Tag Archives: literature

Michigan Today

Do you believe in miracles? Valentine Davies did.

Jim Tobin | December 19, 2019

Midway through World War II, U-M alumnus Valentine Davies got the idea for Miracle on 34th Street, which has become one of the longest-lived and most-loved specimens of Christmas cinema.

alumni

Heritage

Blue Angel

Kim Clarke | August 2019

After coming out at 86 years old, alumnus Forman Brown revealed he was the author of a groundbreaking 1933 novel about being young and gay at U-M.

LGBTQ literature

Michigan Today

Arrowsmith’s Inspiration

Jim Tobin | June 13, 2019 alumni