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Ring Lardner
Ring Lardner (Ringgold Wilmer Lardner), 1885-1933, American humorist and short-story writer, b. Niles, Mich. He was a sports reporter in Chicago, St. Louis, and Boston from 1907 to 1919. His first collection of short stories, You Know Me, Al (1916) revealed his talent for the racy sports idiom he... Read more |
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The Story of Rimini
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1836-1907, American author and editor, b. Portsmouth, N.H. His most widely read work was The Story of a Bad Boy (1870), a vigorous narrative based on his own boyhood. His short stories, especially those in Marjorie Daw and Other People (1873), are noted for their... Read more |
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Ama Ata Aidoo
Ama Ata Aidoo (Christina Ama Ata Aidoo), 1942-, Ghanaian author, poet, and playwright, grad. Univ. of Ghana (B.A., 1964). Combining traditional African storytelling with Western genres, she writes of the contemporary roles of African women and the negative impact of Western influences on African... Read more |
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Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl , 1916-90, British writer known for inventive, often macabre children's books and horror-tinged adult fiction. Dahl spurned a university education in favor of world travel, journeying to Newfoundland and Dar-es-Salaam, where he worked (1937-39) for an oil company. He was a Royal Air Force... Read more |
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Farms
Farming Farming, or agriculture, is the science or art of cultivating the soil, growing and harvesting crops, and the raising of animals. Beginning some 10,000 years ago, people in various places around the world began to grow plants and domesticate animals. Slowly and over ... Read more |
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Martin Flavin
Flavin, Martin [Archer] (1883–1967), California playwright and novelist, whose first Broadway play, Children of the Moon (1923), was followed by many others, the more successful including The Criminal Code (1929) and Broken Dishes (1929). His novels include Mr. Littlejohn (1940), a humorous... Read more |
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Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant , 1850-93, French novelist and short-story writer, of an ancient Norman family. He worked in a government office at Paris and became known c.1880 as the most brilliant of the circle of Zola. He poured out a prodigious number of short stories, novels, plays, and travel sketches... Read more |
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Rita Dove
Rita Dove 1952-, American poet, b. Akron, Ohio. Her first poetry collection, Ten Poems, was published in 1977. Her verse is at once concise, precise, and evocative. History as seen from an African-American perspective is perhaps her most important theme: the history of her country, as in the... Read more |
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