Suddenly Lee had a best seller. Fans wanted more but To Kill a Mockingbird was Lee’s only published novel. The last work under Lee’s name was an essay, over 20 years old now, that she read at the Alabama Heritage Festival in 1983. She has received many awards for her book. Bookstores say that High School and Middle School students account for most of the sales of the novel.
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.
In 1991, her book Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? was published, and spent 29 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Also in 1991, rival newspaper Dallas Morning News bought the Times Herald and closed it down. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram immediately made Ivins an offer and said she could stay in Austin. Ivins accepted, and wrote a column for the Fort Worth paper from 1982 until 2001, when she became an independent journalist.
On October 12, 1894 in Australia, Eric Burnham Hare was born to Robert and Henrietta Hare. His father was Irish and his mother was American. He had a brother named Rueben, who was older, and three sisters, Ruth, Nettie, and Enid Lucy, who were all younger. His mother, originally Henrietta Johnson, was born to a Steamship captain and an emigrated German. She grew up learning about Jesus, but was never full aware about the Sabbath until her later years, when she began questioning things and reading for herself.
Truman was living with his mother’s relatives in town after largely being abandoned by his own parents. In high school, Lee developed an interest in English literature. After graduating in 1944, she went to the all-female Huntingdon College in Montgomery. Harper Lee published To Kill a Mockingbird on July 11, 1960. It took her two and a half years to write To Kill a Mockingbird.
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 Amber Andersen English Hour 9-9 March 28, 2010 Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 Laurie Halse Anderson was born Laurie Beth Halse on October 23, 1961 in a small town called Potsdam, New York. When Anderson was a little girl one of her favorite hobbies was to write stories. Her first job as a freelance journalist was at The Philadelphia Inquirer where she began to write her first book, Speak which won The New York times best seller. The following year Anderson decided to write her second book which was a historical fiction called Fever 1793. Laurie read an article in the August 1993 issue of The Philadelphia Inquirer about the Yellow Fever Epidemic in 1793.
After that summer they never saw each other again until, one day years later Allie came across Noah in the newspaper and went to visit him. She had come to tell him she was engaged to be married, but at her stay at Noah’s she realized she might have made the wrong choice. In a twist of events Noah and Allie are actually in a nursing home, Allie had lost her memory, but before she forgot everything Allie wrote down her whole life with Noah and there
Kimberly Lewis introduces Martin McDonagh as a British playwright, born to Irish parents in “1971” in “Elephant and Castle” (Lewis 1). Lewis explains that after “dropping out of high school at sixteen” and having very little success with regular employment, McDonagh decides to grow up and try his hand at writing (Lewis 2). Lewis points out that McDonagh’s first play debut of “The Beauty Queen of Leenane” is in “February 1996” (Lewis 3). Dean confirms that McDonah’s first “feature-length” film is in 2008, In Bruges (Dean 166). Deborah Ross brings attention to how McDonah sets the scene for the film in the ancient medieval town of Bruges with its “cobbled streets” and “picturesque squares and canals” (Ross 52).
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.
During this time, he wrote his first collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems. In February of 1829, Francis Allen Dies, and before entering the West Point Military Academy, Edgar reconciled with his father. Not six months later, he found out that John got remarried and had children. That meant he would not be