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Encyclopedia > Valerie Martin

Valerie Martin (born 1948, Missouri) is an American novelist and short story writer. She has also taught at Mount Holyoke College, Loyola University New Orleans, The University of New Orleans, The University of Alabama, and Sarah Lawrence College, among other institutions. She is a graduate of the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts womens college in South Hadley, Massachusetts. ... The University of New Orleans, often locally called UNO, is a medium sized public urban university located in New Orleans, Louisiana. ... The University of Alabama (also known as Alabama, UA or colloquially as Bama) is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA. Founded in 1831, UA is the flagship school of the University of Alabama System. ... Sarah Lawrence College is a private liberal arts college located in metropolitan New York City, about a thirty-minute train ride north of Manhattan. ... The MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is a graduate creative writing program. ... The center of the UMass Amherst campus. ...


Her novel, Property (2003) won the prestigious Orange Prize. Her other works include Set in Motion (1978), Alexandra (1979), A Recent Martyr (1987), The Consolation of Nature and Other Stories (1988), The Great Divorce (1993), Italian Fever (1999), and The Unfinished Novel and Other Stories (2006), as well as Salvation: Scenes from the Life of St. Francis (2001), a biography of St. Francis of Assisi. Her most recent novel, Trespass, will be published in the fall of 2007. Property is a 2003 novel by Valerie Martin, and was the winner of the 2003 Orange Prize. ... The Orange Prize for Fiction is one of the United Kingdoms most prestigious literary prizes, awarded annually for the best original full-length novel by a female author of any nationality, written in English and published in the UK in the preceding year. ... Italian Fever is 1999 novel by Valerie Martin. ...


Her 1990 novel, Mary Reilly, a retelling of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from the point of view of a servant in the doctor's house, was released in 1996 as the Columbia TriStar Pictures film, Mary Reilly. It is directed by Stephen Frears and stars John Malkovich as Dr. Jekyll and Julia Roberts as Mary. Mary Reilly is a novel by the English writter Valerie Martin. ... The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. ... The TriStar Pictures logo from 1993 to the present TriStar redirects here. ... Mary Reilly is a 1996 film directed by Stephen Frears. ... Stephen Frears in Sweden, 1989 promoting his movie Dangerous Liaisons. ... John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, producer and director. ... Julia Fiona Roberts (born October 28, 1967) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress and former fashion model. ...


The short subject film Surface Calm (2001) is based on her short story of the same title from her first book, Love (1977). Early American actor William Garwood starred in numerous short films, many of which were only 20 minutes in length Short subject is a format description originally coined in the North American film industry in the early period of cinema. ...

Contents

Works

Novels

  • Set in Motion (1978)
  • Alexandra (1979)
  • A Recent Martyr (1987)
  • The Consolation of Nature and Other Stories (1988)
  • Mary Reilly (1990)
  • The Great Divorce (1993)
  • Italian Fever (1999)
  • Property (2003)
  • The Unfinished Novel and Other Stories (2006)
  • Trespass (2007 forthcoming)

Mary Reilly is a novel by the English writter Valerie Martin. ... Italian Fever is 1999 novel by Valerie Martin. ...

Non-fiction

  • Salvation: Scenes from the Life of St. Francis (2001)

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Borzoi Reader | Authors | Valerie Martin (875 words)
Valerie Martin is the author of two collections of short fiction and six novels, including Italian Fever, The Great Divorce, and Mary Reilly.
Martin gradually backtracks through one episode after another--the phenomenon of Francis' stigmata, his adventures on the fifth crusade, his relationship with St. Clare and his growing band of followers, his hedonism as a youth, the moment when he overcomes his revulsion at being near lepers and recognizes his vocation.
Martin chose this device because she decided the chronological approach was not the way people looked at things in the Middle Ages, and because she wished to create suspense, starting with what everybody knows, and working toward the much less familiar.
Love by Valerie Martin. Lost Horse Press (783 words)
Valerie Martin is one of those rare writers who understands the loss of traditional motives and order, but in her work never yields to the jumbled directionless excesses that tempt the modern fictioneer.
Valerie Martin, an American novelist and short story writer, was born in Sedalia, Missouri in 1948, but spent most of her childhood and young adult life in New Orleans.
Martin has taught at the University of New Orleans, New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Mt. Holyoke College.
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