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Jackson, Charles
1903 – He was born this year in Summit, New Jersey, USA. His father skipped out on the family when he was 10 and the boy completed his elementary education in Newark, NY then began college at Syracuse University but abruptly quit.
1920 – He found himself working at bookstores, editing weekly newspapers and taking various jobs in repertory theaters.
1927 – He contracted tuberculosis in this year, and while recovering in a Pennsylvania sanitarium, read Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain" and decided to move to Europe. He spent a year in Switzerland and on the French Riviera drinking heavily and in poor health.
1944 – He wrote his most famous novel "The Lost Weekend" this year.
1967 – He continued to write sporadically over the next 24 years, publishing his final novel, "A Second Hand Life" in this year.
1968 – He died of suicide on the 21st day of September this year in New York, New York, USA.
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The Lost Weekend (New York Classics) by Charles Jackson (Paperback - Aug 26, 1996) Don Birnam is a sensitive, charming and well-read man. Yet when left alone for a few days by his brother, he struggles with his overwhelming desire for alcohol, succumbs to it and, in the resulting...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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I Am Alive!: A United States Marine's Story of Survival in a World war II Japanese POW Camp by Charles Jackson and Bruce H. Major Norton (Mass Market Paperback - Jun 3, 2003) In the bleak and bitter cold of a copper mine in northern Japan, a Chief Petty Officer of the U.S. Navy was given an opportunity to write a prisoner-of-war card for his wife. He was allowed ten... |
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THE LOST WEEKEND by JACKSON CHARLES (Paperback - Jul 26, 1963) |
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Charles Thomas Jackson: The Head behind the Hands by Charles T. Jackson and Richard J. Wolfe and Richard Patterson (Hardcover - Nov 1, 2007) The first full-length study of Charles Thomas Jackson, one of the most remarkable and maligned figures in the history of American science and medicine. Jackson was a key figure in three notable... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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The Fall of Valor by Charles Jackson (Hardcover - Jul 26, 2008) |
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The Outer Edges by Charles Jackson (Paperback - Jul 26, 2008) |
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