Lois lowry is famous for writing novels. Her most famous book was The Gathering Blue. Few people may know about her personal life, how her writing career got started, or even about Gathering Blue. The following information will give more insight into this amazing American author. Lois Lowry was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on March 20,1937. She was born to Katherine and Robert Hammersberg. Mrs. Hammersberg was a teacher, while Mr. Hammersberg, was an army dentist. Lois, her mother, and her siblings moved to Pennsylvania before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. She grew up without her father presence for a long time. When she between the age of eight and nine years old she decided she wanted to write novels. In the year of 1958 she graduated from
Flannery O'Connor was a Southern writer especially noted for 32 incisive short stories before a tragic death at the age of 39.
1912. It shows how hard it was for her as she was young, had no
She attended the City College of New York and obtained a Masters of Arts in American Literature in 1965. She became the editor of the African American Literature story, The Black Woman. Her first story w...
Joyce Carol Oates was born on June 16th, 1938, in Lockport, New York. Raised on her parent’s farm in a rural area that had been hit by the Great Depression, she attended the same one-room school house as her mother. As a young child, Oates developed a love of literature and writing well beyond her years. She was very encouraged by her parents and grandparents to pursue her love of writing and as a teenager she was given her first typewriter. This was when her passion finally came to life. In 1953 at the age of only 15, she wrote her first novel about the rehabilitation of a drug dealer, which was later turned down by the publisher because the topic was not suitable for a young audience. Although her novels do focus on the horrors of society, her childhood growing up was no reflection of that. Oates has admitted that her childhood was “dull, ordinary and nothing people would be interested in. Oates continued writing throughout high school and earned a scholarship to attend Syracuse University. There she graduated at the top of her class in 1960, and in...
Dorothy West worked hard to achieve her goal of becoming a writer. West wrote her first story when she was 7 years old. West started school at the age of four. She was put in the second grade at Farragut School in Boston. West attended the Boston’s Girls’ latin school at age 10. It was one of the best school at the time. Not to mention, Boston’s Girl’s Latin school was a school that chose their students carefully. West graduated in the year n 1923. West also got a diploma for that school.
One of the best short story writers of her day, Mary Flannery O’Connor was a brilliant writer, and still is, highly acclaimed. Her unique style of writing has a large part in her continued popularity. Ann Garbett states,”…O’Connor combined religious themes from her Roman Catholic vision with a comically realist character from the rural Protestant south to create a fiction that is simultaneously serious and comic” (1910). Mary O’Connor Flannery was an extremely talented young author who experienced hardships throughout her short life’ However, she used these experiences, her Roman Catholic faith, and the writings of William Faulkner and Nathanael West to develop highly praised short stories and novels such as “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” and Wise Blood.
The setting in which Lorraine Hansberry was raised was a crucial to the development of several of her plays, particularly A Raisin in the Sun. On May 19, 1930, Hansberry was born in Chicago, Illinois to Carl and Nannie Hansberry. Both of her parents were known for their work in regards to civil rights and social equality. Also, her great grandfather William Hansberry, a slave that could read and write that was freed when...
Anna Quindlen’s novel, Black and Blue, is about a woman named Fran Benedetto. Fran leaves her husband Bobby and takes their son Robert to Florida to set up a new life. She was domestically beaten for a very long time before she finally gathers the courage to do so. The conclusion of the novel was powerful because it successfully created closure for the novel. Quindlen’s choice of Fran/Beth appropriately concludes the work in that it supports the theme of individuality.
Dorothy Height was born on March 24, 1912, in Richmond, Virginia. She grew up with a mother (Fannie Burroughs Height), a father (James Edward Height), and a sister (Anthanette Aldridge). Her father was a building contractor while her mother was a nurse both working to support the family. When Dorothy was 5 years old she moved to Rankin, Pennsylvania.
Lorraine Hansberry, born on May 19, 1930, in Chicago, Illinois, was the youngest of four children. Her parents were Carl Augustus Hansberry, who was a real estate agent, and Nannie Louise Hansberry, who was a schoolteacher. Lorraine was seven, when her parents made the brave decision to move. They moved into an all-white community located near the University of Chicago. When the family moved, they were welcomed with an angry white mob that was trying to scare them off. Instead of being scared off, they decided to sue, and the family filed a lawsuit, Hansberry v. Lee, they won the lawsuit and we able to keep their home.
says. 'We weren't a family that had a lot of money. We turned to the world of imagination.' At 7, George knew she wanted to write. She began turning out short stories in elementary school after her mother gave her an old '30s typewriter, and she wrote her first unpublished novel by the time she graduated from Holy Cross High School in Mountain View."
writing, and the creation of the homes in her novels, and in turn, shaped her
But then her life changed after she finally found a publisher for her book in Britain and got her book published in the United States as well.
The Color Purple is an epistolary novel written by Alice Walker. This novel displays the growth and development of an average African-American woman. This novel demonstrates the everyday hardships that were placed on blacks, and how they battled to overcome them. It is a very controversial novel, and touches on a variety of sensitive topics, from spousal abuse, incest, to even lesbianism.