Homer Hickam won the praise of critics and the devotion ofreaders with his first two memoirs set in the hardscrabble miningtown of Coalwood, West Virginia. The New York Times crownedhis first book, the #1 national bestseller October Sky , “aneloquent evocation ... a thoroughly charming memoir.” And People called The Coalwood Way , Hickam’s follow-up to October Sky , “a heartwarmer ... truly beautiful andhaunting.”
This engraved portrait of Shakespeare,taken from the title page of one of the seventy-nine copies of the First Folio of 1623 in the Folger Shakespeare Library,Washington,D.C.,is the only pictorial likeness that has any authenticity.It was engraved by Martin Droeshout at the request of Shakespeare's colleagues,John Heminges and Henry Condell,for the first collected edition of the poet's works that they brought together.Droeshout may have made the engraving from a painting that is now lost. 作者简介: VIRGINIA A.LaMAR,Assistant Editor.A member of the staff of the Folger Shakespeare Library from 1946 until her death in 1968,Miss LaMar served as research assistant to the Director and as Exective Secretary.Prior to 1946 Miss LaMar had been a secretary in the British Admiralty Delegation in Washington,D.C.,receiving the King's Medal in 1945 for her services.She was coeditor of the Historie of Travell into Virginia Britania by William Strachey,published by The Hakluyt Society in 1958,and author of En
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