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Elizabeth Benedict
Elizabeth Benedict is an American author best known for her fiction, her essay, personal essays, as the editor of three anthologies, and for ''The Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers''. Her novels are: ''Slow Dancing, The Beginner's Book of Dreams, Safe Conduct, Almost'', and ''The Practice of Deceit''. Her first memoir, ''Rewriting Illness: A View of My Own,'' was published in May 2023. She lives in New York City and works as a college admissions consultant. Work Fiction Her first published short story, "Feasting," was selected for the 1983 O. Henry Prize Short Story collection. Her second story, "A Fifty Percent Chance," published in ''Seventeen (American magazine), Seventeen'' magazine in 1982, earned a National Magazine Award. Her first novel, ''Slow Dancing'' (Alfred A. Knopf), was a finalist for the 1985 National Book Award and the ''Los Angeles Times'' Fiction Prize. Her novel ''Almost'', a ''New York Times'' Notable Book of the Year, was selected as one o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salmagundi (magazine)
''Salmagundi'' is a US quarterly periodical, featuring cultural criticism, fiction, and poetry, along with transcripts of symposia and interviews with prominent writers and intellectuals. Susan Sontag, a longtime friend of the publication, referred to it as "simply my favorite little magazine." In ''The Book Wars'', James Atlas writes that ''Salmagundi'' is "perhaps the country's leading journal of intellectual opinion." History and profile ''Salmagundi'' was founded by Robert Boyers (academic), Robert Boyers in the fall of 1965, using money he earned as a youth, singing at his neighborhood Jewish temple, and at weddings and Bar Mitzvahs. Boyers drew inspiration for his quarterly from other "little magazines" of the era, such as ''Partisan Review'', F.R. Leavis's ''Scrutiny (journal), Scrutiny'', and T.S. Eliot's ''Criterion'', among others. The title of the magazine was chosen as a reference to the 19th-century Salmagundi (periodical), periodical of the same name, published by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph "Mad Dog" Taborsky
The "Mad Dog killings" refer to a Spree killer, spree of robberies and murders committed by Joseph Louis Taborsky and his partner-in-crime, Arthur Culombe, throughout Connecticut between 1956 and 1957. Authorities and newspapers dubbed the killings the "Mad Dog killings" due to the brutality of the murders committed; Taborsky himself was also often given the moniker "Mad Dog." Taborsky and Culombe robbed and murdered six people during the spree from 1956 to 1957. Taborsky and Culombe also robbed, shot, and beat a number of other victims who survived the "Mad Dog" crime spree. The murders led to Connecticut Liquor store, liquor stores implementing modified hours of operation, as Taborsky and Culombe frequently targeted liquor stores. Following the murders, Taborsky and Culombe were both apprehended. Both were charged with just two of the murders, convicted, and sentenced to death, and Taborsky became the last person executed in Connecticut's electric chair, as well as the final perso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Benedict, American Author
Elizabeth or Elisabeth may refer to: People * Elizabeth (given name), a female given name (including people with that name) * Empress Elisabeth (other), lists various empresses named ''Elisabeth'' or ''Elizabeth'' * Princess Elizabeth (other), lists various princesses named ''Elizabeth'' * Queen Elizabeth (other), lists various queens named ''Elizabeth'' * Saint Elizabeth (other), lists various saints named ''Elizabeth'' or ''Elisabeth'' ** Elizabeth (biblical figure), mother of John the Baptist Film and television * ''Elizabeth R'', 1971 * ''Elizabeth'' (TV series), 1980 * ''Elizabeth'' (film), 1998 * '' Elizabeth: The Golden Age'', 2007 Music * ''Elisabeth'' (Elisabeth Andreassen album) * ''Elisabeth'' (Zach Bryan album) * Elizabeth (band), an American psychedelic rock/progressive rock band active from 1967 to 1970 * ''Elizabeth'' (Lisa album) * ''Elizabeth'', an album by Killah Priest * "Elizabeth" (Ghost song) * "Elizabeth" (The S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel ''A Thousand Acres'' (1991). Biography Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, St Louis, and graduated from Community School (Missouri), Community School and from John Burroughs School. She obtained an Bachelor of Arts, AB in literature at Vassar College (1971), then earned an MA (1975), Master of Fine Arts, MFA (1976) and Doctor of Philosophy, PhD (1978) from the University of Iowa.Biography at the ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. While working toward her doctorate, she also spent a year studying in Iceland as a Fulbright Program, Fulbright Scholar. From 1981 to 1996 she was a Professor of English at Iowa State University, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marita Golden
Marita Golden (born April 28, 1950) is an American novelist, nonfiction writer, professor, and co-founder of the Hurston/Wright Foundation, a national organization that serves as a resource center for African-American writers. Background and career Marita Golden was born in Washington, D.C., in 1950 and attended the city's public schools. She received a B.A. degree in American Studies and English from American University and a M.SC. in Journalism from Columbia University. After graduating from Columbia, she worked in publishing and began a career as a freelance writer, writing feature articles for many magazines and newspapers including ''Essence Magazine'', ''The New York Times'', and ''The Washington Post''. Golden's first book, ''Migrations of the Heart'' (1983), was a memoir based on her experiences coming of age during the 1960s and her political activism as well as her marriage to a Nigerian and her life in Nigeria, where she lived for four years. She has taught at many col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Hinojosa
Maria de Lourdes Hinojosa Ojeda (born July 2, 1961) is a Mexican-American journalist. She is the anchor and executive producer of '' Latino USA'', a syndicated public radio show devoted to Latino issues. She is also the founder, president and CEO of Futuro Media Group, which produces the show. In 2022, Hinojosa won a Pulitzer Prize. Additionally, she serves as the executive producer of '' America By the Numbers with Maria Hinojosa: Clarkston Georgia'' which premiered on PBS as a Need to Know Election 2012 special on September 21, 2012.Futuro Media Group Homepage In 2011, she became the first Latina to anchor a ''Frontline'' report on PBS (''Lost in Detention,'' a documentary exploring the issue o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times Bestseller List
''The New York Times'' Best Seller list is widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States. John Bear, ''The #1 New York Times Best Seller: intriguing facts about the 484 books that have been #1 New York Times bestsellers since the first list, 50 years ago'', Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1992. ''The New York Times Book Review'' has published the list weekly since October 12, 1931. In the 21st century, it has evolved into multiple lists, grouped by genre and format, including fiction and nonfiction, hardcover, paperback and e-books. The list is based on a proprietary method that uses sales figures, other data and internal guidelines that are unpublished—how the ''Times'' compiles the list is a trade secret. In 1983, during a legal case in which the ''Times'' was being sued, the ''Times'' argued that the list is not mathematically objective but rather an editorial product, an argument that prevailed in the courts. In 2017, a ''Times'' representat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Algonquin Books
Workman Publishing Company, Inc., is an American publisher of trade books founded by Peter Workman. The company consists of imprints Workman, Workman Children's, Workman Calendars, Artisan, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill and Algonquin Young Readers, Storey Publishing, and Timber Press. From the beginning Workman focused on publishing adult and children's non-fiction, and its titles and brands rank among the best-known in their fields, including: the What to Expect pregnancy and childcare guide; the educational series, '' Brain Quest'' and ''The Big Fat Notebooks;'' travel books like ''1,000 Places to See Before You Die'' and ''Atlas Obscura''; humor including ''The Complete Preppy Handbook'' and ''Bad Cat;'' award-winning cookbooks: ''The Noma Guide to Fermentation, The French Laundry Cookbook, Sheet Pan Suppers,'' ''The Silver Palate Cookbook, The Barbecue Bible;'' and novels including ''How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents'''', Water for Elephants'' and the Young Adul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barnard
Barnard is a surname of Old English origin, derived from the Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxon given name "Beornheard". It is composed of two elements: "Beorn," meaning "young warrior" or "bear," and "heard," meaning "hardy," "brave," or "strong." In some cases, Barnard is a version of the surname Bernard, which is a French language, French and West Germanic masculine given name and surname. The surname means as tough as a bear, Bar(Bear)+nard/hard(hardy/tough) __NOTOC__ People Some of the people bearing the surname Barnard in England are thought to have arrived after the time of the Norman conquest of England, Norman Conquest (1066), Changing their surnames from Bernard to Barnard. Some of whom, it has been suggested, can be traced back to Hugo Bernard. Some of the Barnard family in England may have been Huguenots who fled from the Atlantic coast region of France ''circa'' 1685 (the time of the Edict of Fontainebleau, revocation of the edict of Nantes) or earlier than that date. By contr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Hardwick (writer)
Elizabeth Bruce Hardwick (July 27, 1916 – December 2, 2007) was an American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer. Early life and education Elizabeth Bruce Hardwick was born as the eighth of eleven children in Lexington, Kentucky, on July 27, 1916, to strict Protestant parents, the daughter of Eugene Allen Hardwick, a plumbing and heating contractor, and Mary (née Ramsey) Hardwick. She graduated from the University of Kentucky with a BA in 1938 and with an MA in 1939. She then entered the PhD program at Columbia University, though withdrew from graduate study in 1941 to concentrate on writing. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1947. Career In 1959, Hardwick published "The Decline of Book Reviewing" in ''Harper's Magazine'', a generally harsh and even scathing critique of book reviews published in American periodicals of the time. She published four books of criticism: ''A View of My Own'' (1962), ''Seduction and Betrayal'' (1974), ''Bartleby in Manhattan' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster LLC (, ) is an American publishing house owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts since 2023. It was founded in New York City in 1924, by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. Along with Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group USA, Hachette, HarperCollins and Macmillan Publishers, Simon & Schuster is considered one of the Big Five (publishers), 'Big Five' English language publishers. , Simon & Schuster was the third largest publisher in the United States, publishing 2,000 titles annually under 35 different Imprint (trade name), imprints. History Early years In 1924, Richard L. Simon, Richard Simon's aunt, a crossword puzzle enthusiast, asked whether there was a book of ''New York World'' crossword puzzles, which were popular at the time. After discovering that none had been published, Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster, Max Schuster decided to launch a company to exploit the opportunity.Frederick Lewis Allen, ''Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s'', p. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
