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It was chosen as a "Book of the Year" by The New Yorker [15] and The Economist [16] and named one of the "Ten Best Books of 2011" by The New York Times, [17] Bloomberg, [18] The Washington Post, [19] the Chicago Tribune, [20] and NPR. [21] In 2012, A World on Fire won the Fletcher Pratt Award for excellence in Civil War history writing. [22]
Women in the Wind is a 1939 film directed by John Farrow and starring Kay Francis, William Gargan and Victor Jory. The plot concerns women pilots competing in the so-called " Powder Puff Derby ", an annual transcontinental air race solely for women.
The race was the subject of the 1935 novel Women in the Wind: A Novel of the Women's National Air Derby by Francis Walton and the 1939 film adaptation, starring Kay Francis. The book The Powder Puff Derby of 1929: The First All Women's Transcontinental Air Race, written by Gene Nora Jessen, was published in 2002. [28]
Yoshiko Uchida wrote 34 books. The Dancing Kettle and Other Japanese Folk Tales (1949) New Friends for Susan (1951) The Magic Listening Cap: More Folk Tales from Japan (1955) The Full Circle (1957) Takao and Grandfather's Sword (1958) The Promised Year (1959) Mik and the Prowler (1960) Rokubei and the Thousand Rice Bowls (1962) The Forever ...
In a writing career that spanned over 50 years, Barrett's works include short stories, biographies, novels, reviews and non-fiction. In 1929, he began writing freelance for pulp magazines. His first novel, Woman on Horseback was published in 1938. In 1964, he wrote Shepherd of Mankind, a biography of Pope Paul VI. [1]
Rotolo is the woman walking with him on the cover of his 1963 album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, a photograph by the Columbia Records studio photographer Don Hunstein. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In her book A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties , Rotolo described her time with Dylan and other figures in the folk music and bohemian ...
Tracks 1–2 from the Mackenzie Home Tapes, recorded 29 January 1962; Tracks 3–6 from the Mackenzie Home Tapes, recorded Fall 1962; Tracks 7–11 recorded 16 April 1962 at Gerde's Folk City; Tracks 12–23 recorded 2 July 1962 at Finjan Club, Montreal
Jeanette Nolan (December 30, 1911 – June 5, 1998) was an American actress. Nominated for four Emmy Awards, [1] she had roles in the television series The Virginian (1962–1971) and Dirty Sally (1974) and in films such as Macbeth (1948).