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- 761: Theodore Dreiser
- ... for nine years until he was forced to resign in 1910 because of a his romantic fascination with an assistant’s daughter. After gaining some hope and confidence in his writing, Dreiser returned to writing fiction. In 1911, he wrote a novel titled Jennie Gerhardt which was a story of a woman who submits sexually to rich and powerful men to help her poverty stricken family. The success of this book ...
- 762: Paul L. Dunbar
- ... and critic, William Dean Howells who also introduced Dunbar’s next book, "Lyrics of Lowly Life" which contained some of the finest verses of the first two volumes. Dunbar was a popular writer of short fiction. He relied upon tone, subtle details expressed through speech, atmosphere, assumed manners and morals, and mood rather than plot to tell his tale. His depiction of life on plantations gives a vivid account of the ...
- 763: Langston Hughes
- ... book in 1926 and his death in 1967, he devoted his life to writing and lecturing. He wrote sixteen books of poems, two novels, three collections of short stories, four volumes of "editorial" and "documentary" fiction, twenty plays, children's poetry, musicals and operas, three autobiographies, a dozen radio and television scripts and dozens of magazine articles. In addition, he edited seven anthologies. The long and distinguished list of Hughes' works ...
- 764: Kurt Vonnegut
- ... former, the writer is an omniscient man who writes about the history of mankind on Mars and revises the Bible (Vonnegut, Sirens, 196). In the latter, the writer is Kilgore Trout, a relatively unknown science fiction author whose numerous stories get shelved with pornography. This is commonly seen as Vonnegut's fear of what he himself might become (Amer. Lit. Bio., 305). In the preface of a different book, Vonnegut states ...
- 765: Kate Chopin
- ... first published work is "If It Might Be", which was published in 1889. Kate wrote novels, poetry, and short stories. She wrote a total of twenty-nine pieces of literature. She wrote twenty pieces of fiction, three short stories, and six novels. Some of her works are, "If It Might Be" published in 1889, "A Point at Issue" published in 1889, Story of an Hour published in 1894, A Night in ...
- 766: John Updike
- ... In 1981 he finished his 3rd of a 4 set of novels called Rabbit is Rich it recieves many awards. In 1981 His first novel The Carpentered Hen is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for a fiction novel. In 1984 The Witches of Eastwick was written and later made into a movie staring Jack Nicholsen, Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer. In 1990 he wrote his last rabbit story called Rabbit at ...
- 767: John Steinbeck
- ... seemed to have sympathy for "the oppressed, misfits, and the distressed." He wrote about conflicts between his feelings for nature and his sympathy for human beings. To be natural and not respectable, was in his fiction, the controlling force of the universe. He was best known for his basis on the American experience often with sympathetic focus on the poor, eccentric, or the dispossessed. The Grapes of Wrath, which he wrote ...
- 768: Jimi Hendrix
- ... explicitly and unambiguously, who he thought he was, is" (Murray 147). "1983...(A Merman I Should Turn To Be)," the eleventh track on Electric Ladyland, is called by Murray: "rock’s premier work of science fiction; Hendrix was the music’s first and funkiest cyberpunk" (216). "Merman" marked the pinnacle of Hendrix’ producing skills, and Electric Ladyland was the first album that he himself produced. "Merman"’s lyrics indicate Hendrix’ increasing ...
- 769: James Joyce
- ... layers of narration are the world larguages that Joyce employs. For instance the character, Leopold Bloom makes use of four different Irish accents as if Joyce were returning to the Irish ural tradition for his fiction, the carious points of view of the narration is a further complexity. In the stream-of-consciousness made Joyce had his characters conceive of the events in their minds rather than present them chronologically. Furthermore ...
- 770: James Baldwin
- ... he was with its impact on the audience. He believed in shocking the reader into thinking. This style of writing has been mimicked and used by other writers such as Orson Scott Card ( a science-fiction novelist ) and George Lucas. In Card's novel, Ender's Game, the reader is forced to see and think through the eyes and ears of a yo0ung genius, Ender Wiggin. In Lucas' trilogy, Star Wars ...
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