Maggie Estep (1963–2014)
Auteur van Diary of an Emotional Idiot: A Novel
Over de Auteur
Maggie Estep was born in Summit, New Jersey on March 20, 1963. She dropped out of high school in her late teens and moved to Manhattan. She worked briefly as a go-go dancer, joined the punk scene and became addicted to heroin. She took up fiction writing at a drug rehabilitation clinic in the toon meer mid-1980s. She attended the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado and received a B.A. in literature from the State University of New York. She was a novelist and spoken-word poet who helped popularize slam poetry on MTV, HBO and PBS in the 1990s. She wrote several books during her lifetime including Diary of an Emotional Idiot, Love Dance of the Mechanical Animals, Hex, and Alice Fantastic. She also published two spoken-word albums with rock accompaniment, No More Mr. Nice Girl and Love Is a Dog from Hell. She died on February 12, 2014 after suffering a massive heart attack two days before at the age of 50. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: Maggie Estep with her pit bull Mickey / Maggie Estep
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Werken van Maggie Estep
Love Dance of the Mechanical Animals: Confessions, Highly Subjective Journalism, Old Rants and New Stories (2003) 20 exemplaren
Savage (short work) 1 exemplaar
Love Is a Dog From Hell 1 exemplaar
No More Mr Nice Girl 1 exemplaar
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The Dictionary of Failed Relationships: 26 Tales of Love Gone Wrong (2003) — Medewerker — 56 exemplaren
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Estep, Margaret Ann
- Geboortedatum
- 1963-03-20
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2014-02-12
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Summit, New Jersey, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Albany, New York, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Hudson, New York, USA
- Opleiding
- State University of New York (BA - Literature)
- Beroepen
- poet
novelist
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- 12
- Ook door
- 9
- Leden
- 416
- Populariteit
- #58,580
- Waardering
- 3.7
- Besprekingen
- 11
- ISBNs
- 21
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- 3
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- 3
With these interesting career choices and shifting narrations, this book should have been much more interesting than it was. Nothing really happens and what little does occur is boring. The writing style fell very flat. Each character was indistinguishable from the other and the shifting narrators made that even more obvious. I was pretty uninterested through most of it.… (meer)