Medailonky autorů
Hellman, Lillian. (1905 - 1984).
L i f e
- a NY playwright of Southern origin
- an anti-fascist activist during the WW II
W o r k
E v i l i n t h e H u m a n H e a r t :
- an individually psychological point of...
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Hemingway, Ernest. (1899 - 1961).
L i f e
- a journalist and correspondent reporter: covered war conflicts, crime cases, etc.
- spent some time in Paris: experienced a liberal moral climate, and met the modernists, including Ezra...
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell. (1809 - 1894).
L i f e
- a prominent Boston writer, physician, scientist, moralist, and statesman
- demanded as a lecturer at medical meetings and as after-dinner speaker
- solved the dilemmas both of religious...
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Howells, William Dean. (1837 - 1920).
L i f e
- born in Ohio x but: lived in Boston (Massachusetts)
- his life resembles a Bildungsroman: a climber from a province makes his way upward to a social and professional acclaim <=> M. Twain
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Hughes, Langston. (1902 - 1967).
L i f e
- of a complex racial origin
- underwent a series of various jobs, worked as a busboy in Washington D.C. when V. Lindsay launched his literary career by publicising him in local papers
- supported...
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Hurston, Zora Neale. (1901 - 1960).
L i f e
- born in Eatonville = the 1st Afro-American community attempting an organised self-government > the setting of her Their Eyes Were Watching God
- daughter of travelling preacher > full of...
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Irving, Washington. (1783 - 1859).
L i f e
- born the yearn the Revolutionary War ended, named after its most prominent hero
- received little formal education x but: absorbed more enduring education from the city’s streets, and from merchant...
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James, Henry. (1846 - 1916).
L i f e
- born in a rich and prominent family: his father Henry was a philosopher, his brother William a psychologist
- considered US too fast-paced and lacking the proper setting for his fictional needs...
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Jeffers, Robinson. (1887 - 1962).
L i f e
- educated in both Europe and America, studied medicine and forestry
- personally indebted to his wife: spiritually ‘co-authored’ his poems, and served as a mediator between him x the world
- shy and...
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Jefferson, Thomas. (1743 - 1826).
L i f e
- versatile personality: a diplomat, statesman, architect, environmental planner, scientist, politician, and theorist of education
- received university education:
(a) < Dr William Small
(b) <...
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Jewett, Sarah Orne. (1849 - 1909).
L i f e
- born and died in a Maine coastal town > a deeply rooted regionalism
- educated by reading in her father’s library and by ‘reading’ the lives of people on the buggy rounds to rural patients of her...
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Kaufman, George S. (1889 - 1961).
W o r k
- a journalist, theatre critic, and playwright
- called "The Great Collaborator": collaborated on more than 40 plays with different writers x but: wrote very few plays alone
- wrote farce and comedy of...
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Lewis, Sinclair. (1885 - 1951).
W o r k
< anticipated by M. Twain's Puddn’head Wilson and Hucklebbery Finn, E. L. Master’s Spoon River Anthology, and W. D. Howells’s novels
- for a decade attacked materialism, the greediness of American...
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Lindsay, Vachel. (1879 - 1931).
L i f e
- born in Springfield (Springfield’s 2nd most famous only to A. Lincoln)
- studied art in Chicago and NY > attempted to create a new amalgam of poetry and music
- spent years on the tours to preach...
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London, Jack. (1876 - 1916).
L i f e
- an illegitimate child, took the name of his stepfather
- received little formal education, quit school at the age of 14
- underwent a period of heavy drinking, daring adventures, and odd jobs: an...
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