Clare Boothe Luce (1903–1987)
Auteur de The Women
A propos de l'auteur
Clare Boothe Luce was born on March 10, 1903, in New York City. She was the wife of Henry Luce, publisher of Time, Life, and Fortune. She was twice elected to the House of Representatives from 1943 to 1947 and served as an ambassador to Italy from 1953 to 1956. President Reagan awarded her the afficher plus Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1983. She was the first female member of Congress to receive this award. Luce began her career in writing with Vogue magazine and later worked her way up to managing editor of Vanity Fair. Luce's 1936 play, The Women, was an instant smash on Broadway. She also authored Europe in the Spring, a non-fiction book. Clare Boothe Luce died of brain cancer on October 9, 1987, at age 84, at her Watergate apartment in Washington, D.C. She is buried at Mepkin Abbey, South Carolina, a plantation that she and Henry Luce had once owned and given to a community of Trappist monks. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: Photo by Carl Van Vechten: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten photograph collection
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Œuvres de Clare Boothe Luce
Margin for Error 2 exemplaires
THE WOMAN 1 exemplaire
The Women (dvd) 1 exemplaire
All for the Love of a Lady- Part 1 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps (1984) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 184 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Boothe, Ann Clare (born)
Luce, Ann Clare Boothe (married) - Date de naissance
- 1903-03-10
- Date de décès
- 1987-10-09
- Lieu de sépulture
- Mepkin Abbey, South Carolina, USA
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Washington, DC, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
Washington, D.C., USA
Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Union City, New Jersey, USA - Professions
- playwright
politician
ambassador
Representative - Relations
- Luce, Henry R. (husband)
- Prix et distinctions
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (1983)
Laetare Medal (1957)
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 15
- Aussi par
- 5
- Membres
- 380
- Popularité
- #63,551
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 6
- ISBN
- 14