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Joseph A. Altsheler wrote a trilogy of Texas fiction in his series The Texan Star (1912), The Texan Scouts (1913), and The Texan Triumph (1913). Noteworthy authors of the 1930s include Edward Anderson, whose novel Thieves Like Us (1937) has been filmed twice: [ 1 ] first in 1949 by RKO Radio Pictures as They Live by Night , later in 1974 MGM/UA ...
Several readers of Robert Frost’s work applaud him for his patriotism. Philip Booth, an American poet, highlights the patriotic nature of Frost’s work.Booth states “we became a free nation not in surrender to a parent-state, but by giving ourselves outright to the revolutionary impulse,” [5] making reference to America gaining independence from Britain.
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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation United States: New York City: $6.2 billion 1969 [18] 33 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation United States: Chicago: $6 billion 1970 [18] 34 Robert Bosch Foundation Germany: Stuttgart: $6 billion €5.3 billion 1964 [36] 35 Children's Investment Fund Foundation United Kingdom: London: $5.9 billion £5.2 ...
On Tuesday, Poet and activist Amanda Gorman shared a moving poem on Twitter in the wake of a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that has left at least 19 students and two adults dead.. The 2021 ...
James Frank Dobie was born on a ranch in Live Oak County, Texas, and was the eldest of six children. [1] [2] [3] When he was young, his father Richard read to him from the Bible and his mother Ella read to him from books such as Ivanhoe and Pilgrim's Progress.
David Mercier Parsons was born on April 16, 1943, in Villa Rica, Georgia, and is an American author, poet, and educator.Raised in Austin, Texas, he was named by the Texas State Legislature in 2011 to a one-year term as Poet Laureate of Texas, [1] commemorated by the publication of David M. Parsons New & Selected Poems by the Texas Christian University Press.