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From:Canadian Fantasy and Science-Fiction WritersWRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR: BOOKSL'Oeil de la nuit (Longueuil, Quebec: Le Préambule, 1980).Le Silence de la cité (Paris: Denoël, 1981); translated by Jane Brierley as The Silent City (Victoria, British Columbia: Press...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5979)Not much is known of James Curtis (1907-77), who fell down dead in a north-west London chemist's shop forty years ago. Red Letter Days, Andy Croft's survey of the pre-war literary Left--a category in which Curtis...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersFrom Rosemary's Baby (1967) to Sliver (1991), horror author Ira Levin has explored the darker side of human, and not-so-human, nature. Popularly considered a "master builder of psychological thrillers," Levin takes...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray was first published in the July issue of Lippincott's magazine on 20 June 1890 and in book form in July 1891. The novel was immediately controversial because of the ethics of the...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Although Muriel Spark published a collection of poems as long ago as 1952, her career as a novelist began with The Comforters. Since then she has published 17 other novels as well as short stories, further poems, a play,...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Russell Hoban's six novels for adults have a compelling strangeness made up of the most elusive aspects of myth, riddle, history, fantasy, philosophy, and humor. For many readers this is a deeply intriguing mixture which...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Gertrude Atherton was a popular and prolific writer, publishing nearly forty novels, several volumes of short stories, three collections of essays, a history of California, two books about San Francisco, a selection of...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Whereas earlier Indian novelists were concerned with nationalist politics, protest and cultural assertion, Anita Desai is interested in the various changes which have affected lives since independence. Although her...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)In all her books Alice Thomas Ellis takes the form of the upper-class social comedy and turns it inside out, with mordant, often uncomfortable wit, satire (some of it quite savage), and a gift for dialogue which means...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersEllen Gilchrist made a splash on the literary scene in 1981 with a well-received collection of short stories entitled In the Land of Dreamy Dreams. In these stories Gilchrist details the lives of the beautiful and...
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From:Feminist WritersAs an emigré from the Ukraine to Brazil, as a young woman in Brazilian intellectual society, and as a diplomatic wife living abroad for many years, Clarice Lispector acquired a unique sense of being on the outside, and...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)In Louise Erdrich's third novel, certain members of the Pillager Kashpaw families are behind in paying the government their annual fees on the reserve land that has always been theirs but that is now under government...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 2. )Any movement for change born out of the desire of a social minority to be heard and acknowledged will generate a literature which both articulates political goals and reflects the internal realities of the group. This...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 1. )The biography of Jean Genet is simultaneously well-known and obscure. Though Genet's own accounts of his early life varied and readers often confuse his actual life with his novelistic semi-autobiographical accounts,...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Kazuo Ishiguro has established a considerable reputation on the strength of only three novels, resulting in his being awarded the Booker prize in 1989 for The Remains of the Day. However, as each of these novels is...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersMarilyn French's stated life goal is to "change the entire social and economic struture of western civliization, to make it a feminist world." Her fiction and essays make this goal clear. They are unabashedly feminist,...
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From:Canadian Fantasy and Science-Fiction WritersWRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR: BOOKSEn hommage aux araignées (Montreal: L'Actuelle, 1974); republished as L'Etranger sous la ville (Montreal: Editions Paulines, 1986).Der Träumer in der Zitadelle, German translation by Otto...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)David Malouf was already an established and well-regarded poet when he published his first novel in 1975. His career seems to have taken a decisive turn for it is primarily prose works that he has published since 1980,...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Israel Zangwill was a Jew in England. As such, he attempted, in great measure successfully, to integrate in his life and works the best of both civilizations, projecting them later to his people and all mankind. This he...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Olive Schreiner had her first novel, The Story of an African Farm, published when she was in her twenties. For the remaining years of her life, apart from occasional journalism and a few allegories, she produced one...