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...select and acclaimed few was Miss Alice Duer. Not long before Alice Duer came out, New York society...synonymous with social eminence. The Duers, like their cousins the Livingstons...New York at the turn of the century to be in society meant something...

...achieved by influential Victorian authors such as Thomas Babington Macaulay...tyranny. By the middle of the 19th century, a cult of Cromwell had caught on...Theodore Roosevelt published a favorable biography of him in 1901. The monster dictators of the 20th century led to another rethinking of Cromwells...Most contemporary scholars of 17th-century Britain, however, reject presentism...rancor of the late 17th and 18th centuries, as well as the glowing admiration...

...companion to the twentiethcentury American short story / Blanche H. Gelfant...Dictionaries. 2. American fiction 2oth century Dictionaries. 3. Short stories, American Bio-bibliography Dictionaries. 4. American fiction 2oth century Biobibliography Dictionaries. 5. Authors, American 2oth century Biography Dictionaries. I. Title: Columbia...

...Cataloging-in-Publication Data l;reat American \lllters: uventieth century! / R. Baird Shum1I1, edlto...iH-72-t7-L) (\. 7) 1. American literature--211th eenlury--Bio...1Ieliunaries. 2. ,luthors. Amcrican--20th century--Biography-- Dictionaries. American litcratLii-c--20tli century...

...Assistant Editor: Andrea Miller Research SupelliSl1l Jellry...Publication Data C?rc.u American writers: twentieth century / R. Baird ?human, editor...7251-7(v. 11) I . American liici:iiure--2Qih ceniuiy...bibliogiaphy--Diciianaiics 2 Authors,Amcrican--20thccntury--Biography Dictionaries. 3. American !iteraiure--20t!icentu...

...Demilles Adaptation of Alice Duer Millers Manslaughter by Anne Morey...novelist and scenarist Alice Duer Miller (1874-1942) was once a best seller...after worker on other authors scripts in Hollywood...silent adaptations of Millers works remain; of these...rediscovery either of Miller as author or of DeMilles Manslaughter...introduction of the car into American sexual mores moved courting...transcended nineteenth-century assumptions of a proprietary...

Moving Lives: 20th Century Womens Travel Writing. by...Fish Sidonie Smith. Moving Lives: 20th Century Womens Travel Writing. Minneapolis...Motion" summarizes much from these authors assessment of travel and travel writing...interested in how travel for white Anglo/American women in the twentieth century was a means to negotiate cultural...example of the fruit of late twentieth century feminist and cultural studies scholarship...of A Stranger in the Village: Two Centuries of African-American Travel Writing...

...Julia C. Collins, 19th-Century Black Readers and Writers, and...understanding of early African American women and their writing. Scholars...first genuine novel by a black American woman to have appeared in print...understanding 19th-century African American traditions of reading and writing...New Testaments, but also for biographies of Bishop Allen and other "fathers...historical consciousness among African Americans. But the widespread illiteracy...Collinss The Curse of Caste. Other authors from this period also addressed...known among northern blacks as an author and speaker. Harpers writings...demonstrated with his 1996 cultural biography of 19th-century black community...

Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender, and...controversial images of African American women in the cultural...has been cemented into Americans cultural consciousness...profound influence upon American culture and the impact...defined the Mammy in the American psyche at various times...diminish its significance in Americans consciousness. She contends...representation of "how myth, biography, fiction, history...maternal devotion"? The authors larger question is...the beginning of the 20th century. The influence...means that oftentimes the author does not clearly distinguish...

...Passoss Path to U.S.A.: A Political Biography (Boulder: Colorado Associated Univ...Ludington, John Dos Passos, A Twentieth-Century Odyssey (New York: E. P. Dutton...A. until he wrote the novel Mid-Century (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1960...The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (New York: Verso, 1996), 166...

...David Cannadine John Buchan, the author of Prester John, The Thirty-Nine...was the first male novelist this century to be thus ennobled, and there have...Buchan rehabilitation with a new biography titled John Buchan: Presbyterian...of essays, poetry, history, and biography; was given his own entry in Whos...his first attempt at large-scale biography, a study of Montrose, the seventeenth...Nine Steps. But he was also writing biographies, essays, and histories, and he...

...or academic--to write about 20th-century Europe! No credibility whatsoever...if Charlotte were a curator of 19th-century antiquities, I would present myself...life, it is not intended as definitive biography. Hopefully, some day my play will be...

...go straight to the Biography Channel). His chapter...funnier), but the 20th century showed us...Alexander Hamilton: American and Founding Father...literature of the 20th century was seldom...both a man and an author with issues that...pact with Hitler. Authors such as Orwell and...second half of the 20th century, Waiting...the greatest of the authors who have emerged...literature of the 21st Century will look like. Paul A. Cantor is author of the forthcoming...the 16th and 17th centuries and the application...

...founder of Boston Universitys Afro-American Studies Center. "She was a woman...her significance as an African-American writer but also is the foundation...Russia with a group of 25 black Americans, including Langston Hughes, to...was abandoned, blocked by a white American in Russia who disapproved of a film...American middle class of the early 20th century, and as such it received moderate...York Herald Tribune, scholar and author Arna Bontemps, a major influence...implications are only a small part of the authors full intentions." Robert A. Bone...

An American sublime by Julian Evans Scott Fitzgerald wrote perhaps the most read American novel of the 20th century. But he died prematurely, a broken...rottenness. America at the end of the 20th century was the land of Gatsbys. Who...

...Catcher in the Rye Author J.D. Salinger Dies...Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive...on Wednesday, the authors son, actor Matt Salinger...Holden soon became American literatures most famous...Reagan.By the 21st century, Holden himself seemed...a short note for "20th Century Authors.""Its almost unbearable...Jerry Burt said the author had told him years...served in the Army from 1942 to 1946, carrying...of an unauthorized biography, by Ian Hamilton...

Loving Memoir from a Famed Authors Daughter. Byline: Roger K. Miller, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Of the preeminent Jewish writers in American literature in the second half of the 20th century - Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Norman...Father Is a Book." There has been no biography of Malamud since his death in 1986...of honesty and truth. Roger K. Miller, a newspaperman for many years...

Geneva Author Weller Will Lecture at Waubonsee...to predict he would become a famous author himself with his 2005 biography, "The Bradbury Chronicles: The...country, as Weller was the first author to document the life of Bradbury...the most important writers of the 20th century." Wellers newest book is titled...whole new look. Hes zeroing in on an American bistro with a family atmosphere at...

...AS GREAT AS T.S.ELIOT, CLAIMS AUTHOR. Byline: BY LORNE JACKSON THERE is no definitive list of the 20th centurys greatest works of art...Classic Years is no ordinary rock biography. In the highly eccentric volume...booming bassline! T.S. ELIOT American-born poet of the high modernist...Honey-haired, platinum-voiced American singing sensation who reached her...Jane. OLIVER GOLDSMITH Eighteenth century Irish author of the The Vicar Of Wakefield and...

A Uniquely Independent and American Man of Letters. Byline: Martin...makes him such a unique figure in American literature. Deeply engaged with...modernism which dominated so much of 20th century literature, he would never allow...scholar should have brought to his biography of Edmund Wilson the fruits of decades...side of American literature in the 20th century, including - among others...It is also unfortunate that the authors of "A Critic in Love" are noticeably...

...speakers elsewhere, see American literature ; Australian...produced a number of graceful biographies of prominent writers...Evelyn . The Eighteenth Century The Glorious Revolution...Swift, and John Gay (author of The Beggars Opera...James Boswell , whose biography of Johnson is a classic...helped to form mid-18th-century views of life, literature...Period At the turn of the century, fired by ideas of personal...by Francis Thompson , Alice Meynell , Christina Rossetti...who lived on into the 20th cent., share a pessimistic...the best postwar British authors were the Welsh poet Dylan...