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Paging New Jersey : a literary guide to the Garden State / James F. Broderick.
LIBRA PS253.N5 B76 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Broderick, James F., 1963-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--New Jersey--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Authors, American--Homes and haunts--New Jersey.
- Authors, American.
- Literary landmarks--New Jersey.
- Literary landmarks.
- Intellectual life.
- Authors, American--Homes and haunts.
- New Jersey--Intellectual life.
- New Jersey.
- New Jersey--In literature.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- This engaging book answers such intriguing questions as how author Peter Benchley got the idea for "Jaws; " where Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton; and why the "Hindenberg" exploded over Lakehurst in 1937.
- Contents:
- Philip Freneau
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Mary Griffith
- Walt Whitman
- Mary Mapes Dodge
- Thomas Nast
- Mary Wilkins Freeman
- Stephen Crane
- Albert Payson Terhune
- William Carlos Williams
- Joyce Kilmer
- Allen Ginsberg
- Mary Higgins Clark
- Toni Morrison
- Amiri Baraka
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Peter Benchley
- Anna Quindlen
- Cheaper by the dozen
- Goodbye, Columbus
- The Pine Barrens
- Eddie and the Cruisers
- Jersey luck
- Rosamund's vision
- Laying down the law
- One for the money
- Our guys
- Lost legends of New Jersey
- Searching for Captain Kidd's treasure
- Burr, Hamilton, and the duel of history in Weehawken
- The Lindbergh baby kidnapping
- The Hindenburg disaster
- The trials of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
- Mobbed in New Jersey
- On the (paper) trail of the New Jersey Devil
- Dodge Poetry Festival
- The New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame
- Stages of greatness : a survey of the history of theater in New Jersey
- Reaching critical mass in the Garden State
- Stoned in New Jersey.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813532906
- OCLC:
- 50919856
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