Irene Kampen (1922–1998)
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- Andere Namen
- Fenstermacher, H. Loomis (pseudonym)
- Geburtstag
- 1922-04-18
- Todestag
- 1998-02-01
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Sterbeort
- Oceanside, California, USA
- Wohnorte
- Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA
California, USA
Levittown, New York, USA
Great Neck, New York, USA - Ausbildung
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Berufe
- humorist
journalist
novelist
short story writer
travel writer
autobiographer (Zeige alle 7)
columnist - Kurzbiographie
- Irene Kampen, née Trepel,was born in Brooklyn and raised in Great Neck, New York. She attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she was editor of the college humor magazine. After graduation in 1943, she worked as a "copy girl" at the New York Journal American. She married Owen Kampen, an artist and illustrator, with whom she had a daughter. The couple divorced after 11 years. In 1961, Irene published a book, Life Without George, about her post-divorce life, which launched her writing career. It became the basis for The Lucy Show (1962-1968), the television series starring Lucille Ball. Irene used her own life and that of her daughter as material for 10 other books and many articles and stories, including Are You Carrying Any Gold or Living Relatives? (1970) about her trip to the USSR; Due to Lack of Interest, Tomorrow Has Been Canceled (1969); Fear Without Childbirth (1978); Nobody Calls at This Hour Just to Say Hello (1975); Here Comes the Bride, There Goes the Mother (1967); and Last Year at Sugarbush (1965). She wrote a column for local newspapers and also gave lectures on cruise ships.
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"What's a be-in?" the bartender asked me.
"A be-in is where everybody gets together and Is," I told him. "Love. Creativity. Music and happy and flowers." I took the be-in handbill out of my purse and consulted it. "Also Cecil Immensetter will read aloud his visualised Found Poem of Western History," I added. I put the handbill back into my purse and said, thoughtfully, "As a matter of fact, now that I think about Cecil and his visualised Found Poem I believe I'll change that to a double Martini."
I read the first couple of pages at the last BookCrossing meeting in order to find out what this book was about, as it is an old hardback with no dust jacket, and then read a few more pages, and then decided to take it home with me. It's the story of how Irene Kampen returned to the University of Wisconsin to get the last few credits she needed to get her degree, 25 years after she left to get married in the middle of her senior year in 1943. Returning in 1968, the campus is full of hippies and rife with student protests, so it's a bit of a culture shock, especially when her room-mate and her friends, while friendly, tend to treat her as if she was out of the ark, and seem to think that she was last there in the flapper era rather than during WWII. She also gets drawn into socialising with members of the faculty after one of her lecturers realises that they were both in the same sorority.
A very amusing memoir, which rather reminded me of "Confessions of a Failed Southern Belle" in style.
"Welcome back," the bartender said to me. "How was the be-in?"
"It Was," I said. "Double Martini?" the bartender asked. I nodded. "How was Cecil Immensetter's visualised Found Poem of Western History?" he inquired.
"Long", I said.… (mehr)