Member: almigwin

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About meWidow, 81. I am a retired systems analyst and former art teacher. Product of the U of Chicago in the 40's. In love with literature, classical music, jazz, blues, and expressionist and abstract art. Liberal humanist, feminist. Mother, and grandmother. My outdated wish list of books is on 'almigwinwishlist' in LT.

About my libraryMostly english 19th and 20th century fiction,with a lot of European and latin American fiction and poetry in translation, literary criticsm and biography, history and philosophy. Poetry is dual language when available. I try to get the complete works of the poets and novelists that are important, or that I love, or both. I have a lot of anthologies of poetry and short stories. and a few hundred art books, some science and lots of cookbooks-french, italian, chinese, mediterranean.
Complete Sets
I have attempted to get all of the works of these authors: Anthony Trollope, Wm Shakespeare, Tobias Smollett, DeFoe, Stendahl, Fielding, Dickens, Fanny Burney, Sterne, the Brontes, Austen, Maria Edgeworth, George Eliot, Wm. Makepeace Thackeray, Honore de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, marcel Proust, Henry James, Ivy compton-Burnett, Harry Mulisch, Leo Perutz, Bohumil Hrabal, W. G.Sebald, Nina Berberova, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Willliam Gass, Joseph Roth, Ivan Turgenev, Anton Checkov, Nikolai Gogol, Vladimir Nabokov, Ivan Goncharov, Vasily Grossman, Edith Wharton, Anita Brookner, Georgette Heyer, Louis Begley, J. M. Coetzee, Plato, Homer, and recordings of all the works of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven (in complete boxed sets from Daedelus books recorded)

Groups50-Something Library Thingers, And Other Stories, BBC Radio 3 Listeners, Bug Collectors, Club Read 2010, Fans of Russian authors, In Translation, Lists, navigating the complete new yorker on dvd-roms, Needlearts —show all groups, Opera, or Nobody Knows the Traubel I've Seen, Parents, children or siblings of the mentally ill, Patrick White 100th Anniversary Challenge, Poetry Fool, poetry in translation, Pro and Con, Progressive & Liberal!, Reading Globally, The Prizes, The Red Room, The University of Chicago, theory, Trollope lovers unite or fight, Virago Modern Classics, Yiddish Library Thingers

Favorite authorsVladislav Khodasevich, Aeschylus, Anna Achmatova, Guillaume Apollinaire, Hannah Arendt, Aristoteles, Louis Armstrong, art tatum and ben webster, Machado de Assis, Jane Austen, Isaac Babel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ingeborg Bachmann, Honoré de Balzac, Béla Bartók, Cecilia Bartoli, Charles Baudelaire, John Bayley, Samuel Beckett, Max Beckmann, Ludwig van Beethoven, Louis Begley, Saul Bellow, Vanessa Bell, Walter Benjamin, Rose Levy Beranbaum, Nina Berberova, Isaiah Berlin, Thomas Bernhard, Mark Bittman, Heinrich Böll, Harold Bloom, Elizabeth Bowen, Georges Braque, Bertolt Brecht, Hermann Broch, Anita Brookner, Fanny Burney, John le Carré, Elliott Carter, Paul Celan, Geoffrey Chaucer, Anton Chekhov, Julia Child, J. M. Coetzee, Ivy Compton-Burnett, William Congreve, Anna Del Conte, e. e. cummings, Elizabeth David, Miles Davis, Robert Desnos, Emily Dickinson, Margaret Anne Doody, Maria Edgeworth, George Eliot, T. S. Eliot, Paul Eluard, Euripides, Bill Evans, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Carol Field, Ida Fink, Penelope Fitzgerald, E. M. Forster, Max Frisch, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Gaskell, William H. Gass, Edward Giobbi, Nikolai Gogol, Joyce Esersky Goldstein, Glenn Gould, Graham Greene, Juan Gris, Vasily Grossman, Georg Friedrich Händel, Coleman Hawkins, Marcella Hazan, Maida Heatter, Zbigniew Herbert, Billie Holiday, Homer, Gerard Manley Hopkins, David Hume, Henry James, James Joyce, Frida Kahlo, Immanuel Kant, Lynne Rossetto Kasper, Hugh Kenner, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Oskar Kokoschka, John Locke, Robert Lowell, Sheila Lukins, Stéphane Mallarmé, Olivia Manning, Henri Matisse, Edna St. Vincent Millay, John Stuart Mill, Czesław Miłosz, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Amedeo Modigliani, Thelonious Monk, Eugenio Montale, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Vladimir Nabokov, Pablo Neruda, Jessye Norman, Seán O'Casey, Flannery O'Connor, Clifford Odets, Eugene O'Neill, Cynthia Ozick, Grace Paley, Nicanor Parra, Cesare Pavese, Fernando Pessoa, Pablo Picasso, Ezra Pound, Sergei Rachmaninoff, John Rawls, Terry Riley, Arthur Rimbaud, Claudia Roden, Sonny Rollins, Julee Rosso, Joseph Roth, Philip Roth, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Israel Joshua Singer, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Tobias Smollett, Sophocles, Muriel Spark, Gertrude Stein, Stendhal, Laurence Sterne, wyslawa symborska, J. M. Synge, Toru Takemitsu, Elizabeth Taylor, William Makepeace Thackeray, Colm Tóibín, Leo Tolstoy, Honor Tracy, Anthony Trollope, Barbara Tropp, Ivan Turgenev, Giuseppe Ungaretti, César Vallejo, Giovanni Verga, Paul Verlaine, Giambattista Vico, Antonio Vivaldi, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Paula Wolfert, James Wood, Frank Lloyd Wright, William Wycherley, Lester Young (Shared favorites)

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Real namemyrna gwin called miriam (hebrew name)

LocationSt. Petersburg, Fl

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Member sinceMar 4, 2007