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George Sterling (December 1, 1869 – November 17, 1926) was an American writer based in the San Francisco, California Bay Area and Carmel-by-the-Sea.He was considered a prominent poet and playwright and proponent of Bohemianism during the first quarter of the twentieth century.
Sterling was chosen as one of the San Francisco's six top literary lights by the committee creating the San Francisco pavilion for the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. He sat for a bas relief portrait by sculptor Robert Ingersoll Aitken, best known today for his sculptures on the United States Supreme Court building.
Sterling had worked with the millionaire Club member Richard M. Hotaling on The Twilight of the Kings. He inscribed Truth copy 247 of 285 to Hotaling: “May these pathetic incidents awaken in your heart new ardor for Truth!” [13] July 1926: George Sterling in Bohemian Grove under a painting of Truth, Sterling, and Domenico Brescia.
The lyrics interspersed throughout the drama are as beautiful as any by the Elizabethans.” [3] Influential critic H. L. Mencken said of Sterling: “I think his dramatic poem Lilith was the greatest thing he ever wrote.” [4] Thirty-four years later, in his book George Sterling, Thomas E. Benediktsson, agreed: “The allegorical Lilith is ...
In his 1980 book George Sterling, Thomas Benediktsson classified Sterling as “an American Decadent,” and described ‘A Wine of Wizardry’ as a poem in which “nearly every characteristic of Decadence can be found: the search for novelty, the interest in the exotic and the unnatural, the aesthetic assumption that poetry is a means of ...
"The Black Vulture" is a sonnet by American poet George Sterling first printed in March 1910. The poem was cited by Thomas E. Benediktsson in his book George Sterling as "a sonnet which became Sterling’s most consistently praised and most anthologized poem."
George Soros [a] (born György Schwartz; August 12, 1930) [1] [2] is an American [b] investor and philanthropist. [7] [8] As of October 2023, he had a net worth of US$6.7 billion, [9] [10] having donated more than $32 billion to the Open Society Foundations, [11] of which $15 billion has already been distributed, representing 64% of his original fortune.
James Marie Hopper (July 23, 1876 – August 28, 1956) was an American writer and novelist. He was also an early college football player and coach, playing at the University of California, Berkeley in the late 1890s and then serving single seasons as head football coach at Nevada State University—now known as the University of Nevada, Reno—in 1900 and at his alma mater, California, in 1904.