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     • Alice Adams (August 14, 1926 – May 27, 1999) was an American short story writer and novelist. In 1982 she became the third author of only four to receive the O. Henry Special Award for Continuing Achievement for her short stories (others having gone to John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, and Alice Munro).
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   Alice Adams (August 14, 1926 – May 27, 1999) was an American short story writer and novelist. In 1982 she became the third author of only four to receive the O. Henry Special Award for Continuing Achievement for her short stories (others having gone to John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, and Alice Munro).

3. www.nytimes.com › 1999/05/28 › artsAlice Adams, 72, Writer of Deft Novels - The New York Times

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   May 28, 1999 · Alice Adams, widely admired for her deft, elegantly observed novels and short stories, died yesterday at her home in San Francisco. She was 72. She had been treated for heart problems earlier...

4. encyclopediavirginia.org › entries › adams-aliceAlice Adams (1926–1999) - Encyclopedia Virginia

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   Dec 22, 2021 · SUMMARY. Alice Adams was the author of eleven novels and six collections of short stories, and was the recipient of an O. Henry Award for short fiction twenty-three times. She was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and her life and literary career spanned more than a half century of extraordinary changes for women in American society.

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6. www.nytimes.com › 2019/12/10 › booksThe Decorous Surfaces and Fraught Subtexts of Alice Adams’s ...

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   Dec 10, 2019 · Listen here. “Alice Adams,” a new biography by Carol Sklenicka, recounts the career of the elegant novelist and short story writer who specialized in the disappointments of romance.

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   May 27, 1999. Genre. Short Stories, Literature & Fiction. edit data. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information. Alice Adams was an American novelist, short story writer, academic and university professor.

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   • Death Date: May 27, 1999

   • Birth Date: August 14, 1926

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9. www.oxfordbibliographies.com › abstract › documentAlice Adams - American Literature - Oxford Bibliographies

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   Sep 26, 2022 · Carol Sklenicka. LAST MODIFIED: 26 September 2022. DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199827251-0233. Introduction. Alice Boyd Adams (b. 1926–d. 1999) published five collections of short stories, eleven novels, a travel memoir, and many uncollected stories, essays, and reviews during a four-decade career that began slowly when she was in her thirties.

10. uscpress.com › Understanding-Alice-AdamsUnderstanding Alice Adams - University of South Carolina Press

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    Jan 17, 2019 · In Understanding Alice Adams, Bryant Mangum examines the thematic intricacies and astute social commentary of Adams's eleven novels and five short story collections. Throughout her career Adams was known for creating and re-creating the "Alice Adams woman," who is bright, honest, attractive, thoughtful—and sometimes a bit offbeat.