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Walker met Martin Luther King Jr. when she was a student at Spelman College in the early 1960s. She credits King for her decision to return to the American South as an activist in the Civil Rights Movement. She took part in the 1963 March on Washington with hundreds of thousands of people.
- Melvyn R. Leventhal
Melvyn Rosenman Leventhal (born March 18, 1943) [1] is an...
- Rebecca Walker
Born Rebecca Leventhal in 1969 in Jackson, Mississippi, she...
- David Icke
The middle son of three boys, Icke was born in Leicester...
- Melvyn R. Leventhal
Sep 14, 2023 · Alice Carrière's memoir tackles the dissonance between memory and mental health. September 14, 20236:13 AM ET. 8-Minute Listen. Playlist. Enlarge this image. Spiegel & Grau. Alice Carrière...
Alice Carrière is the author of Everything/Nothing/Someone (4.02 avg rating, 4078 ratings, 547 reviews, published 2023)
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford. It details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures.
- Lewis Carroll
- 1865
- The Man vs The Myth
- A Life Between Celebrity and Purpose
- A Life Dedicated to Learning and Teaching
- Life and Afterlife
The books were best sellers, and the beginning of what we would now call a franchise. The sequel was followed by more and different versions of the tale: a 'People’s Edition'; an edition for younger children (The Nursery ‘Alice’); the reproduced manuscript; tea tins and stamp cases. It became a popular culture phenomenon that soon blurred the lines...
Although Carroll’s literary success was unexpected, he knew how to use his celebrity as author of Alice, but in much more complex ways than remembered today. He frequently intervened in Victorian public discussions, for instance, speaking up for animal rights and against vivisection, using the platform his famous name afforded him. And knowing full...
The one theme that runs throughout Carroll's life, and links the Alice books to his mathematical works, is a dedication to learning and teaching. That the Alicebooks poke fun of unpopular teaching methods, such as rote-learning, is no coincidence. Carroll was a man of science and amassed an enormous library covering any science and philosophy of hi...
Carroll unexpectedly passed away in 1898 at the age of 65, after a short but severe bout of pneumonia. He died at his sisters’ house in Guildford, and was buried in the same town, leaving behind many unfinished projects. While many of Carroll’s later works may not be as famed as Alice, they were loved by contemporary audiences, and others such as T...
- Lauren Good
Oct 2, 1995 · He published the first “Alice” book—“Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” an elaborated version of his love offering—in 1865, when the real Alice was a teen-ager.
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The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. [1][a]
