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Ruth McKenney (1911–1972)

Författare till Here's England

11+ verk 220 medlemmar 10 recensioner 1 favoritmärkta

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Inkluderar namnen: McKenney R, Ruth McKenny

Verk av Ruth McKenney

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

Associerade verk

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

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Vedertaget namn
McKenney, Ruth
Namn enligt folkbokföringen
McKenney, Ruth Marguerite
Födelsedag
1911-11-18
Avled
1972-07-27
Kön
female
Nationalitet
USA
Födelseort
Mishawaka, Indiana, USA
Bostadsorter
East Cleveland, Ohio, USA
New York, New York, USA
Utbildning
Ohio State University
Yrken
journalist
author
screenwriter
Relationer
Minton, Bruce (pen name of Richard Bransten|husband)
McKenney, Eileen (sister)
Organisationer
Akron Beacon Journal
Kort biografi
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.

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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.
… (mer)
 
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OutOfTheBestBooks | 3 andra recensioner | 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 andra recensioner | 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.… (mer)
 
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nlanthierl | Jul 31, 2016 |

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Statistik

Verk
11
Även av
8
Medlemmar
220
Popularitet
#101,715
Betyg
½ 3.7
Recensioner
10
ISBN
8
Favoritmärkt
1

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