1600 Campus Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90041, USA
Espey returned to the United States to study at Occidental College in 1930.
Merton St, Oxford OX1 4JD, UK
Espey went to Merton College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar in 1935.
1600 Campus Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90041, USA
Espey returned to the United States to study at Occidental College in 1930.
Merton St, Oxford OX1 4JD, UK
Espey went to Merton College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar in 1935.
(Text and illustrations trace the adventures of Algernon t...)
Text and illustrations trace the adventures of Algernon the cat throughout his nine lives.
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1988
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1990
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When his grandfather dies, the narrator travels to Wyoming to settle the estate and encounters a family crisis that will take thirty years to solve.
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1992
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An American boy, son of Presbyterian missionaries, was born in Shanghai early in this century. The boy lived two lives, one within the pious church compound, the other along the canal and in the alleys of a traditional Chinese city.
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1994
John Espey was born on January 15, 1913, in Shanghai, China. Espey was the son of Presbyterian missionaries and grew up in China. A sickly child, at age 3 he once overheard the doctor telling his parents, "You'd best prepare for not seeing John anymore."
Espey returned to the United States to study at Occidental College in 1930, then went to Merton College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar in 1935.
After receiving degrees from Oxford Espey returned to the United States to teach at Occidental from 1938 to 1948 but then moved to the University of California at Los Angeles where he stayed for a quarter of a century. Espey used tales of his early years in the Far East as the basis for several books: Minor Heresies, which received the Commonwealth Silver Medal, Tales out of School, and The Other City. Other books include The Anniversaries, An Observer and The Empty Box Haiku. After the death of his wife, Alice Martha Rideout, he became involved with fellow writer Carolyn See. With See and her daughter, Lisa See Kendall, the trio wrote several novels under the joint pseudonym Monica Highland, including Lotus Land, 110 Shanghai Road, and Greetings from Southern California, each of which was optioned for a television miniseries. Espey waited more than twenty years after the deaths of his parents, both private and quiet people, before writing more specifically about his youth. The resulting book, 1990’s Strong Drink, Strong Language, was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award.
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1988In 1938, John married Alice Martha Rideout, whom he met as an undergraduate. They had two daughters, Alice and Susan. A year after his wife's death in 1974, he began a literary and personal relationship with Carolyn See, who had been one of his graduate students, which lasted the rest of his life. They wrote of their relationship in Two Schools of Thought: Some Tales of Learning and Romance (1991). Under the pseudonym "Monica Highland," Espey, See, and Carolyn's daughter, Lisa See wrote three popular novels: Lotus Land (1983), 110 Shanghai Road (1986), and Greetings from Southern California (1988).
