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Her 1925 novel "The Professor's House" is set largely in New Mexico, not her familiar Nebraska |
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LITERARY PROFESSORS |
2021-12-08 |
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She won a Pulitzer Prize not for "My Antonia" but for another Nebraska novel, "One of Ours" |
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LITERATURE |
2017-04-21 |
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A plaque on 5 Bank Street in New York City notes that she wrote "My Antonia" there |
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A LITERARY TOUR |
2004-12-06 |
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She set her 1931 novel "Shadows on the Rock" in Quebec, not in Nebraska |
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LITERARY HODGEPODGE |
1999-06-04 |
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The Red Cloud, Nebraska home seenherewas the model for Antonia's home in a novel by this author: |
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LITERARY HOUSES |
1998-02-25 |
#3113 |
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She published her first book cf poetry, "April Twilights", in 1903, 10 years before "O Pioneers!" |
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LITERARY HODGEPODGE |
1996-05-07 |
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James Fenimore Cooper wrote "The Pioneers" & she wrote "O Pioneers!" |
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LITERATURE |
1996-01-17 |
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John Bergson is a hardworking but unsuccessful farmer in her "O Pioneers!" |
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JOHNS IN LITERATURE |
1994-04-01 |
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"The Troll Garden" was the first collection of stories by this author of "O Pioneers!" |
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LITERATURE |
1994-02-17 |
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Reader's Ency. says her favorite of her own novels was "The Song of the Lark", not "O Pioneers!" |
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LITERARY POTPOURRI |
1993-12-02 |
#2129 |
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"The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman." she wrote in "O Pioneers!" |
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LITERARY QUOTES |
1990-03-15 |
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Don't wait for the mini-series of “My Antonia”; this author's will forbids screen adaptations |
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LITERARY TRIVIA |
1985-11-20 |
#313 |