Baquet's Guide to the World's Classics: America

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Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American Author and Explorer
(1836-1870)

Just the Facts:

Name: Fitz Hugh (or "FitzHugh") Ludlow
Birth: September 11, 1836, New York City, New York, USA
Death: September 12, 1870, Geneva, Switzerland
Language: English
Who he was: American author, journalist, and explorer best known for his autobiographical book The Hasheesh Eater
Included in lists (What's This?): GC

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Alan Lightman, American Physicist and Writer
(1948 - )

Just the Facts:

Name: Alan Lightman
Birth: November 28, 1948, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American physicist and writer whose Einstein's Dreams combines these two interests. He has written numerous other short fiction pieces, books (nonfiction and novels), and articles.
Included in lists (What's This?): GC

Gabriela Mistral, Chilean Poet
(1889-1957)

Just the Facts:

Name: Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga, or, more simply, Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga
Known as: Gabriela Mistral
Birth: April 7, 1889, Vicuña, Chile
Death: January 10, 1957, Hempstead, New York, USA
Language: Spanish
Who she was: Chilean poet, educator, and humanist known for Sonnets of Death, Despair, Tenderness, and Harvesting.Nobel Prize in Literature (1945)
Included in lists (What's This?): GC

Anaïs Nin, Cuban American Author
(1903-1977)

Just the Facts:

Name: Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell
Known as: Anaïs Nin
Birth: February 21, 1903, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Death: January 14, 1977, Los Angeles, California, USA
Language: English
Who she was: French-born Cuban essayist and memoirist who lived most of her life and wrote in the US. Known for novels, critical studies, essays, short stories, and erotica, including Delta of Venus, Little Birds, and her diaries.
Included in lists (What's This?): GC

Richard Brautigan, American Writer
(1935-1984)

Just the Facts:

Name: Richard Brautigan
Birth: January 30, 1935, Tacoma, Washington, USA
Death: ca. September 16, 1984, Bolinas, California, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American novelist, poet, and short story writer whose work often uses black comedy, parody, and satire. Best known for his novels Trout Fishing in America and In Watermelon Sugar.
Included in lists (What's This?): GC

Sara Teasdale, American Poet
(1884-1933)

Just the Facts:

Name: Sara Teasdale
Also known as: Sara Teasdale Filsinger (after her marriage in 1914)
Birth: August 8, 1884, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Death: January 29, 1933, New York City, New York, USA
Language: English
Who she was: American poet known for Flame and Shadow; Love Songs; Pulitzer: Special Citation (Letters, 1918)

William Ellery Channing, Unitarian Preacher
(1780-1842)

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Name: William Ellery Channing
Birth: April 7, 1780, Newport, Rhode Island, USA
Death: October 2, 1842, Old Bennington, Vermont, USA
Language: English
Who he was: Unitarian preacher and theologian who wrote on Slavery and lectured on "On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes"
Included in lists (What's This?): HC

Marguerite Yourcenar, French Author
(1903-1987)

Just the Facts:

Name: Marguerite Yourcenar
Known as: Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour
Birth: June 8, 1903, Brussels, Belgium
Death: December 17, 1987, Northeast Harbor, Maine, USA
Languages: French, English
Who she was: French novelist and essayist who wrote Coup de Grace; Memoirs of Hadrian
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-born
British and American Writer (1927-2013)

Just the Facts:

Name: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Birth: May 7, 1927, Cologne, Germany
Death: April 3, 2013, New York City, New York, USA
Language: English
Who she was: German-born British and American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter known for her novel Heat and Dust, and adapting the screenplays from E. M. Forster's Room with a View and Howards End (winning Oscars for both)
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Randall Jarrell, American Poet
(1914-1965)

Just the Facts:

Name: Randall Jarrell
Birth: May 6, 1914, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Death: October 14, 1965, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, novelist remembered for The Woman at the Washington Zoo, The Lost World, Pictures from an Institution, and other poems. US Poet Laureate (1956-1958).
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

May Swenson, American Poet
(1913-1989)

Just the Facts:

Name: Anna Thilda May Swenson
Known as: May Swenson
Birth: May 28, 1913, Logan, Utah, USA
Death: December 4, 1989, Bethany Beach, Delaware, USA
Language: English, Swedish
Who she was: American poet and playwright known for poetry collections New & Selected Things Taking Place; In Other Words
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Erna Fergusson, New Mexico Writer
(1888-1964)

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Name: Erna Fergusson
Birth: January 10, 1888, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Death: July 30, 1964, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Language: English
Who she was: New Mexico-based writer, historian, and storyteller, who documented the culture and history of New Mexico for more than forty years. Wrote Dancing Gods.
Included in lists (What's This?): SW

Stewart Edward White, American Writer
(1873-1946)

Just the Facts:

Name: Stewart Edward White
Birth: March 12, 1873, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Death: September 18, 1946, Hillsborough, California, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American writer, novelist, and spiritualist who wrote Arizona Nights
Included in lists (What's This?): SW

Will Levington Comfort, Adventure Writer
(1878-1932)

Just the Facts:

Name: Will Levington Comfort
Birth: February 17, 1878, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
Death: November 2, 1932, Los Angeles, California, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American adventure writer known for adventure for Apache; three of his works were the basis of feature films.
Included in lists (What's This?): SW

Francisco Garces, Spanish Franciscan
(1738-1781)

Garces converting Indians

Just the Facts:

Name: Francisco Garces
Birth: April 12, 1738, Morata de Jalón, Spain
Death: July 18, 1781, Fort Yuma, California, USA
Language: Spanish
Who he was: Pioneering Spanish Franciscan missionary and explorer of Sonora and Baja California, Mexico, and Arizona and California, USA. Left a Diary after being killed in an Indian uprising near present-day Yuma, Arizona.
Included in lists (What's This?): SW

J. Ross Browne, Adventure Writer
(1821-1875)

Just the Facts:

Name: J(ohn) Ross Browne
Birth: February 11, 1821, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Death: December 9, 1875, Oakland, California, USA
Language: English
Who he was: Irish-born American traveler, artist, writer and government agent who wrote Adventures in the Apache Country
Included in lists (What's This?): SW

Martha Summerhayes, Arizona Writer
(1844-1926)

Just the Facts:

Name: Martha Summerhayes
Birth: October 22, 1844, Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA
Death: May 12, 1926, Schenectady, New York, USA
Language: English
Who she was: American travel memoirist and "army wife" who brought her Massachusetts sensibilities to Vanished Arizona, her observations of life in that territory, where she and her husband lived off and on from 1874 to 1900.
Included in lists (What's This?): SW

John C. Van Dyke, American Art Scholar
(1856–1932)

Just the Facts:

Name: John C. Van Dyke
Birth: April 21, 1856, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Death: Unknown place and date, 1932
Language: English
Who he was: American art historian and critic who wrote not only on art, but on his time in the West in The Desert. Also a posthumous Autobiography.
Included in lists (What's This?): SW

Tony Kushner, American Playwright
(1956 - )

Just the Facts:

Name: Tony Kushner
Birth: July 16, 1956, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Language: English
Who he is: American playwright and screenwriter best known for his Pulitzer-Prize winning play (1993) Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. He also co-authored the screenplay for Munich (2005) and wrote the screenplay for Lincoln (2012).
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Raymond Carver, American Writer
(1938-1988)

Just the Facts:

Name: Raymond Carver
Birth: May 25, 1938, Clatskanie, Oregon, USA
Death: August 2, 1988, Port Angeles, Washington, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American short-story writer and poet who contributed to the revitalization of the American short story during the 1980s. His story "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" was the "play within a play" in Alejandro Iñárritu's film Birdman; the short story collection Where I'm Calling From is cited by Bloom. Pulitzer Finalist for Fiction (1989)
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom, GC

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