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Best remembered for her books about the March family, especially her children's masterpiece, Little Women, Alcott also wrote sensational novel...
Published in 1979, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, which received the Cheltenham Festival Literary Prize, retells classic fairy tales. Angela Carter revises "Puss-in-...
Weir, Allison .The Six Wives of Henry the VIII. New York, New York:
Grove Weidenfeld Press, 1961.
The Six Wives of Henry the VIII is a non-fiction, royal biography, consis...
On February 9, 1944, Willie Lee and Minnie Tallulah (Lou) Grant Walker gave birth to their precious daughter Alice Malsenior Walker. Who later became one of the most talented...
's play Pygmalion sends me a few messages that he was either meaning to get out to his readers, or not. After reading the play, I felt that he was trying to...
By: Theodore Ansink
Edgar Allen Poe, born on January 19, 1809, is one of the greatest American writers of all time. "The story of Edgar Allen Poe's life remains one of t...
"Abigail Adams: A revolutionary American Woman," is a biography about the life of the wife of the second president of the United States, Abigail Adams. The story starts off te...
Chicago:
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. S...
Langston Hughes was one of the great writers of his time. He was named the "most renowned African American poet of the 20th century" (McLaren). Through his writing h...
The 1950's were very different and radical in fact, this is the decade that began rock n' roll, the civil rights movement, better family living, advances in technology, Fash...
Leonard Peltier: Is he Guilty or Innocent?
American Indian rights activist Leonard Peltier is currently serving two consecutive life sentences in federal prison in Leavenw...
is an epic novel spanning nearly a century and a half, from the mid 1800's to 1980's. It is the story of the obsession of Moses Berger, a Rhodes schola...
is an epic novel spanning nearly a century and a half, from the mid 1800's to 1980's. It is the story of the obsession of Moses Berger, a Rhodes schola...
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita
When Vladimir Nabokov finished writing the novel Lolita he knew the explosive subject matter that he was now holding in his hands. After being tur...
John W. Gardner
Introduction
John W. Gardner born 1912, had a varied and productive career as an educator, public official, and political reformer. Gardner's belief in soc...
Willa Cather
(1873-1947)
Elements of biography
Willa Sibert Cather was born on 7 December, 1873 in Back Creek Valley, Virginia. Her father was a farmer. The early years...
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born on August 30, 1797, in London,
England. She was destined to live an extraordinary life. Her parents were
two of the most noted f...