Carl Carmer (1893–1976)
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Sobre l'autor
Carl Carmer (1893-1976) was Vice President of the Board of Trustees for the New York State Historical Association and was Honorary Trustee of the New York State Folklore Society.
Obres de Carl Carmer
The Tavern Lamps Are Burning: Literary Journeys through Six Regions and Four Centuries of New York State (1964) 19 exemplars
The Jesse James of the Java Sea 2 exemplars
Deep South 2 exemplars
To the Ice-bound Seas 2 exemplars
Some University of Alabama Poets: First Series — Editor — 1 exemplars
A Tower of Strength 1 exemplars
The American Indian Volume 4, Number 2 1 exemplars
Cumberland Cap 1 exemplars
The American Indian Vol. 1, No. 2 Winter 1944 1 exemplars
Bond of Reunion 1 exemplars
A Girl Named Lavender 1 exemplars
Taps Is Not Enough 1 exemplars
American Folklore and Its Old-World Backgrounds | Following the Folk Tales Around the World (1964) 1 exemplars
The American Indian Vol. 1, No. 1 November 1943 1 exemplars
The American Indian Vol. 1, No. 4 Summer 1944 1 exemplars
The American Indian Vol. 4, No. 3 1948 1 exemplars
The American Indian Vol. 2, No. 1 Fall 1944 1 exemplars
The American Indian Vol. 2, No. 2 Winter 1944-45 1 exemplars
The American Indian Vol. 2, No. 3 Spring 1945 1 exemplars
The American Indian Vol. 2, No. 4 Fall 1945 1 exemplars
The American Indian Vol. 3, No. 1 Winter 1946 1 exemplars
The American Indian Vol. 3, No. 3 Summer 1946 1 exemplars
The American Indian Vol. 3, No. 4 Fall 1946 1 exemplars
The Lordly Hudson 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Tales of Witches, Ghosts and Goblins — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Carmer, Carl Lamson
- Data de naixement
- 1893-10-16
- Data de defunció
- 1976-09-11
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- País (per posar en el mapa)
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Cortland, New York, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Bronxville, New York, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
New York, USA
Cortland, New York, USA (birth)
Albion, New York, USA - Educació
- Hamilton College (BA|1914)
Harvard University (MA|1915)
Membres
Converses
Boy Looks For Seashell for money a Name that Book (desembre 2013)
Ressenyes
Deep South, de Carl Carmer
An amazing find, compilation of stories from the Old South. This had been a high school library shelved title. I wonder if it ever made the banned books list.
How do you make hurricanes boring? This snoozefest has a hurricane hitting Florida in the late 1940s, and yet the 11-year-old main character is more concerned about searching for sea shells. He's obsessed with earning money to help save his father's failing fishing career, pinning his hopes on a valuable shell or maybe that fishing contest with the big prize.
The only remarkable thing about this book is that comic book legend Jerry Robinson churned out the illustrations for it. Not a high-point in his career, for sure.… (més)
The only remarkable thing about this book is that comic book legend Jerry Robinson churned out the illustrations for it. Not a high-point in his career, for sure.… (més)
Carl Carmer was one of the most popular writers from the 1930s through the 1950s, that popularity based largely on the success of his 1934 folk memoir Stars Fell On Alabama, which chronicled his encounters with the people and cultural landscape of the state during the years that he taught at the University of Alabama. But Carmer was born and bred in the state of New York, a “Yorker” through and through. And as such, he wrote extensively on the state’s folklore, landscape, historical figures, and local customs. My Kind Of Country: Favorite Writings About New York is a collection of fifty-odd writings - poems, stories, and essays - from those decades. Carmer’s writing today seems quaint; and apart from the handful of tall tales, folklore, and ghost story, none of remainder is truly compelling, and sadly most of it is forgettable.… (més)
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 59
- També de
- 28
- Membres
- 827
- Popularitat
- #30,854
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 13
- ISBN
- 41