American Beauty

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Raymond Carver

The American short story writer and poet Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, on May 25, 1938, and lived in Port Angeles, Washington during his last ten, sober years until his death from cancer on August 2, 1988. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1979 and was twice awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1983 Carver received the prestigious Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award which gave him $35,000 per year tax free and required that he give up any employment other than writing, and in 1985 Poetry magazine\'s Levinson Prize. In 1988 he was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Hartford. He received a Brandeis Citation for fiction in 1988. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. At least that\'s the basic biography. Of course there\'s no room in it for the nature of the hardship he and his family went through during most of those fifty...

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Sinclair Lewis

-primul american care a luat Premiul Nobel pentru Literatură -1885 - s-a născut Sinclair Lewis în Sauk Centre, Minnesota -părinții: Dr. Edwin J. Lewis și Emma Kermott Lewis -1891- mama sa moare -1892- tatăl se căsătorește cu Isabel Warner -1912 ,,Hike and Aeroplane” e publicat sub pseudonimul ,,Tom Graham” -1922 ,,Babbitt” -1926 – răsplătit cu premiul Pulitzer penru ,, Main Street” și ,,Babbitt”, pe care îl refuză; în acest an moare tatăl său -1927 ,,Elmer Gantry” -1929 ,,Dodsworth” -1930 – se naște fiul său, Michael. Obține Premiul Nobel pentru Literatură -1945 ,,Cass Timberlane” 1947 ,,Kingsblood Royal 1949 ,,The God-Seeker” -moare în 1951 la Roma.

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Anais Nin

Scriitoare americană, de origine spaniola, și-a petrecut copilăria în diferite părți ale Europei, până să plece cu mama ei, la 11 ani, în Statele Unite. S-a mutat apoi la Paris, cu soțul ei, trăind în Franța între 1924 și 1939, unde a cunoscut scriitori și artiști de renume. Prima carte i-a apărut în anii \'30, calitatea și originalitatea ei fiind de necontestat, însă a durat ceva până a dobândit o recunoaștere largă. Este și autoarea câtorva romane, povestiri scurte, cărți erotice,prelegeri, dar editarea \"Jurnalelor dragostei\"- Henry și June, Incest, i-a câștigat cei mai mulți admiratori. Cărțile ei au fost publicate în Olanda, Spania, Japonia, SUA, Germania, Italia. Anais Nin s-a stins din viață la Los Angeles, în 1977.

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James Laughlin

Poet american și publicist, James Laughlin s-a născut in 1914 în Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Personalitatea sa poetică s-a dezvoltat sub influența lui Ezra Pound și a lui William Carlos Williams. James Laughlin a publicat primele poezii în culegeri la editura pe care a fondat-o, "New Directions". Dintre operele sale, cităm: In Another Country (1979) Selected Poems (1986) The House of Light (1986) Tabellae" (1986) The Owl of Minerva (1987) Collemata and Pound As Wuz (1988) Collected Poems of James Laughlin (1992) Angelica" (1992) The Man in the Wall (1993) The Country Road (1995) The Secret Room (1997) A Commonplace Book of Pentastichs (1998) Byways: A Memoir (2005) The Way It Wasn't: From the Files of James Laughlin (2006). În 1992 a câștigat premiul "Distinguished Contribution to American Letters". Poet protestatar, stăpânit de dorința de a transforma lumea, James Laughlin a fost un solitar, trăind izolat la Connecticut. Lirica sa respiră o puternică sinceritate, curaj și fervoare,...

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Denise Duhamel

poeta americana contemporana. 1993- Zambeste! 1995 Femeia cu doua vagine 1996 Cum a cazut cerul 2001 Regina pentru o zi:poeme alese si inedite 2005 Mille et un sentiments *** Denise Duhamel is an American poet. She was born in Woonsocket, RI, in 1961. She received her B.F.A. from Emerson College and her M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College.[1] She is a New York Foundation for the Arts recipient and has been resident poet at Bucknell University. She has had residencies at Yaddo and The MacDowell Colony.[2] Duhamel has also collaborated with Maureen Seaton on Little Novels, Oyl, and Exquisite Politics. Of this collaboration, Duhamel says; "Something magical happens when we write - we find this third voice, someone who is neither Maureen nor I, and our ego sort of fades into the background. The poem matters, not either one of us."[3] Duhamel names Lucille Ball, Roseanne Barr, Andrea Dworkin, Alyson Palmer, Amy Ziff and Elizabeth Ziff (who make up the singing group Betty) and the 70s...

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Alice Walker

Alice Walker is an American novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist, and activist. Her most famous novel, The Color Purple, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1983. Alice Walker\'s creative vision is rooted in the economic hardship, racial terrorism, and folk wisdom of African American life and culture, particularly in the rural South. Her writing explores multidimensional kinships among women, among men and women, among humans and animals and embraces the redemptive power of social, spiritual and political revolution.

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Anthony McCann

Anthony McCann is an American poet. He is the author of two collections of poetry, including Father of Noise, and Moongarden. He is also the author of Gentle Reader!, a book of erasures of the English Romantics, written with fellow poets Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer. He currently resides in Los Angeles where he teaches poetry at California Institute of the Arts and University of Southern California. He is also the acting Poet Laureate of Machine Project.

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