"Miramax shelved the film for a year. The Quiet American The Quiet American is a 1955 novel by English author Graham Greene. Narrated in the first person by journalist Thomas Fowler, the novel depicts the breakdown of French colonialism in Vietnam and early American involvement in the Vietnam War. A subplot concerns a love triangle between Fowler, an American CIA agent named Alden Pyle, and Phuong, a young Vietnamese woman The novel implicitly questions the foundations of growing American involvement in Vietnam in the 1950s and is unique in its exploration of the subject topic through the links among its"
"Notable for an ability to combine serious literary acclaim with broad popularity, his novels include ""Brighton Rock"" (1938), ""The Power and the Glory"" (1940), ""The Heart of the Matter"" (1948), ""A Burnt-Out Case"" (1961), and ""The Human Factor"" (1978). Other novelists writing in the 1950s and later were: Anthony Powell whose twelve-volume cycle of novels ""A Dance to the Music of Time"", is a comic examination of movements and manners, power and passivity in English political, cultural and military life in the mid-20th century; comic novelist Kingsley Amis is best known for his academic satire ""Lucky Jim"" (1954); Nobel Prize"
"Ford Madox Ford Ford Madox Ford (born Ford Hermann Hueffer ( ); 17 December 1873 – 26 June 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals, ""The English Review"" and ""The Transatlantic Review"", were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature. Ford is now remembered for his novels ""The Good Soldier"" (1915), the ""Parade's End"" tetralogy (1924–28) and ""The Fifth Queen"" trilogy (1906–08). ""The Good Soldier"" is frequently included among the great literature of the 20th century, including the Modern Library 100 Best Novels, ""The Observer""′s ""100 Greatest Novels of All Time"", and ""The Guardian""′s"
"conservative agent of the British intelligence services, upholding such reactionary causes as the struggle of the Catholic Church against the Mexican revolution (""The Power and the Glory"", 1940), and arguing the necessary merciful function of religion in a context of human misery (""Brighton Rock"", 1938; ""The Heart of the Matter"", 1948). The better he came to know the socio-political realities of the third world where he was operating, and the more directly he came to be confronted by the rising tide of revolution in those countries, the more his doubts regarding the imperialist cause grew, and the more his novels"
"the 1920s, and John Dos Passos wrote too about the war. Ernest Hemingway became famous with ""The Sun Also Rises"" and ""A Farewell to Arms""; in 1954, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. William Faulkner became one of the greatest American writers with novels like ""The Sound and the Fury"". American poetry reached a peak after World War I with such writers as Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, and E. E. Cummings. American drama attained international status at the time with the works of Eugene O'Neill, who won four Pulitzer Prizes and the Nobel Prize."
"of the modern world, often through a Catholic perspective. Although Greene objected strongly to being described as a Roman Catholic novelist, rather than as a novelist who happened to be Catholic, Catholic religious themes are at the root of much of his writing, especially the four major Catholic novels: ""Brighton Rock"", ""The Power and the Glory"", ""The Heart of the Matter"", and ""The End of the Affair""; which have been named ""the gold standard"" of the Catholic novel. Several works, such as ""The Confidential Agent"", ""The Quiet American"", ""Our Man in Havana"", ""The Human Factor"", and his screenplay for ""The"
"F. Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American fiction writer, whose works helped to illustrate the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age. While he achieved popular success, fame, and fortune in his lifetime, he did not receive much critical acclaim until after his death. Perhaps the most notable member of the ""Lost Generation"" of the 1920s, Fitzgerald is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. He finished four novels: ""This Side of Paradise"", ""The Beautiful and Damned"", ""The Great Gatsby"", and ""Tender Is"
"(1921), ""The Gold Rush"" (1925), ""City Lights"" (1931), ""Modern Times"" (1936), and ""The Great Dictator"" (1940). Directed features: Charlie Chaplin Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, ""the Tramp"", and is considered one of the most important figures in the history of the film industry. His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and encompassed both"
"Pynchon's ""Gravity's Rainbow"", Robert Coover's ""The Public Burning"", Samuel Beckett’s ""Trilogy"" (""Molloy"", ""Malone Dies"" and ""The Unnamable""), Gertrude Stein’s ""The Making of Americans"", and William S. Burrough's ""The Nova Trilogy"". Topping the list is Vladimir Nabokov's 1962 novel ""Pale Fire"", which McCaffery called the ""most audaciously conceived novel of the century."" Not counting the tetralogies of Rikki Ducornet (#35) and Gene Wolfe (#78), the most cited author is James Joyce, whose four works, ""Ulysses"" (#2), ""Finnegans Wake"" (#10), ""A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"" (#21), and ""Dubliners"" (#63), all made the list. Robert Coover and William H."
"F. Scott Fitzgerald bibliography Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the ""Lost Generation"" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: ""This Side of Paradise"", ""The Beautiful and Damned"", ""The Great Gatsby"" (his most famous), and ""Tender Is the Night"". A fifth, unfinished novel, ""The Last Tycoon"", was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories"
"William Slater Brown William Slater Brown (November 13, 1896 – June 22, 1997) was an American novelist, biographer, and translator of French literature. Most notably, he was a friend of the poet E. E. Cummings and is best known as the character ""B."" in Cumming's 1922 memoir/novel ""The Enormous Room"". His books, published under the name Slater Brown, include the novel ""The Burning Wheel"" (1943); ""Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys"" (1956), a biography for children; and ""The Heyday of Spiritualism"" (1970), a study of the 19th-century interest in parapsychology and the occult. Brown was born to the physician"
"Generation"" (1973), ""And I Worked at the Writer's Trade"" (1978), and ""The Dream of the Golden Mountains: Remembering the 1930s"" (1980). ""And I Worked"" won a 1980 U.S. National Book Award in the one-year category Autobiography. When ""The Portable Malcolm Cowley"" (Donald Faulkner, editor) was published in 1990, the year after Cowley's death, Michael Rogers wrote in ""Library Journal"": ""Though a respected name in hardcore literary circles, in general the late Cowley is one of the unsung heroes of 20th-century American literature. Poet, critic, Boswell of the Lost Generation of which he himself was a member, savior of Faulkner's dwindling"
"a major 20th-century novelist, and was praised by John Irving, prior to Greene's death, as ""the most accomplished living novelist in the English language."" Novelist Frederick Buechner called Greene's novel ""The Power and the Glory"" a ""tremendous influence."" By 1943 Greene had acquired the reputation of being the ""leading English male novelist of his generation"", and at the time of his death in 1991 had a reputation as a writer of both deeply serious novels on the theme of Catholicism, and of ""suspense-filled stories of detection"". Acclaimed during his lifetime, he was shortlisted in 1966 for the Nobel Prize for"
"dubbed the ""Great American Novel"". Twelve U.S. citizens have won the Nobel Prize in Literature, most recently Bob Dylan in 2016. William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck are often named among the most influential writers of the 20th century. Popular literary genres such as the Western and hardboiled crime fiction developed in the United States. The Beat Generation writers opened up new literary approaches, as have postmodernist authors such as John Barth, Thomas Pynchon, and Don DeLillo. The transcendentalists, led by Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, established the first major American philosophical movement. After the Civil War, Charles Sanders"
"in getting protagonist Billy Boyle through German-occupied Italy. Sterling Hayden Sterling Walter Hayden (born Sterling Relyea Walter; March 26, 1916 – May 23, 1986) was an American actor and author. For most of his career as a leading man, he specialized in westerns and film noir, such as ""Johnny Guitar"", ""The Asphalt Jungle"", and ""The Killing"". Later he became noted for appearing in supporting roles such as Gen. Jack D. Ripper in ""Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"" (1964). He also played the Irish American policeman Captain McCluskey in Francis Ford Coppola's ""The"
"in Black, Her Ladyship, The Millionaire"" and ""Fashions"". ""The Woman in Black"" was made into a movie starring Lionel Barrymore. He wrote three postulating, science-fiction type novels: ""The Coming Crown"" (1880) tells the story of President Ulysses S. Grant becoming Emperor. ""'84: A Political Revelation"" (1881) is about the possible results of the 1884 presidential conventions and ""The Stricken Nation"" (1890), which depicts England's navy bombarding New York City. Donnelly later moved to Plymouth, Massachusetts and died there in 1931. Henry Grattan Donnelly Henry Grattan Donnelly (1850–1931) was an author and playwright born in Baltimore, Maryland. Named after the Irish"
"the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. ""The Sound and the Fury"" is set in Jefferson, Mississippi. The novel centers on the Compson family, former Southern aristocrats who are struggling to deal with the dissolution of their family and its reputation. Over the course of the 30 years or so related in the novel, the family falls into financial ruin, loses its religious faith and the respect of the town of Jefferson, and many of them die tragically. The novel is separated into four distinct sections. The first, April 7, 1928, is written from the perspective of Benjamin"
"twentieth – the first being Hamish MacCunn who wrote ""Jeanie Deans"" in 1894, commissioned by Carl Rosa. This he followed by ""Diarmid"" 1897, ""Prue"", (unfinished) 1904, ""The Golden Girl"", 1905, and ""Breast of Light"" (unfinished). Like many talented Scots he was soon drawn to study and develop his creative career south of the border. McCunn is best known for his non-operatic piece ""Land of the Mountain and the Flood"". Excerpts from ""Jeanie Deans"" have been recorded. The other figure is William Wallace, whose 1896 piece ""Brassolis"" is a lyrical tragedy in one act. Again, like McCunn, he was mainly an"
"accused Steinbeck of exaggerating camp conditions to make a political point. Steinbeck had visited the camps well before publication of the novel and argued that their inhumane nature destroyed the settlers' spirit. ""The Quiet American"" (1955) by English novelist Graham Greene questions the foundations of growing American involvement in Vietnam in the 1950s. The novel has received much attention due to its prediction of the outcome of the Vietnam War and subsequent American foreign policy since the 1950s. Graham Greene portrays a U.S. official named Pyle as so blinded by American exceptionalism that he cannot see the calamities he brings"
"Helen Hunt Jackson Helen Hunt Jackson (pen name, H.H.; October 15, 1830 – August 12, 1885), was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government. She described the adverse effects of government actions in her history ""A Century of Dishonor"" (1881). Her novel ""Ramona"" (1884) dramatized the federal government's mistreatment of Native Americans in Southern California after the Mexican–American War and attracted considerable attention to her cause. Commercially popular, it was estimated to have been reprinted 300 times and most readers liked its romantic and picturesque"
"at Leland Powers School in Boston. She lived in New Orleans and, for two and a half years, lived in Rio de Janeiro. She began work as a feature editor and a newspaper reporter. Ann Fairbairn Dorothy Tait, (March 1, 1901, Cambridge, Massachusetts – February 8, 1972, Monterey, California) better known by her pen name, Ann Fairbairn, was an American author. She wrote ""Five Smooth Stones"", published in 1966, which was her best-known work. Fairbairn also wrote ""That Man Cartwright"", which was published in 1970. Tait for ten years managed the American and international tours of jazz clarinetist George Lewis's"
"David Markson David Merrill Markson (December 20, 1927 – c. June 4, 2010) was an American novelist. He was the author of several postmodern novels, including ""Springer's Progress"", ""Wittgenstein's Mistress"", and ""Reader's Block"". His final book, ""The Last Novel"", published in 2007, was called ""a real tour de force"" by ""The New York Times"". Markson's work is characterized by an unconventional and experimental approach to narrative, character development and plot. The late writer David Foster Wallace hailed ""Wittgenstein's Mistress"" as ""pretty much the high point of experimental fiction in this country"". While his early works draw on the modernist tradition"
"the 1950s, critics have focused on symbolism and didacticism. The critic Harold Bloom has opined that only Henry James and William Faulkner challenge Hawthorne's position as the greatest American novelist, although he admits that he favors James as the greatest American novelist. Bloom sees Hawthorne's greatest works to be principally ""The Scarlet Letter"", followed by ""The Marble Faun"" and certain short stories, including ""My Kinsman, Major Molineux"", ""Young Goodman Brown"", ""Wakefield"", and ""Feathertop"". The ""definitive edition"" of Hawthorne's works is ""The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne"", edited by William Charvat and others, published by The Ohio State"
"movie from Regal Films who made B movies for 20th Century Fox. It was from the same team who had made ""Stagecoach to Fury"" (1956). During a screening of the film in Los Angeles, an armed robbers burgled the cinema and was shot by police trying to flee. The Quiet Gun The Quiet Gun is a 1957 American Western film directed by William F. Claxton and written by Eric Norden and Earle Lyon. The film stars Forrest Tucker, Mara Corday, Jim Davis, Kathleen Crowley, Lee Van Cleef and Hank Worden. It is based on the 1955 novel ""Lawman"" by Lauran"
"The Quiet Gun The Quiet Gun is a 1957 American Western film directed by William F. Claxton and written by Eric Norden and Earle Lyon. The film stars Forrest Tucker, Mara Corday, Jim Davis, Kathleen Crowley, Lee Van Cleef and Hank Worden. It is based on the 1955 novel ""Lawman"" by Lauran Paine. The film was released in January 1957, by 20th Century Fox. It was known as Fury at Rock River. Doug Sadler (Lee Van Cleef), a cattle rustler comes to town. He’s in a secret partnership with saloon owner John Reilly (Tom Brown). They plan to run the"
"problem. Since 1948 the call for unity between Afrikaner and English has remained, but the race issue has become more and more focal. Race relations are a major preoccupation in Henry Gibb's four book saga: ""The Splendour and the Dust"" (1955), ""The Winds of Time"" (1956), ""Thunder at Dawn"" (1957) and ""The Tumult and the Shouting"" (1957), and Daphne Rooke's ""Mittee"" (1951). Most writers since 1948, with some notable exceptions, have treated the war largely as the backdrop for historical romance: Stuart Cloete, ""Rags of Glory"" (1963); Sam Manion, ""The Great Hunger"" (1964); Wilbur Smith, ""The Sound of Thunder"" (1966);"
"John Steinbeck John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. (; February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature ""for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception."" He has been called ""a giant of American letters,"" and many of his works are considered classics of Western literature. During his writing career, he authored 27 books, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels ""Tortilla Flat"" (1935) and ""Cannery Row"" (1945), the multi-generation epic"
"significant modernist dramatists writing in the 1920s and 1930s were Bertolt Brecht and Federico García Lorca. D. H. Lawrence's ""Lady Chatterley's Lover"" was published in 1928, while another important landmark for the history of the modern novel came with the publication of William Faulkner's ""The Sound and the Fury"" in 1929. In the 1930s, in addition to further major works by Faulkner (As I Lay Dying, Light in August), Samuel Beckett published his first major work, the novel ""Murphy"" (1938), while in 1932 John Cowper Powys published ""A Glastonbury Romance"", the same year as Hermann Broch's ""The Sleepwalkers"". One of"
"(1892–1978), who began publishing in the 1920s, and novelist Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), who was an influential feminist, and a major stylistic innovator associated with the stream-of-consciousness technique in novels like ""Mrs Dalloway"" (1925) and ""To the Lighthouse"" (1927). T.S. Eliot had begun this attempt to revive poetic drama with ""Sweeney Agonistes"" in 1932, and this was followed by others including three further plays after the war. ""In Parenthesis"", a modernist epic poem based on author David Jones's (1895–1974) experience of World War I, was published in 1937. An important development, beginning in the 1930s and 1940s was a tradition of"
"symbolic narrative turns reminiscent of Melville, in ""Blood Meridian"" (1985), which Harold Bloom styled ""the greatest single book since Faulkner's ""As I Lay Dying"","" calling the character of Judge Holden ""short of Moby Dick, the most monstrous apparition in all of American literature""; in a much more pastoral tone in his celebrated Border Trilogy (1992–98) of ""bildungsromans"", including ""All the Pretty Horses"" (1992), winner of the National Book Award; and in the post-apocalyptic genre in the Pulitzer Prize-winning ""The Road"" (2007). His novels are noted for achieving both commercial and critical success, several of his works having been adapted to"
"be classed as ""poetic prose"" as it did not have the rhythm or ""musical pattern"" of verse. In contrast, a couple of other Modernist authors wrote prose poetry consistently, including Gertrude Stein and Sherwood Anderson. ""By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept"" by Canadian author Elizabeth Smart, written in 1945, is a relatively isolated example of English-language poetic prose in the mid-20th century. Prose poems gained a resurgence in the early 1950s and '60s when American poets such as Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Russell Edson, Charles Simic, Robert Bly, John Ashbery and James"
"the 1920s and 1930s, with the works of Eugene O'Neill, who won four Pulitzer Prizes and the Nobel Prize. In the middle of the 20th century, American drama was dominated by the work of playwrights Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, as well as by the maturation of the American musical, which had found a way to integrate script, music and dance in such works as ""Oklahoma!"" and ""West Side Story"". Later American playwrights of importance include Edward Albee, Sam Shepard, David Mamet, August Wilson and Tony Kushner. Depression era literature was blunt and direct in its social criticism. John Steinbeck"
"gain national attention until the publication of his essay, ""Perchance to Dream,"" in Harper's Magazine, discussing the cultural role of the writer in the new millennium through the prism of his own frustrations. ""The Corrections"", a tragicomedy about the disintegrating Lambert family, has been called ""the literary phenomenon of [its] decade"" and was ranked as one of the greatest novels of the past century. In 2010, he published ""Freedom"" to great critical acclaim. Other notable writers at the turn of the century include Michael Chabon, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning ""The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay"" (2000) tells the story of"