His magazine work has been nominated twice for National Magazine Awards for feature writing. He is known for his bestselling works of narrative history and literary non-fiction. His novel Ghost Soldiers was the basis for the 2005 Miramax film The Great Raid. The book also won the 2002 PEN USA Award for nonfiction and the 2002 Discover Award from Barnes & Noble. The story Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II Most Dramatic Mission is based in the Philippines during the 1940's.
homas Leo Clancy Jr. is an American author. Known For detailed espionage and military science story lines set during and in the aftermath of the cold war. He sold two million copies of his first printing in the 1990’s. He also received an honorary doctorate in humane letters and delivered the commencement address at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute in 1992. Tom Clancy was born in Baltimore, Maryland on April 12, 1947.
In the 1996 Sports Illustrated article “The Chosen One”, author Gary Smith poses a question: will the “machine”, the United States’ media-based, celebrity-driven society destroy a 20-year old sports phenom, Tiger Woods? This is a very well written article. It is definitely a work of literature. Tiger Woods’ achievements and struggles are very clearly described. Gary Smith explains his life so that everyone has a better understanding.
Immediately following the tragedy, the Grand Conspiracy involving the Confederate leaders was the most widely accepted. Around the turn of the century, the Simple Conspiracy theory had gained a position of prominence. In the 1930's, Eisenschiml's Grand Conspiracy theory arose with the publication of Why Was Lincoln Murdered? In addition, the years have been sprinkled with other outlandish conspiracies to explain the assassination. As time has passed, one thing is true, Lincoln has become and will remain an American icon lauded with an impressive strength of will and given credit for saving our nation from division and moral
Chris Robinson Lit cmp, 6th 11/14/12 Author report on Ray Bradbury Mr. Bradbury was a fiction based man who was born on August 22, 1920 and died on June 5, 2012, at the age of 91. His most famous novel is “Fahrenheit 451,” published in 1953. Named for the temperature at which paper catches on fire, the novel shows a near-future society in which firemen don’t extinguish fires but instead burn books. This illustrates the content of which common people consumed by nonstop television and advertising which effects there society. It was said that Mr. Bradbury was the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream.
He was most known for his novel’s ‘East is Eden’ (1952) and ‘the Grape of Wrath’ (1939), which he won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Steinbeck was also a Nobel Peace prize winner; winning the award for literature in 1962. He died in 1968 in New York. Of Mice and Men is based on a ranch in Salinas valley primarily. It tells the story of Lennie Smalls a mentally challenged man, with a big-strong muscular stature, and that of George Milton an intelligent- smaller yet cynical man.
He wrote four novels and many short stories and created the term the Jazz Age, about the dazzling 1920's. He was married to the legendary Zelda Fitzgerald. He died in 1940 and is considered one of the finest American writers of the 20th century. The Great Gatsby, from 1925, takes place in Long Island, New York. The story is told by Nick Carraway, a wealthy stock broker.
Essay ”Of Mice and Men” The book Of Mice and Men is a fiction novel written by John Steinbeck in 1937, which was a famous Nobel-Prize winning author back in the 1930-40s. The novel is one of the most famous books Steinbeck had published. The novel Of Mice and Men is telling a tragic story of George Milton and Lennie Small, who are two displaced hardworking ranch workers from Californian USA, who moved from place to place in search of new jobs. The novel Of Mice and Men are about George and Lennie’s dream and goals of becoming god ranch workers with a successful future, and therefore living The American Dream. Back in the 1930-40’s it was hard to have hopes and dreams that could come true, because you did not have the same rights as you
Edgar Allan poe was known to be the pioneer of the horror and science fiction genre. he was born on 19 January 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of actors Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins and David Poe. his parents passed away when he was at the age of 3. after the death of his parents, he was taken in by a wealthy merchant from richmond named john allan and his wife frances. Edgar Allan Poe's psychological thrillers and his investigations of the depth of the human psyche brought him fame during and after his lifetime. he was a gifted writer and in his stories, he provided detailed analysis of the human psyche which surpassed the conventional psychological theories of that time.
LIT-201 03/17/14 James Baldwin James Baldwin was born on August 2, 1924. Baldwin wrote and published several notable novels and essays including his first, Go Tell It on the Mountain, which was an autobiographical novel, Notes of a Native Son, Sonny’s Blues, and Giovanni’s Room, all of which received a great deal of attention. His influence in America and in Europe was significant for two major reasons. First of all, he was one of the most powerful spokesmen on the problems of racism in America. Second, he was one of the first authors and certainly one of the first African-American writers to confront the issue of homosexuality in his writing.