Pamela Moore (writer)
Pamela Moore (born September 22, 1937 in New York City ; died June 7, 1964 ) was an American author.
Life
Pamela Moore was the daughter of journalist and author Don Moore and author Isabel Walsh. Pamela Moore attended Rosemary Hall School in Greenwich, Connecticut and Barnard College in Manhattan . At the age of eighteen she published her first novel Chocolates for Breakfast , which immediately turned out to be a bestseller and over time had a circulation of one million copies in eleven languages. Her other four novels did not receive this recognition.
Moore was married to attorney Adam Kanarek since 1958; they had a son born in 1963. Moore committed 1964 suicide .
Works
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Chocolates for breakfast . Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1956.
- Cocktails for breakfast: Roman . From the American by Ernst Laue. Munich: Desch, 1957.
- Cocktails , with an afterword by Emma Straub . Translated from the English by Tanja Handels. Piper, Munich. 2015, ISBN 978-3-492-05692-2 .
- East Side story . London: Longmans, 1961 (= Pigeons of St. Mark's Place or = Diana ).
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The horsy set . New York, Simon and Schuster, 1963.
- The riding club: Roman . From d. American. by Waldemar Kabus. Stuttgart: Römer-Verlag, 1967.
- Teenybopper . Paperback Library Inc., New York, 1964 (= The Exile of Suzy-Q ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Pamela Moore in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Short biography and reviews of works by Pamela Moore at perlentaucher.de
- Pamela Moore , at Writers No One Reads
- Robert Nedelkoff: Pamela Moore Plus Forty , first in: The Baffler , 1997
Individual evidence
- ↑ Don Moore in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Harald Peters: Vodka for breakfast . Review, in: The Literary World , September 5, 2015, p. 4
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moore, Pamela |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 7, 1964 |