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Michelle Herman
Michelle Herman (born March 9, 1955 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American writer and a Professor of English at The Ohio State University. Her most widely known work is the novel ''Dog'', which WorldCat shows in 545 libraries and has been translated into Italian. She has also written the novel, ''Missing'', which was awarded the Harold Ribalow Prize for Jewish fiction. She is married to Glen Holland, a still life painter. They have a daughter. Biography Herman received a B.S. from Brooklyn College and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, after which she was a James Michener Fellow. She has taught since 1988 at the Ohio State University, where she directs both the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing and an interdisciplinary graduate program in the arts. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in addition to her James Michener Fellowship. In addition to her novels, she has published a collection of short fiction, ''A New and Glorious Life''. "Auslan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
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Kindle Single
A Kindle single is a type of e-book which is published through Amazon's Kindle Store. It is specifically intended as a format for novella-length nonfiction literature or long-form journalism. The name "single" comes from musical singles which are shorter in length than an extended play record. The format, first released in January 2011, was welcomed by ''The New York Times Virginia Heffernan in her final column for the paper, who commented that "I’m thrilled to find these Kindle Singles, which add narrative nonfiction to the forms I can savor out here. Narrative nonfiction in our digital era could exist almost no other way — and indeed, it once seemed headed for obsolescence. I’m extremely happy to see it back." The format has also been praised by literary critic Dwight Garner, who welcomed "what feels almost like a new genre: long enough for genuine complexity, short enough that you don't need journalistic starches and fillers." ''The Atlantic'' writer Rebecca Rosen co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Women Writers
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Ohio State University Faculty
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American Women Academics
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People From Brooklyn
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1955 Births
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Kathy Fagan
Kathy Fagan Grandinetti is an American poet. Biography Kathy Fagan earned a B.A. in English from California State University, Fresno in 1980. She holds an M.F.A. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from the University of Utah. She teaches at Ohio State University. Her poems have appeared in ''AGNI'', ''The Paris Review'', ''FIELD'', ''The Kenyon Review'', ''Slate'', ''Ploughshares'', ''The New Republic'', ''Shenandoah'', ''The Missouri Review'', and elsewhere. Awards * National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship * Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship * Ohio Arts Council Fellowship * 2018 Shortlisted for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and William Carlos Williams Award, * 2017 Ohio Poet of the Year * 2017 Raymond J. Hanley Award * 2004 Ohioana Award for Editorial Excellence. * 1998 Vassar Miller Prize for Poetry, for ''Moving & St Rage'' * 1985 The Frost Place poet in residence * 1984 National Poetry Series The National Poetry Series is an American literary awards program. Every y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Shapiro (writer)
Gerald David Shapiro (August 23, 1950 – October 15, 2011) was an American writer who had published three prize-winning books and was Cather Professor of English at the University of Nebraska. He was also a reader for ''Prairie Schooner''. He lived in Lincoln, Nebraska with his wife, the writer Judith Slater. Education He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Kansas and M.F.A. from the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Academic positions * University of Nebraska-Lincoln * Harris Center for Judaic Studies Awards Honor Award in Fiction from The Nebraska Center for the Book and the Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction and the Pushcart Prize for Fiction and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish Fiction. He has also been a finalist for the 2000 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. Also won a Merit Award from the Nebraska Arts Council's Individual Artists Fellowships program. Works His stories have a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, behind New York County (Manhattan). Brooklyn is also New York City's most populous borough,2010 Gazetteer for New York State . Retrieved September 18, 2016. with 2,736,074 residents in 2020. Named after the Dutch village of Breukelen, Brooklyn is located on the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital media, digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as ''The Daily (podcast), The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones (publisher), George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won List of Pulitzer Prizes awarded to The New York Times, 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national "newspaper of record". For print it is ranked List of newspapers by circulation, 18th in the world by circulation and List of newspapers in the United States, 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is Public company, publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 189 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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