Louis D. Rubin, Jr. (1923–2013)
Auteur de A Writer's Companion
A propos de l'auteur
Louis Decimus Rubin, Jr. was born in Charleston, South Carolina on November 19, 1923. After serving in the Army during World War II, he received a history degree the University of Richmond. He worked for The Associated Press and several newspapers including the Richmond News-Leader before receiving afficher plus master's and doctoral degrees from Johns Hopkins University. In 1953, while still at Johns Hopkins University, he co-edited his first book, Southern Renascence: The Literature of the Modern South. He taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Hollins College, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was a co-founder of Algonquin Books and founder of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. In 1989, he retired from the UNC faculty after 22 years to focus on Algonquin Books. He was a prolific author who wrote novels, critical studies, histories, memoirs and a guide for predicting the weather. His books include Small Craft Advisory, Babe Ruth's Ghost, A Memory of Trains, An Honorable Estate, and My Father's People. He died from kidney disease on November 16, 2013 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
Southern Writers: A Biographical Dictionary (Southern Literary Studies) (1979) — Directeur de publication — 13 exemplaires
Southern renascence: the literature of the modern South (1966) — Directeur de publication — 12 exemplaires
South: Modern Southern Literature in Its Cultural Setting (1961) — Directeur de publication — 12 exemplaires
The Baseball Fanatic: The Best Things Ever Said about the Greatest Game Ever Invented (2006) — Directeur de publication — 9 exemplaires
An Apple for My Teacher: Twelve Writers Tell About Teachers Who Made All the Difference (1987) — Directeur de publication — 8 exemplaires
The Even-Tempered Angler: Being a Treatise in Praise of the Fine Art of Bottom Fishing (1983) — Auteur — 7 exemplaires
Teach the Freeman: The Correspondence of Rutherford B. Hayes and the Slater Fund for Negro Education, Volume I:… (1957) 3 exemplaires
The Experience of America a Book of Readings — Directeur de publication — 2 exemplaires
The writer in the South;: Studies in literary community (Mercer University. Lamar memorial lectures, no. 15) (1972) 1 exemplaire
Virginia a History 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition (Library of Southern Civilization) (1930) — Introduction — 323 exemplaires
Secret and Sacred: The Diaries of James Henry Hammond, a Southern Slaveholder (1988) — Introduction — 87 exemplaires
Teach the freeman; the correspondence of Rutherford B. Hayes and the Slater Fund for Negro Education, 1881-1887 — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 3 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Rubin, Louis Decimus, Jr.
- Date de naissance
- 1923-11-19
- Date de décès
- 2013-11-16
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Charleston, South Carolina, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Pittsboro, North Carolina, USA
- Études
- Johns Hopkins University (PhD|1954)
Johns Hopkins University (MA|1949)
University of Richmond (BA|1946)
Yale University (1943-44)
College of Charleston (1940-42) - Professions
- editor
literary critic
publisher
professor
historian
novelist (tout afficher 8)
journalist
essayist - Relations
- Barth, John (student)
Dillard, Annie (student)
Smith, Lee (student)
Gibbons, Kaye (student)
McCorkle, Jill (student)
Ravenel, Shannon (student) (tout afficher 7)
Woodward, C. Vann (teacher) - Organisations
- Fellowship of Southern Writers (charter member)
The Hopkins Review (editor)
American Studies Association (executive secretary)
Hollins University (professor)
Hollins Critic (founder and editor)
Southern Literary Journal (co-founder) (tout afficher 13)
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (founder, president, and editorial director)
Johns Hopkins University (instructor)
University of North Carolina (professor)
Louisiana State University Press (editor)
University of North Carolina Press (advisory editor)
Mississippi Quarterly (editorial board)
U.S. Information Agency Forums (co-ordinator) - Prix et distinctions
- Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement (1997)
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, National Book Critics Circle
North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame (1997)
Sewanee Review fellowship (1953)
Guggenheim fellowship (1956)
American Council of Learned Societies fellowship (1964) (tout afficher 18)
Distinguished Virginian Award (1972)
Litt.D., University of Richmond (1974)
Mayflower Society award (1978)
Jules F. Landry Award, Louisiana State University Press (1978)
D.Litt., Clemson University (1986)
D.Litt., University of the South (1992)
D.Litt., College of Charleston (1989)
D.Litt., University of North Carolina at Asheville (1993)
R. Hunt Parker Memorial Award for lifetime contributions to the literary heritage of North Carolina
South Carolina Academy of Authors (1987)
North Carolina Award (1992)
O. Max Gardner Medal (1989)
Membres
Critiques
The Idea of an American Novel par Louis Decimus Rubin
4/17/22
Reread in light of so much that has been written and portrayed about the press, especially since the Trump era began. I treated it as a rest stop from more serious and denser reading; what I came away with, however, was some personal thoughts about my first job, then others’ first jobs and reminiscences … such as Twain in “Old Times on the Mississippi.”
The most commendable facet of this collection is its diversity of perspective. There are analytical essays by scholars, tender meditations by fiction writers, and more formal critiques by literary critics. The result is a rather fair and balanced portrait of Wolfe's work.
A rather loosely connected group of essays, mostly originating as reviews of books about World War I, but opening with "A Certain Day in 1939" which described growing up as a Reformed Jewish boy in Charleston, SC between the two world wars, automatically accepting the southern military tradition even though his own ancestry had nothing to do w8th the Civil War. It is one of the best descriptions of how being "southern" and accepting the sentimental Confederate historical tradition could be something quite different from the racism with which it is usually identified. The other essays tend to express the view that World War I Germans were just "Nazis with better manners" and that World War I battles were all mindless slaughters, both of which I find a bit simplistic but probably natural for someone who grew up in his conditions as an American Jew who served (however ineptly, by his frank account) in World War 2. He does come across as a profoundly humane civilized human being.… (plus d'informations)
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- 16
- Membres
- 693
- Popularité
- #36,521
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 7
- ISBN
- 71
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