Sena Jeter Naslund’s life and her success as an author. Mrs. Naslund was born Sena Kathryn Jeter was born and raised in Birmingham Alabama. While growing up Naslund was captivated by books. These books sparked her to start creative writing on her own. She was expected into one of the most prestigious creative writing programs in the nation. There she earned masters and Ph.D. in creative writing and literature. Naslund served as the director of the university for twelve years and has been a visiting professor at several other colleges thought the years. The first publication of her work was publicized in nineteen-seventy two, the book “Julius Geissler”. She later published five novels and two short stories.
Sena Kathryn Jeter was born June twenty eight nineteen forty- two. She was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. Sena Jeter attended Phillips High School. She begins writing at the young age of nine. Her first short story was published in her school newspaper. However, writing is not but one of her many talents, she also played the cello in Birmingham Youth and Alabama pops orchestras. The University of Alabama offered her scholarships for music. Sena declined there offer because she felt writing was her true talent.
After declining the University of Alabama she applied to the Birmingham Southern College. Sena accomplished a bachelor’s degree, while attending Birmingham-Southern College. To further her education as a grad student Sena applied to the University of Iowa’s Iowa Writers Workshop. This being one of the nation’s most prestigious creative writing programs. During her stay at the University of Iowa Sena Earned a Masters and a PH.D in creative writing and literature in nineteen seventy-one.
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...imate and epic. Being from the south widely influences the way that Naslund writes. Some of her other writings include” Abundance” A novel of Marie Antoinette written in two thousand six and Adam and Eve written in two thousand ten.
Naslund now lives in Louisiana with her husband John C. Morrison. However she keeps close ties to her home state of Alabama. She was recognized by the Alabama State Council of Arts, who presented her with the Governor’s Arts Award in two thousand eleven. Naslund is currently professor and writer at the University of Louisville and the Director of Spalding University master of the fine arts program in creative writing. She also continues to work for the Louisville Review and the Fleur-de-Lis-Press. Sena Jeter Naslund defiantly has an all-around passion for writing. Maybe that is the reason her novels are all most impossible to put down.
Although the chosen writer’s style structure is similar in Saint Monkey and “Trilobites,” the writer’s voice and word choice is different. The structure that an author has chosen is important for a author because of the way the story has happened. After reading the biographies of both Breece D’J Pancake and Jacinda Townsend, I realized that even growing up in different parts of the region is different. Both authors’ of Saint Monkey and “Trilobites” grew up in different states and had different lifestyles which has an effect on the writer’s writing
Sharon Creech’s childhood memories, college experiences, and creative brain significantly affected her writings. She rarely thought of being an author growing up, but as time progressed, she began to really think about it. Creech first became interested when she entered college and something sparked her career. She wrote multiple books with her much thought and creativeness leading her to an outstanding writing career.
he attended a writer's workshop at the University of Iowa, earning a master of fine arts
To start, The author Carl Hiaasen was born on March 12, 1953, in Plantation, Florida, a rural suburb of Fort Lauderdale. He was the first of four children born to Odel and Patricia Hiaasen. He started writing from the age of six. In 1970 he graduated from Plantation High School and entered Emory University, where he wrote the school-run newspaper called the Emory Wheel. Two years later, he transferred to the
When he was fifteen years old his mother died from appendicitis. From fifteen years of age to his college years he lived in an all-white neighborhood. From 1914-1917, he shifted from many colleges and academic courses of study as well as he changed his cultural identity growing up. He studied physical education, agriculture, and literature at a total of six colleges and universities from Wisconsin to New York. Although he never completed a degree, his educational pursuits laid the foundation for his writing career. He had the knowledge of philosophy and psychology. He attempted to write when he was a youth, but he made a choice to pursue a literary career in 1919. After he published Cane he became part of New York literary circles. He objected both rivalries that prevailed in the fraternity of writers and to attempts to promote him as a black writer (Clay...
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Born and raised in a family of storytellers, it’s no wonder that this author, Louise Erdrich became a prolific writer. Louise was born in Little Falls, Minnesota. She grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota, near the Chippewa Reservation with her mom, who had Native American roots and her dad who was of German descent. Her parents encouraged and challenged her at an early age to read, also to write stories and even paid her a nickel for each one that she wrote. Lorena Stookey states that Louise Erdrich’s style of writing is “like William Faulkner, she creates a fictional world and peoples it with multiple narrators whose voices commingle to shape her readers’ experience of that world” (Stookey 14). Louise writes this moving story “The Shawl” as she is haunted by the sorrows of the generations of her people, the Anishinaabeg. I initially saw this tale as a very complex reading, but after careful reading and consideration, saw it as a sad and compelling story.
“While my English skills were never judged as poor, compared to math, English could not be considered my strong suit.” (636-7). Her grades in English were considered low and not good enough to achieve what she wanted to be, while her science and math grades were the highest they can be. Going on to explain the way that “answers on English test were always a judgement call” (637), saying there are more than one answer for things on the tests, just depending on how it was worded or the wording needing to be placed in for the answer. She goes on and talks about analogies, find words that mean the same thing or have a relationship with one another, and how it was the same for that. “I’ve been asked, as a writer, why there are not more Asian Americans represented in American literature. Why are there few Asian Americans enrolled in creative writing programs? Why do so many Chinese students go into engineering?” (638). She believes that it is because many have a “broken” or “limited” English at home or their teachers are pushing them to go for some other career choice. Luckily she wanted to be different and choose her own path in life instead of having one chosen for her. When she first started writing she wanted to use sentences and words that showed people she understood the English language, from a the first draft of her book,
...guages. Her contribution to American Literature can be shown through her pure emotion and connections in her writing.
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...the age. Yet her novels endure because the themes are timeless. They have all the elements readers’ treasure, to include love, mistaken assumptions, humor, and like all fairy tales, the couple lives happily ever after.
I graduated from Pasadena City College in 1968 (Pasadena, California is my hometown). Then I attended California State University, Los Angeles. I also took a few extension classes at UCLA. But the most valuable help I received with my writing came from two workshops. The first was the Open Door Program of the screenwriter’s Guild of America, West’ (1969-70). The second was Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop (1970).
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Jerome David Salinger was born on January 1, 1919 in Manhattan, New York City. His father, Sol, a Polish Jew, and his mother, Marie, an Irish Catholic, owned a meat and cheese importing business. Salinger attended public schools until the age of thirteen, were he was enrolled in the prestigious McBurney School in Manhattan, but he was dismissed with failing grades after a year. He then attended and grad...