Word: angela
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people paid $10 each last week to get into a Manhattan auditorium and sit--or stand--through a panel discussion on "The Memoir Explosion: Novel of the '90s or Just Another Brand of Therapy?" Most attention went to two of the panelists: Frank McCourt, whose best-selling memoir, Angela's Ashes, had just the day before won a Pulitzer Prize for biography, and Kathryn Harrison, whose memoir The Kiss, also a best seller, tells of an incestuous affair between her and her father that began when she was 20. A year ago, hardly anyone in the audience had ever heard...
...simply indicate a culture sinking ever further into gossip, trivia and terminal narcissism? Last week's panelists in Manhattan addressed these questions, as panelists are prone to do, without answering them. McCourt told the crowd that he considered telling the story of his harsh Irish childhood, the subject of Angela's Ashes, in fictional form. "I attempted it, and it was awful. I am not a novelist...
...photography, The Associated Press hauled in an award for a photo of Boris Yeltsin grooving at a rock concert during his re-election campaign. In the arts category, Wynton Marsalis won the music award for "Blood on the Fields," an epic composition on slavery; Frank McCourt's book "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" took the prize for biography. The book focused on McCourt's youth in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. The prizes are presented by Columbia University every year and include a gold medal for the public service award and a $5000 check for all other Pulitzer Prize winners...
FRANK MCCOURT Prestigious literary prize rises from Angela's Ashes, the 66-year-old teacher's first book...
...period of life is more important than its start. Focusing on a relatively brief time can lead to a whole lifetime of promise." ANGELA FAN Baltimore, Maryland...