Alexandra
| Year of Publication |
1947
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
316 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Publisher |
Dial Press
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| City |
New York
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| Abstract |
Alexandra, unappreciated as a child, falls in love with a ruthless actor who breaks her heart. The story is told through Sophie Littman, a Squirrel Hill Jewish housewife whose husband is a mathematician.
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| Notes |
Carnegie Mellon University is referred to as Carnegie Technical Institute, as it was then known.
MGM bought film rights to this novel in 1947 for June Allyson but never produced it. Julie Harris tried and failed to bring its stage play adaptation to Broadway in the 1950s.
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| Author Biography |
Gladys Schmitt (1909-72), born in Pittsburgh, graduated from Schenley High School. She attended Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham University) on a scholarship but transferred to the University of Pittsburgh, from which she graduated in 1932, then took a job in New York with Scholastic Publishing. She returned to Pittsburgh in 1942 and began a 30-year teaching career in the English department of Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University), where she founded the creative writing program. She published nine novels, many of them selections of the Literary Guild, including her million seller David the King (1946). She married the composer Simon Goldfield, her high school boyfriend. She is buried in Pittsburgh and her name is memorialized in Carnegie Mellon's Gladys Schmitt Creative Writing Center.
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| Time |
1930s
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