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American culture
Art, music, literature, people, sports, technology, business, politics, religion and more in the United States. American culture is primarily Western, but is influenced by African, Asian, and Latin American and Native American cultures.
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American culture
William S. Burroughs Jr.
Culture; American culture
(1914 – 1997) Novelist and icon of gay and drug subcultures. Burroughs befriended Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, key members of the beat generation, in New York City, NY in the 1940s, became a ...
Arthur Miller
Culture; American culture
(born 1915) A leading American playwright since the success of All My Sons (1947) and Death of a Salesman (1949), the latter earning him a Pulitzer Prize. His dramas are often familial in setting, ...
Saul Bellow
Culture; American culture
(born 1915) Jewish American writer based at the University of Chicago, Bellow is considered a path-breaker for a number of other Jewish writers, such as Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth and Cynthia ...
Thomas Merton
Culture; American culture
(1915 – 1968) Prolific American poet, essayist and author of The Seven-Storey Mountain (1948), his memoir of modern spiritual discovery Born in Prades, France, but educated in the United States and ...
Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield)
Culture; American culture
(1915 – 1983) Electric bluesman, born on a sharecropping farm in Mississippi, who garnered his nickname from playing as a child in a local creek. Waters was discovered in 1940 by folk-song archivists ...
Orson Welles
Culture; American culture
(1915 – 1985) One of America’s most revered film-makers, Orson Welles was already an accomplished director and actor before he made his first movie at age twenty-four. Welles initially received wide ...
Edmund Sixtus Muskie
Culture; American culture
(1915 – 1996) Liberal Democratic member of Congress (1946–51), governor (1955–9) and first elected Democratic senator from Maine (1959–80). Muskie ran unsuccessfully for vicepresident with Hubert ...
