Among his first book, he began to write many more such as The Path Between the Seas, The Great Bridge, Mornings on Horseback, Truman, John Adams, and In The Dark Streets Shineth. McCullough is a twice winner of the National Book Award. He also won twice for the prestigious Francis Parkman Prize. For the book, Truman, he received a Pulitzer Prize. In honor of all McCullough's work, he was given the National Book Foundation Distinguished Contribution to American Letters Award along with many others that were given.
Born in Northampton, England, in 1962 Mark Haddon had a thriving career as an author and illustrator before publishing his novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. Mark received a bachelor’s degree in English in 1981 from Merton College. He had a variety of jobs which include some volunteer jobs where he worked with people who had physical and mental disabilities. Later he continued with his studies to complete a master’s degree in English Literature at Edinburgh University. He illustrated for several magazines, and has been a cartoonist for the News Statesman, Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian and Spectator.
For the next three hundred and sixty five days he was a magazine proofreader in Hollywood. Every night he wrote some of his own material. By the end of that winter he finished a his first novel after renting a cabin in Northern Minnesota on a lake. After his dog racing hobbie ended he spent alot of time writing novels. All of his novels encourage readers to observe and care about the world around them.
He began writing very young, in elementary school. He wrote monster stories for other students for 1 cent per page. Dramatic readings included. He gained an interest in comic books in high school, where he began to write fan fictions for comic fanzines, or amateur fan magazines. (“Life and Times”) The first sale of his professional career was in 1970 at age 21: The Hero, sold to the fanzine Galaxy, which was published February 1971.
She spent most of her childhood living in Boston where Sylvia came to love the sea. By the age of eight, her father passed away scarring Sylvia for life. He was a professor at Boston University but died from diabetes. After her father’s death, the family moved to Wellesley, Massachusetts where Sylvia kept herself busy because of school. She was a very smart student earning high grades.
In 1954 he graduated from Harvard with a degree in English and began his writing career with The New Yorker magazine. Sadly Mr. Updike recently passed away of cancer in Danvers, Massachusetts in January, 2009 at the age of 76. John Updike has won many literary awards thorough out his career he even won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction twice once in 1982 and again in 1991. He is one of only a few authors who won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction twice. The short story A&P has six characters the three girls, Sammy the main character Stokesie Sam’s co-worker and Mr. Lengle who runs the store.
THE LIFE OF MARCUS GARVEY By: Marcus Garvey, aka Marcus Garvey jr., was born August 17, 1887 and had 11 brothers and sisters. Only Marcus and his sister, Indiana, would live to be 21. Marcus’s father owned a large library and where he got his love of reading. Marcus got his first taste of racism while he was in elementary school. In 1900, Marcus started an apprenticeship with his uncle who also owned a large amount of books.
For nearly 50 years Schulz's comic strip, the "Peanuts" collection, has been the most well-known and loved in the world, with as many as 355 million daily readers in 75 countries. After graduation, Schulz’s shyness and insecurity rendered art school out of the question, so instead he took a correspondence course from Art Instruction Inc. In 1942 Schulz was drafted and, heartsick and terrified, left for boot camp only days after his mother had died. But he actually thrived in the Army and came back newly confident. After serving in World War II, Schulz worked as an art instructor and created his first comic strip Li'l Folks, which was published in a local
Washington Irving: A man in Literary History The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.-Washington Irving. In Irving’s case this is very untrue. Washington’s success as a writer has lasted through the centuries. At one point in time Irving was one of the most popular people in America, and yet he is still looked up to in the literary world today. Irving’s early life was pretty eventful.
Mr. Alessandri had us read Silence of the Lambs, Dune, and numerous short stories. I had always just read all the standard books for high school, but this was a whole new twist to reading for me. For once I truly enjoyed what I was reading. Science Fiction & Horror was no easy class, but I found myself paying full attention at all times out of sheer enjoyment of what I was hearing from my teacher. Mr. Alessandri had been teaching the class for almost thirty years so he knew the material like the back of his hand.