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Jill Ciment

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Jill Ciment Born ( 1955-05-20 ) May 20, 1955 (age 63) Montreal, Quebec, Canada Occupation Memoirist, novelist, and professor Nationality American Jill Ciment (born May 20, 1955) is an American writer. Contents 1 Biography 2 Grants and literary awards 3 Books by Ciment 4 References Biography Ciment was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She studied art at the California Institute of Arts (CalArts), under John Baldessari. [1] She earned her BFA from CalArts in 1975. [2] She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California, Irvine in 1981. [3] Ciment is the author of The Tattoo Artist (2005, Pantheon. She is a professor of English at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Her novel, Heroic Measures , was released in spring 2009 (Pantheon). [4] This book was one of titles chosen by Oprah Winfrey's Book Club for 2009 summer reading. [5] This book was also one of the top five finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for 2010. [6] 5 Fligh...

Great Depression

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This article is about the severe worldwide economic downturn in the 1930s. For other uses, see The Great Depression (disambiguation) and The Great Slump (disambiguation). Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother depicts destitute pea pickers in California, centering on Florence Owens Thompson, age 32, a mother of seven children, in Nipomo, California, March 1936. USA annual real GDP from 1910 to 1960, with the years of the Great Depression (1929–1939) highlighted The unemployment rate in the U.S. during 1910–60, with the years of the Great Depression (1929–39) highlighted The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations; in most countries it started in 1929 and lasted until the late-1930s. [1] It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century. [2] In the 21st century, the Great Depression is commonly ...