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Dreiser
U.S. novelist. Born in Terre Haute, Ind., to poor German immigrant parents, he left home at 15 for Chicago. He worked as a journalist, then moved to New York in 1894 for a successful career as a magazine editor and publisher. His first novel, Sister Carrie (1900), about a young kept woman who goes unpunished for her transgressions, was denounced as scandalous. His subsequent novels would confirm his reputation as the outstanding Amer. practitioner of naturalism. After the success of Jennie Gerhardt (1911), he began writing full-time, producing a trilogy consisting of The Financier (1912), The Titan (1914), and The Stoic (published 1947), which was followed by The Genius (1915) and its sequel, The Bulwark (published 1946). An American Tragedy (1925), based on a murder trial, made him a hero among social reformers. He also wrote short stories, plays, essays, and memoirs.


Freire
Brazilian educator. His ideas developed from his experience teaching literacy to Brazil's peasants. His interactive methods, which encouraged students to question the teacher, often led to literacy in as little as 30 hours of instruction. In 1963 he was appointed director of the Brazilian National Literacy Program, but he was jailed following a military coup in 1964. He went into exile, returning in 1979 to help found the Workers Party. His seminal work was Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970).


Kempe
English mystic. She had 14 children before beginning a series of pilgrimages to Jerusalem, Rome, Germany, and Spain in 1414. Apparently illiterate, she dictated her autobiography, Book of Margery Kempe, describing her travels and her religious ecstasies in an unaffected style (c.1432-36). It is one of the earliest autobiographies in English literature.


Klaipeda
City (pop., 1996 est.: 202,000) and port, Lithuania. It lies on the channel that connects the Neman River with the Baltic Sea. A fortress built on the site in the early 13th cent. was destroyed in 1252 by the Teutonic knights, who built a new fortress called Memelburg. It came under Prussian control in the 17th cent., and the town (Memel) was settled by Germans. In 1923 Memel became part of Lithuania and was renamed Klaipeda. Seized by Germany in 1939, it passed to the U.S.S.R. in 1945. In 1991 it became part of the newly independent Lithuania. The modern city has major shipbuilding yards and is the base for a large deep-sea fishing fleet.


Kleiber
Austro-Hungarian conductor. After his Prague debut in 1911, he held a series of posts that led him to the Berlin State Opera, where he was music director 1923-34. There he premiered such important works as A. Berg's Wozzeck (1925) and L. Jan\u00e1 \u00e8 ek's Jenufa. When the Nazis forbade the premiere of Berg's Lulu (1934), he managed to program the suite from the opera for his last concert. Moving to Buenos Aires, he was head of the German Opera at the Teatro Col\u00f3 n 1937-49. ...

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