Women of Words: A Personal Introduction to More Than Forty Important Writers - Couverture rigide

 
9780762420124: Women of Words: A Personal Introduction to More Than Forty Important Writers
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ISBN 10 : 076242012X ISBN 13 : 9780762420124
Editeur : Running Press,U.S., 2004

Synopsis

Book by Bukovinsky Teacher Janet Powell Jenny

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Biographie de l'auteur

Janet Bukovinsky Teacher is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Martha Stewart Living, Food and Wine, and other national publications. She received a National Magazine Award in 1993. At Rutgers University and Sarah Lawrence College, she pursued her interest in Women's literature and studied creative writing with Adrienne Rich. Jenny Powell, a graduate of Great Britain's Bournemouth School of Art, had a long and successful career as a fashion artist before turning to portraiture as her métier. Since then, she has executed portraits of numerous distinguished individuals and captains of industry, and has had her work published in Gourmet Magazine and Time. She currently lives in London.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This revised and expanded edition celebrates the classics of literature by women from the last two centuries. Poetic, full-color portraits accompany biographical introductions to each writer, followed by carefully chosen excerpts from each woman's works. New to the pages of this elegant treasury are Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner Pearl S. Buck, contemporary Canadian author Margaret Atwood, Harlem Renaissance figure Zora Neale Hurston, prolific fiction and nonfiction writer Joyce Carol Oates, poet and essayist Adrienne Rich, 19century French writer and social activist Georges Sand, Victorian poet Christina Rossetti, Souther writer Carson McCullers, and Charlotte Brontë, author of the beloved classic Jane Eyre.

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Éditeur
Running Press,U.S.
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
076242012X
ISBN 13 
9780762420124
Reliure
Relié
Illustrateur
Powell Jenny
Numéro d'édition
2
Nombre de pages
214
Éditeur
Bukovinsky Teacher Janet
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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