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  2. Stanley Kunitz - Wikipedia

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    Kunitz was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, [2] the youngest of three children, to Yetta Helen (née Jasspon) and Solomon Z. Kunitz, [3] both of Jewish Russian Lithuanian descent. [4] Six weeks before Stanley's birth, his father, who was a dressmaker, [4] went bankrupt and committed suicide in Elm Park in Worcester [5] [6] by drinking carbolic ...

  3. William Gaunt (art historian) - Wikipedia

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    William Gaunt (/ ɡ ɔː n t /; 1900–1980) was a British artist and art historian, best known for his books on British 19th-century art.. Born the son of a graphic designer and chromolithographer, Gaunt dabbled in drawing and writing as a youth.

  4. 20th century in literature - Wikipedia

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    Literature of the 20th century refers to world literature produced during the 20th century (1901 to 2000). The main periods in question are often grouped by scholars as Modernist literature, Postmodern literature, flowering from roughly 1900 to 1940 and 1960 to 1990 [1] respectively, roughly using World War II as a transition point.

  5. 1954 in literature - Wikipedia

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    The Two Towers follows on November 11 and publication will be completed in 1955. By 2007, 150 million copies will have been sold worldwide. [4] September 1 – Lawrence Quincy Mumford becomes the U.S.Librarian of Congress. September 17 – William Golding's first novel, the allegorical dystopian Lord of the Flies, is published by Faber and ...

  6. The Guide to Modern World Literature - Wikipedia

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    The book covers an estimated 2,700 authors and more than 7,500 titles. [1] It contains a total of 33 chapters that treat all modern national literatures individually or in groups. [ 1 ] African and Caribbean literature is treated collectively; so are the Baltic, French and Belgian, Indian and Pakistani, Jewish, Latin American, Scandinavian, and ...

  7. List of 20th-century writers - Wikipedia

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    This is a partial list of 20th-century writers. This list includes notable artists, authors, philosophers, playwrights, poets, scientists and other important and noteworthy contributors to literature. The two most basic written literary categories include fiction and non fiction

  8. 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of ...

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    The 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction is a list of the 100 best English-language books of the 20th century compiled by American literary critic Larry McCaffery. The list was created largely in response to the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list (1999), which McCaffery considered out of touch with 20th-century ...

  9. George Orwell bibliography - Wikipedia

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    Written for Stanley Kunitz and Howard Haycraft's Twentieth Century Authors, published by W. H. Wilson & Co. in 1942 "Awake! Young Men of England" Poem 2 October 1914: CW X Poem published in the Henley and South Oxfordshire Standard Vol. XXV, No. 1455, p. 8, signed "Eric Blair" [15] "Back to the Land" 3 September 1944: OY: Published in The Observer