Richmond Barthé Introduction Richmond Barthé was born on January 28, 1901, in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. He was only one month old when his father, Richmond Barthé, died. His mother, Clementine Raboteau, was influential in nurturing his early artistic talent. When young Richmond was just an infant, he reportedly was intrigued with the Old English letters on the front page of the New Orleans Times Picayune newspaper. His mother supplied him with paper and pencils to practice copying the letters (Bardolph, 1961).
Because of Benjamin’s love to read, his older brother James apprenticed him into being a printer at the age of 12. After extensive work of helping his brother produce pamphlets, Benjamin would sell them on the street. When He was 15, Benjamin’s brother started the very first modern newspaper in Boston called, “The New England Courant.” Other Newspapers had been around at the time,
Stine was born in Columbus, Ohio on October 8, 1943 to Jewish parents (wiki/R._L._Stine). His mother Anne Stine, was a homemaker, and his father Lewis Stine, was a shipping clerk. As a child he was always very interested in books containing cheeky humor, and creepy, eerie stories. While all the other kids his age were outside playing games or conversing with each other, he would be in his room submerged in another book. It was when he turned the age of nine that he began his own writing career.
Reuben Lucius Goldberg was born in San Francisco on July 4, 1883. At the young age of four, Rube began practicing his art skills by creating things with his hands and tracing illustrations from the book History of the United States. By the time he was eight, Rube enjoyed line drawings and tracing from calendars, books and newspapers. Rube began taking art lessons at the age of 11. Even when he was a long boy, rube always knew what he had wanted to do with his life.
Many people may not know that Dr. Seuss wrote political propaganda for World War II, most people only know about the stories that he wrote. Before the war he had been working for several magazines including Vanity Fair, Judge, and Life, making cartoons and advertisements for these magazines. As the war came around it gave Theodore something to focus on in his works. At the time that the war had begun Theodore was too old to enlist into the army, but he still wanted to help out in any way that he could (Theodore). He acquired a job at New York’s daily newspaper PM, and began making political cartoons and writings about the war (Popova).
Peter Newell (1862-1924) was born in McDonough County, Illinois, the son of Fred Newell, a wagon maker. As a youngster, he attended schools in Bushnell, Illinois. He was born as Peter Sheaf Hersey Newell in McDonough County, Illinois, near the small town of Bushnell, the son of George Frederick Newell, a wagon maker, and Louisa Dodge. Named for his father's business partner and relative Peter Sheaf Hersey, Newell showed an early taste for drawing and was encouraged in it by his family. While in high school, he did a large oil painting, The Good Samaritan, which his father proudly framed and submitted to the annual Bushnell County Fair and which won a blue ribbon.
Alexie, himself, is telling the story about how he learned to read through comics, but is also explaining how it helped him understand. He goes into detail about how his house was full of books because his father loved to read. He was surrounded by books and things to read and could grasp the concept of reading. The main point, I believe, the author is trying to make in this article, is that there are many ways to learn new things without actually going to school. He learned from his fathers books, and comic books, and applied himself step by step.
Yet, he still he was recognized with several literary awards. John Updike grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania. In his youth, he suffered asthma and psoriasis, making him somewhat “different” from his classmates. This, along with his mother, instilled a love and dedication to writing. Updike excelled in High School and was awarded a full ride to Harvard University.
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) Norman Rockwell was best known for his paintings that depicted stories of America and its cultural values through a series of people and small town life in the early to mid 20th century. At the age of 14, Rockwell dropped out of high school to go study art at Arts Students League. By the age of 19, Rockwell attained the chief illustrator for Boys Life magazine position and would hold that position for the next fifty years. Rockwell also worked for The Saturday Evening Post and about 150 other companies producing over 4000 works of art. Rockwell did travel to Paris in 1923 to study modern art but it was his root original style that everyone appreciated the most.
Greg Roberts Professor Trammell English 102-04 April 12 / 2011 Ernest Hemingway Was a man driven by his past, that his mother had dressed him as a girl as well as gave him his love of the arts, and his father gave him strict discipline and his love of the outdoors and of sports. Ernest was born in Oak Park, Illinois, on the twenty first day of July 1899 the second child to Dr. Clarence Edmonds and Grace Hall Hemingway. In his youth his mother encouraged his interest in the arts, particularly in music and painting and his father developed his natural love of sports and the outdoor life. Although Ernest mother dressed him as a girl as a young child, Ernest never forgave his mother for this, and his father had his son in