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Mysteries of Winterthurn (1984) Solstice (1985) Marya: A Life (1986) You Must Remember This (1987) American Appetites (1989) Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart (1990) Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (1993) (the basis for the 1996 film Foxfire) What I Lived For (1994) Zombie (1995)
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic.One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as ...
First Advent of Love. "O fair is Love's first hope to gentle mind!" 1824 1834 The Delinquent Travellers "Some are home-sick—some two or three," 1824 1912 Work without Hope. "All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair—" 1825, February 21 1828 Sancti Dominici Pallium. A Dialogue between Poet and Friend.
James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 [1] – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that ...
The bibliography of Raymond Carver consists of 72 short stories, 306 poems, a novel fragment, a one-act play, a screenplay co-written with Tess Gallagher, and 32 pieces of non-fiction (essays, a meditation, introductions, and book reviews). In 2009, the 17 stories collected in What We Talk About When We Talk About Love were published in their ...
Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe ( / ˈmɑːrloʊ /; baptised 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593), was an English playwright, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. [a] Marlowe is among the most famous of the Elizabethan playwrights. Based upon the "many imitations" of his play Tamburlaine, modern scholars consider him to have ...
Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet and writer of fiction, plays and screenplays based in New York; she was known for her caustic wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles. Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary works published in magazines, such as The New Yorker, and as a ...
When analysed as characters, the subjects of the sonnets are usually referred to as the Fair Youth, the Rival Poet, and the Dark Lady. The speaker expresses admiration for the Fair Youth's beauty, and—if reading the sonnets in chronological order as published—later has an affair with the Dark Lady, then so does the Fair Youth.