Are novelists Walter Van Tilburg Clark and Billie Letts both American?
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Walter Van Tilburg Clark Walter Van Tilburg Clark (August 3, 1909 – November 10, 1971) was an American novelist, short story writer, and educator. He ranks as one of Nevada's most distinguished literary figures of the 20th century, and was the first inductee into the 'Nevada Writers Hall of Fame' in 1988. Two of his novels, "The Ox-Bow Incident" and "The Track of the Cat," were made into films. As a writer, Clark taught himself to use the familiar materials of the western saga to explore the human psyche and to raise deep philosophical issues.
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Billie Letts Billie Dean Letts (née Gipson; May 30, 1938 – August 2, 2014) was an American novelist and educator. She was a professor at Southeastern Oklahoma State University.
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Walter Raymond Walter Raymond (13 March 1852 – 2 April 1931) was an English novelist. He wrote many novels between 1890 and 1928, primarily based in Somerset, and also wrote under the pseudonym Tom Cobbleigh. Some of his titles include "Gentleman Upcott's Daughter" (1892), "Love and Quiet Life" (1894), "Fortune's Darling" (1901), and "Verity Thurston" (1926). He died in Southampton on 2 April 1931 at the age of 79. Raymond's work is long out of print and currently gets little attention, although some novels are now available for free online.
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Chester Himes Chester Bomar Himes (July 29, 1909 – November 12, 1984) was an American writer. His works include "If He Hollers Let Him Go" and the Harlem Detective series. In 1958 he won France's Grand Prix de Littérature Policière.
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Harry Webb Farrington Harry Webb Farrington (1879–1930) was an American author, poet, hymn writer, preacher, soldier, and educator. He was an orphan who lived in Baltimore, Maryland, Bel Air, Maryland, and Darlington, Maryland. He is famous still as being a member of the Darlington United Methodist Church and witnessing the great revivals of the late 1890s. The story of his life comes from one of his books, "Kilts to Togs: Orphan Adventures" (1930). He is also the author of "Cher Ami" (1926), "Rough and Brown", "Walls of America" (1925), and "Roosevelt the Righteous" (1925). He also wrote "Poems from France" in 1920.
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Martin Clark (author) Martin Fillmore Clark, Jr. (born June 23, 1959) is an author and Virginia circuit court judge.
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William L. Van Deburg William L. Van Deburg (born May 8, 1948) is an American historian. He has been a faculty member in the department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison since 1973 and has written on antebellum slavery, on the history of black nationalism, and on contemporary African-American popular culture. Van Deburg retired from teaching in 2008 and is currently Professor Emeritus.
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It Can't Happen Here It Can't Happen Here is a semi-satirical 1935 political novel by American author Sinclair Lewis, and a 1936 play adapted from the novel by Lewis and John C. Moffitt. Published during the rise of fascism in Europe, the novel describes the rise of Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, a politician who defeats Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) and is elected President of the United States, after fomenting fear and promising drastic economic and social reforms while promoting a return to patriotism and "traditional" values. After his election, Windrip takes complete control of the government and imposes a plutocratic/totalitarian rule with the help of a ruthless paramilitary force, in the manner of Adolf Hitler and the SS. The novel's plot centers on journalist Doremus Jessup's opposition to the new regime and his subsequent struggle against it as part of a liberal rebellion. Reviewers at the time, and literary critics ever since, have emphasized the connection with Louisiana politician Huey Long, who was preparing to run for president in the 1936 election when he was assassinated in 1935 just prior to the novel's publication.
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Dorothy Baker Dorothy Baker (April 21, 1907– June 17, 1968) was an American novelist.
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch is a 1901 novel by American author Alice Hegan Rice, telling of a southern family's humorously coping with poverty. The book was highly popular on its release, and has been adapted to film several times.
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Constance Goddard DuBois Constance Goddard DuBois (died 1934) was an American novelist and an ethnographer, writing extensively between 1899 and 1908 about the native peoples and cultures of southern California.
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Charles Badger Clark Charles Badger Clark (January 1, 1883 – September 26, 1957) was an American poet.
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Duane Niatum Duane Niatum (McGinniss) (born 1938-) is a Native American poet, author and playwright of Klallam descent.
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Reinhard Lettau Reinhard Lettau (10 September 1929, Erfurt – 17 June 1996, Karlsruhe) was a German-American writer. He never used his middle name, Adolf, if he could avoid it. He emigrated to the US in the middle of the 1950s and was a professor of German Literature at the University of California, San Diego from 1967 to 1991. He was an active member of the Group 47. He gave incendiary speeches at the Freie Universität Berlin denouncing the Springer Press. He was thereupon expelled from West Germany because he was a foreigner—he carried an American passport.
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Mary Heebner Mary Doretta Heebner (born April 19, 1951) is an American artist and author.
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Walter Noble Burns Walter Noble Burns (1866–1932) was a writer of Western history and a Western fiction author, notable for his book, "The Saga of Billy the Kid" (1926).
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Anne Beatts Anne Beatts (born February 25, 1947 in Buffalo, New York) is an American comedy writer.
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Eleanor Clark Eleanor Clark (July 6, 1913 – February 16, 1996) was an American writer. She was born in Los Angeles, California.
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Clyde Brion Davis Clyde Brion Davis (May 22, 1894–July 19, 1962) was an American author and freelance journalist active from the mid-1920s until his death. Davis is best known for his novels "The Anointed" and "The Great American Novel", though he authored more than 15 books.
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Walter Van Rensselaer Berry Walter Van Rensselaer Berry (July 29, 1859 – October 12, 1927) was an American lawyer, diplomat, Francophile, and friend of several great writers. He was also an American tennis player active in the late 19th century.
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Ingrid Wendt Ingrid Wendt (born 1944), is an American writer and poet.
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Lettie Cowman Lettie Burd Cowman (March 3, 1870 – April 17, 1960), also known as L.B. Cowman, was an American writer and author of the devotional books "Streams in the Desert" and "Springs in the Valley". Cowman published her books under the author name "Mrs. Charles E. Cowman." She was also one of the cofounders of The Oriental Missionary Society (later known as OMS International, and eventually One Mission Society).