(Ewell) During her school years Chopin attended St. Louis Academy of the Sacred Heart, there she was encouraged to write and express herself. After she was finished in school, she was thrust into the debutant and party scene. She wrote in her diary that she did not wish to go to the parties, only to stay home and be alone. (Deter) Kate eventually met her husband, Oscar Chopin and married when she was nineteen. They had six children in their first ten years of
When Angelou was 12 years old an educated black woman from Stamps by the name of Bertha Flowers helped her to break this silence. Angelou graduated at the top of her Morrison 2 eighth grade class in Stamps, Arkansas. Because of the racial issues in Stamps, their grandmother thought it was in the best interest of the children to move them to California. Angelou attended George Washington High School where she studied dance, music and drama. At the age of seventeen Angelou graduated from high school and gave birth to a son Guy Bailey Johnson.
When Julie was very young her parents separated, and her mother remarried a man named Ted Andrews who she had performed in a musical act with for couple of years. Ted would sing and Barbara would play the piano. Ted was actually the first one to teach Julie how to sing. In the spring of 1943, when she was only seven years old, Julie began taking singing lessons with Ted and enrolled in a conservatory for the performing arts in London where her aunt was a dance instructor. She had a very rigorous schedule for her age.
When she was eighteen Sophia was introduced to Leo Tolstoy, who began to visit the family often. Although it was thought that he favored her elder sister, Lisa, Leo proposed to Sophia on September 17, 1862. The couple was married a mere week later, in Moscow, and immediately retreated to the Tolstoy family estate, Yasnaya Polyana. Sophia had been keeping a diary from the time she was eleven but had it destroyed just before the wedding. On the other hand, in an act similar to a character created in his work Anna Karenina, Leo asked his new bride to read his personal diaries.
Body: A. Maya was encouraged by her dance teacher to explore the world of literature. However, it was not until after working with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., that she realized that she had a natural like for words; she had a gift for being able to express her thoughts, feelings and ideas literally. 1. After moving to Egypt in 1960 with her South African activist husband, Maya served as editor of the Arab Observer. In 1970 after two years of perfecting her life on paper her autobiography “I know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” was completed and published for the whole world to read.
In fact, according to Levy, W., (1999), “until she was sixteen she lived half of the year with her spinster aunts, her father’s sisters, in New Orleans, and the other half with her parents on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City” (pg. 350). This resulted in her wanting to be alone and quitting college at the age of 19, taking a job with a publisher. Many of her plays drew from her life and family. “The Children’s Hour” was Ms. Hellman’s first success at the age of 29.
Growing up, she was most widely influenced by her mother and grandmother after her father was killed in a train accident when she was four years old. She attended school until she graduated at the age of 17. In 1870 she married Oscar Chopin and moved with him to New Orleans. However in 1880 when they suffered financial problems and were forced to move in with her father-in-law, where Oscar Chopin took over his father's plantation. Soon after, 1883 Oscar Chopin died, and she had to take over the plantation.
She made sure that Georgia and her sisters studied art, in addition to their usual school subjects. By the time Georgia was sixteen, the O'Keeffe family had moved to Williamsburg, Virginia. After Georgia finished school, she attended the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois. In 1905 she attended the Art Institute of Chicago and a year later went to study at the Art Students League of New York. Though her student work was well received she found it unfulfilling, and for a short time abandoned the fine arts.
Zora Neale Hurston Research Paper Zora Hurston was a bright, young woman with great talent for writing books with a goal to portray and capture the everyday life of African Americans in the hardships during the 1930's through the 1950's. In "Standards Focus: Author Biography--Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)," an informative article by John Doe, Hurston is described as a large figure to the African-American culture in the United States during this hard racial time period. Zora Hurst attended two academic schools after she left high school. She attended "college preparatory courses at Morgan Academy (Now Morgan State University) in Baltimore, Maryland, and in the fall of 1918 entered Howard University," (Doe 1). It is obvious that Hurston wanted a good education from the beginning, to start off in the already rough everyday life of the racial period for African Americans.
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.