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Ruth McKenney (1911–1972)

Autor(a) de Here's England

11+ Works 220 Membros 10 Críticas 1 Favorited

About the Author

Inclui os nomes: McKenney R, Ruth McKenny

Obras por Ruth McKenney

Here's England (1951) — Autor — 83 exemplares
My Sister Eileen (1938) 69 exemplares
Industrial valley (1992) 19 exemplares
The McKenneys Carry On (1940) 13 exemplares
Far, Far From Home (1954) 9 exemplares
Love Story (1950) 7 exemplares
All about Eileen 5 exemplares
Jake Home (1943) 5 exemplares
Mirage (1956) 4 exemplares
The loud red Patrick (1947) 4 exemplares

Associated Works

The Best American Humorous Short Stories (1945) — Contribuidor — 82 exemplares
My Sister Eileen: A Comedy in Three Acts (1941) — Original book — 28 exemplares
More Chucklebait: Funny Stories for Everyone (1949) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
Modern American Short Stories (1941) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (1963) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
15 Stories: An Anthology for Secondary Schools (1960) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico
McKenney, Ruth
Nome legal
McKenney, Ruth Marguerite
Data de nascimento
1911-11-18
Data de falecimento
1972-07-27
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Mishawaka, Indiana, USA
Locais de residência
East Cleveland, Ohio, USA
New York, New York, USA
Educação
Ohio State University
Ocupações
journalist
author
screenwriter
Relações
Minton, Bruce (pen name of Richard Bransten|husband)
McKenney, Eileen (sister)
Organizações
Akron Beacon Journal

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Ruth McKenney is best remembered for My Sister Eileen, a memoir that was adapted as the musical Wonderful Town by Leonard Bernstein.

MCKENNEY, RUTH (18 Nov. 1911-15 July 1972) immortalized the nostalgia felt for her Cleveland upbringing in the stories she wrote under the collective title My Sister Eileen. Born in Mishawaka, Ind., she was brought by her family as a child to EAST CLEVELAND, where she became valedictorian at Shaw High School. After attending Ohio State University, she became a reporter for the Akron Beacon Journal and the New York Post.Her "Eileen" stories, based on the experiences of her and her sister, first appeared in The New Yorker in the 1930s, becoming the basis for a play of the same title and a later musical, Wonderful Town. She also wrote a non-fictional account of the Goodyear rubber strike in Akron under the title Industrial Valley. Married to the writer Richard Bransten (a.k.a. Bruce Minton), she and her husband were expelled from the Communist Party in 1946 for questioning party tactics. They became expatriots, but she returned to Cleveland following his death while her daughter Eileen attended Griswold Institute in 1958-59. She died in New York, survived by the daughter, a stepson, and an adopted son of her sister Eileen, who had been killed in an automobile accident with her husband, the novelist Nathanial West.

Membros

Críticas

I must say, reading this on Valentines Day gave a deeper meaning to the stories. . . Oh, Ruth!
 
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OutOfTheBestBooks | Sep 24, 2021 |
My relationship with Eileen began when I became obsessed with Jack Lemmon and looked him up in the library system. He was in a little-known (and rightly so) musical of the same name of this book. Cutesy, but blah. But he was good. In the process of a few years I discovered Rosalind Russell and Brian Aherne. When they released the original My Sister Eileen with the two of them, I just had to watch it (that one is much better). So, one day, wanting to remember if the Jack Lemmon version was just as mediocre as I remembered I looked it up in the system (again!) and found. . .

THIS!

Oh.
My.
Goodness.

This book is hilarious!
I couldn't put it down. I was up and laughing at it at midnight last night.
To be sure she certainly doesn't tone down her language and various stories are better than others (my favorite being the Elocution lessons), but this book brought me right back to those days when I had first discovered [b:Cheaper by the Dozen|764903|Cheaper by the Dozen|Frank B. Gilbreth|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348220916s/764903.jpg|1925199]. So much fun to read. I highly recommend it! And, although I will never be able to enjoy the movie quite so much again (because it pales so in comparison), Thank you, Jack Lemmon.
… (mais)
 
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OutOfTheBestBooks | 3 outras críticas | Sep 24, 2021 |
Reminiscent of Erma Bombeck's writing. This book was an account-filled adventure series of Ruth and her sister.
 
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niquetteb | 3 outras críticas | Jul 28, 2019 |
This novel is about Napoleon's Egyptian campaign and about the personal journey of the relationship between two characters, Rémi and Corinne. It is studded with historical references and extremely detailed in its scope, sometimes so detailed, I simply lost interest..The novel is nevertheless witty, sometimes very funny, with realistic dialogues. I was intrigued by the spying element which we do not hear much about. The are so many levels of interest that I was reminded of Tolstoy's War and Peace.… (mais)
 
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nlanthierl | Jul 31, 2016 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
11
Also by
8
Membros
220
Popularidade
#101,715
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Críticas
10
ISBN
8
Marcado como favorito
1

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