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William Humphrey (June 18, 1924 – August 20, 1997) was an American novelist, memoirist, short story writer, and author of literary sporting and nature stories. His published works, while still available in French translation, largely have been out of print until recently.
William Humphrey, nato William Jonathan Humphrey (Chicopee Falls, 2 gennaio 1875 – Hollywood, 4 ottobre 1942), è stato un attore e regista statunitense. Talvolta venne accreditato come William Humphreys o come William J. Humphrey .
William Humphrey (Clarksville, 18 giugno 1924 – New York, 20 agosto 1997) è stato uno scrittore statunitense. Scrisse soprattutto romanzi ispirati alla vita rurale del Texas. Opere. Home from the Hill, A Casa Dopo l'Uragano (1957) The Ordways (1965) Proud Flesh (1973) Memoir (1977) Hostages to Fortune (1984) No Resting Place (1989)
20 ago 1997 · American novelist, memoirist, short story writer, author of thirteen books, including five novels, collections of short stories and a memoir. Humphrey's first novel was Home from the Hill.
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His novels are Home from the Hill (1958), about a family whose men are hunters and live and die by the bloody code of their region; The Ordways (1965), a larger family chronicle of four generations from Tennessee to Texas; and Proud Flesh (1973), portraying the matriarch of a cotton-raising family.
William Humphrey’s dazzling debut novel, the inspiration for a major motion picture starring Robert Mitchum, is a masterpiece of twentieth-century American literature, as intense and thrilling as the Hunnicutts themselves.
21 ago 1997 · William Humphrey, whose highly acclaimed first novel, ''Home From the Hill,'' and other books dealt with the play of small-town family life in northeast Texas, died yesterday at his home in...
