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Mary Antin

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Also known as Mary Antin Grabau

American memoirist (1881–1949)

Person · Open Library

Born
1881
Died
1949
Works
18

Top works

  • The lie
  • Immigrants portion
  • From Plotzk to Boston
  • The Promised Land
  • At School in the Promised Land: Or The Story of a Little Immigrant

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Canada
Active from
1921-06-13
Active to
1991-12-01

Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
7
Total plays
27

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Quotes

  • Outside America I should hardly be believed if I told how simply, in my experience, Dover Street merged into the Back Bay.
  • It is painful to be consciously of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness. I am not afraid to live on and on, if only I do not have to remember too much. A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run.
  • A little instruction in the elements of chartography—a little practice in the use of the compass and the spirit level, a topographical map of the town common, an excursion with a road map—would have given me a fat round earth in place of my paper ghost.
  • A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to contemplate his yesterdays; for to-day and to-morrow are here, with their impatient tasks. The world is so busy, too, that it cannot afford to study any man's unfinished work; for the end may prove it a failure, and the world needs masterpieces.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Mary
Gender
female
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Polatsk
Place of death
Suffern
Occupation
writer
Educated at
Teachers College
Languages spoken
English language
Image
Mary Antin 1915.jpg
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Commons category
Mary Antin
cause of death
cancer
date of birth
1881-06-13
date of death
1949-01-01
manner of death
natural causes
writing language
English language
has written for
The Atlantic
name in native language
Mary Antin
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