Percy Marks

Percy Marks (9. septembar 1891 - 27. decembar 1956) bio je američki književnik i univerzitetski profesor, najpoznatiji kao autor bestseler-romana The Plastic Age. Diplomirao je na Berkeleyu 1912. godine, a magistrirao na Harvardu, otpočevši karijeru nastavnika engleskog jezika na nizu američkih univerziteta kao što su Dartmouth College i Brown University; nju je nakratko prekinula služba u Vojska SAD u prvom svjetskom ratu. The Plastic Age je objavio 1924. godine; roman, u kome je na realističan način opisan život tadašnjih američkih studenata, je izazvao senzaciju, te usprkos zabrane u nekim dijelovima SAD postao bestseler. Sljedeće godine je po njemu snimljen uspješni film koji je učinio zvijezdu od Clare Bow. Marks se 1925. povukao sa univerziteta kako bi se u potpunosti posvetio pisanju. Godine 1927. se oženio za Margret Ellen Gates s kojom će imati kćer Sally Jean Marks,[1][2] koja je kasnije postala profesorica međunarodnih odnosa na Rhode Island Collegeu.[3]

Bibliografija

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Markosva objavljena djela uključuju:

  • The Plastic Age (1924)
  • Martha (1925)
  • Which Way Parnassus? (1926)[4]
  • Lord of Himself (1927) (nastavak The Plastic Age)[5]
  • A Dead Man Dies (1929)
  • The Unwilling God (1929)
  • The Craft of Writing (1932)
  • A Tree Grown Straight (1936)[6]
  • Better themes, a college textbook of writing and re-writing (1936)
  • And Points Beyond (1937)
  • What's A Heaven For? (1938)
  • The Days Are Fled (1939)
  • No Steeper Wall (1940)
  • Between Two Autumns (1941)[7]
  • Full Flood (1942)[8]
  • Knave of Diamonds (1943)
  • Shade of Sycamore (1944)
  • The College Writer (1946)
  • Blair Marriman (1949)[9]
  • Round Valley Days (nedovršeni rukopis)

Izvori

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  1. ↑ (29 December 1956). PERCY MARKS DIES; NOVELIST WAS 65; Author of 'The Plastic Age' Wrote 20 Books--Taught at Brown, Dartmouth, M.I.T. Conducted Workshops, The New York Times
  2. ↑ Davie, Maurice R. Percy Marks, Writer and Teacher, The Yale University Library Gazette, Vol. 38, No. 3 (January 1964), pp. 111-113
  3. ↑ Sally Marks (short bio) Arhivirano 2010-07-01 na Wayback Machine-u, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, pristup 6. VIII 2011
  4. ↑ Marks, Percy. Athletics, in Essays - Yesterday and Today (1934) , pp. 195-214 (excerpt from book, text online)
  5. ↑ (30 January 1927). "Lord of Himself" and Other New Works Of Fiction, The New York Times
  6. ↑ Marsh, Fred T. (1 March 1936). A Model Son (book review), The New York Times
  7. ↑ Sherman, Beatrice (28 September 1941). All In One Year (book review), The New York Times
  8. ↑ Ashton, Jean (4 September 1942). Two Kinds of Handicaps (book review), Windsor Daily Star
  9. ↑ Hewitt-Myring, Philip (13 March 1949). Romantic Duo (book review), The New York Times

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