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Zelda Popkin
Zelda Popkin (née Feinberg; 5 July 1898 – 25 May 1983) was an American writer of novels and Mystery fiction, mystery stories. She created Mary Carner, one of the first professional female private detectives in fiction. Carner was a store detective who appeared in five novels. Life Zelda Popkin was married to Louis Popkin, and together they ran a small public relations firm until his death. They had two children, Roy and Richard Popkin, Richard. Work Popkin's most successful book was ''The Journey Home'', published in 1945, which sold nearly a million copies. ''Small Victory'', published in 1947, was one of the first American novels with a The Holocaust, Holocaust theme, and ''Quiet Street'' (1951) was the first American novel about the creation of the state of Israel. She also wrote an autobiography, ''Open Every Door'' (1956), chronicling her childhood, life with her husband Louis Popkins, and life after his death. ''Herman Had Two Daughters'' (1968), a novel about two young ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novel
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
