Happy birthday N.B.C.C. 1974-1984 ; the National Book Critics Circle tenth anniversary, 1985.

Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019

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Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist, essayist, book editor, and college professor. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon (1977) brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987); she gained worldwide recognition when she was awarded the Nobel...

Kingston, Maxine Hong

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Biographical Information Maxine Hong Kingston was born October 27, 1940 in Stockton, California. She received her B.A. degree in Education from the University of California, Berkeley in 1962. Kingston taught high school English and mathematics in Hayward, Calif., and various subjects in a number of schools in Hawaii, and was a visiting associate professor of English at the University of Hawaii. Her book, Woman Warrior: Memoirs Of ...

Taylor, Telford, 1908-1998

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Telford Taylor (born February 24, 1908, Schenectady, New York – died May 23, 1998, Manhattan, New York), American lawyer and professor. Taylor was known for his role as lead counsel in the prosecution of war criminals after World War II, his opposition to McCarthyism in the 1950s, and his outspoken criticism of American actions during the Vietnam War. With the US Army, Taylor served with the Military Intelligence Corps during WWII, and reached the rank of brigadier general in 1946, following ...

Walker, Alice, 1944-

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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944, Eatonton, Georgia), American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple.[3][4] Over the span of her career, Walker has published seventeen novels and short story collections, twelve non-fiction works, and collections of essays and poetry....

Davison, Peter, 1928-2004

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Peter Davison (June 27, 1928, New York, New York – December 29, 2004, Boston, Massachusetts) was an American poet, essayist, teacher, lecturer, editor, and publisher. Peter Davison was born in New York City to Edward Davison, a Scottish poet, and Nathalie (née Weiner) Davison. He grew up in Boulder, Colorado, where his father taught at the University of Colorado. Davison attended Harvard University, graduating in 1949. Among his classmates at Harvard were John Ashbery, Robert Bly, and Robert Cre...

Tuchman, Barbara W. (Barbara Wertheim), 1912-1989

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Historian and writer Tuchman (1912- ) received an A.B. from Radcliffe College (1933), and worked as a journalist and editor. She is the author of many prize-winning works, including The Guns of August (1962) and Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1971). From the description of Letter, 1963. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007438 New York-born American journalist and historian; Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Guns of August, 1962. Fro...

Gould, Stephen Jay

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Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 - May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation, leading many commentators to call him "America's unofficial evolutionist laureate". Gould spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. From the description of Stephen Jay G...

Adams, Alice, 1926-1999

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Mendelson, Edward

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Rockwell, John

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Moss, Howard, 1922-1987

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Howard Moss (1922-1987) was an American poet, dramatist, essayist, and editor. Among his awards for literary work were the National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, the Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant, and the National Book Award. He was best known as the poetry editor of the New Yorker magazine, a post he held from 1948 until 1987. Other professional activities included his collaboration with the composer Ned Rorem. From the description of Papers, ca. 19...

Auerbach, Nina, 1943-....

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Seidel, Frederick, 1936-....

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Marcus, Greil

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Janowitz, Phyllis

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Hardwick, Elizabeth

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American novelist, essayist, and critic. From the description of Papers, 1934-1991 (bulk 1960-1990). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122530463 Born July 27, 1916, Elizabeth Hardwick grew up with ten brothers and sisters in Lexington, Kentucky. She attended local schools, and received a master's degree in English from the University of Kentucky in 1939. Shortly thereafter, Hardwick moved to New Y...

Hoagland, Edward Coolbaugh, 1908-

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Edward Hoagland is a writer born in New York in 1932. Hoagland has written several books of fiction but since the late 1960s he has become known almost exclusivley for his non-fiction. His first novel, Cat Man, won a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award in 1956. The Los Angeles Times has called Hoagland "one of our best and most esteemed nature writers." He won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction in 1979 and a National Endowment for the Arts award in 1982. Hoagland has al...

Dickstein, Morris 1940-

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Elkin, Stanley, 1930-1995

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American author. From the description of Papers. 1955-1983. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 12905758 American author and professor of English, Washington University. From the description of Papers, 1955-1983. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 28419449 ...

Hazzard, Shirley, 1931-....

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Wilson, Edward O.

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Zoologist and educator. Full name: Edward Osborne Wilson. Born 1929. From the description of Edward O. Wilson papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983364 ...

Hersh, Seymour M.

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Kaplan, Justin L.

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Gardner, Martin, 1914-2010

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Martin Gardner was the Mathematical Games columnist for SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN from its inception in 1956 until 1986. He earned his B.A. in philosophy at the University of Chicago in 1936; after his service in the Navy during World War II, he became a writer. He is the author of more than 65 books in the fields of science, mathematics, philosophy, literature, and conjuring. From the description of Martin Gardner papers, 1957-1986. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122586509 ...

Updike, John

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American novelist. From the description of Rich in Russia : corrected typescript signed, ca. 1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122552988 John Updike, born 18 March 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania, was a novelist, critic, short story writer, poet, essayist, and dramatist; he died 27 January 2009. From the description of John Updike letters and manuscript short story, "Killing," 1976-1981. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 6714887...

Novak, Barbara, doc. dr.

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Malone, Dumas, 1892-1986

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American historian and editor. From the description of Address books [manuscript] ca. 1925-1934. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647963645 Historian, biographer, University of Virginia professor. From the description of Papers of Dumas Malone [manuscript], 1913-1986. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647816236 Professor of History at the University of Virginia; Editor of the "Dictionary of American biography," and biographer of ...

Percy, Walker, 1916-1990

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William Walsh, an Irish-Catholic New Orleanian born in 1925, joined the Society of Jesus in 1942. He left the order in 1973, but remained ambilavent about his decision to enter secular life. Walsh was at a personal crossroads when he read Lancelot, trying to determine his future. Having also been impressed by Percy's earlier writings, particularly The Message in the Bottle, he believed that Percy could be a source of guidance. As it turned out, Walsh and Percy never met in person and they spoke ...

Tyler, Anne

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Pulitzer Prize winning author of ACCIDENTAL TOURIST, BREATHING LESSONS, CELESTIAL NAVIGATION, LADDER OF YEARS, and other popular novels. From the description of Papers, 1994-1998, 2001 and n.d. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 82167587 From the description of Papers, 1994-1998. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 40093299 Pulitzer Prize winning author of THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST, BREATHING LESSONS, CELESTIAL NAVIGATION, LADDER OF YEARS, and ot...

Bate, Walter Jackson, 1918-1999

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McPhee, John, 1931-

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Song, Cathy, 1955-....

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Merwin, W.S. (William Stanley), 1927-

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American poet and writer. From the description of Letters, to Arthur Gregor, 1966-1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122587287 Born in New York City, 1927; educated at Princeton University (class of 1948); Pulitzer Prize-winning author, poet, translator, and environmental activist. From the description of W.S. Merwin papers 1946- (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign). WorldCat record id: 57553010 American poet and translator. From th...

Fitzgerald, Sally

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Sally Fitzgerald (1917-2000) was a writer and editor of several volumes of Flannery O'Connor's letters and works. Sally and her husband, Robert Fitzgerald, met Flannery O'Connor in 1949, while O'Connor was finishing a fellowship at the Yaddo Community in New York. O'Connor then lived with the Fitzgeralds in Connecticut while writing her first novel, WISE BLOOD. In 1969, the Fitzgeralds co-edited MYSTERY AND MANNERS: OCCASIONAL PROSE OF FLANNERY O'CONNOR. Sally then embarked on the project of com...

Didion, Joan

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Joan Didion (born December 5, 1934) is an American novelist, essayist, and memoirist. From the description of Joan Didion papers, 1963-2006 (bulk 1963-1992). (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 122551777 ...

Vendler, Helen, 1933-

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Finkel, Donald L., 1943-....

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Poet-in-residence, Washington University; b. 1927. From the description of Papers, 1947-1983. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 28419612 American author. From the description of Papers. 1947-1983. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 12905619 ...

Graham, Jorie, 1951-....

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Pollitt, Katha

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Steel, Ronald.

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Theroux, Paul

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Irving, John, 1942-....

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American author. From the description of Introduction to a reading by Donald Justice to the Academy of American Poets at The Pierpont Morgan Library : typescript signed : [n.p.], 1982 Dec. 9 [date delivered]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270874945 John Irving, screenwriter and author of source material. From the description of The cider house rules: typescript, n.d. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122517206 ...

Williams, C.K. (Charles Kenneth), 1936-

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Warner, William W.

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Fussell, Paul, 1924-2012

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Boswell, John, 1947-1994

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Epstein, Leslie

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Loewinsohn, Ron

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American poet and novelist. From the description of For Miles Davis : typescript, [196-] / Ron Loewinsohn. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 18423121 From the description of Essay, fathers & sons : typescript, [ca. 1960]. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 32334315 From the description of Trees/8 : typescript, 1959 July. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 32334322 From the descript...

Ozick, Cynthia, 1928-

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Cynthia Ozick has published novels, criticism, essays, and short stories. Her fiction is serious, careful, and passionately written, often involving the theme of Judaism in a Christian world. Her deeply distinctive writing style, philosophical themes, and diverse output have made her one of the most honored and respected contemporary American authors. From the description of Cynthia Ozick letter to Joshua Welsh, 1999 April 6. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record...

Ziff, Lloyd.

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Hecht, Anthony, 1923-2004

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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000974.0x0003a1 Anthony Hecht (1923-2004), poet, professor and critic, born in New York, New York. From the description of Anthony Hecht papers, 1894-2004. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 213097553 ...

Thomson, Virgil

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The hymn is How Firm a Foundation, words and music commonly ascribed to Robert Keene. The melody is also called Geard. Also quoted Yes, Jesus Loves Me and For He's A Jolly Good Fellow. Composed 1926-28. First performance New York, 22 February 1945, New York Philharmonic, the composer conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Symphony on a hymn tune / Virgil Thomson. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 56078995 Composer. ...

Berman, Marshall, 1940-2013

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Wilbur, Richard, 1921-....

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American poet and translator of Racine and Molière. From the description of Correspondence and manuscripts, 1949-1986. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122692657 Wilbur is an American poet, translator, teacher and scholar; he was the second Poet Laureate of the United States and twice recipient of the Pulitizer Prize for poetry. From the description of Papers, 1945-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat recor...

Crase, Douglas

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Woiwode, Larry.

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Levine, Philip, 1928-....

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American poet and educator Philip Levine, born January 10, 1928, in Detroit, Michigan, was educated at Wayne State University (A.B., 1950) and the University of Iowa (M.F.A., 1957). Born August 2, 1934, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, poet and educator Stephen Berg attended the University of Pennsylvania, Boston University, and the University of Indiana, prior to receiving a B.A. from the State University of Iowa in 1959. Since 1963 Stephen Berg has served on the faculty of Temple University in P...

Herr, Michael, 1940-....

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Rosenblatt, Roger.

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Smith, Dave, 1942-

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Poet Dave Smith (David Jeddie Smith, pseudonym Smith Cornwell) was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, on December 19, 1942. He received his B.A. degree from the University of Virginia in 1965, his M.A. from Southern Illinois University in 1969, and his Ph.D. from Ohio University in 1976. He served in the United States Air Force from 1969-1972, reaching the rank of staff sergeant. Smith began his career as a high school teacher of English and French and football coach in Poquoson High Sch...

Kaplan, Fred M.

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Bloom, Harold

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Lears, T.J. Jackson, 1947-....

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