She wrote to pass the time and as a way to cope with hard times. She wrote in her diary for hours each day for 2 years, describing everything that happened to her during the Holocaust. You could definitely say nothing about the Holocaust was a joyful experience for her. Another thing about Anne was, she was an intelligent and creative girl for her young age. Her creativity and intelligence contributed to her amazing writing skills.
She got a secretary job at a publishing firm and “had to send out rejection letters to prospective authors.” (Imbornoni 1) b. Rowling also had tried many novels, but never finished any until she wrote Harry Potter B. J.K Rowling’s life had plenty of influences on her and her writing 1. Her family had a big impact on her writing a. She and her father never had a good relationship, which influenced the great father figures for Harry in her books (J.K Rowling Wikia 2) b. However, Rowling had a great relationship with her mother. After Rowling’s mother died, she [Rowling] was affected very much.
New York Times best-selling author, Janet Evanovich has written some attention grabbing, heart wrenching books throughout her years. She has also captured the attention of people across the nation by selling the rights to the first book in her Stephanie Plum series to Columbia Tristar. Does she create her stories purely from her imagination, or does her life influence how she writes her books? Janet Evanovich did not start out as a writer but as an artist. She studied art at Douglass College in New Jersey for four years before she realized that it was not right for her and decided to take up writing.
She taught me how to write my name first, and after I had that down pat my name was written everywhere. My grandmother made writing easy just as everything else. She was one of the only people that I would sit down with and let teach me things that I needed to know. After she taught me a lot about writing it led me to reading. My interest in writing led to my desire to read.
This play was written in the 1980's where the working, middle and upper classes were still used widely to determine what your culture was and how important you are to the social society at the time. Educating Rita is a humorous play giving out a very strong message, which is telling the audience to never give up in life and keep striving for what you are aiming for. In this play we have a 26 year old woman called Rita whom is a mature woman, seeking an education, as she didn't take the opportunity to learn when she was an amateur student, because of the environment she lived in and the fact she didn't want to learn due to her popularity and her working class culture. Liverpudlian playwright, Willy Russell, Educating Rita is a "must read" play for every drama student. (It is a modern fictitious play recommended for fourteen to eighteen year olds of all reading abilities).
The list of her published verse, non-fiction, and fiction now includes more than 30 bestselling titles. Her script, the first by an African American woman ever to be filmed, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Dr. Angelou has received over 50 honorary degrees and is Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University. Her words and actions continue to shake our souls, energize our bodies, liberate our minds, and heal our
Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath is well known for writing off of life experiences. Many of her poems were written in away so that something related to her. Themes used throughout her poetry had a lot to do with women's place in American culture which she would somehow relate to her life. Some of her poems include “Daddy”, “The Dead”, April 18” and “The Bell Jar.” In 1982, Sylvia Plath won the Pulitzer Prize in the poetry category for The Collected Poems. Plath also won a few other awards and prizes such as a scholarship for Cambridge University, first place in the Boston Globe contest, top prize in Atlantic Monthly Scholastic contest, and first place in the Mademoiselle Fiction Contest.
This event pulled her deeper into depression and it was very evident in her writing and in everything… In 1960, Sylvia Plath's first collection of poems, The Colossus was published. Shortly thereafter, she and Ted Hughes moved "to an English country village in Devon" ("Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)"). In 1960, their first child, a daughter named Frieda, named after Sylvia's beloved paternal aunt, was born, and in 1962, their son Nicholas was born. Sylvia also suffered several miscarriages before and between the births of her children (Neurotic Poets 5-6), and "less than two years after the birth of their first child their marriage broke apart ("Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963" 1) One can only speculate about the volume and the quality of future work that Sylvia Plath, already a seasoned and much
I couldn’t find anything really interesting about this author though she is a very known and successfull one. She raised her child on her own and in an interview she told that due to those circumstances she became and skillfull writer and experienced. • This is a story about a family whose lives get torn apart due to a tragedy that occurs. John the loving family father and stepfather to Daisy and Emily dies in a car accident. His sudden death changes everything.
Wilson 1 Megan Wilson Professor Beal English 102 October 4, 2011 A Study on Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: and How Her Life Reflects on the Short Story “Clothes” The very talented author and poet, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni wrote a collection of short stories called Arranged Marriage. This is just one of her many award winning works. Although, in the beginning she was not seeking to become a writer, she came here from India to get an education and stayed. She still finds herself torn between two cultures and Chitra says, “In my writing it comes up many times because I’m aware of other people whose entry into America was even more diasporic than mine. And I write about them too; their stories are important to me.” (qtd in Seschachari).