Author results for "Alter"

Adam Alter

Anna Lee Walters

Brenda Salter McNeil

Damien Angelica Walters

David Spiegelhalter

Dennis E. Showalter

Eric Alterman

US teacher, historian, journalist, author and media critic

James Salter

What a mess! This started out as an undated conflated author record, to which was added a death date of 1767 from a Boston College MARC record for "An exposition, or practical treatise on the church catechism of the Church of England. To which is annex'd the sacred rite of confirmation; ... By James Salter", but then MARC Bot added the Wikidata ID for the novelist. This will be a fair bit of work to untangle...

Jess Walter

Jess Walter is an American author of seven novels, two collections of short stories, and a non-fiction book. He is the recipient of the Edgar Allan Poe Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2006.

Jonathan Alter

American journalist, best-selling author, Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker and television producer

Laura Maylene Walter

Liz Alterman

Michael S. Wogalter

Minette Walters

Phyllis Walter Goodhart Gordan

Robert Alter

**Wikipedia:** Robert Bernard Alter (born 1935)[1] is an American professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967.[2] He published his translation of the Hebrew Bible in 2018. **Biography** Robert Alter earned his bachelor's degree in English (Columbia University, 1957), and his master's degree (1958) and doctorate (1962) from Harvard University in comparative literature. He started his career as a writer at Commentary Magazine, where he was for many years a contributing editor. He has written twenty-three books, and is noted most recently for his translations of sections of the Bible. He lectures on topics varying from Biblical episodes to Kafka's modernism and Hebrew literature. **Biblical studies** One of Alter's important contributions is the introduction of the type scene into contemporary scholarly Hebrew Bible studies. An example of a type scene is that of a man meeting a young woman at a well, whom he goes on to marry; this scene occurs twice in Genesis and once in Exodus, and, according to Alter, distortedly in 1 Samuel and in the Book of Ruth.[3] **Honors** Alter has served as an active member of the Council of Scholars of the Library of Congress, and is currently president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1966 and 1978.[4] He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1986.[1] He was a Senior Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem, and Old Dominion Fellow at Princeton University. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Jewish Review of Books. **Awards** His book The Art of Biblical Narrative won the National Jewish Book Award for Jewish Thought.[5] In 2009, he was the recipient of the Robert Kirsch Award (Los Angeles Times) for lifetime contribution to American letters.6 He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree by Yale University in 2010.[8] He is a Doctor Honoris Causa of Hebrew University (2015).[9] **Selected works** ---Translations of the Hebrew Bible ---The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel, 1999, W.W. Norton, ISBN 0-393-32077-4 ---The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary, 2004, W.W. Norton, ISBN 0-393-01955-1 ---The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary, 2007, W.W. Norton, ISBN 978-0-393-06226-7 ---The Book of Genesis, translation by Robert Alter, illustrated by R. Crumb, 2009, W.W. Norton (first edition, 1996), ISBN 0-393-06102-7 ---The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes: A Translation with Commentary, 2010, W.W. Norton, ISBN 0-393-06812-9 ---Ancient Israel: The Former Prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings: A Translation with Commentary, 2013, W.W. Norton, ISBN 0-393-08269-5 ---Strong As Death Is Love: Song Of Songs Ruth Esther Jonah And Daniel: A Translation with Commentary, 2015, W.W. Norton, ISBN 0-393-24304-4 ---The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary, 2018, W.W. Norton, ISBN 0-393-29249-5 **Other works** ---Rogue's Progress: Studies in the Picaresque Novel, 1965, Harvard University Press ---Partial Magic: The Novel as a Self-Conscious Genre, 1975, University of California Press, ISBN 0-520-02755-8 ---A Lion for Love: A Critical Biography of Stendhal, in collaboration with Carol Cosman, 1979, Basic Books, ISBN 0-465-04124-8 ---The Art of Biblical Narrative, 1981, Basic Books, ISBN 0-465-00427-X ---Motives for Fiction, 1984, Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0-674-58762-5 ---The Art of Biblical Poetry, 1985, Basic Books, ISBN 0-465-00431-8 ---The Literary Guide to the Bible Edited by Alter and Frank Kermode, 1987, Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0-674-87531-9 ---The Invention of Hebrew Prose: Modern Fiction and the Language Revolution, 1988, University of Washington Press. ---Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age, 1990, W.W. Norton, ISBN 0-393-31499-5 ---Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem, 1991, Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0-674-60663-0 ---Imagined Cities: Urban Experience and the Novel, 2005, Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-10802-8 ---Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible, 2010, Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-12881-2 ---The Art of Bible Translation, 2019, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0691181493 **Wikipedia Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Alter **Fascinating Interview with New York Times:** https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/magazine/hebrew-bible-translation.html

Sara Walters

Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, was a prolific Scottish historical novelist and poet, popular throughout Europe during his time. Scott has been said to be particularly associated with Toryism, though several passages in Tales of a Grandfather display a liberal, progressive and Unionist outlook on Scotland's history. Scott was the first English-language author to have a truly international career in his lifetime, with many contemporary readers in Europe, Australia, and North America. His novels and poetry are still read, and many of his works remain classics of both English-language literature and of Scottish literature. Famous titles include Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, The Lady of The Lake, Waverley, The Heart of Midlothian and The Bride of Lammermoor.

Stephen Alter

Susan Walter

Valter Hugo Mãe

Valter Hugo Mãe is the pen name of the Portuguese writer Valter Hugo Lemos. He is also an editor, singer and plastic artist. Valter Hugo Mãe received the José Saramago Prize in Literature in 2007 for his novel *o remorso de baltazar serapião*. ---------- Valter Hugo Mãe é o nome artístico do escritor português Valter Hugo Lemos. Além de escritor é editor, artista plástico e cantor. Em 2007 atingiu o reconhecimento público com a atribuição do Prémio Literário José Saramago.

Walter A. McDougall

Walter Abish

Walter Adolph Gropius

Walter B. Gibson, Mark Wilson

Walter Benjamin

Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German-Jewish Marxist philosopher-sociologist, literary critic, translator and essayist. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. His Marxism was more influenced by Bertolt Brecht, who had developed his own critical aesthetics, which asked for the emotional distancing of the spectator (Verfremdungseffekt). An important earlier influence and friend was Gershom Scholem, who founded the modern, academic study of the Kabbalah and of Jewish mysticism. Over the last half-century the regard for his work and its influence have risen dramatically, making Benjamin one of the most important twentieth century thinkers about literature and about modern aesthetic experience. Source and more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Benjamin

Walter Bonatti

Walter Bradford Cannon

Walter Brueggemann

Walter Burkert