Theodur benfey biography of michael jackson

American Literary Biography
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Carl Rollyson
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  • DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199827251-0068

  • Bradford, Richard, ed. A Companion to Literary Biography. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018.

    Chapters on biographies of T. S. Eliot and Amy Lowell.

  • Casper, Scott E. Constructing American Lives: Biography and Culture in Nineteenth-Century America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

    See especially chapter 5 on the “American Men of Letters Series.”

  • Donaldson, Scott. The Impossible Craft: Literary Biography. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015.

    DOI: 10.5325/j.ctv14gp3f1

    Valuable as the account of a working biographer of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever, and others.

  • O’Neill, Edward H. A History of American Biography, 1800–1935. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1935.

    A survey that includes a discussion of Alfred Bigelow Paine, the biographer of Mark Twain.

  • Petrie, Dennis W. Ultimately Fiction: Design in Modern American Literary Biography. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1981.

    Chapters on biographies of William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Theodore Dreiser, and Henry James.

  • Rollyson, Carl. Confessions of a Serial Biographer. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2016.

    Chapters on the process of proposing, researching and writing biographies of several American literary figures, including Lillian Hellman, Martha Gellhorn, Norman Mailer, Susan Sontag, Amy Lowell, and Sylvia Plath.

  • Serafin, Steven, ed. American Literary Biographers, First Series. Detroit: Gale Research, 1991a.

    Essays on Gay Wilson Allen, Newton Arvin, Carlos Baker, Walter Jackson Bate, Van Wyck Brooks, Matthew J. Broccoli, Edwin H. Cady, Marchette Chute, James L. Clifford, Leon Edel, Richard Ellmann, Arthur Gelb and Barbara Gelb, Gordon S. Height, Archibald Henderson, Emory Holloway, Edgar

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      Research Interview with Charles Cooney

      …although I started shortly thereafter. But I was doing work on enzyme catalysis. I was—fermentation for single-cell protein, fermentation for antibiotics…

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      Oral history interview with Philip E. Eaton

      …reactions in organic synthesis are now carried out with Lewis acid catalysis. Even enantio-specific syntheses can be done by replacing the non-chiral…

      • IntervieweeEaton, Philip E., 1936-
      • InterviewerTraynham, James G.
      • SponsorRollin M. Gerstacker Foundation
      • SubjectEaton, Philip E., 1936, University of California, Berkeley, University of Chicago, Eaton Associates, Chemists, Chlordecone, Organic compounds--Synthesis

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      Oral history interview with O. Theodor Benfey

      …Chemists Club meetings regularly. I understand there was also an active Catalysis Club. BOHNING: When did that group start? BENFEY: I have no idea …College, 76 Cassirer, Ernst, 46, 50, 73, 75 Castle McCulloch, 87 Catalysis Club, 43 Catoe, J. Randall, 87 Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 78,…

      • IntervieweeBenfey, O. Theodor (Otto Theodor), 1925-
      • InterviewerBohning, James J.
      • SubjectBenfey, O. Theodor (Otto Theodor), 1925-, Chemists, World War (1939-1945), Chemistry, Physical organic chemistry, Chemists--Biography

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      Oral history interview with David M. Hercules

      … was that I wanted to do catalysis work. I had gone to an International Catalysis Society meeting down …more students who were interested in the mass spec stuff than in the catalysis. The program began changing slowly from a major emphasis on catalysis …catalysis. At that point, the group made a total transition. Now, we basically…

      • IntervieweeHercules, David M.
      • InterviewerDaemmrich, Arthur, Brock, David C.
      • SubjectHercules, David M., Lehigh University, Massachusetts Institute of T

    John Brown (abolitionist)

    American abolitionist (1800–1859)

    John Brown

    Brown in a photograph by Augustus Washington, c. 1846–1847

    Born(1800-05-09)May 9, 1800

    Torrington, Connecticut, U.S.

    DiedDecember 2, 1859(1859-12-02) (aged 59)

    Charles Town, Virginia (now West Virginia), U.S.

    Cause of deathExecution by hanging
    Resting placeNorth Elba, New York, U.S.
    44°15′08″N73°58′18″W / 44.252240°N 73.971799°W / 44.252240; -73.971799
    Monuments

    Various:

    • Statues in Kansas City, Kansas, and North Elba, New York; Tragic Prelude, mural in the Kansas State Capitol; John Brown Farm State Historic Site, North Elba, New York; John Brown Museum and John Brown Historic Park, Osawatomie, Kansas; Museum and Statue, Akron, Ohio; John Brown Tannery Site, Guys Mills, Pennsylvania
    Known forInvolvement in Bleeding Kansas; Raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
    MovementAbolitionism
    Criminal charge(s)Treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia; murder; incitingslave insurrection
    Spouses

    Dianthe Lusk

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    (m. 1820; died 1832)​
    Children20, including John Jr., Owen, and Watson
    ParentOwen Brown (father)

    John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist in the decades preceding the Civil War. First reaching national prominence in the 1850s for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, Brown was captured, tried, and executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia for a raid and incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859.

    An evangelical Christian of strong religious convictions, Brown was profoundly influenced by the Puritan faith of his upbringing. He believed that he was "an instrument of God," raised to strike the "death blow" to slavery in the United States, a "sacred obligation." Brown was the leading exponent of violence in the Am

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