by Gesa M. Valk (2011)
Eine Annäherung an Georg Kaiser (1878–1945), einen der erfolgreichsten Dramatiker des Expressionismus Georg Kaiser (1878–1945) gehört zu den erfolgreichsten Dramatikern des Expressionismus. In ihrer Biografie unternimmt die Germanistin und langjährige Kaiser-Forscherin Gesa M. Valk den Versuch, dem Dichter anhand von Briefen seiner Geliebten näherzukommen. Sie offenbart dabei neue Züge eines Menschen, der es darauf anlegte, möglichst nicht entdeckt zu werden. (Quelle: Mitteldeutscher Verlag)
James Hardin and Siegfried Mews
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide career biographies of forty-two German writers active between 1841 and 1900; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography. Includes a cumulative index.
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Describes the life and work of the courageous man who changed the way people saw the galaxy, by offering objective evidence that the earth was not the fixed center of the universe.
Susan Swingler
"Susan Swingler is the stepdaughter of one of Australia's most revered writers - Elizabeth Jolley. Abandoned by her father, Leonard, at the age of four, Susan had no contact with the Jolley family until they found and reclaimed her at the age of 21. Why they were kept apart is the subject of this startling new memoir. The House of Fiction tells the story of Swingler's quest to find her father. As she painstakingly traces clues to a better understanding of Leonard, she inadvertently unravels an intricate fiction created by Elizabeth to protect those she loves. A story that sheds a new and surprising light on one of Australia's most important writers, it is also an intimate and deeply moving memoir of a daughter's quest to discover her absent father"--Publisher's description.
Bradley Steffens and Dan Woog
Discusses the life of Jesse Jackson, including his involvement in the civil rights movement, his presidential campaigns, and his role as freelance diplomat and world humanitarian.