Karen Blixen, Baroness von Blixen-Finecke (1885-1962)
Author, under the pen name Isak Dinesen:
Seven Gothic Tales (1934)
Out of Africa (1937)
Winter's Tales (1942)*
The Angelic Avengers (1946)
Last Tales (1957)
Anecdotes of Destiny (1958)
Shadows on the Grass (1961)
Ehrengard (1963)
*Henry Bemis is pleased to offer Winter’s Tales (Random House, “Wartime Book”, 1942). Hardcover, no dust jacket. Collection of stories by the author of Out of Africa. Very good condition. $35.
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Paris Review, The Art of Fiction interview, No. 14, 1956
Constantine Petrou Photiades Cavafy (1863-1933)
Journalist, Poet, Civil Servant
Temporary Clerk (one-year appointment), Third Circle of Irrigation, Ministry of Public Works, Cairo, 1892-1922
Published only in private editions for friends during his life, Cavafy is now renowned as the greatest poet of the 20th century in the Greek language. He died on his 70th birthday, after a brief illness.
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Thornton Wilder (1897-1975)
Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter, Educator
Winner, The Pulitzer Prize (Fiction 1928; Drama, 1938, 1942)
Lt. Colonel, Intelligence, U.S. Army Air Force, 1941-45
Charles Eliot Norton Professor, Harvard
Recipient, Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1963
Winner, National Book Award, 1968
Libretto, The Long Christmas Dinner, music by Paul Hindemith, 1963
Screenplay, Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of A Doubt, 1943
Author, Our Town; The Skin of Our Teeth; The Matchmaker*
Author, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Theophilus North, The Eighth Day
*first performed as The Merchant of Yonkers, 1938; revised and presented as The Matchmaker, 1955; revised as a musical and presented as Hello, Dolly!, 1964
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