In Paris after the Second World War she met a group of American writers there: Eudora Welty
, whom she judges the best writer among them, Truman Capote
, Carson McCullers
,
Dinesen was fascinated by Monroe's prettiness, vitality, and innocence: they reminded her, she said, of a lion cub. The old and the young woman danced together (though not, as legend relates, on the table).
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
5 February 2008
Intertextuality and Influence
Olive Senior
OS
took up writing seriously after taking a Creative Writing course while doing her degree in Print Journalism at the Carleton University School of Journalism
in Ottawa, Canada. During the 1960s and 1970s she...
Timeline
11 July 1960: Harper Lee (full name Nelle Harper Lee) published...
Writing climate item
11 July 1960
Harper Lee
(full name Nelle Harper Lee) published her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. She had to revise it radically for acceptance, but it quickly became phenomenally popular.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(2 May 1961): 11
Freeman, Hadley. “Harper Lee has nothing to worry about”. Guardian Weekly, 9 July 2010, p. 27.