Although her birthplace was in Tennessee, she was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. She and her sister Gary-Ann would go back and visit her grandparents back in Knoxville, Tennessee. From there Giovanni entered Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1960 where she would work in the school’s workshops and as an editorial for the literary magazines. Giovanni then graduated from her grandfather’s alma mater, Fisk University. She then gave birth to her only son Thomas Watson Giovanni on August 31, 1969.
Following her split from Cale, she relocated to San Francisco, California and New York City. In 1975, Johnson gave birth to her only child, a daughter named Lulu. Lulu was born immediately after Johnson did a children's wear collection show. In 2006, Johnson's granddaughter, Layla, was born to Lulu. Johnson took many dance classes, which inspired her love of costumes.
She then travelled to Africa as an exchange student in her junior year. She was awarded a bachelor of act degree from Sarah Lawrence College in 1965. This great woman has lived in New York for a short time, Tougaloo, Mississippi where she had her daughter. As a civil right activist, she has spoken for the women’s movement, the anti-apartheid movement and against female genital mutilation. As a writer, she started her own publishing company, Wild Trees Press in 1984.
Toni Morrison and the Bluest Eye Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford in February 18, 1931. Her parents were, Ramah Willis Wofford, mother and her father was George Wofford (Johnson Lewis 2010). She had family who were immigrants and sharecroppers from both of her parents’ side. They lived in Lorain, Ohio were she was the only African America student in her first grade classroom (Bois 1996). Both of her parents were hardworking, while growing up, Morrison also learned folktales and stories that taught her about her heritage (Bois 1996).
Alice Walker, best known perhaps as the author of The Color Purple, was the eighth child of Georgia sharecroppers. After a childhood accident blinded her in one eye, she went on to become valedictorian of her local school, and attend Spelman College and Sarah Lawrence College on scholarships, graduating in 1965. Alice Walker volunteered in the voter registration drives of the 1960s in Georgia, and went to work after college in the Welfare Department in New York City. Alice Walker married in 1967 (and divorced in 1976). Her first book of poems came out in 1968 and her first novel just after her daughter's birth in 1970.
Analyzing and Interpreting Literature 5 Dec 2011 Flannery O’Conner: The Displaced Person Flannery O’Conner was born on the 25th of March, 1925 in Savannah, Georgia where she spent much of her childhood. When her father was diagnosed with lupus she moved with her family to the rural town of Milledgeville where she lived along with other members of her mother’s family. In 1945 she was awarded a journalism scholarship to attend Iowa State University. (Flannery) It was there that she would decide to pursue a career in fiction rather than fact. After graduating with a Masters in Fine Arts O’Connor spent the next several years living and writing in New York State until she was diagnosed with Lupus, the disease that had killed her father.
Rosa Parks: Mother of Civil Rights Have you ever wanted to make a change in the world, or maybe even stand up for what you believe in? Well, on December 1 of 1955 a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama made an impact on today’s society. Her name was Rosa Louise McCauley Parks. Rosa was born on February 4 of 1913 to her parents, James McCauley who was a carpenter, and her mother, Leona McCauley, whom was a teacher. She also had a younger brother named, Sylvester McCauley.
After finding scarce historical accounts of women from the Elizabethan era, she turns to literary descriptions of women in poetry and plays to research more about their day-to-day conditions and lifestyle. An eerie vision of the Elizabethan woman emerges: Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent from history. She dominates the lives of kings and conquerers in fiction; in fact she was the slave of any boy whose parents forced a ring upon her finger. Some of the most inspired words, some
Virginia Henderson Virginia Henderson has been called “The 20th century Florence Nightingale”, “The Nightingale of Modern Nursing”, “The Modern-Day Mother of Nursing” along with many other similar titles (http://currentnursing.com/nursing_theory/Henderson.html). She was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1897. She received a diploma in nursing from the Army School of Nursing at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington D.C. in 1921. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in 1932 and Masters Degree in 1934 from Teachers college at Columbia University (Public Health Nursing Vol.24 No. 4, pp.
Biography of Kate Chopin Kate Chopin was a famous author during the late eighteen hundreds publishing many famous short stories and novels such as The Awakening and Bayou Folks. She has often been referred to as “a pioneer in the amoral treatment of sexuality, of divorce, and of woman’s urge for an existential authenticity” (Seyersted 1). She led the way for feminism and was praised after her death once her style of writing became more accepted. Chopin wrote about the passion that other authors during her time would not dare to speak of. Her life greatly influenced literature today and the censorship that follows.