Renata Adler


Wikipedia - "Renata Adler (born October 19, 1938 in Milan, Italy) is an American author, journalist and film critic. Adler was born in Milan, Italy, and grew up in Danbury, Connecticut. (Her parents had fled Nazi Germany in 1933.) After gaining a B.A. in Philosophy and German from Bryn Mawr, where she studied under José Ferrater Mora, Adler studied for an M.A. in Comparative Literature at Harvard under I. A. Richards and Roman Jakobson, before pursuing her interest in Philosophy, Linguistics and Structuralism at the Sorbonne, where she gained a D. d'E.S. under the tutelage of Jean Wahl and Claude Lévi-Strauss. ... Her novel Speedboat won the Ernest Hemingway Award for Best First Novel of 1976. In 2010 members of the National Book Critics Circle called for the novel to be returned to print."
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