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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John Updike

Culture; American culture

(born 1932) Updike is one of an increasingly rare number of American twentieth-century writers who manages to combine some degree of popular success with serious critical attention. Although also an ...

Sylvia Plath

Culture; American culture

(1932 – 1963) American meteor: Plath won a Mademoiselle short-fiction prize, graduated from Smith, studied at Cambridge, married late Poet Laureate Ted Hughes and published vital, smart, musical ...

Pete Wilson

Culture; American culture

(born 1933) Elected governor of California in 1990 and reelected in 1994, Wilson supported tough welfare reform and anti-crime measures. He gained national attention in 1994 with his backing of ...

James Meredith

Culture; American culture

(born 1933) In 1962 Meredith enrolled at the University of Mississippi, having had his application turned down the previous year. Governor Ross Barnett, however, defied federal courts and barred his ...

Philip Roth

Culture; American culture

(born 1933) Jewish American novelist, whose novels have focused primarily on the experiences of being a person who has grown up middle class, male and Jewish in the early 1950s. His first publication ...

Louis Farrakhan

Culture; American culture

(born 1933) Louis Walcott grew up in Boston, MA where he became an accomplished musician, playing in the city’s nightclubs. In 1955 he was recruited by Malcolm X for the Nation of Islam, and became ...

Michael Dukakis

Culture; American culture

(born 1933) Nationally known for an unsuccessful 1988 bid for the presidency, Michael S. Dukakis had a varied political career that spanned thirty years. A lawyer by training, Dukakis graduated with ...