| 词条 | Belva Plain |
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BiographyBelva Offenberg was a third-generation Jewish American who was raised in New York City.[3] She graduated from Barnard College in 1939 with a degree in history.[3] Plain lived in the Short Hills section of Millburn, New Jersey.[4] Before breaking into publishing, Belva Plain wrote short stories for magazines while raising her three children. She sold her first story to Cosmopolitan at age 25 and "contributed several dozen to various women's magazines until she had three children in rapid succession."[1] Her first novel, Evergreen, was published in 1978. It topped the New York Times Bestseller List for 41 weeks and was made into a TV miniseries.[5] Evergreen followed the character Anna, "a feisty, redheaded Jewish immigrant girl from Poland in turn-of-the-century New York, whose family story continues through several decades and three more books.".[1] The New York Times summed up her careerStrong-willed women, many of them Jewish and red-haired as well, appear again and again in Ms. Plain’s fiction. Some of her novels use historical settings — “Crescent City,” published in 1984, was set in the Jewish community of Civil War-era New Orleans. Other books tell stories about contemporary issues, sometimes inspired by the headlines — divorce (“Promises”), adoption (“Blessings”), child sexual abuse (“The Carousel”) or babies accidentally switched at birth (“Daybreak”). All of them are full of passion, but there is very little explicit sex.[1]At her death, there were over 30 million copies of her twenty-plus novels in print in 22 languages.[1] Twenty-one of her novels appeared on the New York Times bestseller list.[1] Plain did not own a computer, and wrote all of her novels long-hand on a yellow pad.[3] "A disciplined worker, she wrote for several hours in the morning five days a week. She produced a 500- or 600-page novel every year or so." [1] Personal lifePlain was married to her husband, Irving Plain, for more than forty years. He died in 1982. BibliographyWerner Family Saga
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References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite news|newspaper=The New York Times|title=Belva Plain, Novelist of Jewish-American Life, Dies at 95|first=Elsa|last=Dixler|date=October 17, 2010|accessdate=October 18, 2010|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/books/18plain.html| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20101018232301/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/books/18plain.html| archivedate= 18 October 2010 | deadurl= no}} 2. ^www.nj.com 3. ^1 2 {{cite web|title=A Conversation With Belva Plain|publisher=Belva Plain Official Website|url=http://www.randomhouse.com/features/belvaplain/author.html|accessdate=2007-01-30| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20061230161558/http://www.randomhouse.com/features/belvaplain/author.html| archivedate= 30 December 2006 | deadurl= no}} 4. ^Horner, Shirley. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE5DD1031F930A35753C1A965958260 "ABOUT BOOKS"], The New York Times (October 3, 1993) "Previous recipients of the award, which has come to be known as the Michael, include Mary Higgins Clark of Saddle River, Belva Plain of Short Hills, Wende and Harry Devlin of Mountainside, the Nobel laureate Dr. Arno Penzias of Highland Park, and Gay Talese of Ocean City." 5. ^{{cite web|title=Author Bio|publisher=Belva Plain Official Website|year=2004|url=http://www.randomhouse.com/features/belvaplain/author.html|accessdate=2007-01-30| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20061230161558/http://www.randomhouse.com/features/belvaplain/author.html| archivedate= 30 December 2006 | deadurl= no}} External links
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