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Ragdale Foundation
Ragdale is the former summer retreat of Chicago architect Howard Van Doren Shaw (1869–1926), located in Lake Forest, Illinois. It is also the home of the Ragdale Foundation, an artist residency program that hosts creators from a number of disciplines: nonfiction and fiction writers, composers, poets, play- and screenwriters, visual artists, choreographers, as well as those from interdisciplinary interests. The house and barn Built in 1897, the house and barn were built in Shaw's typical Arts and Crafts manner. The property underwent another change in 1912 as the Ragdale Ring was installed; at the outdoor theatre, Shaw's family and friends frequently performed Frances Shaw's works for the Lake Forest community, in the 1930s. Benches were incorporated to accommodate over 200 audience members. Ragdale was also where Sylvia Shaw Judson (1897–1978), Howard's daughter, sculpted her piece '' Bird Girl'', which is prominently featured on the cover of John Berendt's best-sell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Forest, Illinois
Lake Forest is a city located in Lake County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 19,367. The city is along the shore of Lake Michigan, and is a part of the Chicago metropolitan area and the North Shore. Lake Forest was founded with Lake Forest College and was laid out as a town in 1857, a stop for travelers making their way south to Chicago. The Lake Forest City Hall, designed by Charles Sumner Frost, was completed in 1898. It originally housed the fire department, the Lake Forest Library, and city offices. History Early History The Potawatomi inhabited Lake County before the United States Federal Government forced them out in 1836 as part of Indian Removal of tribes to areas west of the Mississippi River. As Lake Forest was first developed in 1857, the planners laid roads that would provide limited access to the city in an effort to prevent outside traffic and isolate the tranquil settlement from neighboring areas. Though the town is cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Aragón
Francisco Aragón is a Latino poet, editor and writer. Life Born in San Francisco, California, Aragón's parents migrated from Nicaragua in the 1950s. is a graduate of Archbishop Riordan High School. He studied at the University of California at Berkeley and New York University. He earned an MA from the University of California at Davis and an MFA from the University of Notre Dame. Aragón directs Letras Latinas, the literary program of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He previously edited Momotombo Press. He served on the board of directors of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs. Publications Aragón's books include ''Puerta del Sol'' (2005), and ''Glow of Our Sweat'' (2010). He edited the groundbreaking anthology ''The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry'' (2007). His poetry and translations have appeared in the anthologies ''Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies'' (2001) and ''Mariposa: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shimmer Chinodya
Shimmer Chinodya (born 1957 Gwelo, then Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland) is a Zimbabwean novelist. He studied at Mambo Primary School. He was expelled from Goromonzi after demonstrating against Ian Smith's government. He graduated from the University of Zimbabwe, and from the University of Iowa, with an MA in creative writing, in 1985. Awards * 1990 Commonwealth Writers' Prize Commonwealth Foundation presented a number of prizes between 1987 and 2011. The main award was called the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was composed of two prizes: the Best Book Prize (overall and regional) was awarded from 1987 to 2011; the Bes ..., Africa region. * 2007 National Arts Merit Awards Outstanding Fiction Book for ''Strife'' Works *; Heinemann, 2001, *''Farai’s Girls'' (1984) *''Child of War'' (1986) *''Harvest of Thorns'' (1989) *''Can we talk and other Stories'' (1998) *''Tale of Tamari'' (2004) *''Chairman of Fools'' (2005) * * Tindo's Quest, Longman Zimbabwe (Pvt) (January 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelly Cherry
Kelly Cherry (December 21, 1940 – March 18, 2022) was a novelist, poet, essayist, professor, and literary criticKelly Cherry: A poetic voice for the atomic age by James T. Keane, , April 05, 2022. and a former (2010–2012).Virginia Law and Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxine Chernoff
Maxine Chernoff (born 1952) is an American novelist, writer, poet, academic and literary magazine editor. Biography She was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, and attended the University of Illinois at Chicago. Chernoff is a professor and Chair of the Creative Writing program at San Francisco State University. With her husband, Paul Hoover, she edits the long-running literary journal ''New American Writing''. She is the author of six books of fiction and ten books of poetry, including ''The Turning'' (2008) and ''Among the Names'' (2005), both from Apogee Press. Chernoff's novel ''American Heaven'' and her book of short stories, ''Some of Her Friends That Year'', were finalists for the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award. With Paul Hoover, she has translated ''The Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin'' (Omnidawn Press, 2008) which won the 2009 PEN Translation Prize. As of 2013, she lives in Mill Valley, California. Works Novels ''A Boy in Winter''(Crown Publishing, 1999; H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Cheever
Susan Cheever (born July 31, 1943) is an American author and a prize-winning best-selling writer well known for her memoir, her writing about alcoholism, and her intimate understanding of American history. She is a recipient of the PEN New England Award. Biography Career Cheever's most recent book, published in 2015, is ''Drinking in America: Our Secret History''. The book chronicles how alcohol has influenced the history of the United States. Her other books include ''My Name is Bill - Bill Wilson: His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous'', a biography of Alcoholics Anonymous cofounder Bill Wilson; ''Home Before Dark'', a memoir about her father, novelist John Cheever; ''Treetops: A Memoir''; and five novels:'' Looking for Work, A Handsome Man, The Cage, Doctors and Women'', and ''Elizabeth Cole''. Her essay "Baby Battle," in which she describes immersion in early motherhood and subsequent phases of letting go of her primary identity as a mother, was included in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lan Samantha Chang
Lan Samantha Chang (張嵐; pinyin: Zhāng Lán) is an American writer of novels and short stories. Life Lan Samantha Chang was born in Appleton, Wisconsin, and attended Yale University, where she earned her bachelor's degree in East Asian Studies. She worked briefly in publishing in New York City, before getting her MPA from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and was a Wallace E. Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford. She is the Elizabeth M. Stanley Professor in the Arts at the University of Iowa and the Director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the first woman, and the first Asian American, to hold that position. Work Chang's first book is a novella and short stories, titled ''Hunger'' (1998). The stories are set in the US and China, and they explore home, family, and loss. The ''New York Times Book Review'' called it "Elegant.… A delicately calculated balance sheet of the losses and gains of imm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne Boruch
Marianne Boruch (born June 19, 1950) is an American poet whose published work also includes essays on poetry, sometimes in relation to other fields (music, visual art, ornithology, medicine, aviation, etc.) and a memoir about a hitchhiking trip taken in 1971. Life Born and raised Catholic in Chicago, Boruch was educated in parish schools and spent many summers in Tuscola, Illinois with her grandparents. She graduated from the University of Illinois, then earned her MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst where her MFA thesis advisor was James Tate. She has taught at Tunghai University in Taiwan, and at the University of Maine at Farmington, going on, in 1987, to develop and direct the MFA program in creative writing at Purdue University where she continues as a Professor Emeritus. Since 1988, she has also taught semi-regularly in the low-residency MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. On occasion, she's run workshops and given lectures and readings at summe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Bond
Bruce Bond (born June 25, 1954) is an American poet and creative writing educator at the University of North Texas. Formal education & academic career Bond earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Pomona College, a Master of Arts degree in English from Claremont Graduate School, and a Masters in Music Performance degree from the Lamont School of Music of the University of Denver. He then worked several years as a classical and jazz guitarist. In 1987, he earned a PhD in English from the University of Denver. Since then, he has taught at the University of Kansas, Wichita State University, Wilfrid Laurier University (in Canada), and the University of North Texas, where he currently is a Regents Professor of English and Poetry Editor, with Corey Marks, of '' American Literary Review.''''A Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers, 2001–2002 edition,'' New York: Poets & Writers (2001) Works Poetry Criticism Immanent Distance: Poetry and the Metaphysics of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Block
Lawrence Block (born June 24, 1938) is an American crime writer best known for two long-running New York-set series about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and the gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr. Block was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1994. Early life Lawrence Block was born June 24, 1938Rippetoe, Rita Elizabeth (July 23, 2004)''Booze and the Private Eye: Alcohol in the Hard-Boiled Novel'' McFarland & Company, p. 130. Archived at Google Books. Retrieved June 18, 2018. in Buffalo, New York, where he was raised. He attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, but left before graduating. Career Block's earliest work, published pseudonymously in the 1950s, was mostly in the soft-porn mass market paperback industry, an apprenticeship he shared with fellow mystery author Donald E. Westlake. Block describes the early sex novels as a valuable experience, noting that despite the titillating content of the books (rather mild by lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Black
Star Black is a poet, photographer, and artist. She has authored seven collections of poetry and taught in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton and at The New School. She was published in ''The Paris Review'', and has written three books of sonnets, a collection of double sestinas, and a book of collaged free verse. Her poems have been anthologized in ''The Penguin Book of the Sonnet'', ''110 Stories: New York Writers After September 11'', and ''The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1880 to The Present''. Her collages have been exhibited at Poets House and The Center for Book Arts, and published in ''One of a Kind: UniqueArtists Books'' by Pierre Menard Gallery. Publications *''The Popular Vote'' (poems) (Saturnalia Press 2019) *''Velleity's Shade'' (poems), with art work by Bill Knott – (Saturnalia Books 2010) *''Ghostwood ''(sonnets) – (Melville House 2003) *''Balefire'' (poetry) – (Painted Leaf Press 1999) *''October for Idas'' (collaged free verse) – (Painted Lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Becker
Robin Becker (born 1951) is an American poet, critic, feminist, and professor. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is author of seven collections of poetry, most recently, Tiger Heron and Domain of Perfect Affection (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014 and 2006). Her ''All-American Girl'' (University of Pittsburgh Press), won the 1996 Lambda Literary Award in Poetry. Becker earned a B.A. in 1973 and an M.A. from Boston University in 1976. She lives in Boalsburg, Pennsylvania and spends her summers in southern New Hampshire. Teaching career Becker taught for seventeen years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and currently and is Professor of English and Women's Studies at Pennsylvania State University, where she has taught since 1993. She also teaches workshops such as those at the Summer Program Poetry Workshops at The Fine Arts Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Literary influences and praise "Becker grew up listening to her grandmother's storie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
