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John Holmes (January 6, 1904 – June 22, 1962), born John Albert Holmes Jr., was a poet and critic. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He was born in Somerville, Massachusetts , and both attended and taught at Tufts University where he was a professor of literature and modern poetry for 28 years.
His novel Flying to Nowhere (1983), a historical fantasy, won the Whitbread First Novel Award, and was nominated for the Booker Prize. In 1996 he won the Forward Prize for Stones and Fires and in 2006 the Michael Braude Award for Light Verse. He has also written collections of short stories and several books for children.
5. "Going to the mountains is going home." 6. "The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark." 7. "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in ...
John Anthony Ciardi (/ ˈ tʃ ɑːr d i / CHAR-dee; Italian:; June 24, 1916 – March 30, 1986) was an American poet, translator, and etymologist.While primarily known as a poet and translator of Dante's Divine Comedy, he also wrote several volumes of children's poetry, pursued etymology, contributed to the Saturday Review as a columnist and long-time poetry editor, directed the Bread Loaf ...
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot is a 2018 American comedy drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and based upon the memoir of the same name by John Callahan. [4] The cast includes Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara, and Jack Black, and follows a recently paralyzed alcoholic who finds a passion for drawing off-color newspaper cartoons.
John O'Donohue (1 January 1956 – 4 January 2008) was an Irish poet, author, priest, and Hegelian philosopher. He was a native Irish speaker, [ 1 ] and as an author is best known for popularising Celtic spirituality .
John Searles is an American writer and book critic. He is the author of four novels: Her Last Affair (ISBN 0-06-077965-9), Help For The Haunted (ISBN 978-0-06-077963-4), Strange But True (ISBN 0-06-072179-0) and Boy Still Missing (ISBN 0-06-082243-0). His essays have appeared in national magazines and newspapers, and he contributes frequently ...
While a student at Exeter, Irving was taught by author and Christian theologian Frederick Buechner, whom he quoted in an epigraph in A Prayer for Owen Meany. Irving has dyslexia. [6] [7] Irving never met his biological father, who was a pilot in the Army Air Forces during World War II. In July 1943, [8] John Blunt Sr. was shot down over Burma ...