In honor of all McCullough's work, he was given the National Book Foundation Distinguished Contribution to American Letters Award along with many others that were given. Throughout his life, he was not only an author but he was also an editor, essayist, an enthusiastic reader, traveler, landscape painter, lecturer, teacher, appeared on television shows as a host, and a narrator for many documentaries. He has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science, and received 31 honorary degrees. David
He began writing at age sixteen or seventeen. Remarque attended the University of Münster and was planning for a career as an elementary school teacher. Toward the end of World War I, which Germany had entered in support of Austria-Hungary, he was drafted into the army. While recovering in a German hospital from wounds suffered during the war, Remarque worked on Die Traumbude ( The Dream Room ), his first novel, which was published in 1920. Around this time he switched to the original French spelling of his last name.
J.D. Salinger Marquis Castro May 3, 2010 Biography Jerome David Salinger known for his best story written The Catcher in The Rye was born on January 1, 1919 in New York City. His dad was Jewish and his mom was Christian, just like the main character in the story The Catcher in The Rye. As a child he grew up attending public schools and military academy in New York. He first started writing in magazines in New York but he also wrote several stories in his early times like A Perfect Day for Banana Fish.
A Harvard college graduate, Lemann graduated magna cum laude in 1976. Lemann married twice, lived near New York City with his wife, Dominique Browing and their two sons when he wrote “The Promised Land.” They divorced and he later married Judith Anne Shulevitz in 1999. They have a son and daughter. The Book “The Promised Land the Great Black Migration and How It Changed America,” is a National Best Seller written in 1991. It was published in the Untied States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto .
Schindler’s List is a movie based on the book Schindler’s Ark written by Thomas Keneally and published in 1983. The book is based on the first hand experiences of the Schindlerjuden, Schindler’s Jews, approximately 1,100 Jews that were saved during the Holocaust by Oskar Schindler. Schindler’s List was released in 1993 and directed by Steven Spielberg. Spielberg read the book while filming the movie ET. He was born in Ohio and raised in Arizona by Jewish parents.
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As many young people did, Irwing also traveled to Europe to further his education.He would use material collected during this trip later in his stories and essays.At least we can say that Irwing’s creativity comes from his collections from his trips.After two years passed in Europe, Irwing return to America and New York City and he turned more seriously to literature.In his travelings through Europe Irwing had a great oportunity meet with some important artist and writers of Europe and he had some good lifelong friendships. When he turn to America and New York City, he get his law degree but he realised that he wanted to be a writer rather than to be a lawyer or judge. So Irwin published a magazine named ‘’Salmagundi’’ with his brother and with some of his friends.The magazine had a great success and fame among the New York society. Irwing heavily criticised the New York’s culture and political understanding and also he gave a name to New York City ‘’Gotham’’ . At the end of 1809 at the same morning of his fiance death, he published his one of the most successful work “ A History of New-York from the Beginning of
With these words spoken in Dr. King’s last speech this is why I say that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is a true definition of courage. Works Cited Google Martin Luther King Jr. Bio (1972) www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/.../king-bio.html From Nobel Lectures, Peace 1951-1970, Editor Frederick W. Haberman, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam,
In 1958, she married husband, Harold Morrison (Johnson Lewis 2010). But later divorced in 1964, she took their two sons and moved back to Lorain, Ohio, then to New York where she worked as senior editor in Random House (Johnson Lewis 2010). Her first novel was written in 1970, “The Bluest Eye”. After numerous other publications, in 1987, she won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel, “Beloved” (Liukkonen 2008). In 1992 Morrison published “Jazz”, which won her a Nobel Prize for Literature, she was the eighth woman and first black woman to be awarded this honor (Johnson Lewis 2010).
INTRODUCTION Mitch Albom is an internationally acclaimed author; many of his pieces made the New York Times Best Sellers list. He is also a screen playwright, a television broadcaster, a musician/lyricist, and a journalist. He had gained recognition nationally during his time as a sports columnist but some would say he is mostly known for his inspirational themes in his books such as Have A Little Faith and The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Mitch Albom was born on May 23rd, 1958 in a little town that goes by the name of Passaic in the state of New Jersey. Mitch went to high school in New Jersey and went on to continue hispost-secondary education studying psychology at Brandeis University in Massachusetts.