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Lawrence James Davis (better known as L. J. Davis; July 2, 1940 – April 5, 2011) was an American writer, whose novels focused on Brooklyn, New York. Davis's novel, A Meaningful Life, described by the Village Voice as a "scathing 1971 satire about a reverse-pioneer from Idaho who tries to redeem his banal existence through the renovation of an old slummed-up Brooklyn town house", was reissued in 2009, with an introduction by Jonathan Lethem. Lethem, a childhood friend of one of Davis's sons, praised the novel in an essay about Brooklyn authors, which resulted in New York Review Books Classics reprinting it after nearly 40 years.

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  • إل. جي. ديفيس (ar)
  • Lawrence James Davis (ca)
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  • إل. جي. ديفيس (بالإنجليزية: L. J. Davis)‏ (2 يوليو 1940، سياتل في الولايات المتحدة - 5 أبريل 2011، بروكلين في الولايات المتحدة)؛ صحفي وروائي أمريكي. (ar)
  • Lawrence James Davis, també conegut com a L. J. Davis, (Seattle, Washington, 2 de juliol de 1940 - Brooklyn, Nova York, 5 d'abril del 2011) va ser un escriptor estatunidenc que va centrar les seves novel·les a Brooklyn, Nova York. Davis residia Brooklyn des de 1965. Es beneficià d'una el 1975 per escriure ficció, però després va començar a escriure periodisme, sobretot per a la Harper's Magazine. (ca)
  • Lawrence James Davis (better known as L. J. Davis; July 2, 1940 – April 5, 2011) was an American writer, whose novels focused on Brooklyn, New York. Davis's novel, A Meaningful Life, described by the Village Voice as a "scathing 1971 satire about a reverse-pioneer from Idaho who tries to redeem his banal existence through the renovation of an old slummed-up Brooklyn town house", was reissued in 2009, with an introduction by Jonathan Lethem. Lethem, a childhood friend of one of Davis's sons, praised the novel in an essay about Brooklyn authors, which resulted in New York Review Books Classics reprinting it after nearly 40 years. (en)
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  • Lawrence James Davis, també conegut com a L. J. Davis, (Seattle, Washington, 2 de juliol de 1940 - Brooklyn, Nova York, 5 d'abril del 2011) va ser un escriptor estatunidenc que va centrar les seves novel·les a Brooklyn, Nova York. Davis residia Brooklyn des de 1965. Es beneficià d'una el 1975 per escriure ficció, però després va començar a escriure periodisme, sobretot per a la Harper's Magazine. La novel·la A meaningful life (literalment en català una vida significativa), descrita per la Veu del Poble com una "mordaç sàtira de 1971 sobre una inversa pionera d'Idaho que intenta redimir la seva existència banal a través de la renovació d'una degradada casa antiga de Brooklyn" va ser reeditada el 2009, amb una introducció de Jonathan Lethem. Lethem, un amic de la infància d'un dels fills de Davis, va elogiar la novel·la en un assaig sobre els autors de Brooklyn, que es va traduir a New York Review Books Classics reimprimint-lo després de gairebé quaranta anys. (ca)
  • إل. جي. ديفيس (بالإنجليزية: L. J. Davis)‏ (2 يوليو 1940، سياتل في الولايات المتحدة - 5 أبريل 2011، بروكلين في الولايات المتحدة)؛ صحفي وروائي أمريكي. (ar)
  • Lawrence James Davis (better known as L. J. Davis; July 2, 1940 – April 5, 2011) was an American writer, whose novels focused on Brooklyn, New York. Davis's novel, A Meaningful Life, described by the Village Voice as a "scathing 1971 satire about a reverse-pioneer from Idaho who tries to redeem his banal existence through the renovation of an old slummed-up Brooklyn town house", was reissued in 2009, with an introduction by Jonathan Lethem. Lethem, a childhood friend of one of Davis's sons, praised the novel in an essay about Brooklyn authors, which resulted in New York Review Books Classics reprinting it after nearly 40 years. Davis served in the Army National Guard and graduated from Stanford University in 1962. He completed two years of graduate work in history at Columbia University before returning to Stanford as a Stegner Fellow in creative writing for the 1964-1965 academic year; thereafter, he moved to Brooklyn. He was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1975 to write fiction, but then began to write journalism, notably for Harper's Magazine. He received the 1982 Gerald Loeb Award for Magazines for a two part story on the Hunt brothers' attempt to corner the world silver market. Davis died at his home in Brooklyn on April 5, 2011. (en)
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