Illinois is home and was home to many fantastic authors. Veronica Roth is one of the amazing authors who calls Illinois home. Author Michael W. Sherer also resides in Illinois. James Robert Sherburne also lived in Illinois. The author of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”, Lyman Frank Baum, also resided in Illinois. Many amazing authors, including Veronica Roth, Michael W. Sherer, James Robert Sherburne, and Lyman Frank Baum, reside in or have resided in the wonderful state of Illinois. Veronica Roth Veronica Roth was born on August 19,1998. In Barrington, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, Veronica Roth was raised. Carleton College in Minnesota is the college Veronica Roth attended for a year; after she attended Carleton College for year, Veronica Roth transferred to Northwestern University, which is located in Chicago Illinois(“Miller” para. 1-3). Graduating from Northwestern in the year 2010, she received a creative writing degree. In 2011, Veronica Roth married Nelson Fitch. The couple currently resides in Evanston Illinois. Surprisingly, Veronica has issues with anxiety. Veronica Roth also has several varied interests, such as cooking,psychology, biology, theology, and poetry (“Miller” para. 1-3). Though Veronica Roth is a popular author, she still enjoys reading books. Some of her favorites are “1984” by George Orwell, “A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeline L’Engle, and “Gilead” by Marilynne Robinson (“Miller” para. 1-3). Veronica Roth became popular in the literary world quickly. At the young age of twenty-two, Veronica Roth’s wonderful book Divergent became a New York Times bestseller, and because Veronica Roth’s writing is so impressive, after the short period of four days, her writing recieved her a publishing deal (“Veronica Roth” par... ... middle of paper ... ....d. Web. 07 May 2014. . Illinois State Library Special Reports Series. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print. "James Sherburne." Goodreads. Goodreads Inc., n.d. Web. 30 Apr. 2014. . Lill, Rebecca. "Illinois History Illinois Authors." N.p.: Illinois State Historical Library, n.d. 31-32. Print. "Michael W. Sherer." Home -. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 May 2014. . "Michael W. Sherer's Biography." Red Room | Where the Writers Are. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 May 2014. . "Veronica Roth Bio." About.com Bestsellers. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 May 2014. . "Veronica Roth." Epic Reads. N.p., n.d. Web. .
There have been many horrific and disturbing murders in Illinois. There have also been gangs that have been born and destroyed in Illinois. Two of these terrible happened to take place in little Skidmore. One of the gangs in Illinois was Charlie Birger and his Boys. A dreadful and unfortunate murder happened on the famous Chain of Rocks Bridge. The last murder took place in a young woman’s house. Many of these murders and gangs were terrible and scarred the state of Illinois.
Artists come from all over the world and a few of them are from illinois. Artists can sculpt, draw, paint, carve, or do just about anything. Having an idea of what artists can do might help in understanding what they draw and why. Artists like Roscoe Misselhorn, Trygve Rovelstad, Nate Collier, Hellen Hokinson, and Edward L. Kemeys live in illinois. The artists are very unique in their personality, but in their artwork as well. Even though they do their artwork in illinois, it doesn’t always stay in illinois; they go through the whole U.S. as well.
The film “Iowa- An American Portrait” was narrated by Tom Brokaw. It described the land, people, education, work, religion, and family life of Iowa. One of the main topics of the film was the general view of Iowa- the Farm State. Iowa has more than two- hundred- thousand farms; ninety- eight percent of Iowa’s total land is used for production; with ninety percent of total land being used for the production of food.
In 1913 legendary football coach, Robert Zuppke, coached football for the University of Illinois (“Illinois” para. 1). Robert Zuppke led their 1914 football season to be undefeated! This created many more fans for the college football team (“Illinois” para.1). For 29 years Robert zuppke coached and he and his team won four national titles in the years of 1914, 1919, 1923, 1927 (“College” para. 8). Illinois third football coach, Edward Hall, had wrote the football code for proper conduct of players (“College” para. 14). From the years of 1971 through 1976 Bob Blackman was a football coach in Illinois (“College” para. 4). NFL stars Larry McCarren, Scott Studwell, and Revie Sorey were some of the players that Bob Blackman coached (“College” para. 4). Some coaches like George Woodruff only coached 1 season at the University of Illinois (“College” para. 11). Other coaches led the team to many victories though like Pete Elliott did in 1963 (“College” para. 3).
Suzanne Collins is one of the most popular modern American authors today. She is best known as being the author of the bestselling trilogy The Hunger Games. Suzanne Collins was born on August 10, 1962 in Hartford, Connecticut. She is the daughter of an Air Force official that served in the Vietnam War. Being the daughter of a military officer, she and her family were constantly moving from one place to another. Collins graduated from the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham in 1980 as a Theater Arts major. She graduated from Indiana University...
Whether or not we know it, we as people are very picky, and opinionative. In everyday life as humans, we pick and choose things based on preferred criteria. Based on the features of the world around us we have become biased on the things, that do, and do not meet our criteria. Being the opinionative people we are, we set criterion for even the literature we read. Just as the world around us, books have unique characteristics that we either enjoy or could care less for. In the following paragraphs I will evaluate the stories “Blowing up on the spot” and “Virgo” and will compare them to what I feel they need. I will provide my own set of criteria for the short stories “Blowing up on the spot” and “Virgo” stating my likes and dislikes for the two stories and explain why I felt
Joyce Carol Oates was born on June 16th, 1938, in Lockport, New York. Raised on her parent’s farm in a rural area that had been hit by the Great Depression, she attended the same one-room school house as her mother. As a young child, Oates developed a love of literature and writing well beyond her years. She was very encouraged by her parents and grandparents to pursue her love of writing and as a teenager she was given her first typewriter. This was when her passion finally came to life. In 1953 at the age of only 15, she wrote her first novel about the rehabilitation of a drug dealer, which was later turned down by the publisher because the topic was not suitable for a young audience. Although her novels do focus on the horrors of society, her childhood growing up was no reflection of that. Oates has admitted that her childhood was “dull, ordinary and nothing people would be interested in. Oates continued writing throughout high school and earned a scholarship to attend Syracuse University. There she graduated at the top of her class in 1960, and in...
The book Push by Sapphire is unlike any other book on the AP novel list. It has a heavy topic that may not be suitable for all readers. It is told through the voice of a girl, who has already had a child at the age of 12, and is pregnant with another at the age of 16 from her father. The book explains the difficulties of life after something has happened to you, especially in a sexual manner. Also it is a story of how parents pretty much neglected their child and wanted her to live like her mother, which means living in her own filth, in a poor house off of child support checks.
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Oates was born on June 16, 1983 in Lockport, New York. Her early years were sometimes tough as she grew up on a farm, but that did not stop her from reading and writing. At a young age, Oates developed such a passion for writing and said she could never put a book down. When she got in her teenage years, she received her first typewriter and her parents showered her with unconditional love and support for her choice of a career, as she started writing throughout high school and college.
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Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) was born on November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri, which was two months sooner than expected. At this time Missouri was a slave holding state. However, Twain's father, a local storeowner, was against slavery in all forms and instilled this belief in his son at a young age. Twain 's hometown was small. He describe it as having two main roads only 100 yards long with a population of no more than 50 people. In fact so small that with a good tail wind you could spit from one end to the other (www.asahi-net.or.jp/~XA3K-soy/mt/mtpage.htm). As a young boy he dreamed of a life in a better place, filled with adventure. This was the life he led. He was taught to write as a child by his mother. Finding that he enjoyed it, he decided to make it his career.
Gloria Steinem travels widely as a feminist activist, organizer, writer and lecturer. Her books include the bestsellers Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, Moving Beyond Words, and Marilyn: Norma Jean, on the life of Marilyn Monroe. She was an editor of The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History. Steinem co-founded New York Magazine and Ms. Magazine where she continues to serve as a consulting editor. She has been published in many magazines and newspapers here and in other countries, and is also a frequent guest commentator on radio and
Missouri Courier only last for a few weeks before he started working for his brother at Orion's Western Union, for which he wrote his first published sketches and worked as a printer. Over the next two years he continued at the Western Union, occasionally taking stints as editor in Orion's absence. In 1852, Sam published several sketches in Philadelphia's Saturday Evening Post. Clemens left Hannibal in 1853, at age 18, and worked as a printer in New York City and Philadelphia over the next year. During his trip east he published letters in the Hannibal Journal. Upon returning to the Midwest in 1854, Clemens lived in several cities on the Mississippi: the most prominent of these was Keokuk, Iowa where his brother Orion founded the Keokuk Journal.
Regional American Literature seems to deal with specific areas and their culture. Culture has evolved throughout the years. Using the South as an example, its culture was clearly defined before the Civil War. The South was comprised mostly of slaves working hard picking cotton until their fingers bled for no pay, white supremacist slave owners quick to bludgeon at the slightest sign of insurgence and the rest of the populace unsure of which side they belong. Blacks were looked at as possessions, not allowed to learn how to read or write, sleeping in dark, damp shacks dirtier than animal stables, beaten and raped at their owner’s whim. Today, though the South still has an air of contempt that has carried itself through generation after generation of confederate pride, a new generation has a mind of its own believing that life is better lived in harmony. Our grandparents, mothers and fathers may still reference the African-Americans as “niggers,” but the phrase makes the children of the 21st century’s skin crawl. For example, my mother-in-law came for a visit and said, “The Smith’s house was bought by a bunch of niggers. There goes the neighborhood. All of our houses are worthless now.” Her son and I are adamantly against racism. Their attempt to taint their children’s belief system by implanting white supremacist ideals has failed. A new generation is born; a generation which better understands the melting pot that America has always been. Instead of “white pride,” it’s just pride; pride in being an American. I believe this generation, being the so over-exposed to a wealth of media and knowledge, has drastically altered the regional literature of the South and for that matter, the United States as a whole.