Maureen Howard (1) (1930–2022)
Autore di Natural History
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Sull'Autore
Maureen Howard was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut on June 28, 1930. She graduated from Smith College in 1952 and immediately went to work in the publishing industry. She later taught at several universities including Columbia, Princeton, Amherst, and Yale. She is the author of several novels mostra altro including Not a Word about Nightingales, Grace Abounding, Natural History, A Lover's Almanac, Bridgeport Bus, Expensive Habits, and The Rags of Time. Her autobiography, Facts of Life, received the National Book Critics Award for general nonfiction in 1980. She received an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. (Bowker Author Biography) Maureen Howard is the author of a memoir, Facts of Life, & seven novels, which include "A Lover's Almanac", "Bridgeport Bus", & the PEN/Faulkner Award nominees "Grace Abounding", "Expensive Habits", & "Natural History". The recipient of an Academy award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, she lives in New York City. (Publisher Provided) mostra meno
Serie
Opere di Maureen Howard
Opere correlate
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Collaboratore — 121 copie
These United States: Original Essays by Leading American Writers on Their State within the Union by John Leonard (1995) — Collaboratore — 91 copie
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Collaboratore — 72 copie
About Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Fiction, Poetry, and Essays (1973) — Collaboratore — 26 copie
Willa Cather: Four Great Novels—O Pioneers!, One of Ours, The Song of the Lark, My Ántonia (2014) — Introduzione — 11 copie
Black Clock 3 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- Kearns, Maureen Theresa (birth)
- Data di nascita
- 1930-06-28
- Data di morte
- 2022-03-13
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
- Istruzione
- Smith College
Lauralton Hall, Milford, Connecticut, USA - Attività lavorative
- novelist
short-story writer
editor
essayist
literary critic
adjunct professor (mostra tutto 7)
autobiographer - Relazioni
- Probst, Mark (husband)
- Organizzazioni
- Columbia University
American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Premi e riconoscimenti
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1997)
John Dos Passos Prize (2004)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 14
- Opere correlate
- 12
- Utenti
- 520
- Popolarità
- #47,760
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 4
- ISBN
- 39
- Lingue
- 1
Artie (Arthur) O'Conner, a young computer wizard with a lofty I.Q. but no plans for the future, is obsessed with his past. Left an orphan when his flamboyant mother died, and never knowing who his father was, Artie rebelled against the safe life his grandparents gave him, and became an iconoclast and an outsider. He fails to listen to his beloved girlfriend Lou's advice: "Get serious". After making a terrible scene at a New Year's Eve party, Artie is banished , in disgrace, from Lou's life, and he must find a way to woo her back.
Lou ( Louise) Moffat is an up-and-coming artist who, although she ran away from her home on a Wisconsin farm, is inspired by that bucolic world. Her dismissal of Artie leaves her bereft, unable to paint or even eat or sleep, but she remains adamant in her refusal to listen to Artie's pleas.
So begins A LOVER'S ALMANAC, a novel that uses THE OLD FARMER'S ALMANAC as its format. Maureen Howard entwines Lou and Artie's fateful romance with stories of other lovers, family members, and friends. We meet Artie's grandfather, Cyril O'Conner, who gave up reading history for a life on Wall Street, only to find that when he finally had the time to read his beloved history books, he was going blind. Sylvie, a war refugee from Austria who has loved Cyril most of her adult life. Bud Boyce, corporate leader of Skylark, an innovative computer company, and Artie's old friend and sometime boss, who is entranced by weather reports and dreams of having his own weather station, but fails to understand that even if you can predict the weather, you are still at its mercy.
Woven into the captivating stories of all the characters are THE OLD FARMER's ALMANAC style entries that trace the year's progress month by month, deliver good advice, and deliver historical events and biographies of famous genii ranging from Ben Franklin to Comenius.
A LOVER"S ALMANAC is a fine book, enormously entertaining----it is a very good read.… (altro)