We learn that Benjamin Franklin had an affair with an unknown woman in his youth around 1730, this resulted in the birth of an illegitimate child, William. From there, we learn that Benjamin and William were very close, with William even assisting Benjamin in performing a great amount of his scientific achievements. When William was a young man, his father sponsored him to enroll in law school and form there he became the Royal Governor of New Jersey. Around the time of French and Indian war, the two had very similar political views and
After pursuing with that Gallaudet became interested in writing children's books. Gallaudet was a well known man for all the things he did. After graduated from Yale, Gallaudet was not quite sure of the direction he wanted to proceed in terms of a career. He had many interests to include working in a trade, attending a seminary or perform in the capacity of a traveling salesman. Temporarily, he worked as a legal apprentice before deciding to return to Yale University in 1808 as a graduate student where he obtained a Masters of Arts degree.
The first person to write a dictionary of American English and permanently alter the spelling of American English, Noah Webster through his spelling book taught millions of American children to read for the first half-century of the republic and millions more to spell for the following half-century. Born a farmer's son in what is now West Hartford, Connecticut, Webster attended Yale College from 1774 to 1778, during the Revolutionary War. After graduating, he taught at Connecticut district schools before studying for the bar. The dismal conditions of these schools, combined with his patriotism and a search for self-identity, inspired him to compose three schoolbooks that, he believed, would unify the new nation through speaking and writing a common language. (Previously, almost all American schoolbooks had been reprints of imported British ones.)
This cooperation lasted until the end of Verne's career. Hetzel had also worked with Balzac and George Sand. He read Verne's manuscripts carefully and did not hesitate to suggest corrections. One of Verne's early works, Paris in the Twentieth Century, was turned down by the publisher, and it did not appear until 1997 in English. Verne's novels gained soon a huge popularity throughout the world.
Stephen King In 1947 on the Twenty First of September, Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King gave birth to one of the greatest mystery fiction writers in our time. Stephen King was born in Maine General Hospital in Portland Maine(Wukovits 11). King had a normal upbringing despite the absents of a father. At the age of two King’s father, Donald Edward King, had disappeared while serving as a merchant marine in World War II (11). King started his education in a small school where he quickly took an interest in reading and writing.
William F. Buckley Jr. (1925-2008) was an American editor, writer and television host. Born in a family of wealth and privilege, he was educated on England, France the Millbrook School in New York. At the age of 25, he became a literally sensation with the publication of his book, God and Man at Yale (1950). William F. Buckley Jr.'s article, "Why Don’t' We Complain" addresses what he feels to be an important issue in present-day American society. Why, in a country built upon numberless of freedoms [freedom of speech, religion, expression, etc...] are we so afraid to speak up when we have a problem?
Cooper A. Background on the author * Born 1789, James Fennimore Cooper was born in Burlington, New Jersey. His family soon established itself near Lake Otsego in central New York, in what is now called Cooperstown. His father Judge William Cooper was a wealthy landowner and judge, but the Cooperstown of the time was something akin to a frontier settlement. James attended Yale at the age of thirteen, but was expelled in his third year (1805) for committing several pranks.
My name is Elizabeth Cady Stanton and I was born on November 12th, 1815 in a crowded family with 11 children in Johnstown, New York. My hometown is a big city, very crowded and early industrial. Unlike most other women of my era, I was educated from Johnstown Academy when I was sixteen. When I was a young woman, through my involvement in the temperance and the abolition movements, I met Henry Brewter Stanton who is my cousin’s acquaintance. Stanton is a journalist, an antislavery orator.
Washington Irving was the United States' first "man of letters," the first American to achieve international fame and financial security from his pen. Irving was also one of the first Americans to follow in the footsteps of such men as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson (Jones para 1). His writing career, which he began as a journalist at nineteen, extended over more than fifty years. He also won popular and critical recognition as a biographer and a historian of Spain, the American Revolution, and events in the American Far West. At the age of twenty-six Irving found himself a literary lion in New York
Chaucer's term for fabliau is a "churl's tale" (cherles tale, Miller's Prologue, line 61, p. 88 in Penguin Classics translation); it is thus implicitly contrasted with the "aristocratic" or "courtly" genre of romance (e.g. the Knight's Tale which immediately precedes it). Do note however that fabliaux are found in the same manuscripts as romances, indicating that they were intended for and enjoyed by the same aristocratic audiences; thus,fabliaux were not in fact the "genre of the lower or middle classes." Keeping these ideas in mind, consider the Miller's contention that his tale will "repay" the Knight's Tale (pp. 86-7,Miller's Prologue line 19; other possible translations of the Middle English word quite are "requite," "avenge" or "be an answer to").