Background
Rose, Phyllis was born on October 26, 1942 in New York City. Daughter of Eli and Minnie Davidoff.
(A YEAR OF READING PROUST is literary criticism, love stor...)
A YEAR OF READING PROUST is literary criticism, love story, travel essay, biography, personal history, mid-life accounting, mother-daughter story, and essay on the literary life all in one. Starting with a brilliant description of what it feels like to read Proust, Rose moves to an account of her daily life, written with panache, and loving intelligence, which the reading of Proust inspired. Set largely in New York City and Key West, Florida, it gives dazzling glimpses of the lifestyles of the talented and famous. A completely orginal book, an exhilarating literary experience, it invites comparison with autobiographical classics like THE LOVEABLE FEAST and THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS and will do for a generation of American writers what those books did for an earlier generation.
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(Phyllis Rose's first book, Woman of Letters: A Biography ...)
Phyllis Rose's first book, Woman of Letters: A Biography of Virginia Woolf, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Published in 1979, it was in the forefront of feminist re-evaluations of literary figures and raised interest in Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group.
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(In her study of the married couple as the smallest politi...)
In her study of the married couple as the smallest political unit, Phyllis Rose uses as examples the marriages of five Victorian writers who wrote about their own lives with unusual candor.
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(Josephine Baker's fascinating life encompassed stardom in...)
Josephine Baker's fascinating life encompassed stardom in the Paris of the 1920s, a career in the French Resistance, and civil rights activism in the '50s and '60s. Rose brings Baker to life as a performer, as a cultural icon, and as a black woman in a white world. 16 page of photos.
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(A biography of one of the most famous and outrageous blac...)
A biography of one of the most famous and outrageous black entertainers of the interwar years. Born in St Louis, Baker went to Paris in 1925 and became a star of the Folies Bergeres. Her appeal lay in her sexuality and in her colour: blackness was equated with a freedom and vitality lost to the white races. During the war she was involved in the French Resistance and later with Civil Rights groups in America. She achieved fame with her cosmopolitan "rainbow tribe" of adopted children. Phyllis Rose is also the author of "Parallel lives".
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English language professional author
Rose, Phyllis was born on October 26, 1942 in New York City. Daughter of Eli and Minnie Davidoff.
Bachelor summa cum laude, Radcliffe College, 1964; Master of Arts, Yale University, 1965; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1970.
Teaching fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1966-1967;
acting instructor, Yale University, New Haven, 1969;
assistant professor, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1969-1976;
associate professor, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1976-1981;
Professor of English, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, since 1981. Visiting professor University of California, Berkeley, 1981-1982. Chairman fiction jury National BookAwards, 1993.
Board directors Wesleyan Writers Conference.
(A YEAR OF READING PROUST is literary criticism, love stor...)
(In her study of the married couple as the smallest politi...)
(Josephine Baker's fascinating life encompassed stardom in...)
(Josephine Baker's fascinating life encompassed stardom in...)
(Phyllis Rose's first book, Woman of Letters: A Biography ...)
(A biography of one of the most famous and outrageous blac...)
(Never Say Goodbye, by Rose, Phyllis)
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Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, National Book Critics Circle, Authors Guild.
Daughter of Eli and Minnie Davidoff. M. Mark Rose, (divorced 1975). 1 son, Ted.; m. Laurent de Brunhoff, 1990.