A Small Fire
| Year of Publication |
1957
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
343 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Publisher |
The Dial Press
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| City |
New York
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| Abstract |
A pianist who takes a post in a college music department. The story lines explore the “background of academic life, with a skillfully interwoven sub-plot about students and penetrating characterizations of teachers, and visiting celebrities.”
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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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