She taught poetry in North Dakota before she returned east to Johns Hopkins University where she went to complete her master’s degree in creative writing. Erdrich had a series of novels as well about the modern Native American life including “Dear John Wayne”. Erdrich uses the career of Western movie icon John Wayne and the cultural setting surrounding that career to ground the scene of her poem. Both of these authors are Native American women that want to get the
His mother Mittie died of typhoid fever on the same day, at 3:00 am, some eleven hours earlier, in the same house. On December 2, 1886, he married his childhood and family friend Edith Kermit Carow. They had five children Ted, Kermit, Ethel, Archibald, and Quentin. Theodore Roosevelt was one of the first presidents whose voice was recorded for posterity. Roosevelt’s 1901 saying “Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick” is still quoted by politicians and columnists in different countries—not only in English but also in translation various other
Mourning Dove was the pen name of Christine Quintasket, an Interior Salish woman who collected tribal stories among Northern Plateau peoples in the early twentieth century. She described centuries-old traditions with the authority of first-hand knowledge, and also wrote a novel based on her experiences. Like her African-American contemporary Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), Mourning Dove’s reputation as a female ethnographer and writer has grown steadily over the past few decades. Her novel, Cogewea, is the first known published novel by a Native American woman. Growing up at Kettle Falls One day between 1884 and 1888, according to family lore, a woman of Lakes and Colville ancestry named Lucy Stukin (d. 1902) was canoeing across the Kootenai River in north Idaho when she went into labor.
The church completed the home in 1908, and Harriet moved there several years later. She spent her last years in the home telling stories of her life to visitors. On March 10, 1913, Harriet died of pneumonia. She was 93 years old. Harriet Tubman was not afraid to fight for freedom and that is what she was best known
Clarissa "Clara" Harlow Barton was born on December 25, 1821 in North Oxford, Massachusetts. She was the youngest of five children of Stephen and Sarah (Stone) Barton. Her father was a veteran, a prosperous farmer, and a sawmill operator. Her mother was a homemaker. Much of Barton’s education was provided by her older brothers and sisters, and while still a teenager she started to teach in Massachusetts.
Mountain Wolf Woman recalls picking blueberries with her mother on the riverbank, but also remembers when she was made to go to boarding school. Although Winnebago Indians were much like many other tribes and were more nomadic in their lifestyle, Mountain Wolf Woman was still able to go to a day school, which was part of the boarding school systems. As she grew up, she used the knowledge she had gained from the changing of her culture and put it towards raising her children and later her grandchildren. The life of Mountain Wolf Woman is extraordinary and encases the life of a woman during a time of great change in her culture. Many Winnebagos went through this change due to the increase in white settlement in the area.
From there she went on to earn her master of fine arts degree at the University of Iowa. She started her first novel at the age of twenty-two, Wise Blood. O’Connor compelled two novels and thirty-one short stories before she passed. O’Connor had a different view on the way she wrote her stories. In the first sentence of O’Connor’s biography it states that “O’Connor’s fiction grapples with living a Spiritual life in a secular world” (Bedford 439).
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.
To Kill a Mockingbird Among the most popular modern English classic novels, few have had the reception that Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird has continued to receive. The brilliant narration of a story about a fictional town called Maycomb, Alabama, during the Great Depression in the 1930’s, has won the book several tributes including the Pulitzer Prize (Bloom 190). The book begins with Scout, as a grown woman, looking back at her childhood living with her father, Atticus Finch, who is a widowed lawyer and a man of great discipline and principle. The book focuses on the lives of three children, Scout her older brother Jeremy, and Dill, a friend of the Finch’s who lives in Maycomb during the summer. The household also has a black housekeeper
In the forties, fifties, and sixties, Hayden taught at Fisk University and the University of Michigan and served two terms as the Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress. Since the publication in 1945 of her first book, A Street in Bronzeville, Brooks has combined a quiet life with critical success. Her second book, Annie Allen, won the 1950 Pulitzer prize, the first time a book by a black poet had won that coveted distinction, and the last time until Rita Dove's Thomas and Beulah, almost forty years later. Brooks was a virtuoso of technique, her exquisite poems exploring, for the first time, the interior lives of African American individuals. Brooks' perspective shifted mid-career, her later work influenced by the politically and socially radical Black Arts Movement of the