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Jaimy Gordon
Jaimy Gordon (born July 4, 1944) is an American writer. She is a winner of the National Book Award for Fiction. Biography She was born in Baltimore. She graduated from Antioch College in 1966, received an MA in English from Brown University in 1972, and earned a Doctor of Arts in Creative Writing in 1975, also from Brown. She currently lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where she previously taught in the MFA and PhD program of Western Michigan University. Work Gordon is considered to be an important writer, whose literary works have been recognized and highlighted at Michigan State University in their Michigan Writers Series. She is author of the underground fantasy classic ''Shamp of the City-Solo''. Awards Her fourth novel, ''Lord of Misrule (novel), Lord of Misrule'', published by McPherson & Co., won the 2010 National Book Award for Fiction The National Book Award for Fiction is one of five annual National Book Awards, which recognize outstanding literary work by United State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michigan Library Association
The Michigan Library Association is a United States professional association headquartered in Lansing, Michigan that advocates for libraries in Michigan on behalf of the state's residents. Founded in 1891 its members are more than 2,700 individuals and organizations from public, school, academic, cooperative, private and special libraries. With a mission to lead the advancement of all Michigan libraries through advocacy, education and engagement, the Michigan Library Association (MLA) is Michigan's oldest and largest library association and has advocated for libraries on behalf of the state's residents for more than 130 years. MLA has influenced the course of Michigan's libraries since its inception in 1891, when Mary A. Eddy, the librarian at Coldwater Free Public Library, wrote to Henry M. Utley of the Detroit Public Library about organizing a state library association. They had discussed this matter at the 1890 meeting of the American Library Association in New Hampshire, beli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PEN/Faulkner Award For Fiction Winners
The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to the authors of the year's best works of fiction by living American citizens. The winner receives US$15,000 and each of four runners-up receives US$5000. Finalists read from their works at the presentation ceremony in the Great Hall of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. The organization claims it to be "the largest peer-juried award in the country." The award was first given in 1981. The PEN/Faulkner Foundation is an outgrowth of William Faulkner's use of his 1949 Nobel Prize winnings to create the William Faulkner Foundation; among the charitable goals of the foundation was "to establish a fund to support and encourage new fiction writers." The foundation's first award for a "notable first novel," called the William Faulkner Foundation Award, was granted to John Knowles's ''A Separate Peace'' in 1961. The foundation was dissolved after 1970. Mary Lee Settle was one of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Writers From Baltimore
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1944 Births
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Living People
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Western Michigan University Faculty
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National Book Award Winners
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Brown University Alumni
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Antioch College Alumni
This page lists notable alumni and former students, faculty, and administrators of Antioch College. Alumni Art, Architecture, and Engineering * Emma Amos (B.A. 1968), postmodernist African-American painter and printmaker * Kathan Brown (B.A. 1958), printmaker, writer, lecturer, entrepreneur and founder of Crown Point Press * (B.A. 1968) printmaker, activist, co-founder of Women's Press Collective, Oakland. * Peter Calthorpe (B.A. 1972), architect, urban designer, urban planner, and author. Founding member of The Congress for the New Urbanism. * Jewell James Ebers (1946), electrical engineer * Wendy Ewald (B.A. 1974), photographer, professor at Duke University * Carole Harmel (B.A. 1969), photographer, artist, educator, co-founder of Artemisia Gallery women's cooperative in Chicago (1973)Carol Harmel photography website Retrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Women Writers
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The Bat Segundo Show
''The Bat Segundo Show'' was a podcast based in New York City run by writer and literary critic Edward Champion between 2004 and 2012. It was revived in mid-2013. The program features comprehensive interviews with prominent figures in arts and culture, with a special focus on literature. Past guests have included David Mitchell, David Lynch, Amy Sedaris, Nora Ephron, John Updike, Errol Morris, Nicholson Baker and others. It was one of the first in-depth literary podcasts created exclusively for the Internet. The program has been singled out by the ''Washington Times'' in 2007 and ''The Los Angeles Times'' in 2008. History ''The Bat Segundo Show'' started in 2004, as a "shameless excuse to interview David Mitchell." Needing an introduction, Champion took the name of "Bat Segundo" from Mitchell's first novel, ''Ghostwritten'', (later obtaining Mitchell's permission) and created "a deliberately unappealing and grating character" to introduce each segment. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
