Background
Simon, Linda was born on December 12, 1946 in Brooklyn. Daughter of Samuel and Kay (Pacula) Perlin.
('It's fitting that Alice B. Toklas, 'wife' and literary i...)
'It's fitting that Alice B. Toklas, 'wife' and literary impresario of Gertrude Stein, should be the subject of a biography...and this is a good one, sensitive and lively...it's clear from this portrait that through her possessive affection she not only had a dominant influence on Stein's life but (for good or ill) on her highly idiosyncratic prose. With her acid tongue, shrewd judgment, vitality, and intense loyalty she was a fairly remarkable person in her-self' - "Publishers Weekly".'Linda Simon writes beautifully of Alice's early years in California, of her Polish-Jewish family, of her growing alienation from her surroundings and gravitation toward artists, of her awareness of the isolating burden homosexuality would force on her...entertaining, thoroughly researched. and well-written...with a clear gaze fixed on undistorted truth' - "Saturday Review". 'A study that shows Toklas as she must have been, not 'Miss Stein's obedient shadow,'...but a multifaceted and complex creature with her own tastes and standards...her story is an emotionally stirring experience' - "Washington Post Book World".Linda Simon, in her preface to this Bison Book edition, calls Alice B.Toklas 'a woman who, through a mixture of determination and good luck, invented a new narrative for her life' at a time when options for women were few. Simon is the author of "Thornton Wilder: His World" (1979), "Good Writing" (1988), and other books. She is now working on a biography of William James.
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(From the Preface: 'The HarperCollins Guide to Writing' is...)
From the Preface: 'The HarperCollins Guide to Writing' is a book about the ways writers write and the work they produce. Writers, whether student or professional, seem always to be in the midst of a conversation: they're always listening to a number of voices as tehey formulate their own ideas. In this book, we've tried to capture the essence of those conversations, some actual, some imagined. We've tried to give students a sense of just how such conversations lead to good writing. We've created part of that conversational context by including a "Sourcebook of Readings" about a variety of topics: individual identity, morality and authority, and education. When students write about these issues, they have a chance to join conversations already begun by other writers. The 'Guide' shows students how to enter these conversations on their own authority, how to ask questions and revise questions as they consider either the evidence they find in these selections or in additional sources they gather during their own searches.
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The War of the Roses and the Tudor dynasty, this book is so filled with historical accuracies that winced a dozen times while reading it. Although not very well researched, it did have many contemporary quotations that its found interesting, but that is the only complimentary thing that can be said about this work.
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Simon, Linda was born on December 12, 1946 in Brooklyn. Daughter of Samuel and Kay (Pacula) Perlin.
Bachelor, Queens College, 1967. Master of Arts, New York University, 1972. Master of Arts, Brandeis University, 1981.
Doctor of Philosophy, Brandeis University, 1983.
Instructor, Emory University, Atlanta, 1982-1983; head preceptor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1983; director Writing Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1986.
(The War of the Roses and the Tudor dynasty, this book is ...)
(From the Preface: 'The HarperCollins Guide to Writing' is...)
('It's fitting that Alice B. Toklas, 'wife' and literary i...)
('It's fitting that Alice B. Toklas, 'wife' and literary i...)
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1 child, Aaron.