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9-2150: Michael or Mike Foster may refer to: Entertainment [ edit ] Michael Foster (American writer) (1904–1956), novelist, journalist, and cartoonist Michael Foster (agent) (born 1958), British former talent agent and political candidate Michael Foster (musician) (born 1964), American drummer of the rock band FireHouse M. A. Foster (Michael Anthony Foster, 1939–2020), American author/writer Michael Lewis Foster , American filmmaker Politics [ edit ] Mike Foster (American politician) (1930–2020), American politician Michael Foster (Hastings and Rye MP) (born 1946), British politician Mike Foster (Worcester MP) (born 1963), British politician Mike Foster (Canadian politician) , of Toronto, Ontario Michael Abu Sakara Foster , Ghanaian agronomist and politician Sports [ edit ] Michael Foster (cricketer, born 1972) , English cricketer Michael Foster (cricketer, born 1973) , Australian cricketer Michael Foster (cricketer, born 1979) , former English cricketer Mike Foster (footballer) (born 1939), English footballer Michael Foster (footballer) (born 1985), Papua New Guinean midfielder Michael G. Foster (1940–2021), founder of Yoshukai International karate Michael Foster Jr. (born 2003), American basketball player Other people [ edit ] Michael Foster (English judge) (1689–1763), English judge Michael Foster (physiologist) (1836–1907), British physiologist and member of parliament (MP) Michael Foster (philosopher) (1903–1959), tutor in philosophy at Oxford University Michael John Foster (scoutmaster) (born 1952), British Scout leader and Anglican priest Michael Foster (folklorist) , American folklore professor Michael Foster (Tolkien scholar) (1946–2023), emeritus professor of English and Tolkien scholar Mike Foster, American activist, co-founder of XXXchurch.com See also [ edit ] Michael Forster (disambiguation) Michael John Foster (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

18-630: A stroke on March 25, 1956, in Reno, Nevada . Foster began his journalism career with the Brooklyn Eagle . He was a reporter and cartoonist for newspapers in Salina, Kansas ; Los Angeles, California, and, by 1937, Seattle, Washington . In 1926, he was working on the Los Angeles Express , a daily newspaper. A friend, Charles Harris Garrigues , wrote that Foster writes, paints, and has been called

27-822: A pile of old, crumbling letters in the attic, cover a span of three generations . . . . Two books followed — To Remember at Midnight (1938) and House Above the River (1946). About his final book, The Dusty Godmother (1949), reviewer A.C. Spectorsky wrote in the New York Times that Foster had expanded a slick-magazine short story into a light novel which disappoints largely because it has frequent and unfulfilled intimations and overtones of being far more than just that. Garrigues wrote in 1957 after Foster's death that when Foster "had done penance to his father by The American Dream, he had done all he had to do. . . . he had written himself out when he made peace with his father, who

36-689: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Michael Foster (American writer) Foster was born August 29, 1904, in Hardy, Arkansas , the son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl D. Foster. His nickname was "Gully." He was a graduate of the University of Washington and the Chicago Art Institute . Foster married his literary agent, novelist Jane Hardy of New York. Their children were Peter Michael Foster and Garrett Ann Foster of San Francisco. Foster died of

45-697: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer until 1952, when he resigned to devote all his time to writing fiction. Foster's first novel, Forgive Adam, was published in 1935 by W. Morrow and Co. Margaret Wallace of the New York Times said of the author: Michael Foster, a young newspaper man on the Pacific Coast, is the newest recruit to the ranks of the hard-boiled novelists. In the brief declarative sentences of his prose style, in his method of consistent understatement, in his attitude of weary and rather self-conscious disillusionment, he has aligned himself with

54-408: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Foster&oldid=1201519747 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

63-531: The school of Hemingway and his imitators. The second novel, American Dream, came in 1937. American Dream told the story of "a disillusioned newspaperman who discovers through old family letters what America meant to the writers and what America should mean to him. Several scenes are reminiscent of the tawdry political atmosphere rendered in Ben Hecht 's and Charles MacArthur 's 1928 play, The Front Page . ". Los Angeles Times reviewer Milton Merlin said that

72-537: The second most promising of the young poets in America by the Lit Dig [ Literary Digest ' ] — doesn't know one note of music from another and improvises the most beautiful piano music . . . He roomed down at the house for a while until we had a fight over a novel he's writing and then he moved out — went on a three weeks' drunk and only started back to work when I threatened to knock his block off if he didn't. He also worked on

81-429: The work was: not an entirely satisfying novel, but it is an ambitious enterprise and an exceptionally compelling story told with feeling and facility. . . . Foster, a Seattle reporter, chooses a member of his profession for his central figure. Shelby Thrall, a disillusioned idealist at 30, reviews three generations of Thralls in an attempt to recapture the meaning of the "American Dream." Shelby's recollections, stirred by

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