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Her first book, Heads of the Colored People, won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, PEN/Open Book Award, and a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for fiction, among other prizes. Heads of the Colored People has been translated into Italian, Turkish, and Portuguese. She also won a 2019 Whiting Award. [1]
James Branch Cabell (/ ˈ k æ b əl /; April 14, 1879 – May 5, 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles-lettres. Cabell was well-regarded by his contemporaries, including H. L. Mencken, Edmund Wilson, and Sinclair Lewis. His works were considered escapist and fit well in the culture of the 1920s, when they were most popular.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia, for example, described belles-lettres as the "department of literature which implies literary culture and belongs to the domain of art, whatever the subject may be or the special form; it includes poetry, the drama, fiction, and criticism," [1] while the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition describes it as "the ...
The more elegant production of this genre by 17th- and 18th-century authors were belles lettres—that is, a market that would be neither low nor academic. The second major development was the first best-seller of modern fiction, the Spanish Amadis de Gaula, by García Montalvo. However, it was not accepted as an example of belles lettres.
The Literary Gazette was a British literary magazine, established in London in 1817 with its full title being The Literary Gazette, and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences. Sometimes it appeared with the caption title, "London Literary Gazette".
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As a research director at CNRS and a Hellenist, she specializes in the ancient medical corpus, publishing several works with Les Belles Lettres. [1] In her research, she explores the differences between ancient Greek concepts and modern Western perceptions of medicine.
Later works include Salt Water (1998), [N 1] The Belles Lettres Papers, and Wrinkles and co-author together with Alexander Coleman of All There is to Know: Readings From the Illustrious Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. He was formerly an editor of The New York Times Book Review.