Rachel Louise Carson Life Begins Rachel Louise Carson was born on May 27, 1907 in Springfield, Pennsylvania, where she lived with her family. Her family was very poor, and she had two older siblings with which she shared a room. She was very interested in nature, which she claimed to have learned from her mother. She also loved to write. In fact, when she was ten years old, she wrote a story called St. Nick, that was published in a kid’s magazine.
Review : How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, a 1991 fiction novel written by Julia Alvarez, is about four Spanish sisters; Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofia, desperately trying to accommodate themselves into 1960's New York City. After their father's involvement in a conspiracy against a ruthless dictator becomes a threat to the family, they are constrained to fleeing to the United States from their familiar home in the Dominican Republic. The book is made up of a series of short stories revolving each of the sister's personal experience as well as their family as a whole. Written in reverse chronological order over a span of 30 years, the story begins with them already having experienced the stresses of adulthood, and then steadily regresses into their childhood. The book is made up of three parts; the first part starts around 1989 (and ends in 1972), when the Garcia girls had lived in the United States for many years and were then fully Americanized.
By the time Edna was five years old her mother taught her how to write poetry. Edna published her first poem which was, “Forest Trees” which appeared in a magazine called St. Nicholas, an illustrated children's magazine, at the age of fourteen. Edna got a full scholarship to an all girl’s college called Vassar. While Edna was attending Vassar she was still writing dramatic poetry. Edna won an award for her book called The Harp-Weaver; the award was called Pulitzer Prize.
To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960 although it portrayed certain behaviors of people in the 1930’s. According to, To Kill a Mocking Bird “The novel replays three key years in the life of scout finch, the young daughter of an Alabama town’s principled lawyer. Scouts narrative relates how she and her elder brother Jem learn about fighting prejudice and upholding humane dignity through the example of her father” (1960). The novel begins with Scout as a grown women and she is reflecting on her childhood years. Scout lived with her father Atticus Finch, Brother Jeremy, and also their house keeper Calpurnia who handles the children and she also happens to be black.
Melba Pattillo was born on December 7, 1941, in Little Rock (Pulaski County). Beals grew up surrounded by family members who knew the importance of an education. Her mother, Lois Marie Pattillo, PhD, was one of the first black graduates of the University Of Arkansas (UA) in Fayetteville (Washington County) in 1954 and was a high school English teacher at the time of the crisis. Her father, Howell Pattillo, worked for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. She had one brother, Conrad, who served as a U.S. marshal in Little Rock, and they all lived with her grandmother, India Peyton.
Web. <http://http.thinkquest.org/12111/$G/$G5.html>. This article is a research paper by several scholars about the Scottsboro Trials, and is also the basis of the trial in the book “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The setting of the book “To Kill a Mockingbird,” is in 1930’s Alabama, which is where the Scottsboro trials took place. These trials were a turning point in the way African Americans would later be tried in a
Bio: Nora Roberts was born in Silver Spring Maryland, the youngest of five children. After a school career that included some time in Catholic school and the disciplines of nuns, she married young and settled in Keedysville, Maryland. She worked briefly as a legal secretary. "I could type fast but couldn't spell, I was the worst legal secretary ever," she says now. After her sons were born she stayed home and tried every craft that came along.
Wilma Glodean Rudolph was born prematurely at 4.5 pounds (2.0 kg), the 20th of 22 siblings from two marriages;[4][3] her father Ed was a railway porter and her mother Blanche a maid. [9] Rudolph contracted infantile paralysis (caused by the polio virus) at age four. She recovered, but wore a brace on her left leg and foot (which had become twisted as a result) until she was nine. She was required to wear an orthopaedic shoe for support of her foot for another two years. Her family traveled regularly from Clarksville, Tennessee, to Meharry Hospital (now Nashville General Hospital at Meharry) in Nashville, Tennessee for treatments for her twisted leg.
Jean Louise “Scout” Finch is at that time six years old growing up in Maycomb, Alabama. Scout lived with her dad “Atticus Finch” and her brother “Jeremy Atticus “Jem” Finch”, Scout’s mom died when Scout was two and Jem was six years. Within the story it was shown how Scout was not like her peers in her community. Scout acts more like a boy than a girl; she would replicate whatever she saw her brother doing, when the character Charles Baker “Dill” Harris
Lee came from a family of four children. Her father was a lawyer while her mother suffered from an illness. Her best friend was Truman Capote, whom would turn out to be an aspiring writer also and would both work together on a piece. Lee became interested in writing when she was in high school and when she graduated she attended the all-female Huntingdon College in Montgomery. She focused on her school work and was a member of the literary honor society and glee club.