Janice Holt Giles (1909–1979)
Auteur de Hannah Fowler
A propos de l'auteur
Author Janice Holt Giles was born in Altus, Arkansas on March 28, 1905. She attended Little Rock Junior College and then the University of Arkansas. She married Otto Moore in 1923; they had one daughter together and divorced in 1939. She worked as a secretary for church congregations and in the afficher plus field of religious education. She met Henry Giles on a bus in 1943 and they began a two-year courtship, mostly by correspondence because he was serving in World War II. They were married in 1945 and moved to Kentucky in 1949. This is where she started her writing career. Between 1950 and 1975, she wrote twenty-four books of fiction, non-fiction, and short stories mostly concerning Appalachian life and culture. While many authors wrote of desperate mountain communities saved by outsiders, she wrote of desperate outsiders who moved into mountain communities to help others, but found that the people there helped them instead. She also co-wrote some novels with her husband such as Harbin's Ridge. Most of her books were bestsellers, reviewed in the New York Times, and were selected for inclusion in book clubs. She died of heart failure on June 1, 1979. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Janice Holt Giles
The Damned Engineers: How One Battalion of Combat Engineers Stalled Hitler's Offensive in the Battle of the Bulge (1970) 40 exemplaires
Best-in-books: the Land Beyond the Mountains / Miss Plum and Miss Penny / Northwest to Fortune / The Professor and I /… (1959) 1 exemplaire
Kasterbeans, The 1 exemplaire
Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Quality Education as a Constitutional Right: Creating a Grassroots Movement to Transform Public Schools (2010) — Contributeur — 20 exemplaires
Best-in-Books: The Believers / Sword and Scalpel / Take My Life / The Innocent Ambassadors / The Living Legend (1957) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Giles, Janice Meredith Holt
- Date de naissance
- 1909-03-28
- Date de décès
- 1979-06-01
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Altus, Arkansas, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Altus, Arkansas, USA
Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA
Kentucky, USA
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Critiques
The Kinta Years par Janice Hollt Giles
In this story, Janice shows us a vanished world, where life was simpler & yet more harsh. There were wolves on the prairie, children sickened & died of diseases that are no longer a threat It seemed a safer world, values were defined, a child knew where she stood & what was right. A glimpse of he resent past.
Miss Willie is not accepted so easily, school in bad shape, people did not listen to ideas about sanitation etc. Some of the episodes of this book is based on the character of her mother but plot is fictional. Story of reconciliation, of coming together of two different ways of life.
Gleaned from his personal journal and letter sent to home, this book documents the campaigns in NW Europe experienced by the 291st Engineer Combat Battalion, specifically A Company.
The 291st was "those damned engineers" that figured heavily in delaying and stopping Joachim Peiper. Giles was actually in a Repple Depple, trying to get back to the unit when Wacht am Rhein erupted, so he missed a good bit of the fighting in December. He spent that part of the book showing the huge inadequacies of the replacement system during the war. He was able to use first hand accounts from his comrades to tell the story of the defense of the Ambleve and other rivers,
Giles was evacuated with a badly infected ear in October and was released to return to his unit a week or two later. It was not until late December that he was able to get back to his unit, and this was only after he was able to locate the 291st and they sent someone to retrieve him.
This was good book, well edited. Worth the read and I wished I had been able to read it prior to visiting the north shoulder of the Bulge in 2014.… (plus d'informations)
The 291st was "those damned engineers" that figured heavily in delaying and stopping Joachim Peiper. Giles was actually in a Repple Depple, trying to get back to the unit when Wacht am Rhein erupted, so he missed a good bit of the fighting in December. He spent that part of the book showing the huge inadequacies of the replacement system during the war. He was able to use first hand accounts from his comrades to tell the story of the defense of the Ambleve and other rivers,
Giles was evacuated with a badly infected ear in October and was released to return to his unit a week or two later. It was not until late December that he was able to get back to his unit, and this was only after he was able to locate the 291st and they sent someone to retrieve him.
This was good book, well edited. Worth the read and I wished I had been able to read it prior to visiting the north shoulder of the Bulge in 2014.… (plus d'informations)
In 1823, Judith and Johnny Fowler led a wagon train from Arkansas territory to Santa Fe. Johnny also known as Johnny Osage because of his close relationship to that tribe of Indigenous people, guides the mule train on an unmarked trail through dangerous and often unforgiving country. The party faces impossible river crossings, water shortage, Indian attacks and treachery from within. Some of the descriptions of injuries whether from man or animal were extremely graphic.
Giles was a prolific author who wrote books in series that followed families making their way on the early American frontier.… (plus d'informations)
Giles was a prolific author who wrote books in series that followed families making their way on the early American frontier.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 29
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 1,250
- Popularité
- #20,521
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 17
- ISBN
- 122
- Favoris
- 4