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A Tree of Night and Other Stories is a short story collection by the American author Truman Capote published in early 1949. The title story, "A Tree of Night", was first published in Harper’s Bazaar in October 1945.
Ferrell devoted particular attention to Truman, writing or editing more than a dozen books on his life and presidency, including the 1983 New York Times bestseller Dear Bess: The Letters From Harry to Bess Truman, 1910-1959, [6] the 1994 biography Harry S. Truman: A Life, [7] 2002's The Autobiography of Harry S. Truman, [8] and 1994's Choosing ...
The book was a hit upon and spent weeks on the best-seller list, though not everyone loved it; the New York Times review noted, "The story of Joel Know did not need to be told, except to get it ...
After his mother's death, 13-year-old Joel Harrison Knox, a lonely, effeminate boy, is sent from New Orleans to live with his father, who abandoned him at birth. Arriving at Skully's Landing, a vast, decaying mansion on an isolated plantation in Mississippi, Joel meets his sullen stepmother Amy; her cousin Randolph, a gay man and dandy; the defiant tomboy Idabel, a girl who becomes his friend ...
The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace (Hebrew: מכון טרומן) is a research institute at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, located on its Mt. Scopus campus. It was the first, and is the largest, research institute in Israel and the Middle East that studies advancing peace in the region. [1]
The book provides a biography of Harry Truman in chronological fashion from his birth to his rise to U.S. Senator, Vice President, and President.It follows his activities until death, exploring many of the major decisions he made as president, including his decision to drop the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, his meetings and confrontation with Joseph Stalin during the end of World War II ...
The book opens with the cast, directors, support personnel and Mrs. Ira Gershwin waiting in West Berlin for their visas to be returned by the Russian Embassy. They are briefed by U.S. Embassy staff, and among other questions, ask if they will be under surveillance, presumably by the KGB, during their visit.
Her character is said to be the inspiration for the young socialite Holly Golightly in Capote's novella Breakfast at Tiffany's. [3] Truman Capote's aunt Marie Rudisill notes that both characters are "unattached, unconventional wanderers, dreamers in pursuit of some ideal of happiness."