Clare Boothe Luce (1903–1987)
Autor(a) de The Women
About the Author
Clare Boothe Luce was born on March 10, 1903, in New York City. She was the wife of Henry Luce, publisher of Time, Life, and Fortune. She was twice elected to the House of Representatives from 1943 to 1947 and served as an ambassador to Italy from 1953 to 1956. President Reagan awarded her the mostrar mais Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1983. She was the first female member of Congress to receive this award. Luce began her career in writing with Vogue magazine and later worked her way up to managing editor of Vanity Fair. Luce's 1936 play, The Women, was an instant smash on Broadway. She also authored Europe in the Spring, a non-fiction book. Clare Boothe Luce died of brain cancer on October 9, 1987, at age 84, at her Watergate apartment in Washington, D.C. She is buried at Mepkin Abbey, South Carolina, a plantation that she and Henry Luce had once owned and given to a community of Trappist monks. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras de Clare Boothe Luce
Margin for Error 2 cópias
THE WOMAN 1 exemplar(es)
The Women (dvd) 1 exemplar(es)
All for the Love of a Lady- Part 1 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps (1984) — Introdução, algumas edições — 184 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Boothe, Ann Clare (born)
Luce, Ann Clare Boothe (married) - Data de nascimento
- 1903-03-10
- Data de falecimento
- 1987-10-09
- Local de enterro
- Mepkin Abbey, South Carolina, USA
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- New York, New York, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Washington, DC, USA
- Locais de residência
- New York, New York, USA
Washington, D.C., USA
Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Union City, New Jersey, USA - Ocupação
- playwright
politician
ambassador
Representative - Relacionamentos
- Luce, Henry R. (husband)
- Premiações
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (1983)
Laetare Medal (1957)
Membros
Resenhas
Prêmios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 15
- Also by
- 5
- Membros
- 380
- Popularidade
- #63,551
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Resenhas
- 6
- ISBNs
- 14