel Autos Careers & Jobs City Guides Dating & Personals Extra Games Green Health & Fitness Horoscopes Lifestyle Maps & Directions Money Movies Music News Real Estate/Rentals Shopping Spaces Sports Tech & Gadgets TV Weather White Pages Yellow Pages encarta ® Home Encyclopedia Dictionary Atlas K-12 Success College & Grad School Adult Learning Quizzes More Additional Reference Materials Thesaurus Translations Multimedia Other Resources Education Resources Math Help Foreign Language Help Project Planner Scholarships & Financial Aid Jobs & Internships Online Degrees Coffee Break Ask Bill Nye the Science Guy Top 10 Lists Columns On This Day Encarta Products Help Today's Highlights Novem Read More Go to Site MSN Encarta : Online Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Atlas, and Homework Votes:0 MSN home Mail My MSN Sign in encarta greeting cards more Hotmail Messenger My MSN MSN Directory Air Tickets/Travel Autos Careers & Jobs City Guides Dating & Personals Extra Games Green Health & Fitness Horoscopes Lifestyle Maps & Directions Money Movies Music News Real Estate/Rentals Shopping Spaces Sports Tech & Gadgets TV Weather White Pages Yellow Pages encarta ® Home Encyclopedia Dictionary Atlas K-12 Success College & Grad School Adult Learning Quizzes More Additional Reference Materials Thesaurus Translations Multimedia Other Resources Education Resources Math Help Foreign Language Help Project Planner Scholarships & Financial Aid Jobs & Internships Online Degrees Coffee Break Ask Bill Nye the Science Guy Top 10 Lists Columns On This Day Encarta Products Help Today's Highlights Novem Read More Go to Site MSN Encarta : Online Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Atlas, and Homework Votes:0 MSN home Mail My MSN Sign in encarta greeting cards more Hotmail Messenger My MSN MSN Directory Air Tickets/Travel Autos Careers & Jobs City Guides Dating & Personals Extra Games Green Health & Fitness Horoscopes Lifestyle Maps & Directions Money Movies Music News Real Estate/Rentals Shopping Spaces Sports Tech & Gadgets TV Weather White Pages Yellow Pages encarta ® Home Encyclopedia Dictionary Atlas K-12 Success College & Grad School Adult Learning Quizzes More Additional Reference Materials Thesaurus Translations Multimedia Other Resources Education Resources Math Help Foreign Language Help Project Planner Scholarships & Financial Aid Jobs & Internships Online Degrees Coffee Break Ask Bill Nye the Science Guy Top 10 Lists Columns On This Day Encarta Products Help Today's Highlights Novem Read More Go to Site MSN Encarta : Online Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Atlas, and Homework Votes:0 MSN home Mail My MSN Sign in encarta greeting cards more Hotmail Messenger My MSN MSN Directory Air Tickets/Travel Autos Careers & Jobs City Guides Dating & Personals Extra Games Green Health & Fitness Horoscopes Lifestyle Maps & Directions Money Movies Music News Real Estate/Rentals Shopping Spaces Sports Tech & Gadgets TV Weather White Pages Yellow Pages encarta ® Home Encyclopedia Dictionary Atlas K-12 Success College & Grad School Adult Learning Quizzes More Additional Reference Materials Thesaurus Translations Multimedia Other Resources Education Resources Math Help Foreign Language Help Project Planner Scholarships & Financial Aid Jobs & Internships Online Degrees Coffee Break Ask Bill Nye the Science Guy Top 10 Lists Columns On This Day Encarta Products Help Today's Highlights Novem Read More Go to Site New York State Writers Institute - Frank McCourt Votes:0 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Memoirist F rank M c C ourt 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 &#9; 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 system. 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Komunyakaa's most recent collection is Talking Dirty to the Gods (2000, FSG), and his earlier collections include Thieves of Paradise (1998, Univ Press of New England), which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Neon Vernacular (1993), which received the Pulitzer Prize, Magic City (1992) and Dien Cai Dau (198 Read More Go to Site Northwest Passages - Canadian Literature Online bookstore! We ship worldwide. 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(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 discusses the impact of Angela's Ashes on his life and his first impressions of America. Part 2 : From hotel houseman to soldier to teacher. Part 3 : &quot;Irish chic&quot; and reflections on St. Partrick's Day. Part 4 : Frank McCourt reads an excerpt from his upcoming work 'Tis: A Memoir . REGIONS TOPICS RECENT PROGRAMS ABOUT US FEEDBA Read More Go to Site Online NewsHour: Edward Larson -- April 20, 1998 Votes:0 --> 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 the story of the 1925 Scopes trial in Dayton, Tennessee, considered perhaps "the" premier legal battle between Evolution and Creationism in this country. An Ohio native, Edward Larson holds dual posts as professor of law and of history at the University of Georgia. Welcome, Mr. Larson, and congratulations on winning the Pu Read More Go to Site Online NewsHour: Pulitzer Prize Winner- April 11, 2000 Votes:0 --> 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 &quot;Vera: Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov.&quot; It's a portrait of an unusual literary marriage. Vladimir Nabokov was the author of &quot;Pale Fire,&quot; &quot;Speak Memory,&quot; and &quot;Lolita,&quot; among other works. His wife, Vera, was his muse, editor, driver, typist, agent and much more. Stacey Schiff is a former book editor who has also written a biography of the French aviator and author, Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Thanks for being with us and congratulations. STACY SCHIFF, Pulitzer Prize, Biography: Thank you, Read More Go to Site PAL: Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) Votes:0 PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project © Paul P. Reuben (To send an email, please click on my name above.) Chapter 8: Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) Outside Links: | EON Electronic Archive | Eugene O'Neill: Tao House | Page Links: | Primary Works | Selected Bibliography 1980-1999 Selected Bibliography 2000-Present | Study Questions | MLA Style Citation of this Web Page | | A Brief Biography | Site Links: | Chap. 8: Index | Alphabetical List | Table Of Contents | Home Page | April 2, 2007 | Source: Born Today - October 16 "I was born in a hotel and, damn it, I'll die in a hotel." - EO'N Considered the foremost United States playwright, O'N was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936, only the second American (after Sinclair Lewis) t Read More Go to Site Pearl Buck Votes:0 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 TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) - original surname Sydenstricker; pseudonym John Sedges One of the most popular American authors of her day, humanitarian, crusader for women's rights, editor of Asia magazine, philanthropist, noted for her novels of life in China. Pearl S. Buck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. The decision of the Swedish Academy stirred controversy, especially among critics who believed that Buck lacked the stature the Nobel Prize was intended to confirm. 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Credits and feedback TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne 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 later Warren wrote often in free verse. Warren was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry twice, in 1957 for PROMISES, and 1979 for NOW AND THEN. &quot;We live in time so little time And we learn all so painfully, That we may spare this hour's term To practice for eternity.&quot; ( Read More Go to Site Sinclair Lewis Votes:0 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 American life. Among his works are Babbit, Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, Dodswoth, It can't Happen Here, Kingsblood Royal, and Main Street . As most authors of that time, he was part of the lost generation, and moved to Europe. In 1930, he was the first American that received the Noble prize in literature for his work in the past decade. In 1951, Lewis dies in Rome. Later, his letters would be published in From Main Street to Stockholm . 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Out of the ash I rise with my red hair And I eat men like air. (from 'Lady Lazarus', in Ariel , 1965) Sylvia Plath was born in Boston. Her father was a pro Read More Go to Site Sylvia Plath Biography: AllSands Votes:0 Contact About Home You Are At: AllSands Home &gt; History &GT; People &gt; Sylvia Plath biography Sylvia Plath Biography biography of award winning author, Sylvia Plath. Sylvia Plath was born to middle-class parents in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts on October 27, 1932. Sylvia's father, Otto, a College Professor and self-described bee expert, became ill during Sylvia's first years. Convinced he was dying of cancer, Otto refused to see a doctor and spent increasingly large amounts of time at home, resting. When Otto did finally visit his physician, he would learn that he had been suffering the effects of diabetes, and that his condition was far too advanced to treat successfully. After much suffering, including the amputation of a leg, Sylvia's father would die just days after her 8th birthda Read More Go to Site Tennessee Williams Votes:0 Tennessee Williams Thomas Lanier ("Tennessee") Williams , b. Columbus, Miss., Mar. 26, 1911, d. Feb. 25, 1983, was an outstanding American playwright and the author of film scripts, short stories, novels, and verse. He was known for his innovations in theatrical technique, as well as for his Southern idioms, compelling dialogue, and themes that--for their time--often seemed strange or shocking. Williams vividly conveyed the sexual tensions and suppressed violence of his tormented characters, usually with compassion as well as irony. He won Pulitzer Prizes for A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. Many believed that The Glass Menagerie deserved one as well. During the Depression Williams worked as a factory hand and, after attending the University of Missouri and Washington Un Read More Go to Site Tennessee Williams Votes:0 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 TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) - original name Thomas Lanier Williams One of the most prominent playwrights in United States after World War II. After a severe mental and physical breakdown in the 1960s, Williams's plays were more or less unsuccessful. Williams examined in his controversial and poetic plays turbulent emotional and sexual forces, physical and spiritual needs, and created such unforgettable characters as Maggie in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (195) and Stanley Kowalski in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1947). &quot;There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. Some are a little better or a li Read More Go to Site The Hemingway Resource Center has moved to www.lostgeneration.com! Votes:0 The Hemingway Resource Center has moved! We outgrew our space at AOL several years ago and have created a bigger and better Hemingway website at www.lostgeneration.com Click here to visit! Take a look below to get an idea of what you'll find. A comprehensive biography, an faq, a highly active community message board system where you can ask your research questions or share your ideas, audio, video, a short story contest, a bibliography, a bookstore, hard to find Hemingway items, interviews, articles, links and more! We are the most visited Hemingway related site on the internet! Click here! The Hemingway Resource Center at www.lostgeneration.com is the most comprehensive Hemingway related site on the web. Visit today! Read More Go to Site The SALON Interview: John Updike Votes:0 THE SALON INTERVIEW: JOHN UPDIKE "As close as you can get to the stars" By DWIGHT GARNER Illustration by Zach Trenholm F or 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-capped and oddly angelic about Updike; he seems to hover over the contemporary literary scene like an apparition from another era, the last great American man of letters. On a recent Friday in New York, a snowy and harried day that would find him shuffling from "Good Morning America" to "Charlie Rose" to a marathon telephone conference w Read More Go to Site The Unofficial Neil Simon Homepage - Biography Votes:0 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 and Neil began writing for the New York theater scene. full name: Marvin Neil Simon born: July 4, 1927 in Bronx, NY parents: Irving (salesperson) and Mamie Simon married: Joan Baim (dancer), September 10, 1953 (died, 1973) married: Marsha Mason (actress), October 25, 1973 (divorced, 1982) married: Diane Lande Read More Go to Site The Willa Cather Electronic Archive Votes:0 The Willa Cather Electronic Archive has moved. Please update your links. http://cather.unl.edu/ June 08, 2004 Read More Go to Site Thornton Niven Wilder &mdash; FactMonster.com Votes:0 Home World & News U.S. People Word Wise Science Math & Money Sports Cool Stuff Games & Quizzes Homework Center Fact Monster Favorites American Indian Heritage Month Thanksgiving Say Thank You Advent Hanukkah Pearl Harbor Day Campaign 2008 Presidential Factfile International Space Station Most Polluted Places in the World Harry Potter Page Ranger's Apprentice NFL Team Profiles Fact Monster Blog! Science Projects Daylight Saving Time 2007 Calendar 2008 Calendar Reference Desk Atlas Almanacs Dictionary Encyclopedia FunBrain Encyclopedia Wilder, Thornton Niven Wilder, Thornton Niven, 1897&#8211;1975, American playwright and novelist, b. Madison, Wis., grad. Yale (B.A., 1920) and Princeton (M.A., 1925). He received most of his early education in China, where his father was in the U.S. consular Read More Go to Site Thornton Wilder Votes:0 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 TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne Thornton (Niven) Wilder (1897-1975) American writer and playwright, best known for the Pulitzer Prize awarded play OUR TOWN (1938). Wilder's breakthrough novel was THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY (1927), an examination of justice and altruism. The story focused on the fates of five travelers in the 18-century Peru, who happen to be crossing the finest bridge in the land when it breaks and throws them into the gulf below. A scholarly monk, Brother Juniper, interprets the story of each victim in an attempt to explain the working of divine providence. Surely, he argues, if there were any plan i Read More Go to Site wilder_thornton Votes:0 wilder_thornton Wilder, Thornton [Niven] (1897-1975) came to Princeton frequently in the early 1920s to browse in the stacks of the old Pyne Library on evenings when he was off duty at Lawrenceville School, where he taught French and was a master of Davis House. He entered the Princeton Graduate School in the fall of 1925 and received an A.M. in Modern Languages here in June 1926. He had previously attended Oberlin and Yale, where he received his A.B. in 1920. He got the idea for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, ``on the winding walk from the golf club to the Graduate College.'' He began to write The Bridge in his rooms on the top floor of the eleventh entry of the Graduate College and finished it in Davis House the following year while teaching again at Lawren Read More Go to Site Willa Cather: Domestic Goddess Votes:0 1873-1947 [ 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 conservative nineteenth and the twentieth-- she certainly bridged quite a gap. She was the eldest child of seven, and, like her character Ántonia in her most famous novel, Cather moved to Nebraska when she was very young. Cather once said that during the trip from her birthplace in Virginia , she imagined that, &quot; Read More Go to Site William Faulkner Votes:0 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 TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne William (Cuthbert) Faulkner (1897-1962) - original surname until 1924 Falkner American short story writer, novelist, best known for his Yoknapatawpha cycle, a com&#233;die humaine of the American South, which started in 1929 with SARTORIS / FLAGS IN THE DUST and completed with THE MANSION in 1959. Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949. Faulkner's style is not very easy - in this he has connections to European literary modernism. His sentences are long and hypnotic, sometimes he withholds important details, or refers to people or events that the reader will not lear Read More Go to Site William Faulkner biography Votes:0 William Faulkner biography William Faulkner brief biography & chronology, was recipient of the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature. William Faulkner, recipient of the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in New Albany, Mississippi. He was the first of four sons born to Murray Charles and Maud Faulkner. He dropped out of high school in 1915, but he studied literature at the University of Mississippi. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War I. He later worked in a bookstore in New York and then for a newspaper in New Orleans. Faulkner began writing poetry when he was 13. His first book, THE MARBLE FAUN, was published when he was 27. He is best known for his Yoknapatawpha cycle which began in 1929 with his novel SARTORIS/FLAGS IN THE DUST. The cycle ended with THE MANSION whi Read More Go to Site William Faulkner on the Web Votes:0 --> William Faulkner American Writer 1897-1962 Introduction Audio Welcome Welcome to Yoknapatawpha County : County seat Jefferson ... Home to the Compson , Sartoris , Sutpen , Stevens, Coldfield , Benbow, Grierson, Bundren , De Spain , and Snopes families ... Once inhabited, later ceded by the Chickasaw tribe, first settled by Europeans ca. 1811 ... Bounded on the north by the Tallahatchie River , on the south by the Yoknapatawpha River ... Area 2400 square miles ... Population (ca. 1936): Whites, 6298, Negroes, 9313 ... Address of William Faulkner , RAF cadet, Nobel laureate, Sole Owner and Proprietor. HEADLINES July 2007 2007 Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference to focus on &#145;Faulkner&#146;s Sexualities&#146; Focusing on the theme &#8220;Faulkner&#146;s Sexualities,&#8221; the 34th an Read More Go to Site William Faulkner, a writer from Oxford, Mississippi, and author of The Sound and the Fury Votes:0 William Faulkner The Mississippi Writers and Musicians Project at Starkville High School Picture of Faulkner on wall at Rowan Oak (Photo by N. Jacobs) Major Works of William Faulkner Biography of William Faulkner by Toyin Larinde (SHS) Discussion of Faulkner's Destructive Idyll in The Sound and the Fury by Sarah Nagel (SHS) Quentin and his Time-Fear by Kurt Spurlock (SHS) The Tragedy of Two Lost Women in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury by Amy Krans (SHS) Review of Requiem for a Nun by Daniel Kerr (SHS) Related Web Sites Bibliography Left: Poster of Faulkner and Faulkner bust at Rowan Oak (Photo by N. Jacobs) Back to Starkville High's Mississippi Writers Page Major Works of William Faulkner Below: Teachers Frances McCarty and June Barnett enter Rowan Oak. Absalom, Absalom! A Fable Go Down Read More Go to Site WWW.ROBINSONRESEARCH.COM Votes:0 Welcome! Nov 23, '07 WWW.ROBINSONRESEARCH.COM FEATURED DIRECTORY: Read More Go to Site

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