His mother Mittie died of typhoid fever on the same day, at 3:00 am, some eleven hours earlier, in the same house. On December 2, 1886, he married his childhood and family friend Edith Kermit Carow. They had five children Ted, Kermit, Ethel, Archibald, and Quentin. Theodore Roosevelt was one of the first presidents whose voice was recorded for posterity. Roosevelt’s 1901 saying “Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick” is still quoted by politicians and columnists in different countries—not only in English but also in translation various other
Her mom was a nurse trying to help the family. Edna’s mother encouraged her kids to be independent and appreciate books and music. When Edna was in high school, she was interested in theater. She performed many plays and even wrote a Halloween play that her classmates performed. When she was 20 she entered a poem called “Renascence” in a contest in which 100 poems were picked to be published.
Eric Shorts Professor Paquita Garatea History of Women in America December 3, 2012 “Money Makes Tha World Go Round” Anzia Yezierska (1881 - 1970) was the daughter of Russian-Polish Jews who immigrated to the United States in the early 1890s. Her father was a Talmudic scholar who engaged in full time study of the holy books while her mother struggled to support the family. Yerzierska worked in sweat shops to put herself through Columbia University. After achieving her goal of becoming an independent woman, her sister influenced her to begin writing. Yezierska became a popular novelist and short story writer during the 1920s before slipping into relative
Mary Shelley Mary Shelley was born on the 30th August 1797,and died 1 February 1851.She was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, best known for her gothic novel Frankenstein . Mary Godwin's mother died when she was eleven days old; she was raised by her father. When Mary was four, Godwin married his neighbour, Mary Jane Clairmont. Godwin provided his daughter with a rich, if informal, education, encouraging her to adhere to his liberal political theories. Frankenstein- Frankenstein turns to forbidden sciences and discovers how to recreate life.
From there she went on to earn her master of fine arts degree at the University of Iowa. She started her first novel at the age of twenty-two, Wise Blood. O’Connor compelled two novels and thirty-one short stories before she passed. O’Connor had a different view on the way she wrote her stories. In the first sentence of O’Connor’s biography it states that “O’Connor’s fiction grapples with living a Spiritual life in a secular world” (Bedford 439).
Victim #1 Mary Ann Nichols found 31st of August 1888 Mary Ann Nichols was a forty – five year old woman short, dark complexion with brown eyes and hair with grey. Her mother and father Caroline and Edward Walker lived in London on Dean Street the 26th August 1845 Mary Ann’s birthdate. Marry Ann’s father provided for his family by being a locksmith. Later when Marry Ann became a young lady she married Williams Nichols, a printer machinist, and they had five children: Edward John, Percy George, Alice Esther, Eliza Sarah, and Henry Alfred. Mary Ann and William marriage came to an end shortly after the children.
[4][5] Hanks's parents divorced in 1960. The family's three oldest children, Sandra (now Sandra Hanks Benoiton, a writer), Larry (now Lawrence M. Hanks, PhD, an entomology professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)[6] and Tom, went with their father, while the youngest, Jim, now an actor and film maker, remained with his mother in Red Bluff, California. Afterwards, both parents remarried. Hanks's first stepmother came to the marriage with five children of her own. Hanks once told Rolling Stone: "Everybody in my family likes each other.
The day of her birth was April 28, 1926. Some argue that it was the day that the world got a true magician of words. Her father, Frances Finch Lee, and her mother, Amasa Coleman Lee, had 4 children. Harper Lee was the youngest of the 4 children. Some say her father was the one that sparked her interest in writing and reading because he was a
Ethnic Background Sharon M. Draper lived in Cleveland, Ohio she was born on August 21, 1952 now she’s 61. She has a husband named Larry and a golden retriever named Honey and Sharon has one brother and one sister. Sharon M. Draper dad was a head waiter of a large hotel in Cleveland, Sharon M. Draper mom worked at the newspaper as a manager in advertising. Sharon M. Draper has 4 children’s. Sharon M. Draper went to many schools Sharon went to John Adams High School, Pepperdine University, Miami University, the University of Cincinnati and Howard University.
Her father was a Baptist preacher, tenant farmer, and carpenter, and her mother was a schoolteacher (Wikipedia). Even though Zora Neale Hurston claimed as an adult that she was born in Eatonville, Florida in 1901, she was actually born in Notasulga, Alabama, where her father grew up; her family moved to Eatonville (Wikipedia). In 1904 her mother died and her father remarried almost immediately. John Hurston, her father, and new stepmother sent her away to Jacksonville, Florida for school. She later worked as a maid to the lead singer in a traveling Gilbert & Sullivan theatrical company (Wikipedia).