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Cortázar, Julio

(Encyclopedia) Cortázar, JulioCortázar, Julioh&oomacr;ˈlyō kōrtäˈzär [key], 1914–84, Argentine novelist, poet, essayist, and short-story writer, b. Brussels. Moving permanently to France in 1951…

magic realism

(Encyclopedia) magic realism, primarily Latin American literary movement that arose in the 1960s. The term has been attributed to the Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier, who first applied it to Latin-…

short story

(Encyclopedia) short story, brief prose fiction. The term covers a wide variety of narratives—from stories in which the main focus is on the course of events to studies of character, from the “short…

Julio Palmaz

Julio Palmaz Born: 1945 Birthplace: Argentina, Palmaz Intravascular Stent—The Palmaz® Stent was the first…

Lardner, Ring

(Encyclopedia) Lardner, Ring (Ringgold Wilmer Lardner), 1885–1933, American humorist and short-story writer, b. Niles, Mich. He was a sports reporter in Chicago, St. Louis, and Boston from 1907 to…

1967 National Book Awards

Arts and LettersMr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography, Justin KaplanFictionThe Fixer, Bernard MalamudHistory and BiographyThe Enlightenment, Vol. I: An Interpretation: The Rise of Modern…

Davis, Lydia

(Encyclopedia) Davis, Lydia, 1947–, American writer known for innovative, very short stories, b. Northampton, Mass., studied Barnard College. Davis earned early praise for her translations from the…

Ulitskaya, Lyudmila Evgenyevna

(Encyclopedia) Ulitskaya, Lyudmila Evgenyevna, 1943–, Russian writer and Soviet-era dissident, grad. Moscow State Univ. She worked as a geneticist at the USSR Academy of Sciences (1968–70), was fired…

O. Henry

(Encyclopedia) O. Henry, pseud. of William Sydney Porter, 1862–1910, American short-story writer, b. Greensboro, N.C. He went to Texas in 1882 and worked at various jobs—as teller in an Austin bank (…

Harte, Bret

(Encyclopedia) Harte, Bret (Francis Brett Harte)Harte, Brethärt [key], 1836–1902, American writer of short stories and humorous verse, b. Albany, N.Y. At 19 he went to California, where he tried his…