Clare Boothe Luce (1903–1987)
Autore di The Women
Sull'Autore
Clare Boothe Luce was born on March 10, 1903, in New York City. She was the wife of Henry Luce, publisher of Time, Life, and Fortune. She was twice elected to the House of Representatives from 1943 to 1947 and served as an ambassador to Italy from 1953 to 1956. President Reagan awarded her the mostra altro Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1983. She was the first female member of Congress to receive this award. Luce began her career in writing with Vogue magazine and later worked her way up to managing editor of Vanity Fair. Luce's 1936 play, The Women, was an instant smash on Broadway. She also authored Europe in the Spring, a non-fiction book. Clare Boothe Luce died of brain cancer on October 9, 1987, at age 84, at her Watergate apartment in Washington, D.C. She is buried at Mepkin Abbey, South Carolina, a plantation that she and Henry Luce had once owned and given to a community of Trappist monks. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Photo by Carl Van Vechten: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten photograph collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-116604)
Opere di Clare Boothe Luce
The Women (dvd) 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Boothe, Ann Clare (born)
Luce, Ann Clare Boothe (married) - Data di nascita
- 1903-03-10
- Data di morte
- 1987-10-09
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Mepkin Abbey, South Carolina, USA
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Washington, DC, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
Washington, D.C., USA
Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Union City, New Jersey, USA - Attività lavorative
- playwright
politician
ambassador
Representative - Relazioni
- Luce, Henry R. (husband)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (1983)
Laetare Medal (1957)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 13
- Opere correlate
- 5
- Utenti
- 387
- Popolarità
- #62,499
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 6
- ISBN
- 15