American culture

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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Pat Conroy

Culture; American culture

(born 1945) Born in Atlanta, GA, Conroy’s autobiographical novels explore, often in glaring and confessional detail, his life in the South. Whether portraying an abusive, military father (The Great ...

August Wilson

Culture; American culture

(born 1945) Pittsburgh-born African American playwright and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1987 and 1990. Wilson’s plays often stem from impressions formed growing up during the 1950s and ...

Susan Sarandon

Culture; American culture

(born 1946) Beginning with her breakthrough role as Janet in the 1975 cult classic Rocky Horror Picture Show, Sarandon’s characters have had a powerful influence on both popular culture and ...

William Jefferson Clinton

Culture; American culture

(born 1946) Bill Clinton, first baby-boomer US president (1993–2001) and three-time Arkansas governor, defeated incumbent George Bush and the eccentric Ross Perot in the 1992 campaign, despite ...

Robert Bly

Culture; American culture

(born 1946) Bly’s Iron John places him at the head of the recent “Men’s Movement” and eclipses his prior eminence as poet, translator and theorist. In either mode, Bly insists that post-Enlightenment ...

Dolly Parton

Culture; American culture

(born 1946) Born in poverty in rural Tennessee, Dolly Parton started her singing career at ten. With her trademark big blonde hair, her often-made-fun-of big bosom and her clear high voice, she ...

Oliver Stone

Culture; American culture

(born 1946) Controversial and powerful director, writer and producer whose movies since the mid-1980s have probed some of the most sensitive issues of contemporary American domestic and global ...