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...Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction; in Danbury, Connecticut. After writing six unpublished novels and 25 unproduced plays, Toland discovered the historical-nonfiction genre with a 1957 book about dirigibles. He followed The Rising Sun with books about the Korean War and an Adolf Hitler biography. His 1982 book Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath asserted that the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration had advance knowledge of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a claim widely denounced by historians...
...read the book and seen the movie, but where do you go if you want to see the original The Girl with a Pearl Earring, the Johannes Vermeer painting that inspired both? Art enthusiasts can go to www.cacr.caltech.edu/~roy/vermeer where Caltech professor Roy Williams has gathered a wealth of information about the artist, including a clickable map of the worldwide locations of all 34 viewable Vermeer paintings. To see The Girl with a Pearl Earring, you will have to travel to the Netherlands. --By Lisa McLaughlin
Assistant Senior Tutor John Walsh will serve as acting senior tutor for the spring semester, and resident tutor Sharrona Pearl will serve as Assistant Senior Tutor...
...PEARL S. BUCK, writing about the wife of the former Nationalist Chinese leader in LIFE magazine...
...Jhumpa Lahiri novel The Namesake because I loved Interpreter of Maladies. When I got a copy, I said, I can't wait to go home, get in bed and read it. I loved it, loved it, loved it. What I liked a lot also was A Mighty Heart, Mariane Pearl's book about Danny Pearl, which is a beautiful book. I was also very crazy about Zoe Heller's What Was She Thinking, a novel told from the point of view of the best friend of a teacher who's having an affair with her student. It's a satire...