Alice Adams (author)

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Alice Adams

Alice Boyd Adams (born August 14, 1926 in Fredericksburg , Virginia , † May 27, 1999 in San Francisco , California ) was an American author .

Life

Alice Adams grew up as an only child in Chapel Hill , North Carolina . Her father was the University Professor of Spanish Language Nicholson B. Adams , her mother Agatha Erskine Boyd Adams was an unsuccessful writer. She and her mother were very divided. Adams thought that if she became a writer, she and her mother would understand each other again. So she took a writing class at her school. Her teacher advised her to give up writing and get married. She graduated from Radcliffe College , Harvard in 1946.

She first worked for a publishing company in New York. 1947 married the poet Mark Linenthal (1921-2010), whom she had met while studying at Harvard. She lived with him for a year in Paris, where he studied at the Sorbonne. Already in Paris she realized that the marriage was a mistake. They then lived in Palo Alto, where Linenthal attended Stanford University. In 1948 they moved to San Francisco, where Linenthal taught English at San Francisco State University. In 1951 their only child, the future artist Peter Linenthal, was born. Her psychologist advised her in the early 1950s to keep the marriage going but to stop writing. Shortly afterwards, her short story "Winter Rain" was published in Charm magazine. After the marriage fell apart in 1958, she lived as a single mother and worked as a secretary, accountant, and in the church to make a living. In 1966 she published her first novel "Careless Love". However, it was only with the publication of her short story "Gift of Grass" in The New Yorker magazine in November 1969 that the literary world became aware of her. The New Yorker reprinted 25 of their short stories over the next 35 years. From then on she was able to make a living from writing. From 1964 to 1985 she lived with the interior designer Robert McNie (1926–2005). She had her big breakthrough in 1984 with the novel "Superior Women".

Works

  • Careless love . New American Library, New York 1966.
  • Families and Survivors . Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, New York 1975.
  • Listening to Billie . Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, New York 1978.
  • Beautiful girl . Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, New York 1979.
  • Rich Rewards . Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, New York 1980.
  • To see you again . Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, New York 1982.
  • Molly's Dog . William B. Ewert Publications, Concord, NH 1983.
  • Superior Women . Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, New York 1984.
  • Return Trips (1985)
  • Roses, Rhododendron: Two Flowers, Two Friends (1987)
  • Second Chances (1988)
  • After You've Gone (short stories) (1989)
  • Mexico: Some Travels and Some Travelers There, introduction by Jan Morris (1990)
  • Caroline's Daughters (1991)
  • Almost Perfect (1993)
  • A Southern Exposure (1995)
  • Medicine Men (1997)
  • The Last Lovely City (1999)
  • After the War (2000)
  • The Stories of Alice Adams (2002)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Garrison Keillor: The Writer's Almanac from American Public Media. (No longer available online.) In: writersalmanac.publicradio.org. August 14, 2006, archived from the original on November 3, 2014 ; accessed on October 23, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / writersalmanac.publicradio.org
  2. ↑ American Council of Learned Societies: American National Biography: Supplement 2 . Ed .: Paul R. Betz, Mark C. Carnes. Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-19-522202-9 .
  3. ↑ Peter Applebome: Alice Adams, 72, Writer of Deft Novels - New York Times. In: nytimes.com. January 28, 1999, accessed October 23, 2014 .
  4. ^ The Lesson . unpublished typescript. In: Humanities Research Center, University of Texas (Ed.): Alice Adams Papers .
  5. ^ Bryant Mangum: Encyclopedia Virginia: Adams, Alice (1926-1999). In: encyclopediavirginia.org. Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, August 2, 2014, accessed October 23, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Adams, Alice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adams, Alice Boyd (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Fredericksburg , Virginia
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1999
Place of death San Francisco , California