| 词条 | Hamilton Basso |
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Joseph Hamilton Basso (September 5, 1904 – May 13, 1964)[1] was an American novelist and journalist. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Basso worked as reporter for several newspapers in New Orleans, wrote 11 novels, primarily about the South and was an associate editor at The New Yorker for more than 20 years. His best-known work is the novel The View from Pompey's Head, a story of a New York City attorney who returns to his Southern hometown to investigate a mystery surrounding a famous writer. The book spent almost a year on the bestseller lists in 1954. AwardsHis 1959 novel The Light Infantry Ball, a prequel to The View from Pompey's Head, was a finalist for the 1960 National Book Award. Basso died in 1964, at age 59, in Weston, Connecticut. BibliographyNovels
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References1. ^{{cite book |last1= Rocks|first1= James E.|editor1-first= Robert|editor1-last= Bain|others= Joseph M. Flora; Louis D. Rubin, Jr.|title= Southern Writers: A Biographical Dictionary|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=EpX4H4JdZOgC&printsec=frontcover|accessdate= May 25, 2010|year= 1979|publisher= Louisiana State University Press|location= |language= |isbn= 0-8071-0354-3|oclc= |doi= |id= |pages= 19–20|chapter= Hamilton Basso|chapterurl= https://books.google.com/books?id=EpX4H4JdZOgC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA19#v=onepage&q&f=false}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Basso, Hamilton}}{{US-novelist-1900s-stub}} 10 : 1904 births|1964 deaths|American male novelists|American newspaper journalists|The New Yorker people|Novelists from Louisiana|20th-century American novelists|20th-century American male writers|20th-century American non-fiction writers|American male non-fiction writers |
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