Edward Albee was born in Washington, DC on March 12, 1928. When he was two weeks old, Albee was adopted by millionaire couple Reed and Frances Albee. The Albees named their son after his paternal grandfather, Edward Franklin Albee, a powerful producer who had made the family fortune as a partner in the Keith-Albee Theater Circuit.
Young Edward was raised by his adoptive parents in Westchester, New York. Because of his father's and grandfather's involvement in the theatre business, Albee was exposed to theatre and well-known personalities throughout his childhood. From early on, Albees mother Frances tried to groom her son to be a respectable member of New York society. The Albees' affluence meant that Albee childhood was filled with servants and tutors. The family Rolls Royce took him to afternoon matinees, he took riding lessons, vacationed in Miami in the winter, and learned to sail in Long Island in the summer.
In 1940, twelve-year-old Albee entered the Lawrenceville School, a prestigious boys' preparatory school. During his high school days, he shocked school officials by writing a three-act sex act called Aliqueen. At the age of fifteen, the Lawrenceville School dismissed Albee for cutting classes. Hoping to inspire his son in some discipline,Reed Albee enrolled Albee at the Valley Forge Military Academy. Within a year, Valley Forge had dismissed Albee as well.
Ultimately, Albee attended Choate from 1944 to 1946. Even as a teenager, Edward Albee presented himself as a prolific writer. In 1945, his poem "Eighteen" was published in the Texas literary magazine Kaleidoscope. His senior year at Choate, Edward's Albee first published play appeared in the school literary magazine.
After graduating from Choate, Albee enrolled at Trinity College, a small liberal arts school in Hartford, Connecticut. While there Edward got on his mother nerves by associating with artists whom she found unacceptable. During his days at Trinity College, Albee gained lots of theatre experience although it was as an actor, rather than a writer. During his sophomore year, in 1947, nineteen-year-old Albee was dismissed from yet another school. This time, Trinity College claimed that he had failed to attend Chapel and certain classes.
Despite his mother's objections, Albee moved to New York City's artsy Greenwich Village at the age of twenty. He supported himself by writing music programs for the radio. In 1953, young Albee met playwright Thornton Wilder. Later, he credited Wilder with inspiring him to become a playwright.
Charles Albright was born in Amarillo Texas, an orphan, and adopted by Fred and Delle Albright. His mother was a schoolteacher whose influence eventually allowed Albright to skip two grades in school. As a child, Albright purchased his first gun and killed animals with it and practiced taxidermy with his mother. At just thirteen years old he began stealing and was arrested for the first time. He graduated high school at just fifteen years old and enrolled in pre-med training.
Later in his life he decided that he would use all lower case letters when signing his name. In 1911 Cummings began his studies in Harvard. Throughout his college years he worked as an editor for the literary magazine. This would later influence his paintings and poetry. Cummings left Harvard in 1916 with a master’s degree, his first poems where published the next year in the anthology, Eight Harvard Poets. These poems illustrated his early experiments in style and language for which he later became famous for (Constantakis).
When he was fifteen years old, his mother died from appendicitis. From fifteen years of age to his college years, he lived in an all-white neighborhood. From 1914-1917, he shifted from many colleges and academic courses of study as well as he changed his cultural identity growing up. He studied physical education, agriculture, and literature at a total of six colleges and universities from Wisconsin to New York. Although he never completed a degree, his educational pursuits laid the foundation for his writing career.
Herman Melville had an interesting life. He was born on August 1st, 1819 to Allen and Maria Melvill of New York. At a young age, he came down with scarlet fever and as a result had weakened eyesight for the remainder of his life. His family was a well-respected one, then their import business fell through and they moved to Albany, New York. Their finances were desperate. During this time they changed the spelling of their last name and added an e, to be spelled, Melville.
Hemmingway was born in his family’s home in Oak Park, Illinois on July 18, 1899. It was here that he was raised with the conservative Midwestern values of strong religion, hard work, and self-determination. His father taught him to fish and hunt along the shores and in the forest around Lake Michigan. His love of the outdoors was cultivated here, and would influence his writing later in life. Hemmingway’s mother was very creative, with a special talent for singing. Although Ernest never took to music, he inherited his mother’s creativity. (Online ref #1)
Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet Transylvania on September 30, 1928. Prior to being taken under the Nazi 's rule, he decided to pursue Religious studies,as his father did. He grew up with his parents and three sisters. in the year 1944, when Elie was 15 years old,
Vonnegut was born on November 11, 1922, in Indianapolis, where he was reared. His father was an architect, as his grandfather had been. Though the family's fortune was eroded during the Depression-his father went without an architectural commission from 1929 to 1940-they were well-to-do. Kurt attended Shortridge High School, where he was the editor of the nations oldest daily high school paper, the Echo. (((high school quote)))
Kurt Vonnegut is an impressive author who combines comic fiction and social satire in his novels. He often writes about the main character Kilgore Trout, who seems to be more like Vonnegut’s alter ego. He has written many books including Player Piano, Cat’s Cradle, Slaughterhouse Five, Galapagos, Bluebeard, and Fates Worse Than Death.
After returning from the war Vonnegut attended the University of Chicago as a graduate student in anthropology. In 1947 he moved to Schenectady, New York, where he began to work on his first novel, Player Piano (1952), as well as a number of remarkably varied stories that would appear throughout the next decade in such magazines as Collier's, Playboy, Esquire and Cosmopolitan.
Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. Edgar’s parents, Eliza Poe and David Poe Jr, weren’t there through the entirety of his life. His father abandon his family before he was born while his mother took care of Edgar and his siblings on her own. His mother Eliza, made an honest living as an actress
Kurt Vonnegut was born on November 11, 1922. Kurt was born into a very nice normal family. Kurt’s father was a great architect in their city. His mothers name was Edith, her father owned a very blessed Indianapolis brewer. This is where they are from.
John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California. As a boy, he grew up in a farming community, and worked on ranches. At the age of fourteen, he decided that he wanted to become a writer. He went to Stanford University, but w...
refusal to play a literary role. He made him self as unpopular writer so he
Seuss left his home in Massachusetts at the age of 18 to attend Dartmouth College, there he became an editor in chief of its humor magazine ‘Jack-O-Lantern’. He was kicked off the magazine staff but continued to contribute to it using the pseudonym "Seuss." After graduating from Dartmouth, he attended Oxford University planning to eventually become
John Steinbeck decided to be a writer at age fourteen and he spent his teenage years writing various poems and stories (Shillinglaw).... ... middle of paper ... ... “Today, nearly four decades after his death, all of Steinbeck’s novels are in print, and collectively sell a combined total of more than 700,000 copies a year” (“John Ernst Steinbeck’s Biography”). Steinbeck’s novels will continue to be taught in schools and read throughout homes for years to come.