Kentucky Authors: Da-Dd
Dadey, Debbie
- Name(s)
- Debbie Dadey
- Date of Birth
- May, 1959
- Morganfield, KY
- Residence(s)
- Hometown: Henderson, KY
- Residence: Furlong, PA
- Education
- Henderson County Senior High
- MSLS, Western Kentucky University
- Awards
- Children's Choice Awards for Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots
- Elba Award Winner for Wizards Don't Need Computers
- Employment
- Occupation(s)
- Teacher
- Librarian
- Writer
Ghosts Don't Eat Potato Chips by ISBN: 059045854XPublication Date: 1992-09-01Eddie's Great-aunt Mathilda is sick and he has to help take care of her. But when Eddie and his friends visit Mathilda's house, strange things start to happen. Howie sees someone staring at him from the attic window and, when his back is turned, his garlic potato chips are used to spell the word ATTIC on the ground. During later visits the kids hear noises from the attic, but Great-aunt Mathilda swears there's nothing up there. Could the ghost of Eddie's Great-uncle Jasper, who died years ago, be haunting his aunt's home? The Bailey School kids will find out!
Werewolves Don't Go to Summer Camp by ISBN: 0590440616Publication Date: 1991-07-01The Bailey Elementary third-graders are greeted at camp by the growling, barefoot Mr. Jenkins. He eats nearly raw hamburgers, avoids lights and campfires, and warns the campers about the legend of a little boy's disappearance and the howl of a lone wolf. Could Mr. Jenkins be a werewolf?
Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots by ISBN: 059043411XPublication Date: 1991-01-01The hugely popular early chapter book series re-emerges with a new look! Brand-new eye-catching cover art brings a modern feel to this classic monster series for young readers. The kids in the third grade at Bailey Elementary are so hard to handle that all of their teachers have quit. But their new teacher, Mrs. Jeepers, is different to say the least. She's just moved from the Transylvanian Alps and she seems to have some strange powers that help her deal with these mischief-makers. Her methods may be a little unconventional, but, then again, Mrs. Jeepers may be just what the Bailey School kids need.
Aliens Don't Wear Braces by ISBN: 0590470701Publication Date: 1993-10-01The kids at The Bailey School begin to suspect that their art teacher, a strange woman with white hair and braces, is an alien from outer space.
Leprechauns Don't Play Basketball by ISBN: 0590448226Publication Date: 1992-02-01Bailey Elementary's new gym teacher is short, and Irish, and carries a bag filled with special stones. Could Mr. O'Grady be a leprechaun?
Cupid Doesn't Flip Hamburgers by ISBN: 0590481142Publication Date: 1995-01-01There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City!
Zombies Don't Play Soccer by ISBN: 0590226363Publication Date: 1995-09-01The hugely popular early chapter book series re-emerges with a new look! Brand-new eye-catching cover art brings a modern feel to this classic monster series for young readers. The Bailey School soccer team hasn't had a lot of success, but their new coach seems like the woman to help whip them into shape. Coach Graves is a little rough around the edges, but she's good at what she does. That is until a strange old lady turns up at one of their practices. After that, Coach Graves has a vacant look in her eyes, mumbles and groans in response to the kids, and moves like she's back from the dead. Can the kids break the spell and bring their coach back to normal in time for their big game?
Genies Don't Ride Bicycles by ISBN: 0590472976Publication Date: 1994-05-01Ever since Eugene became their new neighbour, the third graders at Bailey Elementary School get everything they wish for. This all seems great until their lives start to turn upside down.
Dragons Don't Cook Pizza by ISBN: 0590849042Publication Date: 1997-01-01Mrs. Jeepers's class is visiting the new Jewel's Pizza Castle and trying to discover the secret to the best-tasting pizza in town. Could it be that behind the guarded kitchen door is a fire-breathing dragon?
Adventures of the Bailey School Kids by ISBN: 0590849026Publication Date: 1996-11-01The hugely popular early chapter book series re-emerges with a new look! Brand-new eye-catching cover art brings a modern feel to this classic monster series for young readers.Melody believes in guardian angels, but the other Bailey School kids aren't convinced. That is until a new woman comes to town who keeps showing up just in time to save people. Melody even says she saw the woman spreading her wings! Could the newcomer really have come to Bailey City on a miracle mission?
Books in Order:
- Trouble at Trident Academy
- Battle of the Best Friends
- A Whale of a Tale
- Danger in the Deep Blue Sea
- The Lost Princess
- The Secret Seahorse
- Dream of the Blue Turtle
- Treasure in Trident City
- A Royal Tea
- A Tale of Two Sisters
- The Polar Bear Express
- Wish upon a Starfish
- The Crook and the Crown
- Twist and Shout
- Books vs. Looks
- Flower Girl Dreams
- Ready, Set Goal
- Fairy Chase
- The Narwhal Problem
- Winter Princess
- Sleepover at the Haunted Museum
- A Titanic Friendship
Sets:
- A Mermaid Tales Sparkling Collection
- A Mermaid Tales Mer-velous Collection
- Sea-tacular Collection Mermaid Tales, books 1-10
- Debbie Dadey at WikipediaWikipedia is a free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
- Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton Jones byPublication Date: 1996Sound recording. Presents an interview with Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton Jones, authors of the Bailey School kids series and Triplet trouble books. The authors talk about how they get ideas for books, how they write books, and what the authors do when they are not writing.
Dae, Pamela
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- Name(s)
- Pamela Dae
- Pamela Perlman
- Date of Birth
- Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
- Residence(s)
- Bloomington, Indiana
- Washington, D.C.
- Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
- Education
- J.D., University of Kentucky College of Law, Lexington, Kentucky
- B.A. in English Literature and Journalism, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
- Life Events
- Employment
- Attorney based in Lexington, Kentucky
- Press Secretary, Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.
- Occupation(s) / Field(s) of Activity
- Attorney
- Lawyer
- Writer
- Journalist
- After the Race byISBN: 9780578618340Publication Date: 2020-02-14"Readers will fall in love with Alexandra Alt, an Indiana University senior whose mother has instilled in her the values of what she calls First Lady First: Jane Ann Alt, in her bid to make her daughter the next Jacqueline Kennedy, exhorts her to learn how to ride horses, write thank you notes, win votes, and otherwise be the perfect political wife. Against the early eighties backdrop of Ronald Reagan, the AIDS crisis, and a bygone innocence, Alexandra is faced, during an internship in Washington, D.C., with choosing between Jake Banwell, who comes from a troubled, impoverished family in rural Indiana, and Bill Beck, who comes from the perfect political family and aspires to be president. Women of all ages will relate to Alexandra's struggle to choose between these men, as well as the struggle to rid herself of the inner voice of Jane Ann, who "thinks women's lib, the Equal Rights Amendment, and equal pay for equal work are ridiculous." After the Race is, then, a not just a love story but a chronicling of the pressures young women faced even after the feminist movement had supposedly liberated them. Moreoever, as Alexandra asks herself What do I really want? Or is the question what does Jane Ann want?, readers of all genders and backgrounds will relate to this age-old struggle of fulfilling one's own legacy rather than a parent's. After the Race is a delicious read that will have you on the edge of your seat until the very last page." Jacinda Townsend, author of Saint Monkey, Broadcast Journalist, Professor, University of California, Davis
Davenport, Guy
- Name(s)
- Guy Davenport
- Guy Mattison Davenport
- Date of Birth
- November 23, 1927
- Anderson, South Carolina
- Date of Death
- January 4, 2005
- Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
- Residence(s)
- Anderson, South Carolina
- Oxford, England
- Haverford, Pennsylvania
- Saint Louis, Missouri
- Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
- Education
- Ph. D., Harvard University, 1961
- Merton College, Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University, England, 1948-1950
- B. A., summa cum laude in English and Classics, Duke University
- Life Events
- Drafted into the United States Army, 1950-1952
- Awards and Recognitions
- Inducted into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame in 2015
- MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, 1990
- PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, 1996
- O. Henry Award
- Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- Rhodes Scholar, 1948-1950
- Employment
- University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 1963-1990
- Haverford College, 1961-1963
- Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri, c.1952-1955
- Occupation(s) / Field(s) of Activity
- Teacher
- Professor
- Author
- Translator
- Painter
- Apples and Pears and Other Stories byISBN: 9780865471627Publication Date: 1984Fiction, short stories. Contents: The bowmen of Shu; Fifty-seven views of Fujiyama; The chair; Apples and pears. 296 pages; illustrations.
The Cardiff Team: Ten Stories by ISBN: 9780811213356Publication Date: 1996-11-17Ten stories, many on homosexual themes, some with intellectual overtones. The subjects range from a sex-thirsty boy scout troop leader, to a writer's musings on God while in a spa for nudists.
Da Vinci's Bicycle by ISBN: 9780811213509Publication Date: 1997-05-17Esteemed writer and translator Guy Davenport's brilliant story collection, first published in 1979, is recognized today as a classic of American fiction. Written with tremendous wit, intelligence, and verve, the stories are based on historical figures whose endeavors were too early, too late, or went against the grain of their time. First published in 1979.
The Death of Picasso: New and Selected Writing by ISBN: 9781593760564Publication Date: 2005-02-08For 'The Death of Picasso,' Guy Davenport has gathered 27 essays and stories from throughout his career. The whole stands as his choice of the pieces he would have us read today if we are curious about what he's been up to all this time. The result is an exciting and invigorating selection, a testament to one of the prose masters at work today. As the 'Louisville Courier-Journal noted,' "Guy Davenport has few peers. Who can match his broad erudition, his mastery of forms--poetry, shortfiction, essay, translation--and his wizardry with language?"- The Drummer of the Eleventh North Devonshire Fusiliers byISBN: 9780865474475Publication Date: 1990-10-01Fiction, short stories. Using juxtaposition and collage, Guy Davenport creates brilliant assemblages that adhere into four stories that illuminate how one's elusive sexual nature can be hidden and paradoxically revealed by outer appearances, and one novella that completes his trilogy begun by Apples and Pears and The Hules Verne Steam Balloon.
Eclogues: Eight Stories by ISBN: 9780801846953Publication Date: 1993Mixtures of myth and fable, these tales have their origins in Plutarch, Montaigne, The Acts of the Apostles, Theokritos, and the daily newspaper. Eclogues is a delight, and Guy Davenport proves a companionable and witty guide. First published in 1981.- Every Force Evolves a Form: Twenty Essays byISBN: 9780865472471Publication Date: 1990Originally published: San Francisco : North Point, 1987. 171 pages; illustrations.
- The Jules Verne Steam Balloon: Nine Stories byISBN: 9780865472969Publication Date: 1987-11-01Fiction, short stories. Contents: The meadow; Pyrrhon of Elis; We often think of Lenin at the clothespin factory; Bronze leaves and red; The bicycle rider; Les exploits de Nat Pinkerton de jour en jour; The Jules Verne steam balloon; Jonah; The ringdove sign.
- A Table of Green Fields: Ten Stories byISBN: 9780811212519Publication Date: 1993-11-17A Table of Green Fields includes ten stories, variously about the painter Henry Scott Tuke, the mathematician James Joseph Sylvester, Kafka, Thoreau, along with some imaginary Frenchmen and Scandinavians, among others. Calculating the infinite in the finite, tracing geometries of desire, placing the obdurate world in an uncustomary light, each of these stories opens out its own world. Without giving up the plot or character of the traditional short story, Guy Davenport's inventions are complex events in which ideas and cultural history are a kind of music to which the characters dance. Despite the fractal, syncopated collage of his narrative style, Davenport's prose is objective, terse, and transparent. A constant theme in this book is the transmission of the past as an imaginative act; hence the title, Falstaff's dying vision of "a table of green fields," probably a mishearing of his recitation of the Twenty-third Psalm, corrected by editors to "he babbled of green fields," a symbol of all fiction, an art that must be exact about the uncertain.
- Tatlin! Six Stories byISBN: 9780684137834Publication Date: 1974-01-01Fiction, short stories.
Contents: Tatlin!--The aeroplanes at Brescia.--Robot.--Herakleitos.--1830.--The dawn in Erewhon. 
Twelve Stories by ISBN: 9781887178440Publication Date: 1997-09-01Since the publication of Tatlin in 1974, Guy Davenport has established himself as one of the most original and stimulating writers of fiction today. Twelve Stories draws the best work from Davenports early collections: Tatlin , Apples and Pears, and The Drummer of the Eleventh North Devonshire Fusiliers . Chosen by the author, these stories are nowhere else in print. Guy Davenports short stories are journeys through history and the imagination. Radically original and surprising, comic and sensuous, Davenports virtuoso talent charms us into a world both familiar and strange. Whether in the timelessness of deep woods or fleeing the bloody dreamscape of battle, Davenports characters embody life's contradictions.
- Goldfinch Thistle Star byPublication Date: 1983Poems. "Of the 200 copies, the first 45 are hardbound"
Charles Burchfield's Seasons by ISBN: 9781566409797Publication Date: 2004-09-01First published in 1994. One of the country's finest watercolorists of the twentieth century, Charles Burchfield produced a variety of effects unprecedented in scale and technique for the medium. Adhering to the nineteenth-century Romantic tradition of revealing nature's primordial energy through the drama of human emotions, Burchfield made the commonplace extraordinary, the everyday miraculous. Charles Burchfield's Seasons offers a wealth of visionary art rendered in his personal abstract stylistic shorthand that vividly expresses the moods and sounds of light and wind. Accompanied by quotations from Charles Burchfield's Journals, the color plates in this book resonate with the artist's vibrancy. Guy Davenport is a MacArthur Fellow and Distinguished Professor of English emeritus, University of Kentucky. He has published The Drawings of Paul Cadmus, A Balthus Notebook, and studies of Tchelitchew, Grant Wood, and Henri Rousseau. His most recent work is A Table of Green Fields.- Cities on Hills: A Study of I-XXX of Ezra Pound's Cantos byISBN: 9780835714556Publication Date: 1983-11-01Series: Studies in modern literature, no. 25. 275 pages; illustrations; music; portraits.
- Every Force Evolves a Form byISBN: 9780865472471Publication Date: 1987-02-01A nominee for the 1987 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, this volume contains 20 essays demonstrating Davenport's bold, imaginative forays into literature and art, history, anthropology, architecture and popular culture. The subjects range from Montaigne to Mary Chestnut's Civil War diary; from the influence of Krazy Kat on E.E. Cummings to the influence of "Pergolesi's Dog" on artist Joseph Cornell; and from the visual decline of the urban landscape to the anthropological investigations of table manners.
Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays by ISBN: 9781567920802Publication Date: 1997-06-15In the 40 essays that constitute this collection, Guy Davenport, one of America's major literary critics, elucidates a range of literary history, encompassing literature, art, philosophy and music, from the ancients to the modernists. First published in 1980.
The Hunter Gracchus and Other Papers on Literature and Art by ISBN: 9781887178556Publication Date: 1997-09-01These essays cover a range of topics, including art and architecture, religion, and literature in a collage of ideas, commentary, and criticism from snake handling to Wallace Stevens.
Objects on a Table: Harmonious Disarray in Art and Literature by ISBN: 9781582430355Publication Date: 1999-07-30This collection of four essays on the art of the still life begins with a look back to pictures of meals painted on the walls of Egyptian tombs - as the author points out, the soul could eat. Davenport's meditations on the still life dip into the full history of this art form, touching on neolithic cave paintings, the Dutch masters, Cezanne, Van Gogh, even photography and the collage. First published in 1998.
7 Greeks by ISBN: 9780811212885Publication Date: 1995-06-17Here is a colorful variety pf works by seven Greek poets and philosophers who lived from the eighth to the third centuries BC. Salvaged from shattered pottery vases and tattered scrolls of papyrus, everything decipherable from the remains of these ancient authors is assembled here. From early to later, the collection contains: Archilochos; Sappho; Alkman; Anakreon; the philosophers Herakleitos and Diogenes; and Herondas. This composite of fragments translated by Guy Davenport is the most complete collection of its kind ever to appear in one volume.- Anakreon: The Extant Fragments byPublication Date: 1991These fragments are all that survive of a poet whose name was Anakreon. Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport.
- Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman byISBN: 9780520038233Publication Date: 1980-01-01Translated and introduction by Guy Davenport.
- Carmina: The Fragments of Archilochos byPublication Date: 1964Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport. Forward by Hugh Kenner. 104 pages; illustrations.
Herakleitos and Diogenes by Publication Date: 2011All the extant fragments of Herakleitos and a collection of Diogenes' words from various sources. Herakleitos' words, 2500 years old, usually appear in English translated by philosophers as makeshift clusters of nouns and verbs which can then be inspected at length. Here they are translated into plain English and allowed to stand naked and unchaperoned in their native archaic Mediterranean light. The practical words of the Athenian street philosopher Diogenes have never before been extracted from the apocryphal anecdotes in which they have come down to us. They are addressed to humanity at large, and are as sharp and pertinent today as when they were admired by Alexander the Great and Saint Paul.
The Logia of Yeshua by Publication Date: 1998Jesus was a street preacher who taught through story and aphorism. Antedating the Gospels, these 105 sayings were recorded by his followers during and shortly after his lifetime. Through the immediacy of direct quotation, Davenport and Urrutia's bold translation shakes our preconceptions, reintroducing us to the living teacher whose powerful words ring anew. First published in 1996.- Maxims of the Ancient Egyptians byPublication Date: 1983Translated from the hieroglyphs by Boris de Rachewiltz and from his Italian by Guy Davenport.
- 50 Drawings byPublication Date: 1996Limited edition. "Printed at the Center for Book Arts in New York City by Barry Magid in an edition of 100 copies"--Colophon.
- A Garden Carried in a Pocket: Letters, 1964-1968 byPublication Date: 2004Selected correspondence between Guy Davenport and Jonathan Williams, edited by Thomas Meyer. "Published in an edition of 526, of which 500 are bound in wrappers; of these 500, 100 are numbered and signed by the authors. 26 are bound in boards, lettered A to Z, and signed by the authors."--Colophon.
Guy Davenport and James Laughlin: Selected Letters by Publication Date: 2007This volume features selections from the New Directions founder's correspondence with Guy Davenport, the polymath artist and author of The Geography of the Imagination. More than simply detailing an author/publisher relationship, these letters depict two fine minds educating and supporting each other in the service of literature.
The Guy Davenport Reader by ISBN: 9781619021037Publication Date: 2013-07-16"The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare, between a bicycle and a horse, though explicable by historical moment, necessity, and destiny, is before all else a difference of imagination. The imagination is like the drunk man who has lost his watch, and must get drunk again to find it. It is as intimate as speech and custom, and to trace its ways we need to re-educate our eyes."--Guy Davenport. Modernism spawned the greatest explosion of art, architecture, literature, painting, music, and dance of any era since the Renaissance. In its long unfolding, from Yeats, Pound and Eliot to Picasso and Matisse, from Diaghilev and Balanchine to Cunningham and Stravinsky and Cage, the work of Modernism has provided the cultural vocabulary of our time. One of the last pure Modernists, Guy Davenport was perhaps the finest stylist and most protean craftsman of his generation. Publishing more than two dozen books of fiction, essays, poetry and translations over a career of more than forty years, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1990. In poetry and prose, Davenport drew upon the most archaic and the most modern of influences to create what he called "assemblages"--lush experiments that often defy classification. Woven throughout is a radical and coherent philosophy of desire, design and human happiness. But never before has Davenport's fiction, nonfiction, poetry and translations been collected together in one compendium. Eight years after his death, The Guy Davenport Reader offers the first true introduction to the far-ranging work of this neglected genius.- Pennant key-indexed study guide to Homer's Iliad byPublication Date: 1967Study guide; 119 pages; illustrations; map. Pennant key-indexed study guides, PQ115.
- Pennant key-indexed study guide to Homer's Odyssey. byPublication Date: 1967Study guide; 103 pages; illustrations; maps. Pennant key-indexed study guides, PQ109.
- Americans in Paris (1921-1931): Man Ray, Gerald Murphy, Stuart Davis, Alexander Calder byISBN: 9781887178297Publication Date: 1988-01-01"During the 1920s, when cultural exchange across the Atlantic suddenly became heady and reciprocal, Americans traveling to Paris found their americanisme embraced. The French avant-garde, fueled by tempos and freedoms, loved jazz and the visual elegance of Machine Age aesthetics. The American fascination with technology, which electrified their work, gave new charge to European art." "Paris welcomed Gerald Murphy, whose billboard-sized cubist icon dominated the 1924 Salon des Independants and launched a brief but briliant career; Stuart Davis, who explored the continuity between cubist painting, lithography, and jazz at the atelier Desjobert; Man Ray, who abandoned oils to begin "painting with light" in his movies and rayographs; and Alexander Calder whose wire circuses and portraits inspired critics to acknowledge art's inherent playfulness." "Americans in Paris documents the work and influence of these four notables of the avant-garde, who startle and delight us even today."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
- Art of the Forties byISBN: 9780870701887Publication Date: 1991-03-01The fully illustrated publication of the turbulent decade of the forties contains an essay by the distinguished writer Guy Davenport, with an introduction by Riva Castleman, the Museum's deputy director for curatorial affairs and organizer of the exhibition.
A Balance of Quinces: The Paintings and Drawings of Guy Davenport by Publication Date: 1996As Bruce Bawer wrote in Bookforum, the late Guy Davenport (1927-2005) left behind an oeuvre that is one long lesson in the history of civilization, and to read any part of it - story, essay, or translation - is to be enthralled by his unflagging intellectual energy and engagement." His books include The Geography of the Imagination, The Death of Picasso, Herakleitos and Diogenes, A Table of Green Fields, The Cardiff Team, DaVinci's Bicycle, and many more."
The Counterfeiters by Publication Date: 2005Originally published: Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968. Includes Davenport’s crosshatched crow quill and ink work, 10 full-page drawings by Davenport.- The Drawings of Paul Cadmus byISBN: 9780847811441Publication Date: 1989-11-15Drawings. Introduction, commentary by Guy Davenport
Home and Beyond: An Anthology of Kentucky Short Stories by ISBN: 9780813190198Publication Date: 2002-12-01With an introduction by Wade Hall, Morris Grubbs has sifted through vintage classics, little-known gems, and stunning debuts to assemble this collection of forty stories by popular and critically acclaimed writers. In subtle and profound ways they challenge and overturn accepted stereotypes about the land their authors call home, whether by birth or by choice. Kentucky writers have produced some of the finest short stories published in the last fifty years, much of which focuses on the tension between the comforts of community and the siren-like lure of the outside world. Arranged chronologically, from Robert Penn Warren's "Blackberry Winter" to Crystal E. Wilkinson's "Humming Back Yesterday," these stories are linked by their juxtaposition of departures and returns, the familiar and the unknown, home and beyond. Contributors: Robert Penn Warren, Caroline Gordon, James Still, Jane Mayhall, Elizabeth Hardwick, Dean Cadle, Jesse Stuart, Billy C. Clark, Janice Holt Giles, A.B. Guthrie, Jr., Hollis Summers, Ed McClanahan, Sallie Bingham, Robert Hazel, Jack Cady, Jim Wayne Miller, David Madden, Gayl Jones, Jane Stuart, Gurney Norman, Walter Tevis, Bobbie Ann Mason, Joe Ashby Porter, Leon V. Driskell, Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, Richard Cortez Day, Sena Jeter Naslund, Pat Carr, Wendell Berry, James Baker Hall, Lisa Koger, Barbara Kingsolver, Normandi Ellis, Guy Davenport, Kim Edwards, Chris Holbrook, Paul Griner, Chris Offutt, Dwight Allen, Crystal E. Wilkinson. Edited by Morris Allen Grubbs; with an introduction by Wade Hall and an afterword by Charles E. May.- The Intelligence of Louis Agassiz byISBN: 9780313242496Publication Date: 1983-12-20Selected writings of the remarkable teacher, lecturer, and scientist, Louis Agassiz, whose enthusiasm for natural history is communicated with vitality and precision. The editor's introduction and notes at the beginning of each chapter provide a cogent analysis of the contributions of the scientist-writer. First published in 1963
The Stoic Comedians: Flaubert, Joyce, and Beckett by Publication Date: 1975Original ed. published under title: Flaubert, Joyce, and Beckett. Includes Davenport’s crosshatched crow quill and ink work, 10 full-page drawings by Davenport.
"The substance of this book was presented in the form of three lectures at the Third Annual Georgetown University Conference on Contemporary Literary Criticism, July 1961."
Contemporary Literary Criticism, Volume 241 by ISBN: 9780787695651Publication Date: 2007-10-03Each volume profiles about six to eight novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and other creative and nonfiction writers who are currently active or who died after Dec. 31, 1999. A biographical and critical introduction to each author prefaces a collection of reprinted critical essays and reviews. A cumulative title index to the entire series is available separately (included in subscription).
Contents: Guy Davenport, 1927-2005; Dave Eggers, 1970-; Allegra Goodman, 1967-; Anna Deavere Smith, 1950-; Mickey Spillane, 1918-2006.
Guy Davenport by ISBN: 9780810123892Publication Date: 2007-07-20Guy Davenport (1927-2005), an American writer of fiction, poetry, criticism, and essays, a translator, painter, intellectual, and teacher, brought a breadth and depth of knowledge to his pursuits that few other writers could approach, let alone appraise. In Andre Furlani, this twentieth-century American master has finally found an apt critical reader. In this first sustained critical study of Davenport, Furlani elucidates the depths of Davenport's fiction and its poetic precedents, brings a rare understanding to the author's reworking of twentieth-century literature and intellectual history, and offers unusual insight into his compositional technique. Furlani explores key themes across the spectrum of Davenport's fiction: pastoral utopia; twentieth-century dystopia; sexual ethics; the mythologizing of childhood; the inseparability of the archaic and the modern; and a celebration of the union of sophia, eros, and poesia. Whether Davenport's view of art and the cosmos should be called "postmodern" is a question that Furlani considers closely--offering, finally, a new aesthetic for this American original who, in these pages, at last receives the thorough and meticulous attention he has long merited.- Guy Davenport: A Bibliographical Checklist byPublication Date: 1984Article in the American Book Collector, Vol. 5, no.2 (March/April 1984)
Questioning Minds: The Letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner by ISBN: 9781619021815Publication Date: 2018-10-09Hugh Kenner (1923-2003) and Guy Davenport (1927-2005) first met in September 1953 when each gave a paper on Ezra Pound at Columbia University. They met again in the fall of 1957, and their correspondence begins with Kenner's letter of March 7, 1958. In the next forty-four years, they exchanged over one thousand letters. An extraordinary document of a literary friendship that lasted half a century, the letters represent one of the great and--with the dawn of the age of text and Twitter--one of the last major epistolary exchanges of its kind. Students and lovers of modernism will find, in the letters, matchless engagements with Eliot, Joyce, Beckett, Basil Bunting, Charles Tomlinson, R. Buckminster Fuller, Stan Brakhage, Jonathan Williams, and the American modernists William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and Louis Zukofsky. The correspondence ends with Kenner's letter of August 9, 2002, lamenting how they had drifted apart. The extensive notes and cross-referencing of archival sources in Questioning Minds are a major contribution to the study of literary modernism. The letters contained within explore how new works were conceived and developed by both writers. They record faithfully, and with candor, the urgency that each brought to his intellectual and creative pursuits. Here is a singular opportunity to follow the development of their unique fictions and essays.
- Interview with Guy Davenport, September 3, 1992Curated by the University of Kentucky, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History. Part of the Kentucky Writers Oral History Project. Davenport begins the interview by discussing his teaching career at the University of Kentucky, and the changes to the university that he has witnessed since he arrived as a professor in the 1960s. Subsequently, Davenport's trips to France and Denmark are recalled. Next, the interviewee considers his friendships with Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Guy Mendes, and John Jacob Niles. Davenport also talks of his brief meetings with Victor Hammer, and the paintings of Robert Motherwell.
- WBKY Audio Tape Collection, 1965-1975Housed at the University of Kentucky, Special Collections Research Center. The collection is comprised of 438 1/4" reel to reel audio tapes. The tapes contain recordings of special events that happened at U.K. such as the Women's Conference, Women: Equal but Different, the Humanities Conference in 1965, the Davenport Creative Writing Seminar, the Davenport Lecture series, the Founder's Day series, the Biological Conference with Buckmaster Fuller, Exploring Kentucky series, radio dramas series like Horiatio Hornblower and Stories from Scotland Yard, and music including the Mozart Bergen Festival, the Great Symphony series and the Folk Songs series. Individual events include speeches by Dr. Robert Strauss, Bob Nims, Anne Legat, Dave Carter, Stephen Leacock, Dick Pigman, Dr. Summers, Dr. Paul Haney and Robert J. Buck. Books on tape include The Great Books of Asia, The Spoken Word narrated by Henry Hubert, Reading the Writer, and The Lives of Henry Lime narrated by Olson Welles.
- Guy Davenport papers byPublication Date: 1940-2005Archival material. Essays, articles, fiction, poetry, and book reviews) written by writer, translator, literary critic and visual artist Guy Davenport.
- Guy Davenport at WikipediaWikipedia is a free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
Davenport, Gwen
- Name(s)
- Gwen Davenport
- Gwen L. Davenport
- Gwen Leys Davenport
- Mrs. John Davenport
- Michael Hardt (pseudonym)
- Date of Birth
- October 3, 1909
- Colón, Panama
- Date of Death
- March 23, 2002
- Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky
- Residence(s)
- Colón, Panama
- Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, 1937-2002
- Education
- Life Events
- Married, one daughter, two sons
- Awards and Recognitions
- Her novel Belvedere was adapted into three movies and a television comedy series
- Employment
- Field(s) of Activity
- Occupation(s)
- The Bachelor's Baby: A Comedy in Three Acts byPublication Date: 1963Play; 88 pages. "Oliver is one of the town's most eligible bachelors, a charming man with a bevy of women. And his profession as a resort broker gives him unlimited opportunities to travel about the world buying, selling, and building famous resorts. All he needs is a good Girl Friday to keep things in order in his absence. This he has, too, until the day she resigns because she is going to have a baby. The replacements offered to Oliver are a comic lot, and include the officious, mothering type of secretary; the wide-eyed youngster who falls in love with Oliver every moment of the day, and similar misfits. Eventually the old secretary agrees to come back, if she can bring the baby with her. The irate man across the hall, the building owner, a scandal-sheet gossiper, and two South American ministers-without-portfolio get entangled in the ensuing comedy. A wonderfully humorous situation, abounding in laughs."--Publisher's description.
- Belvedere: A Comedy in Three Acts byPublication Date: 1949Play; 115 pages. "Stage version of ... motion picture, Sitting pretty."
- Belvedere: A Comedy in Three Acts (Revised and Rewritten) byPublication Date: 1949Free ebook available through the Internet Archive.
- Time and Chance byISBN: 9781556113734Publication Date: 1993-09-21Historical fiction; 327 pages. Story of the Wrox family of landed gentry, set deep in the English countryside during the first two decades of Queen Victoria's reign.
- Sitting Pretty byISBN: 9786315065705Publication Date: 1948, 2013DVD, full screen; 1 hour and 33 minutes. Based on the novel Belvedere by Gwen Davenport. "As part of his research for a book on suburban life, the self-described genius Mr. Belvedere takes a job as a babysitter for three hard-to-handle children"--Container.
Mr. Belvedere. Season 1 and 2. by ISBN: 9781603992268Publication Date: 1985, 2009DVD, full screen; 2 videodiscs, approx. 5 hours. Originally broadcast on ABC television during the 1985 season. Based on the character "Belvedere" created by Gwen Davenport. Set contains all 29 episodes from the first and second seasons. "When Pittsburgh sports columnist George Owens (Bob Uecker) and wife Marsha (Hene Graff), a new law school student, find themselves with little time to spend with their three rambunctious kids, Marsha places an ad for some household help. Enter Mr. Belvedere (Christopher Hewett), a quick-witted, refined, portly English housekeeper. Despite George's objections, Mr. Belvedere is hired and quickly sets about whipping the Owens family into shape."
Mr. Belvedere. Season 3. by ISBN: 9781603992756Publication Date: 1986, 2009DVD, full screen; 4 videodiscs, approx. 8 hours and 20 minutes.Originally broadcast on ABC television during the 1986-1987 season. Based on the character "Belvedere" created by Gwen Davenport. Contains all 22 episodes from the third season. Bonus features include cast commentaries on selected episodes. "Christopher Hewett returns as Mr. Belvedere, the sardonic and sophisticated housekeeper of the Owens household."- Mr. Belvedere. Season 4. byISBN: 9781603993425Publication Date: 1987, 2009DVD, full screen; 7 hrs, 45 minutes. Originally broadcast on ABC television during the 1987-1988 season. Based on the character "Belvedere" created by Gwen Davenport. Set contains all 20 episodes from the fourth season. Bonus features include original promos. "Christopher Hewett returns as Mr. Belvedere, the sardonic and sophisticated housekeeper of the Owens household."
- "Gwen Davenport, 92, 'Belvedere' Author"Obituary in the New York Times; April 15, 2002.
- "Gwen Davenport, 91; Novelist Known for 'Belvedere' Series"Obituary in the Los Angeles Times; March 26, 2002
Daviess, Maria Thompson
- Name(s)
- Marie Thompson Daviess
- Date of Birth
- November 25, 1872
- Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky
- Date of Death
- September 3, 1924
- New York City, New York
- Buried at the Spring Hill Cemetery, Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky
- Residences
- Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky
- Nashville, Tennessee
- New York City, New York
- Education
- Studied art in Paris
- Peabody College School of Art, Nashville, Tennessee
- Wellesley College (one year), Wellesley, Massachusetts
- Science Hill School, Shelbyville, Kentucky
- Price's Seminary (Nashville College for Young Ladies), Nashville, Tennessee
- Life Events
- Worked with the Equal Suffrage League of Kentucky
- Co-founder and vice-president of the Nashville chapter of the Equal Suffrage League
- Employment
- Faculty, Belmont College, Nashville, Tennessee
- Occupation(s) / Field(s) of Activity
- Artist
- Writer
- Activist
Andrew the Glad by ISBN: 9781426473081Publication Date: 1913, 2006Fiction. The major resumed his contemplation of the fire. Hearty burning logs make good companions for a philosopher like the major, and such times when his depths were troubled he was wont to trust to them for companionship. Free ebook available through Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive.- Blue-Grass and Broadway byPublication Date: 1919Fiction. Free ebook available through ExploreUK, Project Gutenberg, and Internet Archive.
- The Daredevil byPublication Date: 1916Fiction. Free ebook available through HathiTrust, Project Gutenberg, and Internet Archive.
The Elected Mother: A Story of Woman's Equal Rights by ISBN: 9780585204611Publication Date: 1912Fiction; Free ebook available through Internet Archive.- The Golden Bird byPublication Date: 1918Fiction. Free ebook available through ExploreUK, HathiTrust, Project Gutenberg, and Internet Archive.
- The Heart's Kingdom byPublication Date: 1917Fiction. Free ebook available through Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive.
- The Matrix byPublication Date: 1920Historical fiction. "The author has dug deep into all legends and collected as much as possible of documentary evidence, and now presents the reconstructed romance ... of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks, the father and mother of Abraham Lincoln"--Foreward. Free ebook available through Internet Archive.
- The Melting of Molly byPublication Date: 1912Fiction. Free ebook available through Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive.
Miss Selina Lue and the Soap-Box Babies by Publication Date: 1909Fiction. Free ebook available through Google Books and HathiTrust.- Over Paradise Ridge: A Romance byPublication Date: 1915Fiction. Free ebook available through ExploreUK, Project Gutenberg, and Internet Archive.
- Phyllis byPublication Date: 1914Fiction. Free ebook available through ExploreUK, Project Gutenberg, and Internet Archive.
- The Road to Providence byPublication Date: 1910Fiction. Free ebook available through ExploreUK, Project Gutenberg, and Internet Archive.
- Rose of Old Harpeth byPublication Date: 1911Fiction. Free ebook available through ExploreUK, Project Gutenberg, and Internet Archive.
- Sue Jane byPublication Date: 1912Fiction. Free ebook available through Google Books, HathiTrust, and Internet Archive.
- The Tinder-Box byPublication Date: 1913Fiction. Free ebook available through ExploreUK, Project Gutenberg, and Internet Archive.
- Under Silken Skies byPublication Date: 1914Fiction. Available on microform. Reprinted from The Century, v. 88, Aug. 1914. "Picture by Martin Justice."
- Seven Times Seven: An Autobiography byISBN: 9780405128349Publication Date: 1980-09-01Autobiography; 321 pages. Free ebook available through Google Books.
- Mercer County: Daviess, Maria ThompsonArchival material.
- Maria Thompson Daviess at WikipediaWikipedia is a free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
- "Biographical Sketch of Maria Thompson Daviess"Article by Carole Stanford Bucy, Ph.D., published by Alexander Street.
Davis, Brooke Lauren
Photo: Brooke Lauren Davis website
- Name(s)
- Brooke Lauren Davis
- Date of Birth
- Richmond, Virginia
- Residences
- Richmond, Virginia
- Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky
- Small-town Indiana
- Rural Ohio
- Education
- B.A. in English and Creative Writing, Franklin College, Franklin, Indiana, 2016
- Life events
- Married 2021
- Employment
- Indie bookseller, Louisville, Kentucky
- Occupation(s) / Field(s) of Activity
The Hollow Inside by ISBN: 9781547606115Publication Date: 2021-05-25Seventeen-year-old Phoenix has spent much of her life drifting from town to town with her mom Nina, using their charms to swindle and steal to get by. Now they've made it to their ultimate destination, Mom's hometown of Jasper Hollow. The plan: bring down Ellis Bowman, the man who ruined Nina's life. When Phoenix gets caught spying on Ellis, she spins a convincing story that inadvertently gives her full access to the Bowman family. As she digs deeper into their secrets (and begins to fall for daughter Melody), she finds herself entrenched in the tale of a death and a disappearance that doesn't entirely line up with what Mom has told her. But there's even more to this story Phoenix doesn't know. Who, if anyone, is telling the whole truth about what happened? Debut author Brooke Lauren Davis explores the murkiness of right and wrong, of choices and consequences, of heroes and villains, in an eerily compelling and thought-provoking small-town saga.
After Dark with Roxie Clark by ISBN: 9781547606146Publication Date: 2022-10-04"The history of the Clark family is full of untimely deaths and disappearances; many believe they are cursed. But instead of cowering from her family’s past, Roxie Clark is fascinated by it. Using her flare for performance, she’s weaved her ancestors’ history into a lucrative ghost tour. But six months ago, tragedy struck closer to home when her sister Skylar’s boyfriend was found stabbed in a cornfield. Skylar is distraught, and Roxie is desperate to help her find answers and closure. Instead, Skylar becomes obsessed with finding the killer. As the sisters dig, Roxie realizes that everyone in town may be hiding something… and are some secrets best left untold?"--Author's website
