Mary Amelia St. Clair (May) Sinclair was born 24 August 1863, the child of William and Amelia Hind Sinclair. She was the youngest child and the only daughter among six children. Her father, the owner of a fairly sizeable fleet of small worldwide-transpor...
In 1923 Lewis Mumford wrote in a review (Nation, 24 January) of May Sinclair's novel Anne Severn and the Fieldings (1922): "Saving perhaps Mr. D. H. Lawrence, who in England can keep [Sinclair] company"" The equation of Lawrence and Sinclair seems most a...
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Three Sisters 08/21/2003: 306 words, approx. 1 pages
It is now commonplace to note that the eskimos have at least seven different words for snow but far less normal to encounter a production with at least seven different types of silence. Katie Mitchell's daringly paced, elegiac version of Three Sisters (with, front...
MOTHER LOVE By Candace Flynt Farrar Straus Giroux. 342 pp. $17.95 IT IS LATE in the afternoon of Christmas Day in a hillside cemetery near Greensboro, N.C. Three attractive young women, sisters, approach the plain bronze marker of their mother's grave. They are carrying...
In the second-floor balcony of a dimly lit Manhattan bistro, the three sisters of Black Buddafly are eating light, despite tempting selections like rice and peas and jerk chicken. Perhaps these German-bred imports (born to a German mom and Senegalese dad) are more inclined to...
Broadway and screen actor George Grizzard, who won acclaim, and a Tony Award, for performing in Edward Albee's dramas, has died. He was 79.Grizzard died Tuesday at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center of complications from lung cancer, said his agent, Clifford Stevens.Grizzard's film roles included...
