John Griffith, dit Jack London, est né à San Francisco le 12 janvier 1876. Fils illégitime de fermiers, élevé dans la misère, il est tour à tour marin chasseur de phoque, chercheur d'or au Klondike lors de la ruée vers l'or de 1897 et correspondant de presse.
WILLA CATHER (1873–1947), the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of more than fifteen books, was one of the most distinguished American writers of the early twentieth century.
Stephen Crane was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1871. He died in Germany on June 5, 1900.
O. Henry (1862 - 1910) is the pen-name of William Sidney Porter, the American writer born in Greensboro, North Carolina. He was known for a style of writing that featured surprise endings and showed the grim and often humorous effect of coincidence on the lives of his subjects. A keen observer of the lives of Americans from New York to Texas in the early 20th century, his works have been adapted many times for the stage and screen.
American author (Pearl Zane Grey) is best known as a pioneer of the Western literary genre, which idealized the Western frontier and the men and women who settled the region. Following in his father’s footsteps, Grey studied dentistry while on a baseball scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania. Grey’s athletic talent led to a short career in the American minor league before he established his dentistry practice. As an outlet to the tedium of dentistry, Grey turned to writing, and finally abandoned his dental practice to write full time. Over the course of his career Grey penned more than ninety books, including the best-selling Riders of the Purple Sage. Many of Grey’s novels were adapted for film and television. He died in 1939.
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7 best short stories - specials
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Título : 7 best short stories - Western
EAN : 9783967993738
Editorial : Tacet Books
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