The Language of Names: What We Call Ourselves and Why It Matters
Language: English
Published by Touchstone Books, 1999
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- Title
- The Language of Names: What We Call Ourselves and Why It Matters
- Author
- Kaplan, Justin; Bernays, Anne
- Publisher
- Touchstone Books
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0684838672
- ISBN 13
- 9780684838670
- Item weight
- 0.55 pounds
Graceful, eloquent, and richly informed, The Language of Names explores and illuminates our favorite subject -- ourselves.
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About the Author
Anne Bernays is a novelist (including Professor Romeo and Growing Up Rich) and coauthor, with her husband, Justin Kaplan, of Back Then: Two Lives in 1950s New York. Her articles, book reviews and essays have appeared in such major publications as The New York Times, Sports Illustrated and The Nation. A long-time teacher of writing, she is coauthor, with Pamela Painter, of the textbook What If? Ms. Bernays currently teaches at Harvard's Nieman Foundation. She and Mr. Kaplan have six grandchildren. They live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Truro, Cape Cod.
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