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Fun Facts Friday: Harry Golden
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Fun Facts Friday: Harry Golden

Man of la BookMay 7, 2021

Harry Golden was a Jewish American writer, editor, and publisher born in Ukraine. He is known for as a person who “fought bigotry with humor.

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Fun Facts Friday: Alice B. Toklas
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Fun Facts Friday: Alice B. Toklas

Man of la BookApril 30, 2021

Alice B. Toklas was an American cookbook writer and life partner of Gertrude Stein. The 1945 Alice B. Toklas Cookbook included a recipe for “Haschich Fudge”.

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Fun Facts Friday: Thomas Paine
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Fun Facts Friday: Thomas Paine

Man of la BookJanuary 29, 2021

Thomas Paine was an American philosopher, writer, and political activist & theorist known for Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776–1783)

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Fun Facts Friday: James Jones
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Fun Facts Friday: James Jones

Man of la BookNovember 6, 2020

James Jones (6 November, 1921 – 9 May, 1977)was an American author, mostly known for his award winning novel From Here to Eternity.

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Fun Facts Friday: Captain Frederick Marryat
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Fun Facts Friday: Captain Frederick Marryat

Man of la BookJuly 10, 2020

Captain Frederick Marryat (10 July, 1792 – 9 August, 1848) was a Royal Navy officer, and a novelist who pioneered historical naval fiction.

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Fun Facts Friday: R.P. Blackmur
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Fun Facts Friday: R.P. Blackmur

Man of la BookFebruary 21, 2020

R.P. Blackmur (21 January, 1904 – 2 February, 1965) was one of America’s foremost critics of literature, and a distinguished professor in Princeton University.

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Fun Facts Friday: Aldous Huxley
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Fun Facts Friday: Aldous Huxley

Man of la BookJuly 26, 2019

Aldous Huxley (26 July, 1894 – 22 November, 1963) was a writer and philosopher from England. Mr. Huxley is known for his famous novel Brave New World.

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Fun Facts Friday: Ralph Ellison
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Fun Facts Friday: Ralph Ellison

Man of la BookMarch 1, 2019

Ralph Ellison (1 March, 1914 – 16 April, 1994) was an award winning novelist, critic and scholar known for his novel Invisible Man.

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Fun Facts Friday: Bernard DeVoto
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Fun Facts Friday: Bernard DeVoto

Man of la BookJanuary 11, 2019

Bernard DeVoto was an American writer, historian, editor, and teacher. Mr. DeVoto is remembered as a champion of public land conversation and civil liberties.

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Fun Facts Friday: Rebecca West
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Fun Facts Friday: Rebecca West

Man of la BookDecember 21, 2018

Rebecca West (21 December, 1892 – 15 March, 1983) was a British journalist, author and travel writer, called “indisputably the world’s number one woman writer”.

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