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Stewart Edward White
Stewart Edward White 1873-1946, American author, b. Grand Rapids, Mich., grad. Univ. of Michigan, 1895. The stories collected in The Claim Jumpers (1901) and The Blazed Trail (1902) reflect his own adventures in the Black Hills gold rush and in a Michigan lumber camp, respectively. His... Read more |
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The Story of Rimini
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Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer , 1923-, South African writer, b. Springs. She published her first short story at age 15 and later many of her stories appeared in The New Yorker magazine. Her stories often combine the political and the personal, showing a fine sensitivity to the complexities of human... Read more |
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William Stanley Braithwaite
Braithwaite, William Stanley Beaumont (1878–1962), black author and editor, whose poetry, first published in Lyrics of Life and Love (1904) and The House of Falling Leaves (1908), was gathered in Selected Poems (1948). He also wrote Frost on the Green Tree (1928), stories; The House Under... Read more |
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Madame C.J. Walker
Madame C. J. Walker 1867–1919 Entrepreneur, philanthropist At a Glance… Serving a New Market Building an Empire Became Philanthropist Sources “I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. I was promoted from there to the washtub. Then I was promoted to the cook... Read more |
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Joseph Story
Joseph Story 1779-1845, American jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1811-45), b. Marblehead, Mass. Admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1801, he practiced law in Salem and was several times elected to the Massachusetts legislature. He served briefly in the U.S. Congress in 1808-9.... Read more |
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Jean Toomer
Jean Toomer 1894-1967, American writer, b. Washington, D.C., as Nathan Eugene Toomer. A major figure of the Harlem Renaissance, he is known for one work, Cane (1923), a collection of stories, poems, and sketches about black life in rural Georgia and the urban North.... Read more |
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Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Charles Waddell Chesnutt , 1858-1932, American author and lawyer, b. Cleveland, Ohio. In 1887 he was admitted to the Ohio bar. His short stories were first published in the Atlantic Monthly and syndicated newspapers. At first, his publishers withheld the fact that he was black. A sensitive... Read more |
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A S Byatt
A. S. Byatt (Antonia Susan Byatt) , 1936-, British novelist; sister of Margaret Drabble . Educated at Cambridge, Bryn Mawr College, Pa., and Oxford, she is a noted critic and novelist whose work is erudite, subtle, and passionate. Her best-known novel, Possession (1989)—at once a mystery,... Read more |
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