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Alice Adams
Alice Adams 1926-99, American novelist, b. Fredericksburg, Va. Her deftly wry and witty fiction concerns 20th-century domestic and professional life, and usually concentrates on the lives of women in various stages of transition. Adams wrote a total of 11 novels, including Careless Love (1966), ... Read more |
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Alice Childress
Alice Childress 1920–1994 Actress, playwright, novelist Left School for Acting Career Miscegenation Play Stirs Controversy Young Adult Book Is Banned Selected writings Sources Read more |
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Mateo Aleman
Mateo Alemán The Spanish novelist Mateo Alem... Read more |
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James Gould Cozzens
James Gould Cozzens , 1903-78, American novelist, b. Chicago. His novels usually concern upper-middle-class professional men who are faced with moral dilemmas that require compromising their ideals. All Cozzens's works are characterized by meticulous craftsmanship and an objective, almost clinical... Read more |
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Nella Larsen
Nella Larsen 1891-1964 Novelist, nurse, librarian At a Glance… First Novel.... Read more |
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June Jordan
June Jordan 1936–2002 Poet, novelist, essayist, educator, activist At a Glance Read more |
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Ernesto Sabato
Ernesto Sábato The novelist and essayist Ernesto S Read more |
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The Member of the Wedding
Member of the Wedding, The, novel by Carson McCullers, published in 1946 and dramatized by the novelist in 1950.Frankie Adams, a lonely, sensitive, 12‐year‐old girl, lives in a small Southern town with her widowed father and Berenice Sadie Brown, the warm, understanding,... Read more |
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George Eliot
George Eliot pseud. of Mary Ann or Marian Evans, 1819-80, English novelist, b. Arbury, Warwickshire. One of the great English novelists, she was reared in a strict atmosphere of evangelical Protestantism but eventually rebelled and renounced organized religion totally. Her early schooling... Read more |
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Johan Bojer
Bojer, Johan (1872–1959), Norwegian novelist, visited the U.S. (1923) to gather material for his novel, The Emigrants (1925), concerned with the settling of the Middle West by Norwegian farmers.... Read more |
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Tarkington, (Newton) Booth
...Tarkington, [Newton] Booth (1869–1946), Indiana novelist, first won popularity with his Monsieur Beaucaire...and their decline during a period of transition, and Alice Adams (1921), a study of a commonplace girl whose illusions... |
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Alice Adams: novelist
THE American novelist Alice Adams, widely admired for her artfully constructed...died in San Francisco, aged 72. Ms Adams's ten novels and five collections...for her wry perspective on life, Ms Adams once ruminated on the difficulty of... |
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Novelist Alice Adams Dead at 72
AP Online 05-28-1999 Novelist Alice Adams Dead at 72 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Alice Adams, a longtime short story writer for The New Yorker and a novelist whose ``Superior Women... |
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Novelist Alice Adams Dies; Wrote for New Yorker
Alice Adams, 72, a longtime short story...for the New Yorker and a novelist whose 1984 book, "Superior...had a heart ailment. Ms. Adams, the author of 10 novels...published next year. Ms. Adams was born in Fredericksburg... |
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Novelist Adams bases her fiction in San Francisco
NEW YORK Alice Adams was happy to see the 1980s end, so she...actually very kind to the liberal-minded Adams, who enjoyed critical and commercial...Daughters (Alfred A. Knopf, $22), Adams had two basic ideas: the end of a decade... |
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Author Alice Adams dies at 72
SAN FRANCISCO Alice Adams, a longtime short-story...for the New Yorker and a novelist whose Superior Women became...has died at 72. Ms. Adams had been treated for heart...Kiernan, who edited Ms. Adams' stories in the New Yorker... |
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Alice Adams plumbs middle-class lives
Second Chances By Alice Adams. Knopf. $18.95. Like many fine women writers of the past 25 years, Alice Adams is a 20th century practitioner of...result was a generation of superb novelists and short-story writers who, although... |
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Obituaries in the News
The Associated Press, Alice Adams AP Online 05-28-1999 Obituaries...the News SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Novelist Alice Adams, widely admired for her artfully...editor, Victoria Wilson. Ms. Adams' 10 novels and five collections... |
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Critical studies of the Nineteenth Century South.(Whitewashing Uncle Tom's...
...Nineteenth-Century Women Novelists Respond to Stowe. By...27.95 paper. Henry Adams and the Southern Question...Nineteenth-Century Women Novelists Respond to Stowe" one...Latita Tademy, and Alice Randall. One cannot...demonstrates, women ... |
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New Jewish cultural center hosts Words on Fire festival.
...The festival will present readings, art exhibits, films and cyberart. Participants include novelists John Updike, William Styron, and Alice Adams, poet Sonia Sanchez and playwright Tony Kushner. Most of the events are free of charge. The... |
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'Making Our Way Back to the Mother Ship': Three Novelists Have a
...Back to the Mother Ship': Three Novelists Have a. Hyphenated-Identity...posed to a group of Jewish American novelists he invited to a recent roundtable...Annie Dillard, John Updike and Alice Adams weren't there. In brief: no... |
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