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Giuseppe Antonio Borgese was born in Polizzi Generosa, Palermo, on November 12, 1882 and died on December 4, 1952. He was initially drawn to the school of philosophical idealism headed by Benedetto Croce. After receiving a master’s degree, in 1903, and the publication of his thesis, he was the first Italian professor to earn a […]
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As an actor, director, political activist, and writer, Judith Malina exemplified the creative dynamism of the New School. Born on June 4, 1926 in Kiel, Germany, Malina spent only the first three years of her life in Europe before her family emigrated to New York City in an attempt to escape rising anti-semitism. The daughter […]
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Warren Adler took at creative writing class at the New School in 1949, and it changed his life. Story here.
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Robert Frost (1874-1963) was a well known poet and literature professor, teaching at Amherst College (1917), the University of Michigan (1922), the University of Vermont (1923), Yale University (1923), Middlebury College (1924), and Bowdoin College (1926). He received his first Pulitzer Prize in 1924 for New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes; he […]
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Octavio Paz was born into a family of writers on March 31, 1914, in Mexico City. In 1933, he published his first collection of poems, Luna silvestre. Several years later, he founded and edited a literary magazine called Taller. Over his lifetime, he produced more than 20 books and poetry collections and received the Nobel […]
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Italian-American writer Mario Puzo, who is most famously known for writing The Godfather (1969), was born in the Hell’s Kitchen area of New York City in 1920. During his childhood, he often dreamed of becoming a writer. However, in order to provide for his family due to the abandonment of his father, those dreams were […]
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Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) was an author, journalist, and urban theorist who transformed the way that urban developments were constructed in American cities. In 1935, she moved from her hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, to Brooklyn, NY. During her early years in New York City, she acquired a taste for Greenwich Village’s culture and moved there. After […]
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" I didn’t know all the rules I was breaking and inventing as love, turning into a river "
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" A week after the death of Athena’s violent, vengeful ex-husband, Boz Skannet. Cross De Lena received a dinner invitation to Athena Aquitane’s house in Malibu through his sister Claudia. "