biography
| name: |
Cabell, James Branch
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pronunciation:
[kabl]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1879–1958)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Richmond, Virginia, USA. He studied at the College of William and Mary, then worked as a journalist and coal miner. With his first novel, The Eagle's Shadow (1904), he launched a prolific literary career, producing works ranging from historical short stories to Virginia genealogy. He was known chiefly for his polished romances set in a mythical French province, Poictesme (18 vols, 1913–29), intended as allegories of the modern world, and collectively called Biography of Manuel. The best known of the series, Jurgen (1919), was originally suppressed as being immoral. Highly admired by literary types in his day, his work failed to speak to later generations. |
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