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Pulitzer Prize Los Angeles
850 wordsTony Kushner was born in New York City, Manhattan, New York in 1956. He was raised in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Both of his parents were musicians, and they encouraged him to follow his dreams seeing that he took interest in theatre at a young age. Hes Jewish and practices the gay lifestyle. He was educated at both Columbia University and New York University. He received degrees in medieval studies and in theatre. Hes currently living in New York City. Kushner started writing his plays in the ear...
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Pulitzer Prize Attempted Suicide
796 wordsAnne Gray Harvey was born into an upper-middle class family in Newton, Massachusetts on November 9, 1928. She attended Rogers Preparatory School and a Boston finishing school known as The Garland School. In 1948, she eloped with Alfred Muller Sexton just a few months before her twentieth birthday. Anne Sexton received a scholarship from the Hart Agency in Boston, and worked there as a model for a brief time. Sexton later moved from Boston to Baltimore, back to Boston and then to San Francisco. I...
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Pulitzer Prize Glass Menagerie
720 wordsTennessee Williams was born Thomas Lanier Williams on March 26, 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. He was the second of three children of Cornelius Coffin and Edwina Dakin Williams. His early childhood was troubled with illnesses that left Tennessee a terminal hypochondriac throughout the rest of his life. He turned to writing as a method of escaping the unhappiness that surrounded him. His first published work was a response to an essay question that appeared in Smart Set magazine in 1927. In 1929,...
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Detroit Michigan Gale Michigan Gale Research
1,385 wordsCarl August Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois on January 6, 1878. His parents, August and Clara Johnson, were immigrants from Sweden. After he encountered many August Johnsons in his job with the railroad, Carl's father decided to rename the family. The Sandburg's were poor and as a result, Carl had to quit school at the age of thirteen to drive a milk truck and deliver milk to help support the family. At seventeen, Carl Sandburg went to Kansas as a hobo. During the eight months that he s...
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Oak Park World War Hemingway
690 wordsErnest Hemingway was born on a July morning in 1899. Born at home in Oak Park, he was raised a conservative with strong values. While his father taught him to hunt and fish, his mother taught him music, her former profession. Though his mothers music lessons helped him throughout his life, he didnt particularly enjoy the lessons and spent as much time in the woods as he could manage. Nature became Hemingway's world, the place where he could go and pull from it the essence of his writing. No matt...
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Salem Witch Trials Group Of People
1,032 wordsIn The Crucible, there was a lot of senseless behavior. The purpose of The Crucible is to educate the reader on the insanity that can form in a group of people who think they are judging fairly upon a group of people. Judge Hawthorne believes what he is told by certain people is the truth even if little evidence is to be shown. The young girls with Abigail convince Hawthorne of others being witches so that Abigail can get what she wants, John Proctor, also so that Abigail does not blackmail the ...
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Chicago The Legacy Of Carl Sandburg
1,097 wordsChicago: The Legacy of Carl Sandburg Carl Sandburg may be one of our most influential poets in American history, he knew the American working man and his necessities. Sandburg used his poetry to explicate to the economy how life is, can, and could be. Carl Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois January 6, 1878 to Swedish immigrant parents with the names of August and Clara Johnson. His family was extremely poor. Carl left school at the age of thirteen to work odd jobs from bricklaying to dish ...
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The Hours By Michael Cunningham
705 wordsThe Hours by Michael Cunningham There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we " ve ever imagined... Still, we cherish the city, the morning; we hope, more than anything, for more (Michael Cunningham, The Hours) In 1999 this very book brought Michael Cunningham the Pulitzer Award for the best novel (Rogers, 2006). The Hours is one of the most touching, affecting, moving, and at the same time...
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Pulitzer Prize Cuban American
764 wordsComparison Between Life On The Hyphen And Next Year In Cuba by Gustavo Perez Firmat The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted to tell you. My subject: how to explain to you that I don't belong to English though I belong nowhere else, if not here in English. Gustavo Perez Firmat, The Pulitzer Prize nominee was born in Havana, Cuba, and raised in Miami, Florida. A poet, fiction writer, and scholar is the author of ten books and over seventy essays and reviews. Th...
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World War Ii Pulitzer Prize
1,135 wordsBy: Ernie Pyle Ernie Pyl By: Jenny Trembath March 20, 200 Ernie Pyle When a machine-gun bullet ended the life of Ernie Pyle in the final days of World War II, Americans spoke of him in the same breath as they had Franklin Roosevelt. To millions, the loss of him was as great as the loss of the wartime president. Since WWII correspondent Ernie Pyle was so famous, his death on the battlefront came as a shock to people around the world. Ernest Taylor Pyle was born August 3, 1900 to Will and Marie Py...
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Grapes Of Wrath Pulitzer Prize
635 wordsThe Grapes of Wrath By John Stienbeck Review By Nic Sherlock This book was published in 1975 but written in the 1930 s. It won the Pulitzer Prize and the author also won the 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature. The book is a story of the Joad family, and their trip to California. It tells of the migration of thousands of homeless families from Oklahoma to California. It follows the Joad family, who, evicted from the land by the bank decide to head for the Golden West to a land of plenty. When there ...
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1,429 wordsCarl Radical Sandburg Radical Sandburg Carl August Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois on January 6, 1878. His parents, August and Clara Johnson, were immigrants from Sweden. After he encountered many August Johnsons in his job with the railroad, Carl? s father decided to rename the family. The Sandburg's were poor and as a result, Carl had to quit school at the age of thirteen to drive a milk truck and deliver milk to help support the family. At seventeen, Carl Sandburg went to Kansas as a...
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Played A Major Role Objective Reality
1,484 wordsChapter One The thesis of this paper is: Hamlin Garland uses the critical theory of veritas and other social ideas to describe the vicissitudes of pioneering and modern life. Chapter Two The purpose is to prove Hamlin Garland played a major role in describing the ideas of the vicissitudes of pioneering and modern life, by providing various examples from his essays, novels, and travels to the Great Plains. Chapter Three There are key words which are necessary to be defined before proving the thes...
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Spanish American War U S Troops
1,079 wordsImperialism and Its Motives Imperialism began to grow just before the turn of the twentieth century. During this time America s businesses were growing and need more markets. The United States was becoming a world power, and with that some people felt there came obligations. The United States economic growth and powerful figured led to incidents overseas that caused war, especially the Spanish-American War. The nation was growing. Industry was doing well. Businesses were booming. The United Stat...
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Pulitzer Prize John Updike
925 wordsJohn Hoyer Updike was born March 18, 1932 to Linda Grace Updike and Wesley Russell Updike in Reading, Pennsylvania. Wesley Updike was originally from New Jersey where he worked as a telephone splicer and was laid off from his job during the depression. Wesley Updike met his wife Linda Updike in New Jersey. After Wesley Updike was laid off in New Jersey they moved to Shillington, Pennsylvania where Linda Updike was from. Wesley Updike became a teacher at the local High School. (" Updike, Joh...
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Characters In The Book Atticus Finch
571 wordsMiss. Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in Moroeville Alabama, where her father practiced as a lawyer and served as a state senator. She grew up as the youngest out of 4 children, and was the only one to pursue a literary career. She received her early education in public schools, and from 1945 - 1949 she attended University of Alabama, studying law. She moved to New York, without carrying out the requirements for her degree in law, and there worked as an airline reservation clerk. Sh...
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Pulitzer Prize Collected Poems
576 wordsIsabelle Moodie and William Prescott Frost Jr. were blessed with a son March 26, 1874. This son was named after the Confederate general, Robert E. Lee. We know him today as Robert Lee Frost, one of the best-known and loved poets of all time. Frost began kindergarten in 1879; however, he was struck with nervous stomach pains the very first day and never returned. Frost did attempt to return to school on a few occasions, but was always struck with the stomach pains, and had to return home. Robert ...
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North Of Boston Robert Frost
1,175 wordsIn this Robert Frost INTRODUCTION In this research project we will be studying the American poet Robert Frost. We will be writing about why we selected this particular poet, his life and how he began his career in poetry, a critical analysis of what critics have said about his poems, and what his poems were based on. We will then give our own opinions on two of Robert Frosts poems. WHY WE SELECTED THIS POET We have selected to research the life and works of American poet Robert Frost for a numbe...
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North Of Boston Mountain Interval
866 wordsOn March 26, 1874, a legend in poetry was born. That legend was one of the most gifted twentieth century poets the world had ever seen and he was awarded with four Pulitzer Prizes. The legend was Robert Frost, and his legacy lives on even today. Frost s poems had deep philosophical meaning that could be understood by people in every walk of life. Even though his verse forms were traditional, he was among the pioneers in the interplay of rhythm and meter and in the poetic use of the vocabulary of...
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Pulitzer Prize Robert Frost
591 wordsThrough his poetry, Robert Frost gave the world a window to view the world. He give us poems that define hope and happiness to poems of profound gloom, but no matter the mood all of Robert Frost s poems explain the nature of living. Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco. His father was William Frost, a Harvard graduate who was on his way westward when he stopped to teach at Bucknell Academy in Pennsylvania for extra money. His mother, Isabelle Moodie began teaching math at Buc...
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