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Caitlin Shetterly
Caitlin Shetterly is a Maine-based writer and theatre director whose works center on themes of the environment, food, America, family life, and motherhood. Her books include ''Pete and Alice in Maine'' (2023, Harper Collins); ''Modified: GMOs and the Threat to Our Food, Our Land, Our Future'' (2016); ''Made for You and Me: Going West, Going Broke, Finding Home'' (2011)'';'' and the bestselling ''Fault Lines: Stories of Divorce'' (2001). In 2003, Shetterly founded the Winter Harbor Theatre Company. She was Artistic Director until the company's closure in 2011. Shetterly is the Editor-in-Chief of Frenchly.us, a French culture and lifestyle publication. Early life and education Shetterly graduated with Honors from Brown University in 1997 with a B.A. in English and American Literature. Her thesis focused on "Fathers and Children in Divorce" in John Updike’s ''The'' ''Maples Stories'' and Richard Ford’s Frank Bascombe novels. Updike became a mentor and friend of Shetterly's, a r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caitlin Shetterly
Caitlin Shetterly is a Maine-based writer and theatre director whose works center on themes of the environment, food, America, family life, and motherhood. Her books include ''Pete and Alice in Maine'' (2023, Harper Collins); ''Modified: GMOs and the Threat to Our Food, Our Land, Our Future'' (2016); ''Made for You and Me: Going West, Going Broke, Finding Home'' (2011)'';'' and the bestselling ''Fault Lines: Stories of Divorce'' (2001). In 2003, Shetterly founded the Winter Harbor Theatre Company. She was Artistic Director until the company's closure in 2011. Shetterly is the Editor-in-Chief of Frenchly.us, a French culture and lifestyle publication. Early life and education Shetterly graduated with Honors from Brown University in 1997 with a B.A. in English and American Literature. Her thesis focused on "Fathers and Children in Divorce" in John Updike’s ''The'' ''Maples Stories'' and Richard Ford’s Frank Bascombe novels. Updike became a mentor and friend of Shetterly's, a r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Phoenix (newspaper)
''The Phoenix'' (stylized as ''The Phœnix'') was the name of several alternative weekly periodicals published in the United States of America by Phoenix Media/Communications Group of Boston, Massachusetts, including the ''Portland Phoenix'' and the now-defunct ''Boston Phoenix'', ''Providence Phoenix'' and ''Worcester Phoenix''. These publications emphasized local arts and entertainment coverage as well as lifestyle and political coverage. The ''Portland Phoenix'', although it is still publishing, is now owned by another company, New Portland Publishing. The papers, like most alternative weeklies, are somewhat similar in format and editorial content to the ''Village Voice''. History Origin ''The Phoenix'' was founded in 1965 by Joe Hanlon, a former editor at MIT's student newspaper, '' The Tech''. Since many Boston-area college newspapers were printed at the same printing firm, Hanlon's idea was to do a four-page single-sheet insert with arts coverage and ads. He began with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Writers From Portland, Maine
A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing styles and techniques to communicate ideas. Writers produce different forms of literary art and creative writing such as novels, short stories, books, poetry, travelogues, plays, screenplays, teleplays, songs, and essays as well as other reports and news articles that may be of interest to the general public. Writers' texts are published across a wide range of media. Skilled writers who are able to use language to express ideas well, often contribute significantly to the cultural content of a society. The term "writer" is also used elsewhere in the arts and music, such as songwriter or a screenwriter, but also a stand-alone "writer" typically refers to the creation of written language. Some writers work from an oral tradition. Writers can produce material across a number of genres, fictional or non-fictional. Other writers use multiple media such as graphics or illustration to enhance the communication of thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1974 Births
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of President of the United States, United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; following List of Prime Ministers of Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir's resignation in response to high Israeli casualties, she was succeeded by Yitzhak Rabin. In Europe, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus by Turkey, Turkish troops initiated the Cyprus dispute, the Carnation Revolution took place in Portugal, and Chancellor of Germany, Chancellor of West Germany Willy Brandt resigned following an Guillaume affair, espionage scandal surrounding his secretary Günter Guillaume. In sports, the year was primarily dominated by the 1974 FIFA World Cup, FIFA World Cup in West Germany, in which the Germany national football team, German national team won the championshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margot Lee Shetterly
Margot Lee Shetterly (born June 30, 1969) is an American non-fiction, nonfiction writer who has also worked in investment banking and media startups. Her first book, ''Hidden Figures (book), Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race'' (2016), is about African-American women mathematicians working at NASA who were instrumental to the success of the United States space program. She sold the movie rights while still working on the book, and it was adapted as a feature film of the same name, ''Hidden Figures'' (2016). For several years Shetterly and her husband lived and worked in Mexico, where they founded and published ''Inside Mexico,'' a magazine directed to English-speaking readers. Early life and education Margot Lee was born in 1969 in Hampton, Virginia. Her father worked as a research scientist at NASA's Langley Research Center, and her mother was an English professor at the historically black Hampton University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maine
Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and northwest, respectively. The largest state by total area in New England, Maine is the 12th-smallest by area, the 9th-least populous, the 13th-least densely populated, and the most rural of the 50 U.S. states. It is also the northeasternmost among the contiguous United States, the northernmost state east of the Great Lakes, the only state whose name consists of a single syllable, and the only state to border exactly one other U.S. state. Approximately half the area of Maine lies on each side of the 45th parallel north in latitude. The most populous city in Maine is Portland, while its capital is Augusta. Maine has traditionally been known for its jagged, rocky Atlantic Ocean and bayshore coastlines; smoothly contoured mountains; heavily f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Shetterly
Robert Shetterly (born 1946) is an American artist, best known for his portrait series, ''"Americans Who Tell the Truth"''. Americans Who Tell the Truth The project begun in response to U.S. government actions following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center (1973–2001), World Trade Center towers in New York City. Shetterly undertook the project as a way to deal with his own grief and anger by painting Americans who inspired him. He initially intended to paint only 50 portraits, but by 2022 more than 260 portraits were included in the series. Portions of the series tour widely across the United States, being shown in schools, museums, libraries, galleries and other public spaces. A book titled "Americans Who Tell the Truth," written and illustrated by Shetterly, was published by Dutton Children's Books in 2005. It was reviewed favorably by Kirkus Reviews, Kirkus. It won the International Reading Association's Intermediate—Nonfiction award for 2006, and the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Recession
The Great Recession was a period of marked general decline, i.e. a recession, observed in national economies globally that occurred from late 2007 into 2009. The scale and timing of the recession varied from country to country (see map). At the time, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded that it was the most severe economic and financial meltdown since the Great Depression. One result was a serious disruption of normal international relations. The causes of the Great Recession include a combination of vulnerabilities that developed in the financial system, along with a series of triggering events that began with the bursting of the United States housing bubble in 2005–2012. When housing prices fell and homeowners began to abandon their mortgages, the value of mortgage-backed securities held by investment banks declined in 2007–2008, causing several to collapse or be bailed out in September 2008. This 2007–2008 phase was called the subprime mortgage crisis. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Fox (playwright)
Amy Fox is a playwright and screenwriter based in New York City. She has penned numerous full-length plays, including ''Summer Cyclone'', ''Farm Boys'', and ''Nothing Revolutionary'', as well as having written a good number of one-acts. Fox also wrote the screenplay for the 2004 Merchant Ivory film '' Heights'', based on her one-act play of the same name. Career Fox wrote the screenplay to the 2016 film Equity. The film premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival The 2016 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 21 to January 31, 2016. The first lineup of competition films was announced on December 2, 2015. The opening night film was ''Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You'', directed by Heidi Ew .... ''Heights'' production history 2010: Marietta College One Act Festival. Group A. Directed by TJ TianQi Jin. Supervised by Prof. Jeffery Cordell. Amateur Student Production. References 21st-century American dramatists and playwrights American women dramatists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brown University
Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Brown is one of nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Admissions at Brown is among the most selective in the United States. In 2022, the university reported a first year acceptance rate of 5%. It is a member of the Ivy League. Brown was the first college in the United States to codify in its charter that admission and instruction of students was to be equal regardless of their religious affiliation. The university is home to the oldest applied mathematics program in the United States, the oldest engineering program in the Ivy League, and the third-oldest medical program in New England. The university was one of the early doctoral-granting U.S. institutions in the late 19th century, adding masters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Pospisil
Craig Pospisil is an American playwright, musical bookwriter and filmmaker. He has written nine full-length plays and musicals, mostly comedies, and more than 40 short plays and musicals. Biography Pospisil was born and raised in New York City, where he attended Trinity School. He graduated from Wesleyan University, and later studied playwriting in the Dramatic Writing Program in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. His plays are published by Dramatists Play Service, TRW Plays, and Playscripts, Inc., and have appeared in the publications such as ''Plays and Playwrights 2001'', ''Take Ten II'', ''Under Thirty'', ''Best Ten Minute Plays 2005'', ''Best Ten Minute Plays 2006'', ''Best American Short Plays 2010-2011'', ''Best Ten Minute Plays 2012'', and ''Best Ten Minute Plays 2015'', from publishers Smith & Kraus, Applause TheatreBooks, Heinemann and Vintage Books. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild. He is best known for the plays ''Months on End ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
