Kay Ryan

Kay Ryan was born in California in 1945 and grew up in the small towns of the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert. She received both a bachelor\'s and master\'s degree from UCLA. Ryan has published several collections of poetry, including The Niagara River (Grove Press, 2005); Say Uncle (2000); Elephant Rocks (1996); Flamingo Watching (1994), which was a finalist for both the Lamont Poetry Selection and the Lenore Marshall Prize; Strangely Marked Metal (1985); and Dragon Acts to Dragon Ends (1983). About her work, J. D. McClatchy has said: \"Her poems are compact, exhilarating, strange affairs, like Erik Satie miniatures or Joseph Cornell boxes. She is an anomaly in today\'s literary culture: as intense and elliptical as Dickinson, as buoyant and rueful as Frost.\" Ryan\'s awards include the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, an Ingram Merrill Award, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Union League Poetry Prize, the Maurice English Poetry...

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Washington Irving

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Chuck Palahniuk

Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk (21 februarie 1962) este un scriitor american născut în Pasco, Washington, SUA. Romane Fight Club (1996) Supraviețuitorul (1999) Monștrii invizibili (1999) Sufocare (2001) Cîntec de leagăn (2002) Jurnal (2003) Bîntuiții (2005) Rant (2007) Snuff (2008) Pygmy (2009) Spune tuturor (2010) 1962. Primele sale doua carti, trimise unor editori din New York, au fost refuzate. La fel se va intimpla si cu romanul Fight Club, respins initial pentru ca a fost considerat „prea intunecat si prea riscant”. In loc sa-i mai estompeze tonul, Palahniuk il va duce la extrem. Publicat in 1996 si devenit un roman clasic al literaturii underground, Fight Club este la ora actuala, in opinia criticilor si a publicului cititor, una dintre cele mai originale si mai provocatoare carti scrise in ultimul deceniu al secolului XX. *** Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk born February 21, 1962) is an American transgressional fiction novelist and freelance journalist. He is best known...

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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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Joseph Louis Vance

Louis Joseph Vance was born on September 19, 1879 in New York, New York (although some sources say Washington, DC). He was an American fiction writer of short stories, novels and screenplays. Vance was the son of Wilson and Lillie Beall Vance. Originally, Vance wanted to become an artist and illustrator and attended the Art Students League and Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. Vance married Nance Elizabeth Hodges in 1898. They had one son, Wilson Beall Vance who was born the following year. Vance was 26 years old when his first book,Terence O\'Rourke,Gentlema Adventurer was published in 1905. Vance was a \"hack\" writer for many years producing hundreds of short stories and some adventure novels until he published a group of three mystery novels which promoted him to best-selling author status. The novels were: The Brass Bowl (1907) about a beautiful young girl, who in order to help her grieving father,becomes a burglar and meets a professional burglar who resembles the identical twin...

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Alexandru Cristian Miloș

DATE BIOGRAFICE: -Mama Florina(invatatoare) tatal Virgil(colonel de armata) -Studii; -clasele primare in Oradea -liceul teoretic ,,L.Rebreanu,, Bistrita 1971-1974-student la I.M.F-facultatea de medicina generala,Cluj-Napoca; intrerupe studiile si nu mai reia pregatirea in domeniul medical. 1995 -membru al Uniunii Scriitorilor din Romania -membru IWA (Asociatia Internationala a Artistilor si Scriitorilor din Bluffton,Ohio,USA) 1996 -este inclus in dictionarul WHO'S WHO al Centrului Biografic International din Cambridge,Anglia. -apare cu o placheta continind noua poezii (in limbile engleza si franceza) in colectia ,,the POET,,din USA -membru LITERART-XXI (Asociatia Internationala a Scriitorilo0r si Oamenilor de Arta Romani- Springfield,Washington, SUA) 1999 - membru al Academiei de Stiinte si Arte din Messina,Italia BIBLIOGRAFIE; 1994-vol,,Stelele amintite,, (ed.Tipomur,Tg.Mures) 1994-vol,,Fiinte de lumina,, (ed.G.Cosbuc-Fundatia Transilvania,Bistrita) 1995-vol,,Nume din...

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Gianni Riotta

Gianni Riotta (Palermo, 12 gennaio 1954) è un giornalista e scrittore italiano. Figlio di Salvatore, redattore del Giornale di Sicilia, esordisce nel campo del giornalismo a 17 anni, come corrispondente de Il Manifesto e come collaboratore delle pagine culturali del Giornale di Sicilia. Dopo essersi laureato in Filosofia all'Università di Palermo, nel 1976 si trasferisce a Roma. Poi passa a scrivere per la La Stampa e quindi, nel 1988, per il Corriere della Sera (grazie alla proposta di Ugo Stille di succedergli come corrispondente da New York). Negli Stati Uniti frequenta la Columbia University, dove si laurea in giornalismo. Ha insegnato all'Università di Bologna e fa parte del Consiglio di Facoltà del corso di cultura italiana a Princeton, dove ha insegnato comunicazione. Ha collaborato con: New York Times, Washington Post, Le Monde, Foreign Policy. Fa parte del Council on Foreign Relations. Da New York ha fatto il corrispondente per varie testate giornalistiche tra cui La Stampa,...

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