Robert Bresson: In Un Condamme à mort s’est échappé (1956; A Man Escaped), based on the director’s own wartime experiences, his no-frills approach was articulated by the opening title: “This story actually happened. I have set it down without embellishments.” Emulating his literary idols, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Georges…

Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc.: … (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), A Man for All Seasons (1966), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Tootsie (1982), Gandhi (1982), and The Last Emperor (1987). Columbia also financed some of the better youth-oriented films from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, such as Easy Rider (1969),

biography: Biographical literature today: …study of Sir Thomas More, A Man for All Seasons (which nonetheless owes a great deal to William Roper). The cinema often follows with its versions of such plays; it likewise produces original biographical films, generally with indifferent success. Television, too, offers historical “re-creations” of various sorts, and with varying…

Taviani brothers: Un uomo da bruciare (1962; A Man for the Burning), made with Orsini’s collaboration, was their first feature film. It is a portrait of a murdered trade union leader, and its long tracking shots demonstrate what was to become a Taviani trademark. They made one more film with Orsini before…

Henning Mankell: …Judge Birgitta Roslin (Kinesen [2008; The Man from Beijing]).

J.G. Farrell: His debut novel, A Man from Elsewhere (1963), a cerebral narrative about a communist journalist attempting to expose a celebrated writer’s past, contains echoes of French existentialism. He followed it with The Lung (1965), in which he drew upon his own affliction with polio, which he contracted at…

Tess Gallagher: …Owl Woman Saloon (1997), and The Man from Kinvara (2009). Her other works included the nonfiction A Concert of Tenses: Essays on Poetry (1986) and Soul Barnacles (2000), a collection of essays, letters, and other prose about her life with Carver.

Anthony Mann: The 1950s: westerns of Anthony Mann: …final time with Stewart on The Man from Laramie (1955), another fine tale of retribution, with Stewart as a cavalry officer going incognito as a wagon driver to search for the men who indirectly caused his brother’s death. The Last Frontier (1955) starred Victor Mature as a mountain man who…

László Nemes: …and A londoni férfi (2007; The Man from London). Nemes went on to direct a short film of his own: Türelem (2007; With a Little Patience), which was shown at the Venice International Film Festival. In 2006 he briefly sojourned in New York City, attending the Tisch School of the…

Tracy Letts: …Steppenwolf staged Letts’s next play, The Man from Nebraska. The story of an insurance agent’s loss of religious faith, it represented a departure from the writer’s previous shocking blood-and-guts material and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His subsequent play, August: Osage County, was a black comedy depicting a…

Edgar G. Ulmer: Later films: Far more interesting was The Man from Planet X (1951), an evocative science-fiction B-film set on a Scottish island. Reportedly made in under a week, this cult favourite is a thoughtful tale and one of the first about alien invaders. Less successful was the comedy Babes in Bagdad (1952),…

Banjo Paterson: …popular success in Australia with The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses (1895), which sold more than 100,000 copies before his death, and Rio Grande’s Last Race and Other Verses (1902), which also went through many editions.

Kirk Douglas: …Man (1970), The Fury (1978), The Man from Snowy River (1982), and Tough Guys (1986), Douglas’s seventh and last film with his close friend Burt Lancaster. Douglas also directed two films, the ill-conceived pirate comedy Scalawag (1973), and the cynical western adventure Posse (1975), which became a cult favourite.

Budd Boetticher: Westerns: The Man from the Alamo (1953) is a tale of redemption starring Glenn Ford as a man who, at the request of his fellow fighters, leaves before the Alamo attack in order to warn Texans about Mexican Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna and is…

Frank Tashlin: Films of the 1960s: …Kaye had the lead in The Man from the Diners’ Club (1963), which was based on a screenplay by William Peter Blatty, the future author of the best-selling novel The Exorcist (1971).

Henry Cavill: Mission: Impossible, The Witcher, and other projects from the late 2010s: …Guy Ritchie’s big-screen adaptation of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015), playing a CIA agent who teams up with a KGB agent (played by Armie Hammer), and in Sand Castle (2017), portraying a special forces captain on a 2003 tour of Iraq. Cavill then played the main antagonist in Mission: Impossible—Fallout…

Kurt Russell: …roles on such shows as The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Gilligan’s Island. In addition, in 1963 he appeared in his first film, It Happened at the World’s Fair.

Sholem Asch: …Der man fun Netseres (1943; The Nazarene), a reconstruction of Christ’s life as expressive of essential Judaism; The Apostle (1943), a study of St. Paul; Mary (1949), the mother of Jesus seen as the Jewish “handmaid of the Lord”; and The Prophet (1955), on the Second (Deutero-) Isaiah, whose message…

Fritz Lang: Films of the 1940s: Lang’s next effort, Man Hunt (1941), based on Geoffrey Household’s complicated but thrilling suspense novel Rogue Male (1939), became one of his masterpieces. Walter Pidgeon starred in the taut drama as an English hunter in pre-World War II Germany who by chance finds himself with an opportunity to…

Ernst Lubitsch: Transition to sound: …Lieutenant, the sombre antiwar drama Broken Lullaby (1932; also released as The Man I Killed), with Lionel Barrymore, was praised for its brilliant camera work, but with his next effort the director returned to his tried-and-true operetta format, reuniting Chevalier and MacDonald in One Hour with You (1932). Thereafter he…

Irving Pichel: Directing: Earthbound and The Man I Married (both 1940) were his first two releases, the latter an effective Nazi-peril yarn with Joan Bennett, Francis Lederer, and Otto Kruger. Hudson’s Bay (1941) was an elaborate historical adventure with Paul Muni and Gene Tierney, but Dance Hall (1941) was a…

Johnny Cash was an American singer and songwriter whose work broadened the scope of country and western music. Cash was exposed from childhood to the music of the rural South—hymns, folk ballads, and songs of work and lament—but he learned to play guitar and began writing songs during military

Tom Wolfe: …urban greed and corruption, and A Man in Full (1998), a colorful panoramic depiction of contemporary Atlanta. Wolfe’s Hooking Up (2000) is a collection of fiction and essays, all previously published except for “My Three Stooges,” a scandalous diatribe about John Updike, Norman Mailer,

Margaret Lockwood: …murderess in the period melodrama The Man in Grey (1943), Trent’s Last Case (1952), Cast a Dark Shadow (1955), and as Cinderella’s stepmother in The Slipper and the Rose (1976). Her most popular roles were as the spunky heroine of Alfred Hitchcock’s mystery The Lady Vanishes (1938) and as the…

Emil Brunner: …The Divine-Human Encounter (1937) and Man in Revolt (1937), in which he reflected the position of Martin Buber in I and Thou (1923) that a fundamental difference exists between knowledge of impersonal objects and knowledge of other persons. Brunner saw this doctrine as a key to the biblical conception of…

Robert Bly: His poems of The Man in the Black Coat Turns (1981) explore themes of male grief and the father-son connection that he developed further in Iron John and also The Maiden King: The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine (1999), written with Marion Woodman. Bly’s collected prose poems appeared…

Julia O’Faolain: Her other short-story collections included Man in the Cellar (1974), Melancholy Baby (1978), and Daughters of Passion (1982). O’Faolain’s novel Godded and Codded (1970; also published as Three Lovers) concerns a young Irish woman’s sexual adventures in Paris. O’Faolain probed women’s roles in Women in the Wall (1975), a fictional…

Paul Auster: Man in the Dark (2008) chronicles an aged and miserable literary critic’s sleepless night, during which a dystopian alternate reality unfolds in his mind, while Sunset Park (2010) concerns the travails of a group of young artists illegally inhabiting an abandoned building in Brooklyn.

Thomas Merton: …collections of poems—Thirty Poems (1944), A Man in the Divided Sea (1946), and Figures for an Apocalypse (1948). With the publication of the autobiographical Seven Storey Mountain (1948), he gained an international reputation. His early works are strictly spiritual, but his writings of the early 1960s tend toward social criticism…

Robert Shaw: …The Hiding Place (1959) and The Man in the Glass Booth (1966). He adapted the latter into a successful Broadway play (1968–69), and in 1975 it was made into a movie directed by Arthur Hiller and starring Maximilian Schell.

Arthur Hiller: Films of the 1970s: The Man in the Glass Booth (1975) was a powerful production of Robert Shaw’s play about a Jewish businessman (Maximilian Schell) who is accused of being a Nazi war criminal. Although a displeased Shaw demanded that his name be removed from the final credits, the…

Nunnally Johnson: …as to write and produced The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956), The Three Faces of Eve (1957), and The Angel Wore Red (1960). His last script was for The Dirty Dozen in 1967.

Philip K. Dick: …Time out of Joint (1959), The Man in the High Castle (1962; Hugo Award winner; television series 2015–19), and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965), the protagonists must determine their own orientation in an “alternate world.” Beginning with The Simulacra (1964) and culminating in Do Androids Dream of Electric…

James Whale: Films of the later 1930s: …United Artists, where he made The Man in the Iron Mask (1939), adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas père known in English by the same title. It starred Louis Hayward (in a dual role as the French king Louis XIV and Philippe, the king’s unknown twin) and Joan Bennett.

the man in the iron mask was a political prisoner, famous in French history and legend, who died in the Bastille in 1703, during the reign of Louis XIV. There is no historical evidence that the mask was made of anything but black velvet (velours), and only afterward did legend convert its material

David Wagoner: …Wind (1953), and two novels, The Man in the Middle (1954) and Money, Money, Money (1955). His early poems focused on the depressed and desolate state of the Midwest in the 1930s. Wagoner joined Roethke in 1954 at the University of Washington in Seattle as an associate professor of English.…

Robert Mulligan: The Man in the Moon (1991), however, a surprisingly touching coming-of-age piece set in 1957 Louisiana that starred Reese Witherspoon in her film debut, indicated that Mulligan could still fashion a winner, given the proper material. It was the last film he directed.

Michael Curtiz: Last films of Michael Curtiz: …worked with Ladd again on The Man in the Net, about an artist blamed for the disappearance of his unstable wife. At age 74, Curtiz released two films in 1960, an adaptation of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, with boxer Archie Moore as Jim, and A Breath of…

Elie Nadelman: , Man in the Open Air (c. 1915)—which may have been influenced by the doll collection he had once studied in Munich’s Bavarian National Museum.

Julian Barnes: Nonfiction works: …explore Belle Époque Paris in The Man in the Red Coat (2019).

Jack Arnold: …to the Old West for Man in the Shadow (1957), starring Orson Welles (in his only western) and Jeff Chandler. The Lady Takes a Flyer (1958), a mainstream romance, featured Chandler alongside Lana Turner, who played a pilot who dislikes the prospect of being domesticated. High School Confidential! (1958), a…

Corrado Alvaro: …1934, L’uomo è forte (1938; Man Is Strong) is a defense of the individual against the oppression of totalitarianism. Alvaro’s other novels include Vent’anni (1930; “Twenty Years”), Itinerario italiano (1933; “Italian Route”), L’età breve (1946; “The Brief Era”), and Tutto è accaduto (1961; “All Has Happened”).

Ngaio Marsh: …she wrote her first novel, A Man Lay Dead (1934), which introduced the detective Roderick Alleyn. In 1933 she returned to New Zealand, where she wrote many more novels and also produced and directed Shakespearean repertory theatre. The theatre guild she helped found in 1944 became an important mainstay of…

the Tragically Hip: The 2000s and Gord Downie solo: The Tragically Hip’s final album, Man Machine Poem (2016), was produced by Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene and Dave Hamelin of the Stills. It garnered the band’s best reviews in years, if not decades. Drew and Hamelin also produced Downie’s Secret Path (2016) and the posthumous Introduce Yerself (2017).

South Asian arts: Islāmic architecture in India: period of the Delhi and provincial sultanates: …at Chitor, and the superb Mān Mandir palace at Gwalior (1486–1516), a rich and magnificent work that exerted considerable influence on the development of Mughal architecture at Fatehpur Sīkrī.

Man o’ War, (foaled 1917), was an American racehorse (Thoroughbred) often considered the greatest of the 20th century. In a brief career of only two seasons (1919–20), he won 20 of 21 races, established seven track records for speed over various distances, and raced at odds as short as 1–100. In

Jack Albertson: His other movies included Man of a Thousand Faces (1957), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), How to Murder Your Wife (1965), and The Flim-Flam Man (1967). Albertson played Grandpa Joe in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) and Manny Rosen in the popular disaster movie The

Frank Sargeson: …comic epistolary novella; the collection Man of England Now (1972), which contained previously published work as well as the novella A Game of Hide and Seek; and Sunset Village (1976), a novella that details the nefarious goings-on at a retirement community. His short fiction was compiled in Collected Stories, 1935–63…

Tenzing Norgay: …Everest (1955; also published as Tiger of the Snows), written in collaboration with James Ramsey Ullman, is an autobiography. After Everest (1978), as told to Malcolm Barnes, tells of his travels after the Everest ascent and his directorship of the Field Training Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling, which the Indian…

English literature: Other novelists: emphatic contrast, Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling (1771) offers an extremist and rarefied version of the sentimental hero, while Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1765) playfully initiated the vogue for Gothic fiction. William Beckford’s Vathek (1786), Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), and

José Clemente Orozco: Mature work and later years: …man who Orozco depicted in Man of Fire, the circular painting in the hospice dome.

Andrzej Wajda: …and Człowiek z żelaza (1981; Man of Iron). The latter, which was regarded as a manifesto against the ruling communist party in Poland and in support of the Solidarity opposition movement, won the Cannes film festival’s top prize, the Palme d’Or.

Don Quixote: Legacy and adaptations: …in 1968; and a 1972 film version directed by Arthur Hiller and starring Peter O’Toole, Sophia Loren, and James Coco. Another notable film adaptation was The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018), a loose retelling of Cervantes’s novel by the director Terry Gilliam, whose attempts to make the film over…

The Man of Law’s Tale, one of the 24 stories in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. It is an adaptation of a popular medieval story. The story describes the sufferings of Constance, daughter of a Christian emperor. When she marries a Syrian sultan who has converted to Christianity, his evil

Stephen Dobyns: …year he published the novel A Man of Little Evils, and from that point on he alternated between poetry and fiction, publishing roughly a book a year. His subsequent poetry volumes include Griffon (1976), Heat Death (1980), Black Dog, Red Dog (1984), Cemetery Nights (1987), Velocities: New and Selected Poems,

comedy: Rise of realistic comedy in 17th-century England: these comedies—Sir George Etherege’s Man of Mode (1676), for example, or William Wycherley’s Country-Wife (1675) or William Congreve’s Way of the World (1700)—the premium is on the energy and the grace with which the game is played, and the highest dramatic approval is reserved for those who take the…

David Lodge: Author, Author (2004) and A Man of Parts (2011) are based on the lives of writers Henry James and H.G. Wells, respectively.

John Galsworthy: In The Man of Property, Galsworthy attacks the Forsytes through the character of Soames Forsyte, a solicitor who considers his wife Irene as a mere form of property. Irene finds her husband physically unattractive and falls in love with a young architect who dies. The other…

Amy Adams: Stage debut and later career: …Henry Cavill as Superman in Man of Steel (2013). She reprised the character in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and Justice League (2017); a different cut of the latter was released in 2021 as Zack Snyder’s Justice League. Her other roles from 2013 include a con artist in…

Tony Zale was an American professional boxer, world middleweight (160 pounds) champion during the 1940s. (Read Gene Tunney’s 1929 Britannica essay on boxing.) Zale began his professional boxing career in 1934, but to make a living he spent much of 1935 and 1936 working in the steel mills of Gary.

Edgar Allan Poe: Themes, technique, and legacy: …of fatality (“The Assignation,” “The Man of the Crowd”). Even when he does not hurl his characters into the clutch of mysterious forces or onto the untrodden paths of the beyond, he uses the anguish of imminent death as the means of causing the nerves to quiver (“The Pit…

Chinua Achebe: A Man of the People (1966) and Anthills of the Savannah (1987) deal with corruption and other aspects of postcolonial African life.

Anthony Mann: The 1950s: westerns of Anthony Mann: …were no such compromises in Man of the West (1958), a brutal but superbly staged drama starring Gary Cooper as a former bank robber who is held hostage by his old gang. The film was not a box-office success but came to be recognized as Mann’s last great western.

Barry Levinson: …Heights (1999), the political thriller Man of the Year (2006), and the comedy Rock the Kasbah (2015).

Thomas Kinsella: …Peppercanister included Marginal Economy (2006), Man of War (2007), and Belief and Unbelief (2007). Numerous collections of Kinsella’s poems were released, including Collected Poems, 1956–2001 (2001), Selected Poems (2007), Fat Master (2011), and Late Poems (2013); the latter was published by Carcanet Press, which released several of his works in…

Ed Harris: …Virginia (2010), in the thriller Man on a Ledge (2012), and as Sen. John McCain in the HBO movie Game Change (2012), which dramatized the final months of the 2008 U.S. presidential race from the McCain campaign’s perspective. In the Cold War thriller Phantom (2013) Harris starred as a Soviet…

Frank Perry: After the muddled thriller Man on a Swing (1974), Perry directed Rancho Deluxe (1975), which was scripted by Thomas McGuane. The offbeat contemporary western centres on two cattle rustlers (Jeff Bridges and Sam Waterston) who set their sights on a wealthy rancher (Clifton James). Perry, who occasionally worked in…

Elia Kazan: Films and stage work of the 1950s of Elia Kazan: …was the movie that followed, Man on a Tightrope (1953), an account of a circus troupe’s escape from communist-ruled Czechoslovakia.

Burgess Meredith: Meredith also directed the films The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1950) and The Yin and Yang of Mr. Go (1978), the latter of which he wrote.

Michael Schur: Other productions: …Primo (2023), Hacks (2021–24), and A Man on the Inside (2024– ).

Jim Carrey: Stardom: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask, and The Truman Show: …a popular television show, and Man on the Moon (1999), in which he portrayed the comedian Andy Kaufman.

man orchid, either of two related species of orchids (family Orchidaceae), named for the humanlike shape of their flowers. The common man orchid (Orchis anthropophora, formerly Aceras anthropophorum) is native to grasslands of Great Britain, Eurasia, and northern Africa. The flower spike, about 10

Man Ray was a photographer, painter, and filmmaker who was the only American to play a major role in both the Dada and Surrealist movements. The son of Jewish immigrants, Radnitzky grew up in New York City, where his father worked as a tailor and his mother a seamstress. He studied architecture,

Jimmy Kimmel: Win Ben Stein’s Money and The Man Show: …Kimmel and Adam Carolla cohosted The Man Show, a talk show aimed at young male audiences with a mix of scantily clad women and irreverent humour. It developed a dedicated following over the following four years, becoming one of the most successful shows on the Comedy Central network. During that…

Rajmahal: Man Singh, a Rajput governor of Bengal under the Mughals, chose the site for his capital in 1595–96 because of its strategic command of the Teliagarh Pass and the Ganges River. The capital of Bengal was transferred to Dacca (now Dhaka, Bangladesh) in 1608, but…

Stieg Larsson: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), which tracked the mismatched protagonists’ investigation into a decades-old disappearance, was swiftly met with praise in Sweden—in particular for Larsson’s indelible characterization of Salander as a surly pixie with a troubled past. Its two sequels—Flickan som lekte med elden…

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg , short story by Mark Twain satirizing the vanity of the virtuous. It was first published in Harper’s Magazine in 1899 and collected in The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Sketches in 1900. The story reflects Twain’s disillusionment and

Garson Kanin: Film directing: …later that year he helmed A Man to Remember, a B-film written by Dalton Trumbo, and Next Time I Marry, a screwball comedy starring Lucille Ball. The Great Man Votes (1939) was Kanin’s first critical success, thanks largely to a moving performance by John Barrymore. An acerbic satire on politicians…

Bob Rafelson: Films of the late 1980s and beyond: …artistically was the screwball comedy Man Trouble (1992), written by Five East Pieces screenwriter Eastman and featuring Nicholson and Ellen Barkin. The complex, tightly woven Blood and Wine (1996), the noirish story of a jewel robbery, which starred Nicholson, Michael Caine, Judy Davis, and Jennifer Lopez, was much better received.…

Manchester United, English professional football (soccer) team based in Manchester, England. Nicknamed “the Red Devils” for its distinctive red jerseys, it is one of the richest and best-supported football clubs not only in England but in the entire world. The club has won the English top-division

Herbert Spencer: Sociology and social philosophy: In The Man Versus the State (1884), he wrote that England’s Tories generally favour a military and Liberals an industrial social order but that the Liberals of the latter half of the 19th century, with their legislation on hours of work, liquor licensing, sanitation (see public…

William Keighley: …expensive acquisitions, the Broadway hit The Man Who Came to Dinner, which was written by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The 1942 adaptation was a success, with fine performances by Davis and Monty Woolley, who re-created his stage role with verve. Nearly as funny was George Washington Slept Here…

William Keighley: …their most expensive acquisitions, the Broadway hit The Man Who Came to Dinner, which was written by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The 1942 adaptation was a success, with fine performances by Davis and Monty Woolley, who re-created his stage role with verve. Nearly as funny was George Washington…

Rudolfo Anaya: …in Serafina’s Stories (2004) and The Man Who Could Fly and Other Stories (2006); and a number of children’s books, as well as plays and poems. An advocate of multiculturalism and bilingualism, he translated, edited, and contributed to numerous anthologies of Hispanic writing. In 2002 he was awarded a National…

African American literature: The Black Arts movement: Williams, particularly The Man Who Cried I Am (1967), a roman à clef about a dying Black novelist intent on maintaining his political integrity in the face of government persecution, communicate the spirit of the new Black ideals. The “tell it like it is” temper of the…

Nicolas Roeg: …du Maurier; the science-fiction film The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), featuring an otherworldly David Bowie; Bad Timing (1980), starring Art Garfunkel; and The Witches (1990), based on Roald Dahl’s popular children’s book of the same name. Bad Timing also starred Theresa Russell, whom Roeg married in 1982 (they…

Dai Vernon was a Canadian magician and sleight-of-hand artist who was one of the 20th century’s most renowned practitioners of “up-close” magic and card tricks. (Read Harry Houdini’s 1926 Britannica essay on magic.) Fascinated with magic from age six, he decided to become a professional conjurer

Don Quixote: Legacy and adaptations: Another notable film adaptation was The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018), a loose retelling of Cervantes’s novel by the director Terry Gilliam, whose attempts to make the film over the course of nearly three decades were beset by various complications, delays, and cancellations, turning Gilliam into a quixotic figure…

Jeremy Irons: … in the Srinivasa Ramanujan biopic The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015); as the architect of a tower that becomes the site of a class war in High-Rise (2015), an adaptation of a J.G. Ballard novel; and as a villain in the fantasy adventure Assassin’s Creed (2016), based on a video…

Alfred Hitchcock: First international releases: The Man Who Knew Too Much to Jamaica Inn: Hitchcock signed with Gaumont-British in 1934, and his first film for that company, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), was also his first international success. Leslie Banks and Edna Best star as the Lawrences, a…

The Man Who Knew Too Much, American thriller film, released in 1956, that was Alfred Hitchcock’s remake of his 1934 classic and is widely considered equal, if not superior, to the original. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) Dr. Ben McKenna (played by James Stewart) and

Richard Wright: Posthumous publications: In addition, The Man Who Lived Underground, a rejected manuscript dating to 1941 that was later condensed into a short story, was released in its entirety in 2021. The novel centers on an African American man who is coerced into confessing to two murders he did not…

Rafael Arévalo Martínez: …title story of his collection El hombre que parecía un caballo (1920; “The Man Who Resembled a Horse”), which was once considered the most famous Latin American short story of the 20th century. First published in 1915, the story was so successful that Arévalo made other experiments in the same…

The Man Who Loved Children, novel by Australian writer Christina Stead, published in 1940 and revised in 1965. Although it went unrecognized for 25 years, The Man Who Loved Children is considered Stead’s finest novel. Unfolding a harrowing portrait of a disintegrating family, Stead examines the

Robert Edmond Jones: His settings for The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife (1915), a version by the French satirist Anatole France of an old French folk drama, employed an austere, gray-and-black, poster-like street facade and brilliant costumes. Jones achieved unencumbered, fluid stage arrangements in which it was possible (as it…

Oliver Sacks: …patients in works such as The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (1985). While most critics found his descriptions of the often strange afflictions to be humane and sympathetic, some accused Sacks of merely attempting to excite and amuse his audience.

Bette Davis: …the ingenue in Warner Brothers’ The Man Who Played God (1932). The positive critical response to her work in this film prompted Warner Brothers to sign Davis to a contract.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: The top-selling theme song by Gene Pitney does not appear in the film.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, American western film, released in 1962, that was John Ford’s poetic and sombre look at the end of the Wild West era. Although atypical of his usual works, it is widely considered Ford’s last great movie and among his best westerns. The story opens with the return

David Bowie: His first album of note, The Man Who Sold the World (1970), a prescient hybrid of folk, art rock, and heavy metal, did not turn him into a household name either. Not until Hunky Dory (1971) did he hit on the attractively postmodern notion of presenting his chameleonism as an…