Lenore Hart
Autor de Becky: The Life and Loves of Becky Thatcher
Sobre El Autor
Lenore Hart was born in Florida. She has earned degrees from the University of Central Florida, Florida State University, and Old Dominion University. Hart's fiction, memoirs, poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared in publications including The Apalachee Quarterly, Chesapeake Life, Kalliope, The mostrar más Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and Tidewater Women. Hart has lectured and offered workshops at Florida State University, the Cape May Institute, The United States Naval Academy, George Mason University, Eckerd College, Old Dominion University, and The New College in Sarasota, Florida among other institutions. Hart's work has been featured on Voice of America, in Poets and Writers Magazine, and on the PBS television series Writer To Writer. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras de Lenore Hart
The Night Bazaar: Eleven Haunting Tales of Forbidden Wishes and Dangerous Desires (2017) — Editor — 2 copias
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Conocimiento común
- Otros nombres
- Graves, Elisabeth (pseudonym)
- Fecha de nacimiento
- c. 1950
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Educación
- Old Dominion University (MFA - Creative Writing)
Florida State University (MSLS)
University of Central Florida (BA) - Ocupaciones
- novelist
young adult writer - Relaciones
- Poyer, David (husband)
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- Obras
- 9
- Miembros
- 298
- Popularidad
- #78,715
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 25
- ISBNs
- 25
- Idiomas
- 2
This one, about Edgar Allan Poe, narrated by his young bride, is interesting for its subject matter, but is not the most successful entry into the genre that I've read. This is, in part, because the narrator, Virginia, is simply not that interesting as a character. She starts out as an innocent young girl, and then proceeds to spend the bulk of the novel dying of consumption (TB).
The author goes out of her way to link Poe's morbid writings to the fact that so many people around him suffered and dies from TB. She doesn't seem to understand (nor does her narrator) the appeal of the gothic in writing, or horror in general. While the book was worth reading for illuminating details of Poe's life, this lack made it somewhat of a disappointment.… (más)