Willa lived a life with not so many surprises, but she got around alot and was able to incorporate what she saw to her writing. Her novel My Antonia is a great example of this (Arnold 1-2). Nine years old Willa cather was left with unforgettable influences: bare, like behind her hand, or sheet iron, that resembled the land’s she was on (Gerber 20). At a young age ather was already influenced by multiple cultures. Also as the oldest she also had to mature a little quicker among the rest (Bloom 11).
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).
Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She is best known for her best seller, To Kill a Mockingbird which was published in 1959. Surprisingly, it is her one and only book that has ever been published but it is popular because of the racial message that it has. The book is similar to her childhood where she incorporated friends and family into characters for her story. Lee came from a family of four children.
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.
, powerful, passionate, these are just some of the words that describe Willa Cather. A Pulitzer Prize Winning author, whose works inspired many young authors. Though some may say her final works marked the decline of her artistic power, she is still a literature genius. She wrote of women’s struggles and frontier life in her novels: Lucy Gayheart, Sapphira the Slave Girl, and Shadows on the Rock. Willa Sibert Cather was born on December 7, 1817.
During the 19th century, among the Brontë sisters, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre was considered the best from all their work but later on the critics declared Wuthering Heights to be superior in work. The novel has inspired the world of art and numerous adaptations of the book have been made. The novel has several movie and T.V series adaptations that have been successful both commercially and among the critics. It has also inspired several creative adaptations such as operas, musicals and theatrical adaptations. Even though Wuthering Heights is her only published work, Emily Brontë is one of the most recognized writer, her work i.e.
Few filmmakers take inspiration from the lives of their mothers—but director Jacob Bernstein’s mom was portrayed by Meryl Streep in Mike Nichols’s comedy Heartburn (1986). Nora Ephron, novelist, essayist and playwright, but best-known as a screenwriter, director and producer, is the subject of Bernstein’s documentary, Everything Is Copy. Ephron, who died in 2012, penned the screenplay for Rob Reiner’s When Harry Met Sally (1989), and she wrote and directed other romantic comedies, such as Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and You’ve Got Mail (1998). Her last film as a writer-director was Julie & Julia (2009), which starred Streep as Julia Child. Bernstein conducts original interviews with Ephron’s sisters Delia, a co-writer on You’ve Got Mail and Bewitched, Amy, also a writer and screenwriter, and Hallie, a novelist and teacher, as well as with Ephron’s close friends and frequent collaborators, including Streep and Mike Nichols.
Using elements familiar to audiences of romances through the ages, from the moody and wind-swept novels of the Brontë sisters in the 1840s to the inexpensive entertainments of today, Rebecca stands out as a superb example of melodramatic storytelling. Modern readers considered this book a compelling page-turner, and it is fondly remembered by most who have read it. The story concerns a woman who marries an English nobleman and returns with him to Manderley, his country estate. There, she finds herself haunted by reminders of his first wife, Rebecca, who died in a boating accident less than a year earlier. In this case, the haunting is psychological, not physical: Rebecca does not appear as a ghost, but her spirit affects nearly everything that takes place at Manderley.
Charlotte’s older sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, came down with tuberculosis in 1825, and by the time the school notified Mr. Bronte, the girls were gravely ill. Maria died a few days after her return home, Elizabeth a few months later. Like Jane, Charlotte went to school as a student until she was sixteen and then became a teacher there for two years and later governess for about ten months. At roe wood, she even made 2 lifelong acquaintances as did Jane, Although Jane’s friend Helen passed away unlike Charlotte’s. Several of charlottes experiences elate to Jane in a way such as her going away to wander and learn new languages and also having fallen in love with a man who affection was seemingly impossible to keep, although it did not work out for Charlotte. She also had a literary admirer, William Thackeray, who like Rochester, had an insane wife.
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.