Dorothy West was a novel and short story writer. She was born on June 2, 1907 in Boston, Massachusetts . She was the daughter of Isaac West and Rachel Benson West. Dorothy West didn’t have any siblings. She was an only child. West’s father was a former slave. Her father was a rich fruit dealer in boston Massachusetts. The West had many good friends that were writers. Two of them were Harry T. Burleigh and James Weldon Johnson. Dorothy West was influenced by many of her family friends to be a novelist and a short story writer. Dorothy West worked hard to achieve her goal of becoming a writer. West wrote her first story when she was 7 years old. West started school at the age of four. She was put in the second grade at Farragut School in Boston. West attended the Boston’s Girls’ latin school at age 10. It was one of the best school at the time. Not to mention, Boston’s Girl’s Latin school was a school that chose their students carefully. West graduated in the year n 1923. West also got a diploma for that school. While in school, West continued to write books. not long after she graduated she wrote books continuously. She won prizes regularly in contests that were put up by local newspapers. One of the books that she wrote and that won a prize was "Promise and Fulfillment" at age 14. The contest was held by the Boston Post. A magazine called Opportunity Magazine held a contest which Dorothy West won Second place.The magazine was held by the National Urban League. The book that won the contests was called The Typewriter. The magazine was held by the national competition. This also started her professional career. West went to New york to receive her prize, she was fascinated by the environment of the state. ... ... middle of paper ... ...nfortunately, she died in 1994. The book was published in 1995. Two years after the novels were released , in 1997, a party was held in celebration and honor of Dorothy West. For her accomplishments and career. Many of the famous celebrities where there. Including the First Lady then, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Oprah Winfrey. Later that year , 1998 August 16, West died. She didn't have a husband or children. She died at the age of 91. At the time she was the last member of the Renaissance. References http://www.anb.org/articles/16/16-03513.html http://www.biography.com/people/dorothy-west-40051 http://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/19/arts/dorothy-west-a-harlem-renaissance-writer-dies-at-91.html http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news/schlesinger-newsletter/now-digitized-papers-dorothy-west
Eleanor Roosevelt was the daughter of Anna Hall and Elliot Roosevelt. She was born on October 11, 1885. They described her as “miracle from heaven” (pg.26) Her dad had some issues and went to live in Virginia to figure out his life. While she was still a child, Eleanor Roosevelt's mother died. She lived through such many hardships as a child, many of these tribulations eventually became some of the things that carved her into such an independent woman.
Dorothy Day had a curious personality and a very imaginative mind. When she attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she wrote in her biography The Long Loneliness, "my reading began to be socially conscious" (Day 36). It was around this time that she began to read Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. Sinclair was a socialist whom Day most likely would have strongly related to. Day was a part of the Christian Socialist Movement and sympathized with a lot of Sinclair's ideals. At the time she was introduced to The Jungle, Dorothy Day lived in Chicago with her family. Coindentally, The Jungle was set in Chicago, and so Day could further relate to the realities depicted in the novel.
In search of a way to support herself, Dorothy turned to Mr. Crowninshield, an editor at Vanity Fair who published her ...
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Nathanial Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts in the summer of 1804 to a family with a rich history in New England. After the death of his father in 1808, he spent his adolescent years in Maine on his uncle’s farm and was raised by his mother. At the age of seventeen, Hawthorne’s uncle insisted that he attend college. Hawthorne was not keen on the idea, but eventually gave in and attended Bowdoin College, located in Maine from 1821 to 1824 and was considered an average student. Hawthorne was an avid reader and began writing short stories and novels during his time in college. He published Young Goodman Brown in 1835.
Dorothy started a paper known as The Catholic Worker. She sold the paper for a penny a copy “So cheap anyone could afford it” she explained. And on May 1st the first
BIOGRAPHY: According to the entry « Eudora Welty » found on Wikipedia, Eudora Alice Welty was an American author and photographer, well-known for working on the South American theme. She began higher education at the University of Wisconsin, then went to New York, where she studied at Columbia University until 1931. Unable to find a job on the East Coast because of unemployment due to the Great Depression, she went back to her her native city Jackson, Mississippi. She started to publish short stories in magazines from 1936 and rapidly acquired notoriety as a short story writer, managing to carefully describe the culture and the racial issues of the South. Each publication of her short stories collections was considered as a literary event. In 1956, her novel The Pounder Heart, adapted by Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov, achieved great success on Broadway. In 1975, her enchanting novel The Robber Bridegroom became a musical. In 1973, Eudora Welty received the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Optimist’s Daughter. Three years earlier, she published a collection of photographs that she had taken herself in the years 1930 and 1940, One Time, one Place: Mississippi in the Depression: a work intending to depict the harsh living conditions in Mississippi during the Great Depression. In 1984, at the request of Harvard University Press, she put on paper a lecture that she gave the year before to the students: the work became a bestseller. She died of pneumonia in 2001.
While attending the institution Laura composed essays and poetry on subjects such as religion, politics, nature and her own deafness. For her class graduation Laura wrote a farewell poem and gave a speech at commencement which was both published in the American Annals of the Deaf. Her first professional work was done for a church in St. Louis. Her work impressed the editors at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch so much that they hired her. When the Civil War began the newspaper sent her to Washington D.C as its war correspondent. To avoid offending other readers who thought that journalism was “man’s work,” all of her writing was published under the name Howard Glyndon. But it was not very effective. It was largely known that Howard Glyndon was a woman and it was accepted.
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Dorothy Rothschild was sent to Miss Dana’s School on Morristown, New Jersey. The school would make serious efforts to turn their students into well-read, well-informed, and well-spoken young women who would be useful in the world. Dorothy graduated from Miss Diana’s before the school got bankrupt and Diana died. When she was in school, she started to write poems. She sent her poem off to magazines, and one was accepted by Frank Crowninshield, the editor of Vanity Fair. "Mr. Crowninshield, God rest his soul, paid twelve dollars for a small verse of mine and gave me a job on Vogue at ten dollars a...
On September 17 Winfrey stood up and announced she wanted "to get the country reading." She told her adoring fans to hasten to the stores to buy the book she had chosen. They would then discuss it together on the air the following month. Every book that Oprah even mentioned would generate hundred of thousands of sales for that author, so being on Oprah’s book list was an achievement in itself.
Dorothy Parker who was born Dorothy Rothschild was born on August 22, 1893 in Long Branch, New Jersey were her parents Jacob and Eliza Rothschild owned a summer cottage. She grow up in Manhattan, New York, were her parents wanted her to be considered a New Yorker. Her mother Eliza died July of 1898 just before Dorothy turned five. Her father Jacob remarried in 1900 to a woman named Eleanor Francis Lewis. Dottie as she was also known as claimed her father was being physically abusive to her because she refused to call her stepmother by “mother” or “stepmother” and referred to her instead as “the housekeeper”. In 1903 Eleanor died when Dorothy was nine. Her father then sent her to attend Miss Dana’s School in Morristown, New Jersey which she graduated from in 1911 at the age of eighteen. Her father passed away two years later in 1913. Dottie went on to play piano at a dance school to make money. She sold her first poem to Vanity Fair and a few months later was hired as an editorial assistant for Vogue magazine. After two years at Vogue she left for a job as a staff writer for Vanity Fair. In 1917 she went on to marry Edwin Pond Parker II a Wall Street stock broker, but they were soon separated by his army services during World War I.
Born in San Francisco, in the year of 1916, Shirley Jackson had an inauspicious entrance to the world, despite the chilling nature of her writing. She moved two years after she was born to Burlingame, California, where she resided for most of her childhood. When she was 17, she began to attend the University of Rochester, she only spent a year there, as after a time of questioning her friend’s loyalty and long periods of unhappiness, she left the school for a year, practicing writing almost religiously, with a minimum of one thousand words every day. In 1937, she entered Syracuse University, at first pursuing a degree in journalism before transferring to the English department.
Eudora Welty’s writing process began as she started using experience from her job as material for short stories. Welty knew that she was starting something new and she
What inspires her to write the story? As I read her biography I concluded that her personal life and experiences. she mentions that she started to write after her husband’s death. Which indicates that she was not allowed to write before and when in the story her husband