Jay Parini
Forfatter af The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Final Year
Om forfatteren
Jay Parini was born in Pittston, Pennsylvania in 1948. In 1970 he graduated from Lafayette College and he received a doctorate from the University of St. Andrews in 1975. Before becoming a professor of Engliah and Creative Writing at Vermont's Middlebury College in 1982, Parini taught at Dartmouth vis mere College. Parini writes poetry, novels, biographies, and criticism, and he has published numerous reviews and essays in major journals and newspapers. He co-founded the New England Review in 1976. In 1995, he was appointed literary executor for author Gore Vidal. A film version of The Last Station, his 1990 novel, was released in 2009. Parini's novel, One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner, made the New York Times bestseller list in 2015. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Værker af Jay Parini
Introspections: American Poets on One of Their Own Poems (Bread Loaf Anthology) (1997) — Redaktør — 35 eksemplarer
Touchstones: American Poets on a Favorite Poem (Bread Loaf Anthology) (1996) — Redaktør — 32 eksemplarer
The Wadsworth Themes American Literature Series, 1910-1945 Theme 15: Racism and Activism (2008) 30 eksemplarer
Borges and Me 7 eksemplarer
American Identities: Contemporary Multicultural Voices (Bread Loaf Anthology) (1994) — Redaktør — 5 eksemplarer
The Wadsworth Themes in American literature Series, 1800-1865 Theme 7: Manifest Destiny and the Quest for the West (2008) 3 eksemplarer
The last station 2 eksemplarer
The Wadsworth themes in American literature series, 1800-1865 (4 vols.: woman, race, West, war) (2008) 2 eksemplarer
American Writers Supplement XXI: A Collection of Literary Biographies: Neith Boyce to Ira Wolfert (2010) — Redaktør — 2 eksemplarer
ARMAGEDDON IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN: Up the Hawse Pipe from Galley Boy to Third Mate on a Legendary Liberty Ship in the… (2022) 2 eksemplarer
Endastöðin : síðasta æviár Tolstojs 1 eksemplar
American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies (American Writers: Supplement) (2006) 1 eksemplar
Endastöðin - síðasta æviár Tolstojs 1 eksemplar
American Writers Supplement: Woody Allen to C. D. Wright: 15 (American Writers: Supplement) (2005) 1 eksemplar
A Travessia de Benjamim 1 eksemplar
Borges y yo 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe (Signet Classics) (2001) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver — 1,621 eksemplarer
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Bidragyder — 447 eksemplarer
Writers on Writing, 2: More Collected Essays from the New York Times (2003) — Bidragyder — 183 eksemplarer
These United States: Original Essays by Leading American Writers on Their State within the Union by John Leonard (1995) — Bidragyder — 88 eksemplarer
Visiting Frost: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Robert Frost (2005) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver — 4 eksemplarer
Antaeus No. 23, Autumn 1976 — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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- Juridisk navn
- Parini, Jay Lee
- Fødselsdato
- 1948-04-02
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Pittston, Pennsylvania, USA
- Bopæl
- Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
Vermont, USA
England, UK - Uddannelse
- University of St. Andrews (Ph.D.)
Lafayette College - Erhverv
- professor
author - Relationer
- Jersild, Devon (wife)
- Organisationer
- Middlebury College
Dartmouth College
New England Review (co-founder) - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1993)
Fowler Hamilton Fellow, Christ Church, Oxford (1993–1994)
Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of London (2005–2006)
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ARMAGEDDON IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN: Up the Hawse Pipe… af Paul G. Gill
Among the very best memoirs about a resilient Boston maritime family of modest means during the depression era and World War II who overcame many obstacles to achieve amazing accomplishments on land and at sea. Very well-written and edited
QUe decir es muy Borgeano, lo que para mi es un gran elogio. El autor, también escritor y poeta escribe, recuerda y ficciona su encuentro con Borges a principio de los 70 en Escocia, con quien hace un viaje iniciático por las Highlands escocesas. Desde Stirling, Culloden y el lago Ness, da pie para que juegue con un Borges muy Borgeano . recomendable
Not a bookclub book, but a gift from my sister. I enjoyed the book and she did too. I think it would be a good book club book because of the lives of Leo Tolstoy and his wife.
You will enjoy this book if...
You believe that Moby-Dick is one of the great American novels.
You had an American Lit professor who made the book come alive for you. You are a writer who alternates between believing your own genius and falling into the depths that everyone is better than you.
You love a good adventure on the high seas.
You ever had an unrequited love that affected you deeply.
You had to put aside your Art to take a job in the real-world to pay real bills.
You wish you could sit at a table with Melville, Hawthorne or Whitman and debate Emerson.
You like a good tragedy.
You have worked in the publishing industry.
You will not enjoy this book if...
Moby-who? (if so, then go out and take an American Lit class, or see if there is a free podcast on iTunes)
Herman Mel-who? (he isn't the most likeable of people, so you really do have to have read Moby-Dick or other works to appreciate him)
You are looking for a light-hearted book or a romance
… (mere)
You believe that Moby-Dick is one of the great American novels.
You had an American Lit professor who made the book come alive for you. You are a writer who alternates between believing your own genius and falling into the depths that everyone is better than you.
You love a good adventure on the high seas.
You ever had an unrequited love that affected you deeply.
You had to put aside your Art to take a job in the real-world to pay real bills.
You wish you could sit at a table with Melville, Hawthorne or Whitman and debate Emerson.
You like a good tragedy.
You have worked in the publishing industry.
You will not enjoy this book if...
Moby-who? (if so, then go out and take an American Lit class, or see if there is a free podcast on iTunes)
Herman Mel-who? (he isn't the most likeable of people, so you really do have to have read Moby-Dick or other works to appreciate him)
You are looking for a light-hearted book or a romance
… (mere)
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- Medlemmer
- 2,737
- Popularitet
- #9,385
- Vurdering
- 4.0
- Anmeldelser
- 71
- ISBN
- 270
- Sprog
- 12
- Udvalgt
- 2
- Trædesten
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