... campus magazines. At Syracuse she met Hyman, whom she married in 1940; together they founded one of the campus magazines, The Spectre. After graduation and marriage, Jackson moved to New York City. Her first national publication came in 1941 when The New Republic printed "My Life with R. H. Macy", a short story based on her experiences working at Macy's Department Store. She ... continued to publish short stories regularly over the next few years and also gave birth to a son, Laurence, and a daughter, Joanne. In 1945 Jackson and her family left New York City for Bennington, Vermont, whe...

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... painted the faces of his family into what was once a holy and respected depiction of Christ. The painting, now displayed at the New York museum, symbolizes Asher's unorthodox approach to the religion that frowns upon the distortion of the sacred. Alternatively, in the film The War, one ... St. Paul represents freedom, relaxation and peace to Asher Lev, but is soon replaced by the dark, wet and cold characteristics of Brooklyn, New York. In his early years, the Chassidic community rejected Asher for his vocation as an unconventional artist. He moved to Paris, determined to raise his ... ...

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... . Her books received many rewards and honors. That Was Then, This Is Now was chosen as a notable book by the American Library Association. The Outsiders was chosen by the New York Herald Tribune as one of the best teen-age books for 1967, and received the Media & Methods Maxi Award in 1975. Both books were selected as Honor Books in the ... familiar to her contemporaries. Ms Hinton's The Outsiders was loosely based on a gang-oriented life- style of her fellow high school classmates. In reviewing the book, a critic for the New York Times commented: "Can sincerity overcome cliches? In this...

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"Rip Van Winkle- Washington Irving (1783-1859) was the youngest of eleven children born in New York City to an English mother and a Scottish father. The first native American to succeed as a professional writer, he remains important as a pioneer in American humor and the development of the short ... Columbia College. In 1806, he passed his bar examination, but his heart was with literature. He published History of New York, a comic in which the narrator was his fictional character named "Diedrich Knickerbocker."" Irving's writing was so successful that the New York "Knicks- named their baske...

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... students and asks himself why he does not at least live in the Bronx (the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City. This borough received many Irish, German, Jewish and Italian immigrants). Sometime after they both are in New York again, a girl named Sheila gives a reunion party in her parents' apartment. At this party, the boy sees Rebecca talking to a couple ... ...

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