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Daniel Ray of North American Congress on Latin America wrote "Her book is likely to become the definitive history of Cuba for this generation." The book has also been reviewed by Felipe Fernández-Armesto of The Wall Street Journal, Jeremy Ray Jewell of The Arts Fuse, Esther Allen of the Los Angeles Review of Books and Carrie Gibson of The ...
Ada Ferrer is a Cuban-American historian. She is Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American Studies at New York University, and will join the faculty at Princeton University as the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History in July of 2024. [1] She was awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in History for her book Cuba: An American History.
813.52. LC Class. PS3515.E37. The Old Man and the Sea is a 1952 novella by the American author Ernest Hemingway. Written between December 1950 and February 1951, it was the last major fictional work Hemingway published during his lifetime. It tells the story of Santiago, an aging fisherman, and his long struggle to catch a giant marlin.
Angela Davis was born on January 26, 1944, [7] in Birmingham, Alabama.She was christened at her father's Episcopal church. [8] Her family lived in the "Dynamite Hill" neighborhood, which was marked in the 1950s by the bombings of houses in an attempt to intimidate and drive out middle-class black people who had moved there.
Patrick. Gloria. Signature. Ernest Miller Hemingway ( / ˈhɛmɪŋweɪ / HEM-ing-way; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt ...
The island of Cuba was inhabited by various [ [Indigenous peoples of the Americas [Native American]] cultures prior to the arrival of the explorer Christopher Columbus in 1492. After his arrival, Spain conquered Cuba and appointed Spanish governors to rule in Havana. The administrators in Cuba were subject to the Viceroy of New Spain and the ...
Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism. He is recognized by modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of his generation.
James A. Michener. James Albert Michener ( / ˈmɪtʃənər / or / ˈmɪtʃnər /; [ 2] February 3, 1907 – October 16, 1997) was an American writer. He wrote more than 40 books, most of which were long, fictional family sagas covering the lives of many generations, set in particular geographic locales and incorporating detailed history.