Where was author Marguerite Duras born?
Author Marguerite Duras was born in Indochina, in 1914.
The French writer is the author of the novel The Lover (1984) and the screenplay Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1960).
Author Marguerite Duras was born in Indochina, in 1914.
The French writer is the author of the novel The Lover (1984) and the screenplay Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1960).
His Family by Ernest Poole won the first Pulitzer Prize in 1918.
The octopus in Frank Norris’s novel is the Pacific and Southwestern Railroad. The railroad dominates the California state government, manipulates other industries, and oppresses struggling wheat farmers.
Joseph Conrad define his task as a writer as, “to make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see!” in the preface to The Nigger of the Narcissus (1897).
“Q” is the hypothetical source used by synoptic evangelists Matthew and Luke. Never found, it is believed to contain the sayings and stories that Matthew and Luke, but not Mark, share. The term comes from German Quelle, or “source.”
The Mongol emperor Kublai Khan (1215-1294) had a residence in K’ai-p’ing in southeastern Mongolia. Also known as Shang-Tu, this became Xanadu, the site of the emperor’s pleasure garden in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s unfinished poem “Kubla Khan” (1797).
Pulitzer Prize judges and trustees were divided so sharply over Thomas Pynchon’s novel Gravity’s Rainbow that for only the seventh time in Pulitzer history no award was given.