Anna Monardo

Last updated
Anna Monardo
BornAnna Mondardo
1956 (age 6768)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation Novelist, professor
Language English
Education Saint Mary's College (BA)
Columbia University (MFA)
Period20th century, 21st century
Genre Fiction, Poetry
SubjectItalian-American culture
Years active1993–present
Notable worksFalling In Love with Natassia, The Courtyard of Dreams
Notable awards
  • Clare Woolrich Fellowship
  • 2004 and 2012 Nebraska Arts Council Fellowships for Creative Non-Fiction in Literature
  • Residency Fellowships from the Djerassi Foundation, the Corporation of Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
  • 2013 Award for Distinguished Research and Creative Activity
  • 2013 Alumni Teaching Award
ChildrenLeo
Website
annamonardo.com

Anna Monardo (born 1956) is an American novelist of the Italian-American experience. Originally from Pittsburgh, [1] she graduated from Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana and received her M.F.A. from Columbia University in 1983. She is a professor of the Writer's Workshop at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Contents

Books

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Erma Bombeck</span> American humorist and writer

Erma Louise Bombeck was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for her newspaper humor column describing suburban home life, syndicated from 1965 to 1996. She published fifteen books, most of which became bestsellers.

Jane Srygley Mouton was an American management theorist, remembered in particular for developing the Managerial grid model with Robert R. Blake.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">The Chipettes</span> Fictional girl group from Alvin and the Chipmunks

Brittany and the Chipettes are a fictional girl group from the Alvin and the Chipmunks franchise consisting of three female anthropomorphic chipmunk singers: Brittany, Jeanette, and Eleanor, alongside their adoptive human mother, Beatrice Miller. They first appeared in the animated television series Alvin and the Chipmunks in 1983. In this and related materials, Brittany and the Chipettes served as female featured characters in their own right, starring in numerous episodes. The title of the show was changed from Alvin and the Chipmunks to simply The Chipmunks in 1988 to reflect this. In the animated television series and the 1987 animated film The Chipmunk Adventure, all of the Chipettes were voiced by their creator, Janice Karman, the wife of Ross Bagdasarian Jr.. Karman also wrote and voiced the Chipettes' dialogue on their studio albums, while studio singers Susan Boyd, Shelby Daniel and Katherine Coon provided their singing voices. In the animated television series Alvinnn!!! and the Chipmunks, Eleanor is voiced by Vanessa Bagdasarian, the daughter of Ross Bagdasarian Jr. and Janice Karman.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anna Vyrubova</span> Russian Empire lady-in-waiting

Anna Alexandrovna Vyrubova ; 16 July 1884 – 20 July 1964) was a lady-in-waiting in the late Russian Empire, the best friend and confidante of Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anna Botsford Comstock</span> American artist, educator, conservationist

Anna Botsford Comstock was an acclaimed author, illustrator, and educator of natural studies. The first female professor at Cornell University, her over 900-page work, The Handbook of Nature Study (1911), is now in its 24th edition. Comstock was an American artist and wood engraver known for illustrating entomological text books with her husband, John Henry Comstock including their first joint effort, The Manual for the Study of Insects (1885). Comstock worked with Liberty Hyde Bailey, John Walton Spencer, Alice McCloskey, Julia Rogers, and Ada Georgia as part of the department of Nature Study at Cornell University. Together they wrote nature study curricula to develop a curiosity for, and education about, the surrounding natural world. Comstock also was a proponent for conservationism by instilling a love and appreciation of the natural world around us.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sadie Plant</span> British cultural theorist (born 1964)

Sadie Plant is a British philosopher, cultural theorist, and author.

Anne Szumigalski, SOM was a Canadian poet.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">I'm Coming Out</span> 1980 Diana Ross song

"I'm Coming Out" is a song recorded by American singer Diana Ross. It was written and produced by Chic members Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers, and released on August 22, 1980, as the second single from Diana’s self-titled eleventh album, Diana (1980).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anita Stewart</span> American silent film actress and producer (1895–1961)

Anita Stewart was an American actress and film producer of the early silent film era.

Anna Maria Porter is a Canadian publisher and novelist.

The Adventures of Dr. McNinja is a webcomic written and drawn by Christopher Hastings, and inked formerly by Kent Archer and after 2010 by Hastings himself. Published three times a week on its own website, it features the fictional adventures of a character named Dr. McNinja, a thirty-five-year-old doctor who is also a ninja. Dr. McNinja is highly story-driven, with twenty- to ninety-page issues. The first story was published in the summer of 2004 as a one-off, and the comic was published regularly from 2005 to 2017.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">William English Walling</span> American labor leader (1877–1936)

William English Walling was an American labor reformer and Socialist Republican born into a wealthy family in Louisville, Kentucky. He founded the National Women's Trade Union League in 1903. Moved by his investigation of the Springfield Race Riot of 1908 in the state capital of Illinois, he was among the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carolyn Kizer</span> American writer (1925-2014)

Carolyn Ashley Kizer was an American poet of the Pacific Northwest whose works reflect her feminism. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.

American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS) is an American professional association that networks professionals in the area of family and consumer science. It was founded in 1908 as the American Home Economics Association by Ellen H. Richards. In 1994 it changed its name to the current one.

Jeu de cartes is a ballet in "three deals" by Igor Stravinsky based on a libretto he co-wrote with Nikita Malayev, a friend of his eldest son Théodore. It was commissioned in November 1935, written late the next year, and premiered by the American Ballet at the old Metropolitan Opera House in New York on 27 April 1937 with the composer conducting. Its European premiere followed on 13 October at the Semperoper in Dresden, where Karl Böhm conducted the Staatskapelle Dresden.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anna Novakov</span> Serbian-American art historian

Anna Novakov is a Serbian-American art historian, critic, educator, and curator based at Saint Mary's College of California. A prolific writer, Novakov has received numerous awards and grants for her research and art criticism. In addition to her published essays, collaborations with artists, museum catalogues and exhibition reviews, she is the primary contributor and editor of more than ten books.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anitha Pauldurai</span> Indian basketball player

Anitha Pauldurai is an Indian basketball player who has been the captain of the India women's national basketball team. She has been conferred with National Civilian Award Padma Shri in 2021. She has been also conferred with Chief Minister State award in the field of sports by Government of Tamilnadu in 2013.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anna H. Jones</span> Canadian-born American suffragist (1855–1932)

Anna H. Jones was a Canadian-born American clubwoman, suffragist, and educator based in later life in Kansas City, Missouri.

Anna Jackson is a New Zealand poet, fiction and non-fiction writer and an academic.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Doni Monardo</span> Indonesian Army lieutenant general (1963–2023)

Doni Monardo was an Indonesian Army lieutenant general who had previously served as the Head of Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management (BNPB). He also served as Chief of the Coronavirus Disease Response Acceleration Task Force during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia. Monardo supported the government's decision to refrain from a country-wide lockdown, arguing doing so would overwhelm the government.

References

  1. "Anna Monardo". pif Magazine. Retrieved 31 March 2015.