Four other majorJewishwriters—Bernard Malamud,Grace Paley,Philip Roth, andIsaac Bashevis Singer—treated the human condition with humour and forgiveness. Malamud’s gift for dark comedy and Hawthornean fable was especially evident in his short-story collectionsThe Magic Barrel(1958) andIdiots First(...
Edward Hopper was an American painter whose realistic depictions of everyday urban scenes shock the viewer into recognition of the strangeness of familiar surroundings. He strongly influenced the Pop art and New Realist painters of the 1960s and 1970s. H
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Ernest Hemingway is one of the most famous American writers of the 20th century. He wrote novels and short stories about outdoorsmen, expatriates, soldiers and other men of action. In ___, he told the story of a young American during the Spanish Civil War. A. The Old Man and the Sea...
Herman Melville (1819–1891) Herman Melville is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet, whose work is often classified as part of the genre of dark romanticism. He is the first writer to have his works collected and published by the Library of America. Moby Dick 1851...
Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that dealt with themes of youth. His first literary work, a detective story, was published in a school newspaper when he was 12. When he was 16, he was forced to leave St. Paul Academy for neglecting his studies. He attended Newman School, a ...
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His unique writing style greatly influenced 20th-century fiction, as did his life of adventure and public image. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Many of his works are classics of American literature. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction ...
根据第二段He took part in some of the most important events of the 20th century:World War I,the Spanish War,the Normandy Landings of 1944 and the War in Europe in the following year.Throughout his adventures(冒险经历),Hemingway met many famous writers and artists,drawing...