Fannie: The Talent for Success of Writer Fannie Hurst
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Fannie: The Talent for Success of Writer Fannie Hurst
EN USISBN: 0812924975 bzw. 9780812924978, in Englisch, Crown, gebraucht.
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20th century,arts and literature,authors,biographies,history,literature and fiction,modern (16th-21st centuries),politics and social sciences,specific groups,women, In this worthy successor to her 1994 book on journalist Nellie Bly, Brooke Kroeger offers another vivid biography of an important yet neglected female figure in American cultural history. This time, the subject of Kroeger's brisk narrative is Fannie Hurst (1885-1968), the bestselling author of such novels as Back Street and Imitation of Life, not to mention dozens of short stories that brought the lives of immigrants and working-class women into the literary mainstream. Out of fashion today, Hurst's work was praised in its time as a model of the storyteller's art and served as the basis for many popular films. She was also a staunch liberal, feminist, and forceful advocate of civil rights. Kroeger traces in lucid prose the action-packed trajectory of Hurst's busy life, from a middle-class childhood in St. Louis as the daughter of assimilated German Jews to her later years spent residing in a lavish New York City triplex apartment. Plentiful quotes from Hurst's letters and other writings give an attractive impression of her personality: strong, smart, frank, generous, and friendly, though tending to hold her innermost self aloof. Kroeger's portrait is a little short on psychological insights, but that would probably suit Hurst, who does not seem to have been inclined toward introspection. --Wendy Smith.
20th century,arts and literature,authors,biographies,history,literature and fiction,modern (16th-21st centuries),politics and social sciences,specific groups,women, In this worthy successor to her 1994 book on journalist Nellie Bly, Brooke Kroeger offers another vivid biography of an important yet neglected female figure in American cultural history. This time, the subject of Kroeger's brisk narrative is Fannie Hurst (1885-1968), the bestselling author of such novels as Back Street and Imitation of Life, not to mention dozens of short stories that brought the lives of immigrants and working-class women into the literary mainstream. Out of fashion today, Hurst's work was praised in its time as a model of the storyteller's art and served as the basis for many popular films. She was also a staunch liberal, feminist, and forceful advocate of civil rights. Kroeger traces in lucid prose the action-packed trajectory of Hurst's busy life, from a middle-class childhood in St. Louis as the daughter of assimilated German Jews to her later years spent residing in a lavish New York City triplex apartment. Plentiful quotes from Hurst's letters and other writings give an attractive impression of her personality: strong, smart, frank, generous, and friendly, though tending to hold her innermost self aloof. Kroeger's portrait is a little short on psychological insights, but that would probably suit Hurst, who does not seem to have been inclined toward introspection. --Wendy Smith.
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Fannie~~Brooke-Kroeger, Fannie: The Talent for Success of Writer Fannie Hurst, Hardcover.
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