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James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: John Buchan, Montrose; Newbery Medal for children's literature: Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Gayneck, the Story of a Pigeon; Nobel Prize for Literature: Sigrid Undset; Prix Goncourt: Maurice Constantin-Weyer, Un Homme se penche sur son passé [81] Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Eugene O'Neill, Strange Interlude
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Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928, inspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, Woolf's lover and close friend. It is arguably one of her most popular novels, a history of English literature in satiric form.
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The 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Danish-born Norwegian novelist Sigrid Undset (1882–1949) "principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages." [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She is the third female recipient of the literature prize.
Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. [1]
Fenton's pictures during the Crimean War were one of the first cases of war photography, with Valley of the Shadow of Death considered "the most eloquent metaphor of warfare" by The Oxford Companion to the Photograph. [13] [14] [s 3] Sergeant Dawson and his Daughter: 1855 Unknown; attributed to John Jabez Edwin Mayall [15] Unknown [e] [s 1] The ...
May Ruth Brown met Albert Edward Snyder (né Schneider) in 1915 in New York City, when she was 20 years old and he was a 33-year-old artist. The couple had little in common; Brown, who went by her middle name of Ruth to most people and was known as "Tommy" to close friends, was described as vivacious and gregarious, while Snyder was described as quiet and reserved and very much a "homebody".