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Clubhouse, 1888-1922. After the Civil War, most of Kansas City's social clubs were pro-Confederate.A group of prominent local businessmen and professionals, including Edward H. Allen, Victor B. Bell, Alden J. Blethen, Thomas B. Bullene, Gardiner Lathrop, August Meyer, Leander J. Talbott, William Warner, and Robert T. Van Horn, decided to provide an alternative, and organized the Kansas City ...
Writers from Kansas City, Missouri (125 P) Writers from Springfield, Missouri (15 P) Writers from St. Louis (312 P) A. Academics from Missouri (4 C, 10 P) M.
The Harlem Writers Guild (formerly known as the Harlem Writers Club) was set up in 1950 [1] as a forum where African-American writers could develop their craft. After funding for an organization active in the late 1940s called "The Committee for the Negro in the Arts" ended, these writers felt excluded from the mainstream literary culture of New York City.
ROCHESTER — In what will be a first-of-its-kind space here, a local writer and anthropologist is launching a creative hub dedicated to amplifying Black voices and expression. Griot Arts, a ...
The group that would become the Round Table began meeting in June 1919 as the result of a practical joke carried out by theatrical press agent John Peter Toohey.Toohey, annoyed at The New York Times drama critic Alexander Woollcott for refusing to plug one of Toohey's clients (Eugene O'Neill) in his column, organized a luncheon supposedly to welcome Woollcott back from World War I, where he ...
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It has now returned to its old home in the National Liberal Club. The Club welcomes both men and women as members, and is open to all those "professionally engaged with literature". It was at a dinner at the Authors’ Club that Oscar Wilde denounced the censorship of his play Salome. "Casting aside all his gifts of humour and irony the angry ...
The Writer's Center, founded in 1976, is an independent literary center that is housed in a 12,200-square-foot (1,130 m2) facility in the arts and entertainment district of Bethesda, Maryland. [1] The organization consists of approximately 2,500 writers, editors, small press publishers and other artists who support each other in the creation ...