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Zona Gale Zona Gale
Zona Gale 1874-1938, American novelist and short-story writer, b. Portage, Wis., grad. Univ. of Wisconsin, 1895. After five years (1899-1904) of newspaper work in Milwaukee and New York City, she returned to her home town, determined to win success as a fiction writer. Of her bleak, realistic... Read more
Edna Ferber Edna Ferber
Edna Ferber 1887-1968, American author, b. Kalamazoo, Mich. Her novels portray the lives of a wide variety of Americans in a vigorous, colorful, and panoramic fashion. Among her best-known novels are So Big (1924, Pulitzer Prize), Show Boat (1926, musical version 1927), Cimarron (1929), ... Read more
Harper Lee Harper Lee
Harper Lee American writer Harper Lee (born 1926) is considered by many to be a literary icon. Her controversial novel To Kill a Mockingbird, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1961. Nelle Harper Lee was born April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama, to Amasa Coleman and Frances (Finch) Lee. She is... Read more
Jean Stafford Jean Stafford
Jean Stafford 1915-79, American writer, b. Covina, Calif., grad. Univ. of Colorado, 1936. Her literary reputation rests primarily on her exquisitely wrought short stories. Both these and her novels focus on lonely, isolated characters, usually adolescents, whom she depicts with gentle irony. Her... Read more
George S Kaufman George S Kaufman
George S. Kaufman , 1889-1961, American dramatist and journalist, b. Pittsburgh as George Kaufman. As a drama critic for various New York newspapers he was influential in raising the standards of criticism in the theater. He collaborated on more than 40 plays, many of them tremendously successful,... Read more
In Abrahams Bosom In Abrahams Bosom
In Abraham's Bosom, play by Paul Green, produced in 1926 and published in 1927, when it won a Pulitzer Prize. It includes the earlier one‐act plays Your Fiery Furnace (1923) and In Abraham's Bosom (1924).Abraham McCranie is the son of a black woman by her white master, Colonel McCranie, a... Read more
Death of a Salesman Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman, play by Arthur Miller, produced and published in 1949, won a Pulitzer Prize.Willy Loman, a bewildered, well‐intentioned, unsuccessful traveling salesman aged 63, is pleased by the return home for a visit of his sons Biff and Happy, but they are upset by his peculiar... Read more
Barbara Wertheim Tuchman Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
Barbara Wertheim Tuchman 1912-89, American historian, b. New York City. She won the Pulitzer Prize for history twice, for The Guns of August (1962), about the onset of World War I, and for Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1971). Her other works include The Zimmermann Telegram ... Read more
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 1896-1953, American author, b. Washington, D.C., grad. Univ. of Wisconsin, 1918. She was a journalist until 1928, when she moved to the Florida backwoods, where most of her novels are set. Cross Creek (1942) is a humorous autobiographical account of her life there. The... Read more
Conrad Aiken Conrad Aiken
Conrad Aiken , 1889-1973, American author, b. Savannah, Ga., grad. Harvard, 1912. Aiken is best known for his poetry, which often is preoccupied with the sound and structure of music; his volumes of verse include The Charnel Rose (1918), Selected Poems (1929; Pulitzer Prize), Brownstone... Read more

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