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English 336: Contemporary British & Claudia Emerson Toni Morrison’s A Mercy Cormac McCarthy’s The Road Jim Crace’s The Pesthouse

Claudia Emerson Born in 1957. BA—English from U of Virginia in 1979. Came home, married, and managed a used bookstore. Began to write constantly during work. MA—Poetry from UNC at Greensboro in 1991.

Career Has written three books of poetry. Professor of poetry at University of Mary Washington. Pinion, An Elgy nominated for Pulitzer. 19 year-old marriage failed after coming to UMA.

Pulitzer Prize Winner Won Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2006 for Late Wife. Dual focus between divorce and healing with previous husband and current husband. Late Wife has three parts: “Divorce Epistles”—chronicles dissolution of first marriage. “Breaking Up the House”—explores solitude and healing. “Late Wife: Letters to Kent”—Sonnets written to husband Kent, whose first wife died of cancer. Emerson with new husband, Kent Ippolito, on whom many of her poems from Late Wife are based.

Claudia Emerson Claudia Emerson PBS Interview

Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison Born Chloe Anthony Wofford February 18, 1931 Lorain, Ohio B.A. English, Howard University, 1949 M.A. English, Cornell University, 1955

Toni Morrison Taught English at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas Taught English at Howard University Editor for Random House

Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison Toni Morrison’s A Mercy

Cormac McCarthy

Biography Born in Rhode Island in 1933. Originally named Charles; changed name to “Cormac” after an Irish king. Attended the University of Tennessee in Liberal Arts in spurts but never graduated. Worked in Chicago as an auto mechanic while writing first novel. Wrote several novels—The Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, and Child of God—and received several fellowships during early career. After living in several places and two divorces, he moved to El Paso, Texas.

Received MacArthur Fellowship and used the money to live while writing. Published Blood Meridian in 1985—turning point in his work. Blood Meridian is based on actual events; McCarthy learned Spanish in order to research and write more effectively. Border Trilogy began with All the Pretty Horses in 1992. Continued with The Crossing and Cities of the Plain.

Married wife Jennifer around 1998; they live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Published No Country for Old Men 2005. The film won four Academy Awards in 2007, including Best Picture. The Road published in 2006. Won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2007. Very private life. Only one interview to New York Time and first television interview was with Oprah on June 5, 2007. Oprah Interview Endured outright poverty at times in his career.

Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy John Grady Cole Texas and Mexico 1930s

Cormac McCarthy Billy Parham Texas and Mexico 1930s

Cormac McCarthy John Grady Cole Billy Parham New Mexico, Texas, Mexico 1952

Cormac McCarthy

Jim Crace Born 1946 London Booker Award, 1997 for Quarantine National Book Award, 1999 for Being Dead

Jim Crace

Jim Crace

Jim Crace

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