What profession does Alice Hoffman and Marguerite Duras have in common?
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Alice Hoffman Alice Hoffman (born March 16, 1952) is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1995 novel "Practical Magic", which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships.
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Marguerite Duras Marguerite Donnadieu, known as Marguerite Duras (] ; 4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), was a French novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her 1959 film "Hiroshima mon amour", earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards.
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Alice Becker-Ho Alice Becker-Ho (also Alice Debord) (Born August 6, 1941), is the author of Les Princes du Jargon (Paris: Gallimard, 1993), as well as numerous works of poetry.
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Margaret Hoffman Margaret Hoffman (June 19, 1911 – March 25, 1991) was an American competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1928 Summer Olympics and 1932 Summer Olympics. In 1928 she finished fifth in the women's 200-metet breaststroke event with a time of 3:19.2. Four years later in 1932, she again finished fifth in the 200-meter breaststroke event at the Los Angeles Games, clocking an improved time of 3:11.8.
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Marguerite Roberts Marguerite Roberts (21 September 1905 – 17 February 1989) was an American screenwriter, one of the highest paid in the 1930s. After she and her husband John Sanford refused to testify in 1951 before the House Un-American Activities Committee, she was blacklisted for nine years and unable to get work in Hollywood. She was hired again in 1962 by Columbia Pictures.
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Alice Howell Alice Howell (May 20, 1886 – April 11, 1961) was a silent film comedy actress from New York City. She was the mother of actress Yvonne Howell.
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Alice Henry Alice Henry (21 March 1857 – 14 February 1943) was an Australian suffragist, journalist and trade unionist who also became prominent in the American trade union movement as a member of the Women's Trade Union League.
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Alice McGrath Alice Greenfield McGrath (April 5, 1917 – November 27, 2009), also known as Alice Greenfield, was an American activist who first gained fame in connection with the 1942 case of the Sleepy Lagoon Murder. She was the executive secretary of the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee from 1942–1944. She later married blacklisted poet Thomas McGrath, organized a pro bono legal service organization in Ventura County, California, and led 86 missions to Nicaragua in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Harry Duda Harry Alfred Piotr Duda (born in 1944), is a Polish poet and publicist, Master of Polish Philology (graduated from Superior School of Pedagogy in Opole in 1968; subject of his thesis was the science-fiction literature of Stanisław Lem), also finished the College of Nature’s Protection at the Academy of Agriculture in Cracow (1973); retired captain of the Polish Army (infantry’s commander). At first lived in Lower Silesia (in Kudowa Zdrój and in Jelenia Góra) and since 1956 he lives in Opole.
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Alice Muriel Williamson Alice Muriel Williamson, née Livingston (1869 – 24 September 1933) was an American-British novelist, who styled herself Mrs. C. N. Williamson after her marriage.
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Alice Masaryková Alice Masaryková or Alice Garrigue Masaryk (3 May 1879 – 29 November 1966) was a teacher, sociologist and politician. She is a prominent figure within the field of applied sociology and known to many as the daughter of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and the First Lady of Czechoslovakia.
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Eva Hoffman Eva Hoffman (born Ewa Wydra on July 1, 1945) is a Polish American writer and academic.
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Hans Dürer Hans Dürer (born February 21, 1490 in Nuremberg - ca. 1538 in Kraków), was a German Renaissance painter, illustrator, and engraver.
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Grace Manson Grace Eveyln Manson (1893–1967) was an American psychologist known for her work as an occupational psychologist.
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Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould (February 6, 1879 – July 27, 1944) was an American writer and essayist.
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Alice Miller (psychologist) Alice Miller, born as Alicija Englard (12 January 1923 – 14 April 2010), was a Swiss psychologist and psychoanalyst of Polish-Jewish origin, who is noted for her books on parental child abuse, translated into several languages.
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Alice Cunningham Fletcher Alice Cunningham Fletcher (March 15, 1838, HavanaApril 6, 1923, Washington, D.C.) was an American ethnologist, anthropologist, and social scientist who studied and documented American Indian culture.
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Beatrice Roberts Alice Beatrice Roberts (March 7, 1905 – July 24, 1970) was an American film actress.
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Moderato Cantabile Moderato Cantabile is a novel by Marguerite Duras. It was very popular, selling half a million copies, and was the initial source of Duras's fame.
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Marguerite Higgins Marguerite Higgins Hall (September 3, 1920January 3, 1966) was an American reporter and war correspondent. Higgins covered World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, and in the process advanced the cause of equal access for female war correspondents. She had a long career with the New York Herald Tribune (1942-1963), and later, as a syndicated columnist for Newsday (1963-1965). She was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Foreign Correspondence awarded in 1951 for her coverage of the Korean War.
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Alice Tuan Alice Tuan is a U.S. playwright, teacher and performer. Her first works were of an Asian American nature, attempting to make sense of being raised with eastern values while schooled in U.S. thought. The plays following, whether experimental or traditionally non-ethnic, have always attempted to juxtapose and commingle contradiction, and also articulate a female sensibility at the core of the work.
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Alice Davenport Alice Davenport (February 29, 1864 – June 24, 1936) was an American film actress. She appeared in 140 films between 1911 and 1930.