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Archive for April, 2002A Week in Literary HistoryApril 26th, 2002 American novelist and short story writer Bernard Malamud (The Magic Barrel, 1958) is born in Brooklyn in 1914. Bernard Malamud, b. April 26, 1914, d. 1986
Suggested Reading Short stories The Magic Barrel, 1958. Idiots First, 1963. Rembrandt’s Hat, 1973. The Stories of Bernard Malamud, 1983. Novels The Natural, 1952. The Assistant, 1957. A New Life, 1961. The Fixer, 1966. Pictures of Fidelman, 1969. Dubin’s Lives, 1979. The Tenants, 1979. God’s Grace, 1982.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryApril 24th, 2002 In 1905, American poet and novelist Robert Penn Warren (All the King’s Men, 1946) is born in Guthrie, Ky. Robert Penn Warren, b. April 24, 1905, d. 1989
Suggested Reading Poetry Selected Poems, 1923-1943, 1943. Promises: Poems 1954-1956, 1957. Now and Then, 1979. Fiction All the King’s Men, 1946. World Enough and Time, 1950. A Place to Come to, 1977. Literary Studies Understanding Poetry, 1938. Understanding Fiction, 1943. Democracy and Poetry, 1975.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryApril 23rd, 2002 William Shakespeare is born in Stratford upon Avon, 1564.
What can one add to the monument except to reveal — and this is an exclusive! — that in addition to his other successes in drama and verse, Shakespeare found time to write the entire literary output of Edward de Vere (1550-1604), the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford? Suggested Reading The Works.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryApril 22nd, 2002 English novelist Henry Fielding (The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, 1749) is born near Glastonbury, in Somerset, in 1707.
Fielding burst on the literary scene as a parodist, with Joseph Andrews, in which the brother of the heroine of Samuel Richardson’s prissy novel Pamela undergoes a series of decidely unprissy adventures. Thereafter, Fielding cemented his reputation with three rollicking, picaresque tales before his untimely death. Suggested Reading Novels The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams, 1742. The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great, 1743. Tom Jones, the History of a Foundling, 1749. Amelia, 1751. Travel The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, 1755.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryApril 22nd, 2002 Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita, 1955) is born in St. Petersburg in 1899.
Nabokov, the transplanted White Russian who wrote a beautiful, elegant English, was the inheritor of Joyce and Kafka’s high modernist literary world, a parallel universe of art and words. At times, though, his work is also by turns hilarious and moving in its incidents and characters. Lolita is a work of genius, as is the playful and astonishingly clever Pale Fire. Yet other less famous novels — The Defense, Invitation to a Beheading, Bend Sinister, Pnin — show an emotionally deeper artificer at work. Suggested Reading Novels Mary, 1926. King, Queen, Knave, 1928. The Defense, 1930. Glory, 1932. Laughter in the Dark, 1932. Despair, 1934. The Gift, 1938. Invitation to a Beheading, 1938. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, 1941. Bend Sinister, 1947. Lolita, 1955. Pnin, 1957. Pale Fire, 1962. Ada, 1969. Stories First Love, 1909. Spring in Fialta, 1938. The Visit to the Museum, 1958. Autobiography Speak, Memory, 1951.
Posted by: The Editors Last Week in Literary HistoryApril 21st, 2002 English novelist and playwright John Mortimer (A Voyage Round My Father, 1970) is born in Hampstead, London, 1923. John Mortimer, b. April 21, 1923, d. 2009
Suggested Reading Novels & novellas Charade, 1947. The Rumpole Series (19 books), beginning with Rumpole of the Bailey, 1978, through Rumpole and the Reign of Terror, 2006. Paradise Postponed, 1985. Titmuss Regained, 1990. The Sound of Trumpets, 1998. Plays A Voyage Round My Father, 1971. Edwin and Other Plays, 1984. Non-fiction Clinging to the Wreckage, 1982. The Oxford Book of Villains, 1992. Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life, 1994. The Summer of the Dormouse: A Year of Growing Old. Interviews In Character, 1983. Character Parts, 1986.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryApril 21st, 2002 English novelist Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre, 1847) is born in Thornton, Yorkshire, 1816.
The eldest of the three writing Brontë sisters, Charlotte wrote her first two published novels under the name Currer Bell to avoid being branded and ostracized as a woman writer. She didn’t fool many readers, but Jane Eyre remains a classic of English literature all the same. Charlotte died pregnant, probably not of tuberculosis like her sisters, but of dehydration and malnourishment brought on by severe morning sickness. Suggested Reading Novels Jane Eyre, 1847. Shirley, 1849. Villette, 1853. The Professor, 1857.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryApril 17th, 2002 In 1897, American novelist and playwright Thornton Wilder (Our Town, 1938) is born in Madison, Wisc.
Wilder is rare in having been an extremely successful playwright and novelist, and for having won Pulitzer prizes in both genres. Extremely popular during his lifetime, he now persists in the literary consciousness only through revivals of the imperishable Our Town (1938), probably the most frequently performed play in American history, if you count grammar school and high school productions. Suggested Reading Drama Our Town, 1938. The Skin of Our Teeth, 1942. The Matchmaker, 1954. Novels The Bridge of San Luis Rey, 1927. Heaven’s My Destination, 1935. The Eighth Day, 1967.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryApril 16th, 2002 English novelist Kingsley Amis (Lucky Jim, 1954) is born in 1922 in London.
Amis hit the jackpot with his hilarious novel Lucky Jim in 1954, but this was only the first of dozens of excellent books spread over a sixty-year writing career. He started as one of the so-called Angry Young Men and preserved his acerbity till the end. His The King’s English, published when he was seventy-five, is a classic of its kind. Suggested Reading Novels Lucky Jim, 1954. Take a Girl Like You, 1960. One Fat Englishman, 1962. The Anti-Death League, 1966. The Old Devils, 1986. Non-fiction On Drink, 1972. Every Day Drinking, 1983. The King’s English: A Guide to Modern Usage, 1997. Other Memoirs, 1991. The Letters of Kingsley Amis, 2001.
Posted by: The Editors Last Week in Literary HistoryApril 14th, 2002 American novelist Henry James (The Portrait of a Lady, 1881) is born in 1843 in New York City. Henry James, b. April 14, 1843, d. 1916
Suggested Reading Novels The Americans, 1877. Daisy Miller, 1879. Washington Square, 1881. The Portrait of a Lady, 1881. The Bostonians, 1886. What Maisie Knew, 1897. The Wings of the Dove, 1902. The Ambassadors, 1903. The Golden Bowl, 1904. Stories & Tales Novels and Tales, 1909. Other The American Scene, 1907. The Art of the Novel, 1934.
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