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Bicentennial Beginnings: Learning to write and learning to live, with Richard Wilbur as a guide.

• Authors : LERER, SETH

Subjects: WESLEYAN College (Macon, Ga.); AUTHORSHIP; WILBUR, Richard, 1921-2017

• Source: American Scholar. Winter2024, Vol. 93 Issue 1, p6-9. 4p.

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INVISIBLE INK: Giving center page to an era's forgotten writers.

• Authors : Cross Davis, Teri Ellen

Subjects: WOMEN'S writings; BROTHERS; AUTHORS

• Source: American Scholar. Spring2024, Vol. 93 Issue 2, p118-120. 3p.

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Tunneling for Daylight: All hail the miraculous, tenacious carpenter bee.

• Authors : WHYMAN, PAULA

Subjects: ARTISTS; CARPENTER bees; LIFE cycles (Biology)

• Source: American Scholar. Winter2024, Vol. 93 Issue 1, p13-15. 3p.

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I'll Be Seeing You: The search for traces of a beloved writer led to an uncertain pilgrimage--and a friendship that endured over distance and time.

• Authors : HAMPL, PATRICIA

Subjects: MOORE, Leslie; AUTHORS

• Source: American Scholar. Spring2023, Vol. 92 Issue 2, p46-59. 14p.

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The Scar on the Hand: WRITERS AND THE EARLY LOSS OF PARENTS.

• Authors : SMITH, JANNA MALAMUD

Subjects: AUTHORSHIP; ORPHANS; AUTHORS

• Source: American Scholar. Spring2022, Vol. 91 Issue 2, p66-79. 14p.

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Remembering Brad: What a stroke of luck when some of your favorite books were written by one of your dearest friends.

• Authors : GESSNER, DAVID

Subjects: WATSON, Brad; AUTHORS

• Source: American Scholar. Summer2021, Vol. 90 Issue 3, p108-112. 5p.

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Black Turtlenecks, Hoop Earrings: UNRULY GIRL-POETS IN THE '50S.

• Authors : GILBERT, SANDRA M.

Subjects: POETRY (Literary form); WOMEN authors; WOMEN poets

• Source: American Scholar. Summer2021, Vol. 90 Issue 3, p78-89. 12p.

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Searching for Amos Oz in Jerusalem: The acclaimed novelist, who died in 2018, translated Israeli reality.

• Authors : ROSENTHAL, RANDY

Subjects: ISRAELI authors; JERUSALEM in literature; JUDAS (Book : Oz)

• Source: American Scholar. Spring2020, Vol. 89 Issue 2, p103-109. 7p.

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Norman Maclean and Me: Advice for living and drinking from the author of A River Runs Through It.

• Authors : MCCARTHY, REBECCA

Subjects: MACLEAN, Norman, 1902-1990; AUTHORS; RIVER Runs Through It, A (Book)

• Source: American Scholar. Winter2020, Vol. 89 Issue 1, p103-107. 5p.

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A Transcendentalist at Work: THOREAU SPENT HIS LAST DOZEN YEARS IN THIS GARRET, MAKING SENSE OF WHAT HE COULD SEE FROM HIS WINDOWS.

• Authors : HIGGINS, RICHARD

Subjects: THOREAU, Henry David, 1817-1862; AUTHORS' homes & haunts; NATURALISTSMASSACHUSETTSMASSACHUSETTSMASSACHUSETTSReport Available

• Source: American Scholar. Winter2020, Vol. 89 Issue 1, p71-76. 6p.

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Channeling Emerson: AT WORK IN HIS TIMELESS, SMOKE-SCENTED, GHOST-CRAMMED STUDY AT THE OLD MANSE.

Subjects: EMERSON, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882; OLD Manse (Concord, Mass.); DWELLINGSMASSACHUSETTSMASSACHUSETTSMASSACHUSETTSReport Available

• Source: American Scholar. Winter2020, Vol. 89 Issue 1, p62-70. 9p.

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Southern Cassandra: Lillian Smith was a writer and a radical who called out her region's lies about sex and race.

• Authors : THOMPSON, TRACY

Subjects: SMITH, Lillian Eugenia, 1897-1966; AMERICAN authors; WOMEN authors

• Source: American Scholar. Spring2019, Vol. 88 Issue 2, p104-110. 7p.

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THE QUEST FOR CATHER: When subjects play hard to get.

• Authors : Matthews, Anne

Subjects: CHASING Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather (Book); TAYLOR, Benjamin; CATHER, Willa, 1873-1947

• Source: American Scholar. Winter2024, Vol. 93 Issue 1, p121-122. 2p.

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Orwell's Last Neighborhood: WHILE ENVISIONING THE DARKEST OF FUTURES AND GRAPPLING WITH MORTALITY, THE ENGLISH WRITER RETREATED TO AN IDYLLIC SCOTTISH ISLE TO WRITE NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR.

• Authors : BROWN, DAVID

Subjects: ORWELL, George, 1903-1950; BRITISH authors; 1984 (Book : Orwell)JURA (Scotland)

• Source: American Scholar. Spring2019, Vol. 88 Issue 2, p58-71. 14p.

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Force of Nature: The racing tides beneath Peter Matthiessen's literary achievement.

• Authors : WHEELWRIGHT, JEFF

Subjects: MATTHIESSEN, Peter, 1927-2014; AUTHORS; UNCLESFISHERS Island (N.Y. : Island)

• Source: American Scholar. Summer2018, Vol. 87 Issue 3, p95-102. 8p.

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A Jane Austen Kind of Guy: I GET IT THAT WOMEN FIND MY AFFINITY FOR THEIR WRITER INTRUSIVE, BUT HER WORLD HAS MUCH TO OFFER MEN, TOO.

• Authors : DERESIEWICZ, WILLIAM

Subjects: AUSTEN, Jane, 1775-1817; WOMEN authors; MAN-woman relationships

• Source: American Scholar. Autumn2017, Vol. 86 Issue 4, p84-93. 10p.

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Against Solidarity: AS A WRITER, WITH A WRITER'S CHRONIC NEED FOR DETACHMENT, I HAVE AVOIDED THE IDEOLOGY OF GENDER.

• Authors : GORDON, EMILY FOX

Subjects: FEMINISM; GENDER; WOMEN authors

• Source: American Scholar. Autumn2017, Vol. 86 Issue 4, p61-75. 15p.

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The Naked Flame.

• Authors : BOSE, SUDIP

Subjects: FIRE; SANSOM, William; AUTHORS

• Source: American Scholar. Winter2023, Vol. 92 Issue 1, p2-2. 2/3p.

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Net Gains.

• Authors : ROPER, ROBERT

Subjects: NABOKOV, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977; AUTHORS' travels; 20TH century Russian authors

• Source: American Scholar. Summer2015, Vol. 84 Issue 3, p77-83. 7p.

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Inscriber's Block.

• Authors : KEYES, RALPH

Subjects: BOOK signings; AUTHOR-reader relationships; BOOK promotions

• Source: American Scholar. Spring2016, Vol. 85 Issue 2, p104-109. 6p.

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The Remains of My Days.

• Authors : GRUMBACH, DORIS

Subjects: WOMEN teachers; WOMEN authors

• Source: American Scholar. Spring2016, Vol. 85 Issue 2, p64-72. 9p.

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The Wandering Years.

• Authors : FERLINGHETTI, LAWRENCE

Subjects: WRITING Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1960-2010 (Book); AUTHORS' travels; JOURNAL writingSALTON Sea (Calif.); BOULDER (Colo.); PACIFIC Northwest

• Source: American Scholar. Summer2015, Vol. 84 Issue 3, p59-69. 11p.

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Last Works.

• Authors : GRENIER, ROGER

Subjects: AUTHORS; 19TH century literature; 20TH century literature

• Source: American Scholar. Autumn2014, Vol. 83 Issue 4, p96-100. 5p. 1 Color Photograph.

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DEATH IN DROHOBYCH: A new biography of a Polish literary master.

• Authors : Hryniewicz-Yarbrough, Ewa

Subjects: BRUNO Schulz: An Artist, a Murder & the Hijacking of History (Book); BALINT, Benjamin; AUTHORS

• Source: American Scholar. Spring2023, Vol. 92 Issue 2, p115-116. 2p.

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Looking Back, Warily, But With Affection.

• Authors : GUTERSON, DAVID

Subjects: SNOW Falling on Cedars (Book); AMERICAN authors; RACEBAINBRIDGE Island (Wash.)

• Source: American Scholar. Spring2014, Vol. 83 Issue 2, p92-98. 7p. 2 Color Photographs.

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