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Lynn Caine (1924–1987) was an American author and publishing agent at Little, Brown and Company from 1967 to 1976. [1] She is best known for her best-selling book "Widow", published on May 29, 1974, [2] about her experiences after the death from cancer of her husband Martin Caine in 1971.
Askold Melnyczuk (born December 12, 1954) is an American writer whose publications include novels, essays, poems, memoir, and translations.Among his works are the novels What Is Told, Ambassador of the Dead, House of Widows and Excerpt from Smedley's Secret Guide to World Literature.
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Marriage number three was brief, as it appears to have been a disguised attempt to make Edmond Safra jealous. In 1976, Lily succeeded in getting Safra, a life-long bachelor, to the altar.
The American Book Review was founded in 1977 by Ronald Sukenick. [6] According to author and essayist Raymond Federman, in his reading with American Book Review in 2007, Sukenick founded the American Book Review because The New York Times had stopped reviewing books by "that group labeled experimental writers", and Sukenick wanted to start a "journal where we can review books that everyone is ...
The Widows' Adventures received positive reviews from critics.Barbara Kingsolver of the Los Angeles Times stated “That most wonderful and increasingly rare sort of novel written by an author who loves his characters beyond measure.” [1] Hilma Wolitzer of The New York Times wrote that the novel had "quirky freshness", and calling Dickinson "a writer of uncommon interest."
Mothers' pensions were long-term cash provisions to impoverished single mothers. [3] Payments were generally inadequate to cover living expenses. [4] Nearly every state had a maximum allowable allowance ranging from 9 dollars to 15 dollars per month (approximately $120 to $275 in 2021 dollars) for the first child and 4 dollars to 10 dollars for any additional children. [5]
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All is a 1989 first novel by Allan Gurganus [1] which was on the New York Times Best Seller list for eight months. It won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters , [ 2 ] was a main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and sold over four million copies.