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Ernest Hemingway
(1899—1961) American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist
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Alfred Kazin
(1915–),literary critic, has taught at many American universities, but is best known for his critical works, On Native Grounds (1942), a study of American prose literature after Howells; The Inmost ...
Anthony Burgess
1917–1993)British author.Born and educated in Manchester, Burgess served in the British army during World War II. He then spent a period as a teacher before becoming an education officer in Malaya ...
Big Sleep
A novel by Raymond Chandler, published in 1939. The Big Sleep is the first of Chandler's series of detective novels which feature Philip Marlowe as their hero and, many would ...
Charles Bukowski
(1920–1994),American poet and novelist, born in Andernach, Germany, and brought to Los Angeles as a child. A prolific writer in the Beat tradition, his work depicts the low‐life underside of the ...
David Mamet
(1947– ),Chicago‐born dramatist whose work is distinguished by its attentions to the rhythms of blue‐collar speech and the theme of how low‐life criminality mirrors the world of big business. ...
Death in the Afternoon
Discursive work by Hemingway, published in 1932. In it he describes the rearing and fighting of bulls in Spain, and depicts the bullfight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy, in which the death of the ...
Ezra Pound
(1885–1972),American poet, came to Europe in 1908 and published his first volume of poems, A Lume Spento (1908). He published several other volumes of verse, including Personae (1909), Canzoni ...
F. Scott Fitzgerald
(1896–1940)US writer whose fiction is one of the most eloquent expressions of the American Jazz Age of the 1920s.Fitzgerald was born in St Paul, Minnesota, and educated at Princeton. He joined the ...
A Farewell to Arms
Novel by Hemingway, published in 1929, and dramatized by Laurence Stallings (1930).Frederic Henry, an American lieutenant in the Italian ambulance service during World War I, falls in love with an ...
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Novel by Hemingway, published in 1940. The title is derived from a sermon by Donne: “No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent … And therefore never send to know ...
Ford Madox Ford
1873–1939)British novelist and critic.Ford's mother was the daughter of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown; his father was a German music critic, Francis Hueffer, who moved to England in ...
Gabriel García Márquez
(1928– )Colombian novelist and short-story writer, one of the founding figures of modern South American literature. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1982.Brought up in poverty in the remote village ...
Gertrude Stein
(1874–1946)US writer, who from 1903 lived in Paris, where she became a focus for the American expatriate literary community.Born in Pennsylvania, Gertrude Stein graduated from Radcliffe College in ...
Glenway Wescott
(1901–87),Wisconsin author, known for his writings about his native region, although he had lived mainly abroad. After publishing The Bitterns (1920), poems, he wrote The Apple of the Eye ...
Gore Vidal
(1925– )US novelist, playwright, and essayist.Vidal was born in New York at West Point, the son of an instructor of aeronautics at the US Military Academy. He grew up in Washington, where his father ...
In Our Time
15 short stories by Hemingway with vignettes serving as interchapters, published in the U.S. in 1925. in our time (Paris, 1924) contains only the vignettes. Most stories treat life in the Middle ...
James Joyce
(1882–1941),novelist, born at Rathgar, Dublin, educated at University College, Dublin, where Gogarty was a fellow student. Early influences included Gerhard Hauptmann, Dante, G. Moore, Ibsen, and ...
John Dos Passos
(1896–1970),American novelist. His first important novel, Three Soldiers (1921), which has war as its subject, was followed by many others including Manhattan Transfer (1925) and U.S.A. (1938), a ...
Josephine Herbst
(1892–1969)American writer born in Sioux City, Iowa. In 1922 she moved to Germany, then Paris to join the expatriate writers' circle there, including Ford Madox Ford and Ernest Hemingway. ...
