Lisa D’Amour, the playwright of Detroit, is not only a playwright but an interdisciplinary artist as well. Although she tells people she is from New Orleans, she was actually born in St. Paul, Minnesota and currently lives with her husband, Brendan Connelly, in Brooklyn. Her father was a professor of Philosophy and her mother was a teacher and she has two siblings. She attended Millsaps in Jackson, Mississippi where D’Amour said she really got into southern literature, in an interview with Playwrights Horizons (D’Amour). . She originally was pursuing an English and Psychology major, but the small theater department captured her attention because it allowed to her to involve herself in all aspects of theater. Her first playwriting class was …show more content…
What really inspired D’Amour was the summer she spent at the O’Neill where she was able to watch playwrights work hard to make a play happen from then on she said she was, “Completely determined to try and do it” (D’Amour). From there she moved two New Orleans and began writing for two years straight where she directed and self produced a play, worked at a law firm for a year, and a library another year. Growing up in Catholic family and attending a Catholic school her first play she wrote was during the time she left the church and was about a dying priest. After New Orleans, she went to grad school at the University of Austin. Here she met a artistic partner, Katie Pearl, who do work together under the name PearlDamour, who are an Obie-Award winning collaborative team that are known for large scale performances that mix theater and installation. How to Build a Forest is an example of this where they create and then take down a forest over an 8-hour period. Her playwright career really took off in Minneapolis where The Playwrights’ Center hosts workshops for plays and allows playwrights to connect to other theaters all over the country. She then wen to New York where she worked on her first play at The Playwrights’ Center called 16 Spells to Charm the
She was a writer who suffered from Lupus. Her father died of the same illness when she was thirteen. Her Catholic beliefs reflected in her work, as well as the implementation of violence and darkness ironically used in her short stories. The titles in the stories give the readers an idea that the stories are the opposite of what the titles really state. She uses metaphors and similes to describe the characters and the settings of the stories. Each story relates to the darkness of the characters: people with racial prejudice, ignorance, and evil. Each story ends in a tragedy. The use of irony allows her to transport a meaning to each story that is not easy for readers to understand.
Jill Stacey Moreland(born Itabari Njeri) was born in Brooklyn, New York. She started off as being a singer/actress; but she found a calling in journalism. She obtained her B.S. from Boston University, and then later on she received her M.S. form Columbia University. She worked as a writer for numerous projects, and then was the author of three books. She wrote “Family Portraits and Personal Escapades,” “The Challenge of Diversity”, and “Reflections of a New World Black.” Currently Jill Stacey does public speaking at Universities about memoir, multiculturalism, and ethnic conflict.
Louis L’Amour was born Louis Dearborn LaMoore on March 22, 1908 as the last of seven children. His father and mother are Dr. Louis Charles LaMoore and Emily Dearborn LaMoore, for the first fifteen years of his life Louis lived in Jamestown, North Dakota; a medium sized farming community in the valley where Pipestem Creek flows into the James River. His grandfather, Abraham Truman Dearborn, told Louis stories of battles in history and his own personal experiences as a soldier. As a child Louis spent a great deal of time in a nearby library where his eldest sister, Edna, was a librarian, he was interested in the study of History and always went beyond the scope that was taught in the schools. In addition to the study of History and Natural Sciences, Louis was interested in the fiction writings of Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack London, Edgar Rice Burroughs and others. The members of the L’Amour family were intelligent and had a part in Louis’ education. Emmy Lou, his sister, taught him how to read, his father taught him about animals, taught him the benefit hard work and the fact that “a man could always find a way to solve a problem”. The basics of learning he got from his mother who had once trained to be a schoolteacher, and from Edna he got insights into libraries and research. His elder brother Parker provided examples of a reporter’s speed and simplicity of prose and the public relations savvy of a veteran political aid. Yale, his second brother, showed Louis a love of life and a gift of improvisation. Louis’ adopted brother John was an example of a natural survivor, quick of wit and sharp of tongue. Hard times uprooted the family from their everyday lives and the family, the father, mother, Louis and john, had to take their fort...
Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina; Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind; Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire. Upon first glance, these classics of literary legend appear to have nothing in common. However, looking closer, one concept unites these three works of art. At the center of each story stands a woman--an authentically portrayed woman. A woman with strengths, flaws, desires, memories, hopes, and dreams. Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Mitchell’s Scarlett O’Hara, and Williams’ Blanche DuBois are beautiful, intelligent, sophisticated women: strong yet fragile, brazen yet subtle, carnal yet pure. Surviving literature that depicts women in such a realistic and moving fashion is still very rare today, and each piece of that unique genre must be treasured. But unlike those singular works, there lived one man who built a career of writing novels that explored the complex psyches of women. Somehow, with each novel, this author’s mind and heart act as a telescope gazing into an unforgettable portrait of a lady. Through the central female characters in his novels Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence illuminates dimensions of a woman’s soul not often explored in literature.
The pop music stars that fascinates me… I have many, such as Justin Bieber, Demi Lovato, Austin Mahone, Ariana Grande, and Tori Kelly. But, for today I will go into depth with the male being Justin Bieber and the female being Demi Lovato. Many people wonder, so many times from time and time again what do I see in these artist. Well to be honest, they have a story that made them who they are today, which is a strong, independent, calm, and inspirational person. Take Justin Bieber for instance, many people find him impulsive and immature from the events that have occurred in the past up until now. Everyone knows about the Miami incident that occurred a year and 7 months ago. He’s showing many that he’s taken the consequences with what he did
Like Esther, Joan Gilling grew up in the same small town; she also won the writing competition and was sent to New York to work for the same magazine. Joan was also very conscious about how the world identified her as an individual. She didn’t want to conform to what society sa...
Marie Lu, originally born Xiwei Lu, was born in Wuxi, China on July 11, 1984. Although Marie Lu experienced some type of dystopian society, it was her mother that lived through the Culture Revolution in China, which was actually a dystopia. At the time, Lu lived with her aunt in Beijing and they were a few blocks away from Tiananmen Square. Lu’s aunt would take her down to the Square to see what the protestors were doing. After a few months a protest there was a massacre and Marie Lu was there that day, however she does not recall much the experience, she does remember that there were tanks in the street. At five years old Marie Lu moved to the United States, in 1989.
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.
Human sexuality is a motivation. It is dominated by a range and interplay of many factors, which
...standing an author’s work, for some, can be decided by whether or not they understand anything that the author has live through. Tennessee Williams is one author that uses his life directly in his writings and understanding his life can make the difference in how the reader understands the work. “A Streetcar Named Desire,” deals with many of the issues Williams faced throughout his life. His unhappily married parents, the addictions faced by himself and his family, and the unstable mental status he and his sister faced were all show in this play. Each reader must decide for themselves on what makes a writer special. For most writers their own life experiences are what inspire them and gives them the ability to make a work extraordinary. Sometimes a hard life is what can make an author become a part of history instead of just an image trapped within their own mind.
The parallels in the lives and careers of the two writers are remarkably striking. Both were born in provincial small towns but found their eventual success in metropolitan cities, Shakespeare in London and Faulkner in New York and...
play like format to captivate the reader. The subject matter of her work is very
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
In “When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision,” Adrienne Rich discusses her view on the role of a woman writer by using examples of her own personal experience. As I look at my life, I can begin to understand how my own personal experiences can reflect the situation of many young women. I am tormented by which role I am supposed to play in today’s society. Am I to become the traditional mother and housewife? Should I flaunt my sexuality and become the female that the media is constantly portraying? Maybe I should be myself and follow my dreams to become an independent career woman, if that is even what I want. Young women in modern society are searching for the right answers to these questions and are basing these answers on their family, friends, and the media.
Many playwrights drew from outside influences to compose their works. They would look the era they were living in, their personal lives, childhood experiences, and even ancient texts to acquire inspiration for their works and famous playwright, Eugene O’Neill, is no exception. Writing through two world wars, a great depression, and boom of the motion-picture industry, O’Neill certainly had much inspiration to choose from. Although not becoming nationally recognized until after his father’s death in 1920, O’Neill still managed to produce fifty completed works. Using influences from the 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, Eugene O’Neill demonstrated how he used the era he was living in to help compose his works.