Anna Hastings: The Story of a Washington Newspaperperson!
| Year of Publication |
1977
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
300 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Contributors |
Author:
Allen Drury |
| Publisher |
William Morrow and Company, Inc.
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| City |
New York
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| Abstract |
At the start of World War II, Anna Kowalczek, a Polish girl from Punxsutawney, arrives on Capitol Hill as a journalist and in the next 30 years becomes Washington’s leading female reporter. Anna reminisces about her hometown and sometimes returns to her Polish-American family Western Pennsylvania.
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| Author Biography |
Allen Stuart Drury (1918-1998), born in Houston, grew up in California and graduated from Stanford. He worked as a U. S. Senate correspondent for United Press and over the years wrote more than a dozen novels about Washington politics. He is best known for Advise and Consent (1959), which won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and its 1962 Hollywood adaptation by Otto Preminger.
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| Time |
1940s-1970s
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