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The Columbia History of the American NovelIn addition she wrote short stories, essays, and a history of California (Golden Gate Country [1945]). The Conqueror (1902) is a fictionalized biography of Alexander Hamilton; her society novels include Julia France and Her Times (1912) and Black Oxen (1923). Margaret Atwood (1939-) Atwood was born in Ottawa, grew up in Toronto, attended the University of Toronto, and took a graduate degree from Radcliffe. She has published many collections of poetry and has taught at several Canadian universities. Her second volume of poetry (The Circle Game [1966]) won a Governor General's Award, and her study Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972) established her reputation as a critic. Her popular successes include The Edible Woman (1969), Surfacing (1972), Lady Oracle (1976), Life Before Man (1980), and The Handmaid's Tale (1985), for which she received a second Governor General's Award. Mary Austin (1868–1934) Mary (Hunter) Austin was born in Illinois but moved to California at eighteen, where she made a study of Native American life and was involved with the artists' colony at Carmel before moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she taught and continued her own research ...» | Код для вставки книги в блог HTML
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