George Howe Colt is an American journalist and author. [1]
He is the author of November of the Soul: The Enigma of Suicide (1991), The Big House (2003), [2] Brothers (2012), [3] and The Game (2018). [4] He is married to author Anne Fadiman.
Colt was a staff writer for Life . His 2003 book about his last summer with his family at their summer house on Cape Cod, The Big House, was a finalist for the National Book Award. [5]
He graduated from Harvard University. [6] His uncle was the lawyer and politician James Colt. The Colts are related to the prominent Forbes family, through which a distant cousin is politician and diplomat John Kerry. [7]
George Ames Plimpton was an American writer. He is known for his sports writing and for helping to found The Paris Review, as well as his patrician demeanor and accent. He was known for "participatory journalism," including accounts of his active involvement in professional sporting events, acting in a Western, performing a comedy act at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, and playing with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and then recording the experience from the point of view of an amateur.
Louis Stanton Auchincloss was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. He is best known as a novelist who parlayed his experiences into books exploring the experiences and psychology of American polite society and old money. His dry, ironic works of fiction continue the tradition of Henry James and Edith Wharton. He wrote his novels initially under the name Andrew Lee, the name of an ancestor who cursed any descendant who drank or smoked.
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This Theodore Roosevelt bibliography lists the works written by Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt was a diligent and skilled writer. When he lost his fortune in the Dakota Territory in 1886 and needed to make a living to support his family, he did so for the rest of his life by writing. Roosevelt wrote on a wide range of topics and genres, including history, autobiography, biography, commentary and editorials, memoirs, nature, and guide books. In addition, by one estimate Roosevelt wrote more than 150,000 letters. In his style, Roosevelt could be strong, introspective, exuberant, or angry—the subject dictated the style.
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