biography
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| female
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| lived:
| (1903–92)
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| biography:
| Novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist, born in St Paul, Minnesota, USA. She was educated in the USA, studying music and architecture, then lived in Europe for 30 years as part of the literary fraternity of Paris's Left Bank, and as a correspondent for The New Yorker (1946–53). Her novels include Plagued by the Nightingale (1931) and Generation Without Farewell (1960), but she is particularly known for her several volumes of short stories, such as The Smoking Mountain (1951). She was accused of being a Communist in the McCarthy witch-hunts in the 1950s, and was outspoken against US involvement in Vietnam. |
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