1). This is when she found her true calling, writing action novels. She took a year off to do some research on action novels, to figure out how to write them, and what she liked most about them (Schawbel. sec. 5).She had some struggles in the beginning, just like most writers do, but her biggest piece of advice to young writers is to never give up, just like she does not.
Analyzing and Interpreting Literature 5 Dec 2011 Flannery O’Conner: The Displaced Person Flannery O’Conner was born on the 25th of March, 1925 in Savannah, Georgia where she spent much of her childhood. When her father was diagnosed with lupus she moved with her family to the rural town of Milledgeville where she lived along with other members of her mother’s family. In 1945 she was awarded a journalism scholarship to attend Iowa State University. (Flannery) It was there that she would decide to pursue a career in fiction rather than fact. After graduating with a Masters in Fine Arts O’Connor spent the next several years living and writing in New York State until she was diagnosed with Lupus, the disease that had killed her father.
Sylvia Plath research paper Notes While completing her studies at the University of Cambridge, she met Ted Hughes. This man was the love of her life and they got married on June 16, 1956 with Sylvia's mom in attendance. Ted and Sylvia decided to move back to the United States after getting married. They both lived and worked in the United States from July 1957 through October 1959. Sylvia taught at Smith College and attended many writing seminars where she met and became friends with Robert Lowell.
A major portion of her life was spent in the belief that her family fled for political reasons, but it was only until 1997 that she came to know the truth that her family was Jewish and that three of her grandparents were victims of the holocaust. In 1948, her family moved to United States when she was only eleven. (Nolan, 2) America proved to be fortunate for the moving family as immediately after their settlement, School of International Studies at the University of Denver selected her father as Dean. Mainly, her schooling was done at Kent Denver School in Denver. In 1959, she graduated from Wesley College with a B.A.
The family moved to the immigrant village of Red Cloud, Nebraska in 1883. Cather grew up around many different cultures from Europe and was, therefore, exposed to the harsh realities of new life on the Great Plains at an early age (Webster’s 69). Cather’s grandmothers educated her because there no schools close enough for her to attend. They taught her many things including Latin and Classic English literature. Her first literary influence was Virgil (Twentieth 257).
Georgia O’Keeffe was born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin in 1887. The second of seven children, O’Keeffe longed to be an artist from an early age. Her parents were successful farmers in the middle western state of Wisconsin. Georgia's mother also had cultural interests. She made sure that Georgia and her sisters studied art, in addition to their usual school subjects.
When she was eighteen Sophia was introduced to Leo Tolstoy, who began to visit the family often. Although it was thought that he favored her elder sister, Lisa, Leo proposed to Sophia on September 17, 1862. The couple was married a mere week later, in Moscow, and immediately retreated to the Tolstoy family estate, Yasnaya Polyana. Sophia had been keeping a diary from the time she was eleven but had it destroyed just before the wedding. On the other hand, in an act similar to a character created in his work Anna Karenina, Leo asked his new bride to read his personal diaries.
Introduction of Pioneer Edith Abbott, together with her younger sister Grace, was one of the leading social reformers of her time. She earned her Bachelor's degree from the University of Nebraska in 1901 and her postgraduate degree in economics from the University of Chicago in 1905. On September 26, 1876 Edith Abbot was born as the second child to Elizabeth Griffin and Othman Ali Abbott. She grew up in a civic-minded family, her mother a supporter of feminism, abolitionism and women's higher education, while her father worked as a lawyer in Grand Island, Nebraska after having served a two year term as the first lieutenant governor of the state [ (Nebraska State Historical Society - Abbott Family, 2006) ]. In 1893, Edith graduated with honors from Brownell Hall with plans to continue her studies.
She even worked very hard to write the Equal Rights Amendment. She is a very strong and dedicated women in my opinion I hope I can show you that with her story. Alice Paul was born on January 11, 1885 in Moorestown, New Jersey. She attended Swarthmore College and graduated in 1905 then took the rest of the year to do graduate work at the New York school of Social Work. After that she went to England in 1906 to continue her education in social work.
Marianne Moore was born of construction engineer and inventor John Milton Moore and his wife, Mary Warner in Kirkwood, Missouri. She grew up in her grandfather's household after her father was committed to a mental hospital before her birth. In 1905, she entered Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and graduated four years later. She taught at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, until 1915, when she began to publish poetry professionally. She was exposed to avant-garde poetry and criticism.