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1 day ago · "American fiction" redirects here. For other uses, see American Fiction (disambiguation) and American literature (disambiguation). Clockwise from top left: 19th-century writer and humorist Mark Twain; 19th-century writer, poet and literary critic Edgar Allan Poe; 20th-century writer and novelist John Steinbeck; 20th-century writer, novelist Toni Morrison, poet Louise Glück, and novelist Ernest Hemingway Main reading room at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. This article is part of ...
6 hours ago · Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 [1] : 17 [2] : 5 – January 28, 1960) was an American author, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou. [3] The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, and essays.
6 hours ago · Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1829 [b] – November 18, 1886) was an American politician who served as the 21st president of the United States from 1881 to 1885. He was a Republican lawyer from New York who briefly served as the 20th vice president under President James A. Garfield. Assuming the presidency after Garfield's death, Arthur ...
1 day ago · Primmie had supported Gable emotionally after Carole Lombard 's death four years earlier: Niven recounts Gable kneeling at Primmie's feet and sobbing while she held and consoled him. Niven also states that Arthur Miller, the author of The Misfits, had described Gable as "the man who did not know how to hate." [154]
1 day ago · Notable writers who attended U-M include playwright Arthur Miller, [330] essayists Susan Orlean, [330] Jia Tolentino, [393] Sven Birkerts, journalists and editors Mike Wallace, [330] Jonathan Chait of The New Republic, Indian author and columnist Anees Jung, Daniel Okrent, [330] and Sandra Steingraber, food critics Ruth Reichl and Gael Greene ...
1 day ago · [34] [note 8] According to Alexus McLeod, a scholar of Philosophy and Asian Studies, it is "impossible to link the Bhagavad Gita to a single author", and it may be the work of many authors. [26] [37] This view is shared by the Indologist Arthur Basham, who states that there were three or more authors or compilers of Bhagavad Gita.
