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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Séries
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) 39 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
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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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- 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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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 29
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 1,240
- Popularité
- #20,704
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 16
- ISBN
- 122
- Favoris
- 4