• A Bell for Adano is a 1944 novel by John Hersey, the winner of the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It tells the story of an Italian-American officer in...
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  • A Bell for Adano is a 1945 American war film directed by Henry King and starring John Hodiak and Gene Tierney. It was adapted from the 1944 novel of the...
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  • Trust is a 2022 novel written by Hernan Diaz. The novel was published by Riverhead Books. Set predominantly in New York City and focusing on the world...
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  • The Goldfinch is a novel by the American author Donna Tartt. It won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, among other honors. Published in 2013, it was...
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    published during the preceding calendar year. As the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (awarded 1918–1947), it was one of the original Pulitzers; the program...
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  • Hernan Diaz (writer) (category Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners)
    2017 novel In the Distance was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He also received a Whiting...
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    John Hersey (category Pulitzer Prize for the Novel winners)
    system in his novel The Child Buyer (1960), a speculative fiction. Hersey's first novel A Bell for Adano, about the Allied occupation of a Sicilian town...
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  • Heaven by Ben Ames Williams Green Dolphin Street by Elizabeth Goudge A Bell for Adano by John Hersey The Apostle by Sholem Asch Forever Amber by Kathleen...
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  • Demon Copperhead (category 2022 American novels)
    Copperhead is a 2022 novel by Barbara Kingsolver. It was a co-recipient of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and won the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction....
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    in A Bell for Adano (1945) with Gene Tierney. At MGM, Hodiak had a role as Judy Garland's love interest in The Harvey Girls (1946). Fox gave him a starring...
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    Commission A Bell for Adano is a 1944 novel by John Hersey centered on the AMGOT control of the fictional Italian village of Adano based on the real-life...
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  • a novel by Louise Erdrich first published on March 3, 2020, by HarperCollins. The novel is set in the 1950s. This is Erdrich's sixth standalone novel...
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    film, 20th Century Fox acquired the film for release in July 1945 so as not to compete with Fox's A Bell for Adano released earlier. However, when Japan...
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  • of It" (in Sketches by Boz) allude to Damon and Pythias. In A Bell for Adano, by John Hersey, Captain Purvis's and Mayor Joppolo's friendship is compared...
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    in A Bell for Adano (1945), she played the jealous, narcissistic femme fatale Ellen Berent Harland in Leave Her to Heaven (1945), adapted from a bestselling...
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    American Dream as Arthur Kabot 1965 The Fugitive as Joe Steelman 1967 A Bell for Adano (TV movie) as Sergeant Leonard Borth 1967 The Graduate as Mr. Robinson...
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    information on the progress of the Armies and Navies engaged. Novel: A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf) Drama: Harvey by Mary Chase (Dramatists)...
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  • Olive Kitteridge (category Novels set in Maine)
    Olive Kitteridge is a 2008 novel or short story cycle by American author Elizabeth Strout. Set in Maine in the fictional coastal town of Crosby, it comprises...
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  • Alison Lurie (category Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners)
    academic. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 1984 novel Foreign Affairs. Although better known as a novelist, she wrote many non-fiction books...
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  • This is a list of films produced by 20th Century Fox (now 20th Century Studios) from 1935—following a merger between the Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth...
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    Fredric March (category Silver Bear for Best Actor winners)
    O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night. He also had major successes in A Bell for Adano in 1944 and Gideon in 1961, and he played in Ibsen's An Enemy of the...
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  • Girl (1944) Since You Went Away (1944) A Bell for Adano (1945), film version of 1944 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Sun Valley Serenade (1941) Harvey (1950)...
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    Houghton Mifflin to join Alfred A. Knopf. As she was still under contract for her novels, the Knopfs suggested publishing a collection of her short stories...
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  • Beloved Infidel (category Films based on American novels)
    position in Hollywood writing film scripts, expressing the belief that his novels are no longer of interest. His excessive drinking affects his mood and his...
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    northern Italy or abroad. As a town occupied by the Allies, it served as a model for John Hersey's novel A Bell for Adano. Licata has however maintained...
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  • Captain from Castile (category Films based on American novels)
    to Heaven, Dragonwyck, Anna and the King of Siam, Razor's Edge and A Bell for Adano. Twentieth Century-Fox director-writer-producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz...
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    This is a list of American films that were released in 1945. In that year, the film The Lost Weekend won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. 1945 in the...
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  • rich contribution to the American theater includes the adaptations A Bell for Adano (1944); Point of No Return; The World of Susie Wong; The Innocent Voyage;...
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    Georges Clemenceau To Have and Have Not (1944) – Gérard (Frenchy) A Bell for Adano (1945) – Zito Her Final Role (1946) – Ardouin Pétrus (1946) – Luciani...
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  • Migration Robert Herrick (1868–1938), Web of Life John Hersey (1914–1993), A Bell for Adano Burton Hersh DuBose Heyward (1885–1940), Porgy Carl Hiaasen (born 1953)...
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