Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness Autor: Styron, William Student Name: Yahaira Cabrera Barreto Course: English Foundations EN001-48 102 Instructor: Ms. Joan Zaun Due Date: April 1, 2015 Information about the author William Styron | Author (1925–2006) Novelist William Styron won a Pulitzer Prize for The Confessions of Nat Turner and wrote Sophie’s Choice, the basis of an Academy Award-winning film. William Styron was born on June 11, 1925, in Newport News, Virginia. He published his first novel, Lie Down in Darkness, in 1952. In 1968 he won a Pulitzer Prize for The Confessions of Nat Turner. In 1979 he published Sophie’s Choice, which was made into a film in 1982 and an opera in 2002.
Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury is an american science-fiction writer. He was born august 22th 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois. His Mother Ester Maria Moberg is swedish, and as a child he moved around a lot. Since 1934 he has lived in Los Angeles. In his whole career he has written 23 novels.
I n 1960, still a teenager, Bath won the "Merit Award" of Mademoiselle Magazine for her contribution to the project. After graduating high school early, Bath received her Bachelor of Arts in chemistry from New York's Hunter College in 1964. She relocated to Washington, D.C. to attend Howard University College of Medicine, from which she received her doctoral degree in 1968. During her time at Howard, she was president of the Student National Medical Association and
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.
Lippincott company. They told her to rewrite it. For the next 2 and a half years she went through the process of reworking the document. Then in 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird hit the shelves in bookstores everywhere. Suddenly Lee had a best seller.
John Steinbeck was born in 1902, in California's Salinas Valley, a region that would eventually serve as the setting for Of Mice and Men, as well as many of his other works. He studied literature and writing at Stanford University. He then moved to New York City and worked as a laborer and journalist for five years, until he completed his first novel in 1929, Cup of Gold. With the publication of Tortilla Flat in 1935, Steinbeck achieved fame and became a popular author. He wrote many novels about the California laboring class.
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.
In Cold Blood tells the true story of the murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, in 1959. The book is written as if it were a novel, complete with dialog, and is what Truman Capote referred to as "New Journalism" — the nonfiction novel. Although this writing style had been used before, the craft and success of In Cold Blood led to its being deemed the true masterwork of the genre. For Truman Capote, it was the last in a series of great works, which included Breakfast at Tiffany's, Other Voices, Other Rooms, and The Grass Harp. In Cold Blood was originally published in four parts in The New Yorker and then released as a novel in 1965.
Ted Bundy was born. (November 24, 1946 – January 24, 1989) He grew up believing that his mother was his older sister. Bundy biographers Stephen Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth wrote that Bundy found a copy of his birth certificate at home when he was in high school. True writer Ann Rule, who knew Bundy personally, believes it was around 1969, shortly after a traumatic breakup with his college girlfriend. As a teenager, Bundy would look through libraries for detective magazines and books on crime, focusing on sources that described sexual violence and featured pictures of dead bodies and violent sexuality.
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.