Medailonky autorů
Adams, John. (1735 - 1826).
L i f e
- husband of Abigail Adams, one of history’s best-known First Ladies; father of John Quincy Adams, the 6th US President
- received uni education, studied law at Harvard
- an all-purpose diplomat for...
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Anderson, Maxwell. (1888 - 1959).
W o r k
- journalist, playwright, and screenwriter
- a fouding member of The Playwrights' Company (included at different times also Elmer Rice, Kurt Weill, & others)
- content: a striking variety of topics...
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Anderson, Sherwood. (1876 - 1941).
L i f e
- born in Ohio, settled in Clyde = imaginatively transformed into Winesburg
- received little formal education, appreciated the oral tradition, and his father’s story-telling
- became a successful...
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Barlow, Joel. (1754 - 1812).
L i f e
- born in Connectitut
- received university education (Yale)
- became an army chaplain to have leisure for writing poetry, then a businessman in France, and finally a consul for US
W o r k
- his...
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Brackenridge, Hugh Henry. (1748 - 1816).
L i f e
- served subsequently as a minister, editor, writer, lawyer, and judge
- founded the Pittsburgh Gazette, the city’s first newspapaer
- also founded the United States Magazine, published poems by...
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Bradford, William. (1590 - 1657).
L i f e
- colonist in the Plymouth colony, New England
- sailed on the Mayflower in 1620
- chief author of the "Mayflower Compact" signed on the ship
- thought the Church of England too thoroughly...
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Bradstreet, Anne. (1612 - 1672).
L i f e
- colonist in New England, Massachusetts
- daughter of Thomas Dudley, wife of Simon Bradstreet
- thoroughly educated by her father and by diligent reading: Scriptures, Sir Walter Raleigh’s...
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Brown, Charles Brockden. (1771 - 1810).
L i f e
- considered the 1st professional American novelist
- to support himself became a merchant
- edited successively 3 periodicals, wrote political pamphlets, and projected a compendium on geography
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Brown, William Wells. (ca 1815 - 1884).
L i f e
- son of a black slave and a white slave-owning father
- escaped and adopted the name of a Quaker friend helping him to his freedom (dedicated him his first autobiographical book)
- supported the...
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Bryant, William Cullen. (1794 - 1878).
L i f e
- practised law
- edited the NY City Evening Post for almost 40 years: one of the most respected voices in the 19th century journalism commenting virtually on every important issue of the time
-...
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Byrd, William. (1674 - 1744).
L i f e
- coloniser in the South, in Virginia
- a witty, wealthy, and well-read writer, planter, and government official
- moved between London and Virginia: a gentleman and gallant in sophisticated London...
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Caldwell, Erskine. (1903 - 1987).
L i f e
- born in Georgia x but: left to Maine > a detachment enabling him to write about the American South objectively
- travelled the South with his father-missionary priest, and experienced a variety of...
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Cather, Willa. (1873 - 1947).
L i f e
- born in Virginia x but: moved to the agricultural Nebraska > a deeply rooted regionalism
- worked as a NY magazine editor, journalist, and teacher
- became a full time writer (1912)
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Chesnutt, Charles Waddell. (1858 - 1932).
W o r k
- supported by William Dean Howells, received favourable reviews in his Atlantic Monthly, and found a large readership also by white audience
- concerned not with slavery x but: the status of...
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Chopin, Kate. (1851 - 1904).
L i f e
- born Katherine O’Flaherty in a St. Louis family of high social status
- the family women pious Catholics x but: herself smoked in society and walked about without company, daring acts for her time
-...
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