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Amy Krouse Rosenthal (born Amy Renee Krouse; April 29, 1965 – March 13, 2017) was an American author of both adult and children's books, a short film maker, and radio show host. [1] She is best known for her memoir Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life , her children's picture books, and the film project The Beckoning of Lovely .
The pieces in the series are among Edwards' best-known and celebrated and have been cited by several authors as his breakthrough or signature works. [19] [10] [20] [21] Speaking in 1993 about the importance of the series to his overall career, Edwards said: "The Lynch Fragments have changed my life. They made this life of thirty years as a ...
Cajipe-Endaya had a part-time job as an archival researcher and writer while starting a family. Her print exhibition in 1979 earned her critical acclaim. In 1980, she was rated one of the best ten printmakers by a panel of critics. [5] In 1987 she co-founded "Kasibulan", a women artists' collective, [6] and served as its first president. [2]
The Spoliarium is a painting by Filipino painter Juan Luna. Luna, working on canvas , spent eight months completing the painting which depicts dying gladiators. The painting was submitted by Luna to the Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes in 1884 in Madrid , where it garnered the first gold medal (out of three). [ 1 ]
One of the men has his hand over one semi-naked female whose eyes are "looking up to heaven" asking and begging for "help that never comes". [ 2 ] Together with Juan Luna 's Spoliarium , Hidalgo's Las Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas al Populacho presents "human spoliage and spoils", with human spoilage more related to Luna's Spoliarium and the ...
This is a list of English-language novels that multiple media outlets and commentators have considered to be among the best of all time. The books included on this list are on at least three "best/greatest of all time" lists.
The Joseph Regenstein Library (colloquially, the Reg) is the University of Chicago’s primary library, located on the University’s Hyde Park campus on the South Side of Chicago. Named after the industrialist and philanthropist Joseph Regenstein , it is one of the largest repositories of books in the world.
Scott Frederick Turow [1] (born April 12, 1949) is an American author and lawyer.Turow worked as a lawyer for a decade before writing full-time, and has written 13 fiction and three nonfiction books, which have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 30 million copies. [2]