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.
It’s Me, Margaret because it’s one of those books that everybody except me had read – it’s a classic! But here’s my thoughts on reading it as a 14-year-old girl who got the opportunity to read it as an actual pre-teen.. Published in 1970, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret seems to be Judy Blume’s most famous novel Margaret Simon likes long hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain and things that are pink. At 11-years-old, she’s just moved from busy NYC to the quiet suburbs – Farbrook, New Jersey – where she’s faced with a whole bunch of weird new firsts.
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.
Mr. Updike has been one of the most important fictional writers of the 20th century. He was a novelist and wrote everything from poetry to movie scripts. For many years he worked as a literary critic. He has been known for his realism and also had some bad criticism for how he portrays women in his stories. He was born in reading, Pennsylvania 1932.
The article is called: To the Rescue: “A Case Study of the Prefaces to Late Eighteenth Century Children’s Books.” Written by: Alexandra Pruneen and was found in the European Academic Research magazine, volume 1, issue 3 from June 2013. You can find the article at the link below: http://euacademic.org/UploadArticle/21.pdf In 18th century England, authors such as Ellenor Fenn, Mary Lamb, and Jane West were well known for their children’s books. They wrote and sold many books, and to the public eye, they were doing it as educators. No one would have guessed that they were just after profit! They put little things into their writing, such as: “to the little people” or “to the hard working mums” on the dedication pages, severely empathizing with the parents on the hardships of child raising, they used guilt trips to make the mothers feel bad for “neglecting their children,” and even telling the parents they “tested the books on their own children,” all to convince the parents to buy more of their products!
Mrs. Beach wrote more than 150 numbered works differing from orchestral works, church music and songs, to chamber work. As her work became more chromatic and dissonant in her later years she moved beyond the late romantic style. She retained an intense lyricism throughout her career as a composer. Years later in 1910 her husband Dr. Beach died. Following his death she then took a three year tour to Europe.
Among his first book, he began to write many more such as The Path Between the Seas, The Great Bridge, Mornings on Horseback, Truman, John Adams, and In The Dark Streets Shineth. McCullough is a twice winner of the National Book Award. He also won twice for the prestigious Francis Parkman Prize. For the book, Truman, he received a Pulitzer Prize. 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.
Merwin who admired both the work of Sylvia and Ted. When Sylvia became pregnant with the couple's first child, they decided to move back to the United Kingdom, where they lived in Devon. On April 1, 1960, Freida Hughes was born. After the birth of her first daughter, Sylvia's first collection of poems titled, "The Colossus" was published in the United Kingdom Later in 1961, Sylvia suffered a devastating miscarriage. 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.
My Writing Experience My writing experiences have been influenced by my parents and the teachers I had in middle school. Mr. Smith was my 7th grade teacher in the year of 1985. I was a nervous child from a troubled home. Believing I was the only kid in the world with a terrible home life of parents fighting and unpredictable outcomes were routine, I had a hard time getting into the groove of each learning day with Mr. smith. We came from a small town in, Elyria, Ohio and I was the youngest of four children.
In addition to poems, Williams wrote short stories, essays, novels, plays and also did translation. He combined both his carers quite successfully. Where on one side he was a famous physician, for almost forty years, side by side he was an excellent poet too. He was always experimental with his poetry and there was something or the other very much unique about his writings. His style of writing was like chalk and cheese in comparison with other poets.