Sharon Olds’ Poetry Explained Sharon Olds was born in 1942 in San Francisco and received education from Stanford and Columbia University. She married a man in the late 1960s and is the mother of a son and daughter. That marriage eventually ended and the painful breakup has influenced her poetry heavily. Olds writes continuously, and only after an extensive amount of time has passed she feels the need to put together poems that comprise a book. She is one of a few poets in the United States whose books of poetry sell in large quantities.
She won two fellowships from the National Endowment for the arts, one was for fiction in 1982 and one was for poetry in 1987. During this time, she also met her literary agent, Susan Bergholz, who after seeing a small packet of short stories encouraged Cisneros to develop them into one what was to become Woman Hollering Creek. Cisneros won many awards for this including: the PEN Center West Award for Best Fiction of 1991, the Qualitiy Paperback Book Club New Voices Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Lannan Foundation Literary Award, and was selected as a noteworthy book of the year by The New York Times and the American Library Journal. In 1995, Cisneros won the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. She moved to San Antonio where she has she is now lecturing to students at a local arts center.
Growing up, she’d always wanted to become a writer and displayed this through many journals and examples of poetry. As she grew into adulthood, Jackson moved to New York to pursue her education at the University of Rochester before taking a year off to better understand how to write properly. The system she developed for good writing followed her through the rest of her life, as she wrote at least a thousand words a day and completed college at Syracuse University with a bachelor’s degree in arts. While in school, Jackson published both fiction and non-fiction in the campus’ magazines and newspapers, as well as writing several editorials to advocate against prejudice towards other people, primarily Jews and
Julia child was born into a family of three children who all went to private schools and had their own servants. Julia was tall and loved the outdoors and sports. She went to Smith College in Massachusetts, where she majored in History and English and after graduation she took a job as a copywriter for a furniture company in New York City. Soon after World War II, Julia joined the OSS were eventually she met her husband, Paul Child and they were soon married. Paul was the one who introduced Julia to the french cuisine and this is when Julia found her love for
In the Spring of 1992 Lauren Selby was born. She was born and raised in the small town of Monticello. Her parents Lily and Thomas were both excited for her arrival because she is their only daughter. Lauren was a very active and social child. She was exceptional bright and excelled in school.
It is evident that O’Connor uses the literary tools characterization, setting, and symbolism in two of her most famous short stories, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” and “Revelation”, in order to have the greatest impact on her readers. Born on March 25, 1925, in Savannah, Georgia, Mary Flannery O'Connor “is considered one of the best short story authors of the 20th century” (A&E Television Networks). O’Connor wrote an abundant amount of short stories during her lifetime. “She wrote about religious themes and southern life” (A&E Television Networks). In most of her works, O’Connor describes the scenery and lifestyle of the Deep South and her characters speak with a southern dialect, reflecting her background.
Arlene Dunn Arlene Dunn was a white woman from Boston who first hand experienced working in the civil rights movement of the 1960’s. The event that got her started in getting involved with the civil rights movement was the Little Rock Nine movement. She was a sophomore in high school when this happened and it made her want to help. After this she started doing sit-ins at Brandeis University. After she graduated she was active with the SNCC where she did fundraisers to support organizations and campaigns.
Visual Arts and Poetry The Girl Powdering Her Neck by Cathy Song Portrait by Kitagawa Utamaro The poem Girl Powdering Her Neck was written by Hawaiian native Cathy Song. Cathy Song’s first piece of work The Picture Bride won her the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 1983. Song’s father was Korean American and her mother Chinese American. Her interest in writing began very young, when she would journal her families’ experiences. Her first work was actually about her father and mother, her mother was a picture bride.
Willa Cather was an extremely accomplishing journalist and author of short fiction novels also she was an English teacher, fraught with becoming a novelist (Arnold 2). It was just common sense that her long experience in newspaper work that Cather would start her occupation in journalism, though in the 1880’s it was unusual to have a woman in this field (Forman 3).That did not stop her though she kept on making more and more novels and short stories At a young age Cather wrote more than forty so tries, at least 500 columns and reviews,etc. even after she wrote novel she kept on making short stories (Arnold 3). Now only did Willa achieved myriads of things but she also gained awards as well. Willa Cather first received widely praise as an crucial author when Cather got the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for One of Ours (Pollard 81).
Nicole observed Ana Maria in the classroom during Ana’s first year at Purdue. Nicole found Ana to be very patient with her students. By expressing her cultural differences and incorporating them into her Spanish lessons, Ana Maria proved that she was a great