Mary Miller
Biloxi, Always Happy Hour, The Last Days of California, Big World
Stories in Paris Review, McSweeney's Quarterly, American Short Fiction, New Stories from the South, Oxford American, Mid-American Review, Ninth Letter, Indiana Review, and Mississippi Review.
Nonfiction in the NYTBR, American Book Review, The Rumpus, and The Writer.
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He has contributed over two million words to the roleplaying game industry, and was the developer of the popular Hunter: The Vigil game line (White Wolf Game Studios / CCP).
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Eve Babitz
Babitz was born in Hollywood, California, the daughter of Mae, an artist, and Sol, a classical violinist on contract with 20th Century Fox.Her father was of Russian Jewish descent and her mother had Cajun (French) ancestry.Babitz's parents were friends with the composer Igor Stravinsky, who was her godfather.
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In 1963, her first brush with notoriety came through Julian Wasser's iconic photograph of a nude, twenty-year-old Babitz playing chess with the artist Marcel Duchamp, on the occasion of his landmark retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum. The show was curated by Walter Hopps, with whom Babitz was having an affair at the time. The photograph is described by the Smithsonian Archives of American Art as being “among the key documentary im -
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His 1941 novel Storm , featuring as its protagonist a Pacific storm called Maria, prompted the National Weather Service to use personal names to designate storms and inspired Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe to write the song "They Call the Wind Maria" for their 1951 musical "Paint Your Wagon." Storm was dramatized as "A Storm Called Maria" on a 1959 episode of ABC's D -
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In Paris schrieb sie auch ihre ersten drei Romane, die allerdings nie veröffentlicht wurden. Sechs Jahre lang sammelte sie Absgen von Verlegern. Ihr erstes Buch, “Gebrochene Herzen”, erschien 1990 im Krösus Verlag, den ihre Freunde eigens gegründet hatten. Seither lebt sie vom Schreiben. Sie hat sechzehn Bücher sowie zahlreiche Essays, Artikel, Hörspiele -
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Volker Klüpfel wuchs in Altusried im Allgäu auf. Er studierte Politikwissenschaft, Geschichte, Kommunikationswissenschaft und Journalistik. Nach dem Studium arbeitete er als Journalist bei einer amerikanischen Zeitung und beim Bayerischen Rundfunk, bevor er ein Zeitungsvolontariat begann. Klüpfel war bis August 2008 Kulturredakteur der Memminger Zeitung, im September 2008 wechselte er zur überregionalen Kulturredaktion der Augsburger Allgemeinen und wohnt seitdem in Augsburg. Seit 2012 ist er hauptberuflich Autor. -
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