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Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski 1920-94, American underground poet and fiction writer, b. Andernach, Germany. His family immigrated to the United States in 1922, settling in Los Angeles. A hard-drinking unskilled worker and sometime denizen of skid row, Bukowski published his first short stories in the 1940s and ... Read more
Church of Scientology
Church of Scientology philosophical religion founded by L(afayette) Ron(ald) Hubbard, 1911-86, b. Tilden, Nebr. Hubbard's book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (1950) first set forth the basis of his philosophy, offering an alternative path to overcoming physical and mental stress. ... Read more
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens 1879-1955, American poet, b. Reading, Pa., educated at Harvard and New York Law School. After 1916 he was associated with the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, and from 1934 until his death he served as its vice president. A master of exquisite verse, Stevens was specifically... Read more
E. L. Doctorow
E. L. Doctorow (Edgar Laurence Doctorow) , 1931-, American novelist, b. New York City. Doctorow is known for his skillful blending of fiction and fact into reconstructions of eras in American history. His first work was a novel of the 19th-century West, Welcome to Hard Times (1960), but he did... Read more
Robertson Davies
Robertson Davies (William Robertson Davies) dā´vĬs , 1913-95, Canadian writer and editor. After receiving a B.Litt. from Oxford (1938), he joined the Old Vic Theatre Company before returning to Canada (1940) as an editor. In 1963 he became the first master of Massey College, a gra... Read more
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke (Sir Arthur Charles Clarke), 1917-2008, British science fiction writer. During World War II he served as a radar instructor and aviator in the Royal Air Force. After the war he obtained a degree in physics and mathematics from King's College, London (1948) and in 1956 he settled pe... Read more
Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje (Philip Michael Ondaatje) , 1943-, Canadian writer, b. Colombo, Sri Lanka (then Ceylon). Emigrating (1962) to Canada, he attended the Univ. of Toronto (B.A., 1965) and Queen's Univ., Ontario (M.A., 1967). Since 1971 he has been an English professor at Glendon College, York Univ., ... Read more
William Styron
William Styron 1925-2006, American novelist, b. Newport News, Va., grad. Duke, 1947. His fiction is often powerful, deeply felt, poetic, and elegiac. He became well known for his novel The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967; Pulitzer Prize), a fictional recreation of the 1831 slave rebellion in Virg... Read more
Q. D. Leavis
Q. D. Leavis (Queenie Dorothy Leavis), 1906-81, British literary critic; wife of F. R. Leavis . After studying at Cambridge, she wrote Fiction and the Reading Public (1932), which analyzed the market for different types of fiction among readers). Her essays on Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, and oth... Read more
science fiction
science fiction literary genre in which a background of science or pseudoscience is an integral part of the story. Although science fiction is a form of fantastic literature, many of the events recounted are within the realm of future possibility, e.g., robots, space travel, interplanetary war, inv... Read more

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Octavia E. Butler
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...series of science fiction novels in which she...the Clarion Science Fiction Writer's Workshop...her first science fiction stories. This early...Fiction/Science Fact, January 5, 1981...winter, 1978-79. Los Angeles Times, January 30...
Capote, Truman
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...August 25, 1984 Los Angeles, California American...reviewers of his early fiction categorized him as...writer (a style of fiction that uses gloomy...Capote's early fiction. When Truman was...that would combine fact and fiction. The...
Heinlein, Robert A.
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...American science fiction writer Robert A...figures of the science fiction genre, advancing...of California at Los Angeles briefly; owned and...human society. In fact, as a biography...magic years, in fact, are 1939–...

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Zevon, Warren
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 ...parents settled for a time in Los Angeles where Zevon studied classical...touristy club before getting back to Los Angeles and signing a songwriting contract...listeners. The songs mix solemn fact and sublime fiction to create intelligent and striking...
Pickpocket
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer, Los Angeles, 1972. Pontes Leca...Bordwell, Narration in the Fiction Film, London, 1985...of its impression. In fact, contrary to the expanding...deconstruction of the "Hollywood" fiction film and its idiosyncratic...
Awara
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Hoberman, J., in Voice (Los Angeles), 5 August 1981. Pym, John...emphasise the moral meanings of the fiction for the audience. But this moral...indicate that the moral terms of the fiction are in fact not so stable. For example...
Z
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...John, Costa-Gavras: The Political Fiction Film, Philadelphia, 1984. Articles...Jean-Louis Trintignant," in Show (Los Angeles), 20 August 1970. "An Interview with...strict censorship imposed. These chilling fact
Beresford, Bruce
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...1994. Interview with S.B. Katz, in Written By (Los Angeles), June 1997. On BERESFORD: books— Reade...November 1985. Bryant, Hallman B., "Breaker Morant in Fact, Fiction, and Film," Literature/Film Quarterly, 1987...
Festen
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...European Film Academy Awards, 1998; Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Foreign...appear to be a straitjacket, were in fact conceived as a chance to concentrate...he also demonstrated in his short fiction masterpiece, Drengen der gik bagl...
Olympia
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film, New York, 1974. Johnson...in American Cinematographer (Los Angeles), July 1984. "American Intelligence...as an aesthetic achievement. The fact its creator is a controversial figure...
Schoedsack, Ernest B.
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...in American Cinematographer (Los Angeles), January 1977. "RKO: They Also...primarily a cover to disguise the fact that he was smuggling supplies and...Schoedsack moved more and more toward fiction, although their films still retained...

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Los Angeles Fact and Fiction.
PR Newswire; 7/18/2000; 700+ words ; ...houses to the Los Angeles area. This...one of the facts highlighted...separate fact from fiction about the...climate in the Los Angeles region...The L.A. facts provided...Bureau and Los Angeles Mayor Richard...ensure that fact is separated from ...
Nation's Leading Economists to Debate Housing Market Unease During Two-Day Summit - 'The Housing Bubble: Fact or Fiction?' January 16-17 in Los Angeles.
PR Newswire; 11/20/2002; 700+ words ; LOS ANGELES -- With all other economic indicators...Estate Market: The Housing Bubble: Fact or Fiction?," January 16-17 at the Century Plaza Hotel and Spa in Los Angeles (http://www.inman.com/bubble...
Los Angeles's funkiest museum - the Getty it isn't: The Museum of Jurassic Technology's collection of strange artifacts and eccentric figures blurs the line between truth and fiction.(USA)(A Letter From Los Angeles)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 7/13/2000; 700+ words ; ...installation at one of Los Angeles's quirkier institutions...does indeed do that - in fact, it makes most people...line between truth and fiction, forcing visitors to...didn't know if it was fiction or nonfiction. Is it...
Recreating Los Angeles, in its own image
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 7/29/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...But if that's the only fiction about Los Angeles that exists, and those are the only movies about Los Angeles that exist, that's leaving...Hollywood had managed before, the fact is that they're fantasies...
The importance of the Los Angeles Public Library's Central Library to famous authors is expressed in "Save the Books" campaign.
PR Newswire; 10/2/1986; 700+ words ; ...including several science-fiction classics. "I came to...two local colleges, the Los Angeles Police Department and...where we lived around Los Angeles almost as well as the...school and high school. In fact, I read out the Arroyo...
Sixth Annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books to Feature Pulitzer Prize Winners, Panels on Hollywood, Politics, Religion, Science; Free event April 28-29 at UCLA.
Business Wire; 4/23/2001; 700+ words ; ...American -- The Art of Fiction II; Amazing Grace: The...Carroll, editor of the Los Angeles Times. Other sessions...Story Today; The Art of Fact: Literary Nonfiction...Writers on Writers. The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books...
Sixth Annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books To be Held April 28-29 at UCLA; Mayor Richard Riordan to be Honored for Support of Literacy Initiatives.
Business Wire; 4/4/2001; 700+ words ; ...Midnight's Children: The Fiction of South Asia"; "Outer...Publication"; "The Art of Fact: Literary Nonfiction...Future of Publishing." Los Angeles Times to Honor Mayor Richard Riordan The Los Angeles Times will honor Los Angeles...
Los Angeles City Council Revokes Allowance for Protest Site at Convention.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 7/7/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...s going to change the fact that thousands of people...thousands of protesters for Los Angeles have called the Staples...convention credentials, Los Angeles police have said. As...s based on a complete fiction," said D2KLA organizer...
Los Angeles documents the virtual: Xan Cassavetes and Thom Andersen between docutainment and machinima.
Magazine article from: Post Script; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...these films are in fact documentaries and...call Z Channel and Los Angeles, "documentaries...indiscernibility between fiction and reality is increasingly...impacted by filmic fictions. By subjecting their...culture. Z Channel and Los Angeles mark out some important...
Commentary: San Pedro, often forgotten section of Los Angeles
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 11/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...pretty much the busiest. In fact, today's Los Angeles and lower California would be...waterfront wonderfully not very Los Angeles, yet a crucial part of the city...Baywatch, 90210 and the Pulp Fiction have told them who they think...