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Carolyn See (née Laws; January 13, 1934 – July 13, 2016) was a professor emerita of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, [3] and the author of ten books, including the memoir, Dreaming: Hard Luck and Good Times in America, an advice book on writing, Making a Literary Life, and the novels There Will Never Be Another You, Golden Days, and The Handyman.
The idea for the novel came to Carolyn See after watching televised interviews about War right after the Russians invaded Afghanistan. See decided to write the novel with the lives of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn during the Great Plagues in mind—those who lived their normal lives while others died around them. She constructed the lives of the ...
Although See treats her male ancestors with detailed and objective commentary, it is the women's perspectives that seem the most powerful—for example, those of Lettice Pruett, Sissee See, Stella See, the actress Anna May Wong, [3] who has the chance to speak to the reader "From the Grave", [4] and Carolyn See, Lisa See's mother.
For a woman who is one-eighth Chinese (her mother was the writer Carolyn See), this was important. “In Los Angeles alone, we had about 400 relatives, and of them about a dozen looked like me ...
Lisa See (born 18 February 1955) is an American writer and novelist. Her books include On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family (1995), a detailed account of See's family history, and the novels Flower Net (1997), The Interior (1999), Dragon Bones (2003), Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (2005), Peony in Love (2007) and Shanghai Girls (2009), which made it to ...
QVC hosts Dan Hughes and Carolyn Gracie announced this week they will depart the shopping network a day after parent company Qurate announced hundreds of layoffs.
Making History (Carolyn See novel), a 1991 novel set in Southern California by Carolyn See; Making History, a BBC Radio 4 programme; Making History, a 1983 album by Linton Kwesi Johnson; Making History, a 2005 rap album by Screwed Up Click; Making History: The Calm & The Storm, a 2007 World War II grand strategy computer game
Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy. We know about her wedding, ... and there's a secretive department in the UK department created to see if it works. A civil ...