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People who led to my plays / Adrienne Kennedy.
Van Pelt Library PS3561.E4252 P4 1987
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kennedy, Adrienne.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kennedy, Adrienne.
- Dramatists, American--20th century--Biography.
- Dramatists, American.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 10 unnumbered pages, 125 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- Firs Edition.
- Distribution:
- New York : Distributed by Random House, Inc.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.
- Contents:
- Elementary School 1936-1943. Fairy tales; My family; The radio; Jesus; My teachers; The movies, dolls, paper dolls; Hitler; Jane Eyre
- Junior High 1943-1946. Miss Eichenbaum and Chopin; Writing to the movie stars; Hearing of "artistic struggle"
- High School 1946-1949. My friends and teachers; My grandmother's death; Julius Caesar; Jane Eyre, continued; The Glass Menagerie
- College 1949-1953. Fitzgerald; My husband-to-be; Willy Loman; Lorca
- Marriage and Motherhood 1953-1960. Dreaming of being a writer; More of Williams, Lorca, Chekhov, many others and myself; And still remembering childhood
- A Voyage 1960-1961. On the Queen Elizabeth; Africa; Georgia remembered; Julius Caesar; And pages that held a "destiny".
- Notes:
- "This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc."
- "This book was set in a digitized version of Janson."
- "Typography and binding design by Tasha Hall."
- "Jacket design by Susan Mitchell."
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.
- Banks Collection copy has [1] page of notes written in ms. laid in.
- ISBN:
- 0394556607
- OCLC:
- 14904389
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