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The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels is collection of four novellas published in 2003 by 2007 Nobel laureate Doris Lessing. The 2013 Australian-French film Adore (alternatively known as Adoration ) is based on the story The Grandmothers .
Doris May Lessing CH OMG (née Tayler; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British novelist.She was born to British parents in Iran, where she lived until 1925.Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where she remained until moving in 1949 to London, England.
The Grandmothers is a 1927 novel by Glenway Wescott which received the Harper Novel Prize. [1] [2] Based upon Wescott's own life and family, [3] it is told through the eyes of young Alwyn Tower who leaves the farm to live in Europe, but who remains haunted by his long-dead family members – grandparents, great-uncles and aunts, whose lives were shattered by the Civil War.
John and Mary are the subjects of a series of children's books written by Grace James.The series started in the 1930s and finishes in the 1960s. They form part of the 'realistic adventure' tradition in children's literature, following on from similar works by E. Nesbit and Arthur Ransome.
Irving was born John Wallace Blunt Jr. in Exeter, New Hampshire, the son of Helen Frances (née Winslow) and John Wallace Blunt Sr., a writer and executive recruiter; [3] [4] the couple separated during pregnancy. [5] Irving was raised by his mother and stepfather, Colin Franklin Newell Irving, who was a Phillips Exeter Academy faculty member.
Wescott travelled to Santa Fe to recover from Spanish flu, where he wrote his first published poetry collection, titled The Bitterns. [4] Although, he began his writing career as a poet, he is best known for his short stories and novels, notably The Grandmothers (1927), which received the Harper Novel prize, [3] and The Pilgrim Hawk (1940).
In 1974, her first novel in the Grandma's Attic series was published. Then, in 1994 the first book in her Orphans' Journey series was published. She wrote eight books for the CYC missions program after that. She was Director of Missions Education in the Women's Missionary Society for nine years. At the age of 81, she died of cancer. [1]
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