Casual affairs : the life and fiction of Sally Benson /

"Follows the life and career of Sally Benson, acclaimed writer of New Yorker fiction and Hollywood screenplays."--Publishers website.

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主要作者: Keefe, Maryellen
格式: 圖書
語言:English
出版: Albany, New York : Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press, [2014]
叢編:Excelsior editions.
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書本目錄:
  • Introduction
  • The writer's origins: St. Louis, Missouri "the Smith family album" 1909
  • Manhattan daze: 1909-1912
  • Summer of discontent: 1912
  • Houston: 1912-1913
  • Rising spirits: home again: 1913-1915
  • A world at war: arms and the men "prelude to a marriage": 1915-1918
  • Wedding bells: 1919-1922
  • Second honeymoon: 1922
  • Back to reality: 1922-1926
  • A wider world beckons: the first casual affair: 1927
  • Climbing the career ladder: Benson at The New Yorker: 1928-1929
  • Public success and private sorrow: 1930-1931
  • The writer makes strides: 1932-1933
  • Refining her vision: 1933-1934
  • Perfecting her craft: 1934-1935
  • Affairs, financial and other: 1936
  • Taking charge and branching out: 1937
  • Becoming an entrepreneur: 1938
  • A world at war, turmoil at home: 1939-1940
  • Behind the scene: 1940
  • Affairs, family and other: 1941
  • Becoming a celebrity: 1942
  • The war escalates at home and abroad: 1942
  • The world at war, Babe and Ham: 1943
  • Meet me in St. Louis: the fiction, the sources, look back: 1941-1942
  • The making of Meet me in St. Louis: 1943-1944
  • Hollywood, Pinewood, Broadway and beyond: 1947-1957
  • Epilogue.