Amanda Cross (1) (1926–2003)
Autore di Death in a Tenured Position
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Amanda Cross (1) ha come alias Carolyn G. Heilbrun.
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Fonte dell'immagine: John Burlinson
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Opere di Amanda Cross
Opere a cui è stato assegnato l'alias Carolyn G. Heilbrun.
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Opere a cui è stato assegnato l'alias Carolyn G. Heilbrun.
Malice Domestic 2: An Anthology of Original Traditional Mystery Stories (1993) — Collaboratore — 99 copie
Women of Mystery II: Stories From Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (1994) — Collaboratore — 53 copie
Malice Domestic 8: An Anthology of Original Traditional Mystery Stories (1999) — Collaboratore — 49 copie
Canine Crimes: Fifteen Thrilling Original Tales Starring German Shepherds, Irish Setters, Mastifs, Mutts, and Other… (1998) — Collaboratore — 16 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Heilbrun, Carolyn Gold
- Data di nascita
- 1926-01-13
- Data di morte
- 2003-10-09
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- East Orange, New Jersey, USA
- Luogo di morte
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
- Istruzione
- Wellesley College
Columbia University (M.A., Ph.D.)
Birch Wathen School - Attività lavorative
- scholar
feminist
mystery novelist
professor - Organizzazioni
- Columbia University
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Guggenheim Fellowship
Bunting Institute Fellowship, Radcliffe College
Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship
National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Fellowship - Breve biografia
- Carolyn Gold was the only child of Jewish immigrant parents. She grew up in Manhattan, attending the private Birch Wathen School and spending hours alone roller-skating around the city or reading voraciously at the library. She went to Wellesley College, where she met her future husband, Jim Heilbrun, then a Harvard student. They married in 1945 and had three children. Carolyn Heilbrun earned her postgraduate degrees at Columbia University, specializing in the works of Virginia Woolf. She taught at Brooklyn College for a couple of years and served as a visiting lecturer/professor at Yale, Princeton, Swarthmore and other colleges, but spent nearly her entire academic career at Columbia. She joined the faculty in 1960 as an instructor of English and comparative literature and retired in 1992 as the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities. Prof. Heilbrun was best known in academic circles as the author of 14 nonfiction books, including Toward a Recognition of Androgyny (1973), Reinventing Womanhood (1979), and Writing a Woman's Life (1988), as well as dozens of scholarly articles that interpreted women's literature from a feminist perspective. Beginning in 1964, she wrote the popular Kate Fansler mystery novels under the pseudonym Amanda Cross. Prof. Heilbrun concealed her identity for six years, even after winning an Edgar Award for best first novel, fearing her (mostly) male colleagues would consider mystery writing too frivolous and that her sideline might jeopardize her chances for tenure. In fact, she became the first woman to receive tenure in Columbia's English Department in 1971. Kate Fansler, like her creator, was a literature professor and a feminist. The novels also served as an outlet for Prof. Heilbrun's views on academic politics and the treatment of women at universities. Carolyn Heilbrun committed suicide at her apartment in New York City in 2003.
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- Opere
- 18
- Opere correlate
- 17
- Utenti
- 5,579
- Popolarità
- #4,449
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 87
- ISBN
- 264
- Lingue
- 12
- Preferito da
- 13
An academic mystery which deals with the internal politics & struggles of the faculty of a major (unnamed) New York city university is the kind of mystery I would have loved to write myself. Written in 1970, student unrest provides the background to the situation but as anyone who has been a college or university professor knows, the factions & committees etc. could have been taking place at any time. I had a few laughs (such as at the doctoral dissertation defense meeting & the professor describing a recent play he had attended) as well.
I loved the Auden quotes at the start of each chapter & throughout the text; I will have read his poetry for myself sometime soon!… (altro)