The Optimist's Daughter is a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction-winning short novel by Eudora Welty. It was first published as a long story in The New Yorker in...
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Eudora Welty (redirect from The Wide Net)
wrote about the American South. Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty received numerous awards, including the Presidential...
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she contacts the Coach of the Lee High Generals, who agrees to take Demon in. Demon moves to a mansion where he meets Coach, his daughter Angus, and a...
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by Hernan Diaz. The novel was published by Riverhead Books. Set predominantly in New York City and focusing on the world of finance, the novel is a metafictional...
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The Goldfinch is a novel by the American author Donna Tartt. It won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, among other honors. Published in 2013, it was...
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Millie Cloud — The daughter of Louis Pipestone and half-sister of Grace Pipestone. Millie is a college student studying Economics at the University of...
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (redirect from Pulitzer Prize for the Novel)
published during the preceding calendar year. As the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (awarded 1918–1947), it was one of the original Pulitzers; the program was...
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of the Deep South". The New York Times Books. Crews, Claire Elizabeth (2012). The Role of the Home in Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding and the Optimist's Daughter...
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Hernan Diaz (writer) (category Argentine emigrants to the United States)
with his wife and daughter. Diaz has received fellowships from the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, the Rockefeller Foundation...
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Olive Kitteridge (section "The Piano Player")
affected by their experiences at the hospital. Jane and Bob Houlton, a retired couple, meet the parents of their daughter's friends at a concert. Jane knows...
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Jackson, Mississippi (category 1792 establishments in the United States)
won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for her novel, The Optimist's Daughter, and is best known for her novels and short stories. The main library of the Jackson/Hinds...
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List of American novelists (redirect from List of novelists from the United States)
(1903–1986), The Old Gods Waken Rebecca Wells (born 1952), Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Eudora Welty (1909–2001), The Optimist's Daughter Glenway...
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National Book Award for Fiction (category 1950 establishments in the United States)
Since 1987, the awards have been administered and presented by the National Book Foundation, but they are awards "by writers to writers." The panelists...
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(Business, 1930–31, hon. LHD 1982) – Pulitzer Prize–winning author, The Optimist's Daughter Frank B. Wilderson III (M.F.A.) – writer, dramatist, filmmaker, and...
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The Optimist is a British television comedy series starring Enn Reitel and produced by Robert Sidaway. Each episode tells a separate comic adventure in...
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Alison Lurie (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
1926 – December 3, 2020) was an American novelist and academic. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 1984 novel Foreign Affairs. Although better...
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1973 in literature (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
Championship Season Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Eudora Welty, The Optimist's Daughter Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Maxine Kumin, Up Country Miles Franklin...
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Eudora Welty House (category Literary museums in the United States)
and tended to the garden located at the side and back of the home over decades. Welty could often be found writing in her bedroom or on the porch, which...
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Saul Griffith (category Australian emigrants to the United States)
Griffith by artist Jude Rae was highly commended in the 2022 Archibald Prize. Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future (2021). Cambridge...
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1973 Pulitzer Prize (category 1973 awards in the United States)
of the Topeka Capital-Journal, for his sequence on child birth, as exemplified by his photograph, "Moment of Life". Fiction: The Optimist's Daughter by...
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The Optimists (Serbian Cyrillic: Оптимисти) is a 2006 Serbian black comedy film directed by Goran Paskaljević. The film, presented as five unrelated narrative...
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American short story writer and novelist (Pulitzer Prize for The Optimist's Daughter, pneumonia. Carrie Best, 98, Canadian journalist and social activist...
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Turin Brakes (redirect from The Optimist Live)
give them the devotion they deserve." Source reissued the song "The Door" before releasing their first album, The Optimist LP, in 2001. The album, which...
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reactions to adversity in a new way. The resulting optimism—one that grew from pessimism—is a learned optimism. The optimist's outlook on failure can thus be...
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His Attempts To Apply 'Game Of Thrones' Wisdom To Bloomberg's 'Optimist's Guide To The Planet'; Watch Exclusive Clip". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 8...
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fall into the A–L alphabetic range. This is not a complete list of musicals, and is limited to musicals that have their own articles on the English-language...
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Daphne Guinness (redirect from Optimist in Black)
the eldest son of Diana Mitford and Bryan Guinness. Diana Mitford was the daughter of David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale, the father of the Mitford...
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Leonard Cohen (redirect from The Future World Tour)
("Masha") Klonitsky (1905–1978), emigrated to Canada in 1927 and was the daughter of Talmudic writer and rabbi Solomon Klonitsky-Kline. His paternal grandfather...
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birth to a second daughter, Gigi. Madrid, Monique (April 12, 2013). "Lauren Lapkus Is One Crazy, Talented Woman". Serial Optimist Magazine. Retrieved...
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Rosalind Lloyd (category Actors from the City of Westminster)
actress. She is the daughter of film producer Euan Lloyd and actress Jane Hylton. She released 45rpm recordings in the early 1970's on the Phoenix and Cambrian...
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