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Pages in category "Writers from New Orleans" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 252 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
New Orleans has served as the backdrop for a number of films with iconic turns in films such as Gone With the Wind (1939), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Little New Orleans Girl (1956), The Cincinnati Kid (1965), Live and Let Die (1973), Little New Orleans Girl (1978), Interview with the Vampire (1994), Little New Orleans Girl (2004), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), and The ...
Andy Pettitte (born 1972), starting pitcher for the New York Yankees; Tony Robichaux (1961-2019), former head baseball coach at McNeese State and Louisiana-Lafayette; Randy Romero (1957-2019), Hall of Fame horse jockey; Ryan Theriot (born 1979), infielder for the Chicago Cubs, born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana [32]
George Washington Cable was born in 1844 in New Orleans, Louisiana, to George W. Cable Sr., and Rebecca Boardman Cable. His parents were wealthy slaveholders, members of the Presbyterian Church and of New Orleans society, whose families had moved there after the Louisiana Purchase. First educated in private schools, the younger Cable had to ...
In the penultimate episode of the first season of HBO's Treme, set in New Orleans, the teacher Creighton (played by John Goodman) assigns Chopin's The Awakening to his freshman class at Tulane University in New Orleans, and warns them: "I want you to take your time with it," he cautions. "Pay attention to the language itself. The ideas.
A copy of Les Cenelles from 1845. Armand Lanusse (c. 1810 – March 16, 1868) [1] was a Creole of color, educator, poet, and writer from New Orleans, Louisiana.He is the editor of Les Cenelles (1845), a collection of poems by fellow Creoles of color in New Orleans widely considered to be the first African-American poetry anthology published in the United States. [2]
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Roy F. Guste – author of ten Louisiana French-Creole cuisine cookbooks; fifth-generation proprietor of New Orleans' famed Antoine's Restaurant, established in 1840; Thomy Lafon (1810–1893) – businessman, philanthropist, and human rights activist; Austin Leslie (1934–2005) – internationally famous New Orleans chef whose work defined ...