Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876–1958)
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Mary Roberts Rinehart was born in the City of Allegheny, Pennsylvania on August 12, 1876. While attending Allegheny High School, she received $1 each for three short stories from a Pittsburgh newspaper. After receiving inspiration from a town doctor who happened to be a woman, she developed a mostra altro curiosity for medicine. She went on to study nursing at the Pittsburgh Training School for Nurses at Homeopathic Hospital. After graduating in 1896, she began her writing career. The first of her many mystery stories, The Circular Staircase (1908), established her as a leading writer of the genre; Rinehart and Avery Hopwood successfully dramatized the novel as The Bat (1920). Her other mystery novels include The Man in Lower Ten (1909), The Case of Jennie Brice (1914), The Red Lamp (1925), The Door (1930), The Yellow Room (1945), and The Swimming Pool (1952). Stories about Tish, a self-reliant spinster, first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and were collected into The Best of Tish (1955). She wrote more than 50 books, eight plays, hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues and special articles. Three of her plays were running on Broadway at one time. During World War I, she was the first woman war correspondent at the Belgian front. She died September 22, 1958 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
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Opere di Mary Roberts Rinehart
Best Mysteries of Mary Roberts Rinehart: Four Complete Novels by America's First Lady of Mystery (2002) 55 copie
Modern Classics of Suspense: Rebecca, Death and the Sky Above, The Thin Man, The Circular Staircase, Above Suspicion, A… (1968) 16 copie
The Complete Works of Mary Roberts Rinehart (26 Complete Works of Mary Roberts Rinehart Including The After House, The… (2015) 3 copie
The Collected Complete Works of Mary Roberts Rinehart: (Huge Collection Including The After House, The Breaking Point,… (2018) 3 copie
Mary Roberts Rinehart's Collected Works: The Bat, The Man in Lower Ten, Tish, and More! (26 Works) (2014) 2 copie
MARY ROBERTS RINEHART Ultimate Collection: Murder Mysteries, Thriller Novels, Travel Books, Essays & Autobiography: The… (2018) 2 copie
The After House / The Buckled Bag / Locked Doors / The Red Lamp / The Window at the White Cat (1925) 1 copia
The Greatest Works of Mary Roberts Rinehart: Murder Mysteries, Thrillers, Travel Books, Essays & Autobiography: The… (2018) 1 copia
Marie Roberts Rinehart: Thriller Novels, Murder Mysteries, Detective Stories, Travelogues, Essays & Autobiography (2018) 1 copia
Miss Cornelia Van Gorden Trilogy (The Man in Lower Ten / The Circular Staircase / The Bat) (2014) 1 copia
Mary Rhinehart's Mysteries 1 copia
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The Web She Weaves: An Anthology of Mystery and Suspense Stories by Women (1983) — Collaboratore — 52 copie
Famous Plays of Crime and Detection, from Sherlock Holmes to Angel Street (1946) — Collaboratore — 14 copie
Adventures in Two Worlds / The Bridges at Toko-ri / Kiss Me Again, Stranger / Rivets / The Silent World / Story of… (1953) — Collaboratore — 11 copie
The Second Christmas Megapack: 29 Modern and Classic Christmas Stories (2012) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Tish: Mary Roberts Rinehart's Most Popular Stories Made into a Gay and Exciting Comedy in Three Acts (1939) 2 copie
Avon Modern Short Story Monthly No. 7 (14 Great stories by 14 Great Authors) (1943) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Trumps: A Collection of Short Stories — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Die schönsten Tiergeschichten — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Roberts, Mary Ella (nome di nascita)
- Altri nomi
- Roberts, Mary R.
- Data di nascita
- 1876-08-12
- Data di morte
- 1958-09-22
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, USA
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, USA
- Luogo di morte
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Washington, D.C., USA
Bar Harbor, Maine, USA
New York, New York, USA - Istruzione
- Pittsburgh Training School for Nurses (1896)
- Attività lavorative
- playwright
mystery novelist
war correspondent
travel writer
short story writer - Relazioni
- Rinehart, Stanley Marshall, Jr. (son)
Rinehart, Alan Gillespie (son)
Rinehart, Frederick Roberts (son) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Honorary Doctorate (Literature | George Washington University | 1923)
Mystery Writers of America Special Award (1954) - Breve biografia
- Mary Roberts Rinehart was a best-selling mystery writer of the "Golden Age" who was as well-known (if not better known) than Agatha Christie, to whom she's often compared. Critics praised the careful plotting of her novels. She's credited with originating the "had-I-but-known" literary school of mystery writing. Typically, the narrator digresses over the things she might have done to prevent the novel’s numerous murders, had she only been able to see the dire consequences of her inaction or failure to report information to the police. Dorothy B. Hughes, crime critic and novelist, says Rinehart "has been and continues to be the most important American woman mystery writer." She was born Mary Ella Roberts in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, which has been a part of the city of Pittsburgh since 1907. She attended public schools and graduated at the age of 16, then enrolling at the Pittsburgh Training School for Nurses at Homeopathic Hospital, where she graduated in 1896. She married Stanley Marshall Rinehart, a physician with whom she had four children. During the stock market crash of 1903, Rinehart and her husband lost their savings, and this spurred her efforts at writing to earn income. In 1907, she wrote The Circular Staircase, the novel that launched her to national fame. She wrote hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues and special articles. Many of her books and plays were adapted for movies. Her regular contributions to the Saturday Evening Post were immensely popular and helped the magazine mold American middle-class taste and manners. She often pursued adventure, including taking a job as the first woman war correspondent at the Belgian front during World War I. While many of her books were best-sellers, critics were most appreciative of her murder mysteries. She also coined the famous phrase, "The butler did it." (retrieved from Amazon 1/30/2011).
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