What does the E.H. in E. H. Shepard stand for?
The E.H. in E. H. Shepard stands for Ernest Howard.
Shepard illustrated A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh books (1926-28) and the 1931 edition of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows (1908).
The E.H. in E. H. Shepard stands for Ernest Howard.
Shepard illustrated A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh books (1926-28) and the 1931 edition of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows (1908).
Wilhelm Carl (1786-1859; Jacob, 1785-1863) was the younger brother. Their book Children’s and Household Tales, now known as Grimm’s Fairy-Tales, first appeared in 1812.
Albany-born Daniel Quinn, the protagonist of Quinn’s Book, is the grandfather of Danny Quinn of Ironweed (1983). Ironweed is part of the Albany Cycle, which also includes Legs (1975), Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game (1978), and Very Old Bones (1992).
Anne Tyler’s first novel was If Morning Ever Comes (1965), written in her early twenties. Born in 1941, Tyler was respected by critics but did not become widely known until Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant in 1982.
Two hundred and forty-four deceased inhabitants of Spoon River recite their verse epitaphs in Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology.
The Angry Young Men were a group of British playwrights and novelists in the 1950s, including John Osborne, Kingsley Amis, and Alan Sillitoe. Their politics were left-wing; their favorite theme was alienation.
The Charles Dickens novel Nicholas Nickleby (1838-390) exposed the “ragged schools” and helped get them abolished.