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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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novel
novel in modern literary usage, a sustained work of prose fiction a volume or more in length. It is distinguished from the short story and the fictional sketch, which are necessarily brief. Although the novel has a place in the literatures of all nations, this article concentrates on the... Read more |
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Goldilocks
Goldilocks heroine of the children's story The Three Bears, in which she eats and sleeps in their house without leave, and chooses the possessions of the smallest bear as being neither too large nor too small for her, but ‘just right’; the essential story goes back to 1837, but the... Read more |
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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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Affiliation
Affiliation The need to form attachments to other people for support, guidance, and protection. The need to form attachments with others is termed affiliation. Attachment is one of 20 psychological needs measured by the Thematic Apperception Test , a projective personality test developed... Read more |
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Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky
Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky , 1889-1972, American aeronautical engineer, b. Kiev, Russia. He immigrated to the United States in 1919 and was naturalized in 1928. Sikorsky built and flew the first multimotored plane (1913) and established the world's endurance record for sustained flight in a helicopter... Read more |
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Liz Story
Liz Story Pianist, composer Although she was an accomplished pianist and had studied at Juilliard, Liz Story lost interest in a music career until she saw Bill Evans play one night at the Bottom Line in New York. That concert opened up performance possibilities that she had never considered. "What... Read more |
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Bret Harte
Bret Harte (Francis Brett Harte) , 1836-1902, American writer of short stories and humorous verse, b. Albany, N.Y. At 19 he went to California, where he tried his hand at teaching, clerking, and mining. In 1868 he helped establish the Overland Monthly, where his short stories and verse first... Read more |
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