Besides the Pulitzer, she has received both a National Humanities Medal and National Medal of Arts, an NAACP Image Award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation and a National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress.
Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
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Parrot Heads flock to Kennebunk funeral home to share grief over Jimmy Buffett
Bibber Memorial Chapel has invited grieving fans of Jimmy Buffett to celebrate the singer and sign a condolence book for his family. Calling hours continue Saturday.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World
‘That ’70s Show’ actor Danny Masterson gets 30 years to life in prison for raping 2 women
Masterson waived his right to speak before he was sentenced and had no visible reaction after the judge’s decision, nor did the many family members sitting beside him.
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The 9 hottest movies opening this fall
The dog days of summer will soon give way to crisp falling leaves, as well as a pile of colorful new movies. Still hanging from the branches, but about to drop, are works by such Oscar-nominated directors as Kenneth Branagh, Sofia Coppola, Errol Morris and Martin Scorsese (the latter two of whom actually won statuettes […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Maine
Knott’s Harbor, Maine, is Emily Henry’s ‘Happy Place.’ Do you recognize it?
How authors go about creating fictional Maine towns, like the one from Henry’s recent bestselling romance novel.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This
Got Tix: Where to find concert tickets to upcoming shows
Rock act Low Cut Connie plays Portland House of Music on Sunday.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
‘Happy Place’ locales that might look familiar, if you’ve been to this Midcoast town
Author Emily Henry hasn’t talked about where she vacations in Maine, but a Sherman’s bookseller has a theory.
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Nancy Buirski, wide-ranging documentary filmmaker, dies at 78
In works about the civil rights struggle and the history of cinema and ballet, she offered intimate portrayals of her subjects and their times.
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Freddie Mercury’s prized piano and a ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ draft are champions at auction
Items connected to the operatic ‘Rhapsody,’ the band’s most enduring hit, brought a premium with hand-written lyrics to the song selling for about $1.7 million.
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Gayle Hunnicutt, Texan actress who thrived in Britain, dies at 80
She made headlines for her marriage to British film star David Hemmings. Two decades later, she returned to the U.S. to appear in the prime-time soap opera ‘Dallas.’