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David Lee (born 1944) is an American poet and the first poet laureate of the state of Utah. His 1999 collection News From Down to the Café was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and, in 2001, he was a finalist for the position of United States Poet Laureate .
Alfred Damon Runyon (October 4, 1880 [1] [2] – December 10, 1946) was an American journalist and short-story writer. [3] He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era. To New Yorkers of his generation, a "Damon Runyon character" evoked a distinctive social type ...
Free Love and Other Stories is a short story collection by Scottish Booker-shortlisted author Ali Smith, first published in 1995 by Virago Press. It was her first published book and won the Saltire First Book of the Year award. [1] and a Scottish Arts Council award [2] It contains twelve short stories. "A Sweetly memorable collection" - The ...
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Opal Lee took on the 2.5-mile walk on Juneteenth, despite temperatures that felt over 100 degrees. ‘Change their mind’: People can be taught to love, Opal Lee says on day to celebrate freedom ...
David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) was an American author of novels, essays, and short stories. In addition to writing, Wallace was employed as a professor at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois , and Pomona College in Claremont, California .
Other published fiction includes the short-story collections A Place I've Never Been, Arkansas: Three Novellas and The Marble Quilt and the novels The Lost Language of Cranes, Equal Affections, While England Sleeps (finalist for the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize), The Page Turner, Martin Bauman, The Body of Jonah Boyd and The Indian Clerk ...
Freedom, Love and the Recuperation of the Human Mind was rated at three-out-of-five stars by Rolling Stone ' s Jaymz Clements, who explained, "Lee walks a blurred line of dewey-eyed idealistic optimism and insufferable pretension, but his transition from precocious pop maestro to folksy 'adult' pop has been quietly impressive."