It was very hard to decide which four author’s I wanted to write about. I narrowed it down by the unique and special traits they each have. My four authors I picked to write about are Anthony Burgess, Louise Erdrich, Lorraine Hansberry, and Helen Keller. All of the authors come from different backgrounds and have very interesting poems, and unique trades in their life. Out of the four authors I picked, I only knew one of the four and decided to choose three other authors with totally different backgrounds. According to www.goodreads.com, Anthony Burgess was born on February 25, 1917 in Harpurhey, United Kingdom. He was raised in the United Kingdom throughout his childhood. His Nationality is English and his religion is
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Lorraine was the youngest of four children, and was the daughter of Carl Augustus Hansberry, the man who created one of the first banks for African americans. Despite that Hansberry’s having a middleclass status, they were still subject to segregation. Lorraine Hansberry graduated from Englewood High School in Chicago, then later attended the University of Wisconsin, but left before completing her degree. In 1950, after studying painting in Chicago and Mexico, Hansberry moved to New York to begin a career in writing. Lorraine is most famously know to be the first African American woman to write a play preformed on Broadway. A Raisin in the Sun, drew upon the lives of working class African Americans that went to school with her in Chicago. Also, family members were used as characters for inspiration and similarities.
As her career grew bigger, she got the chance to write for Paul Robinsons Freedom, which put her in contact with many other literary and political mentors, along with Robert Nemiroff. Robert was a Jewish writer that shared political views with her and joined in protest against racial discrimination. They later married on June 20, 1953 in Lorraine’s childhood home in Chicago. The couple never ended up having children and divorced 4 years later in 1957. Although they were split, Nemiroof remained dedicated to her work. He was a literary executer and published her three unfinished plays after …show more content…
Helen was the first of two daughters born to Kathrine and Arthur H. Keller. At the age of 19 months, Helen became deaf and blind due to an unknown illness. As she grew in age, she developed a very limited but effective method of communication with Martha Washington, the daughter of the family cook. Keller later became very wild and uncontrollable. Many of her family members beloved she should be put in an institution due to the fact that when she was angry she would kick ad scream but when she was happy she would giggle unruly. As the family was looking for answers, they found inspiration in a travelogue by Charles Dickens. Her mother read about a successful education for a blind and deaf child, and yearned to do the same for Helen. Keller and her parents traveled to the institute for blind in Boston, Massachusetts where they met the school’s directors Michael Anagnos. Immediately a mentor was sent to Keller’s home and put her to work. After that, she went to the school for deaf for 25 years, learned how to speak so others could understand
Lorraine was the youngest of four children, and was the daughter of Carl Augustus Hansberry, the man who created one of the first banks for African americans. Despite that Hansberry’s having a middleclass status, they were still subject to segregation. Lorraine Hansberry graduated from Englewood High School in Chicago, then later attended the University of Wisconsin, but left before completing her degree. In 1950, after studying painting in Chicago and Mexico, Hansberry moved to New York to begin a career in writing. Lorraine is most famously know to be the first African American woman to write a play preformed on Broadway. A Raisin in the Sun, drew upon the lives of working class African Americans that went to school with her in Chicago. Also, family members were used as characters for inspiration and similarities.
As her career grew bigger, she got the chance to write for Paul Robinsons Freedom, which put her in contact with many other literary and political mentors, along with Robert Nemiroff. Robert was a Jewish writer that shared political views with her and joined in protest against racial discrimination. They later married on June 20, 1953 in Lorraine’s childhood home in Chicago. The couple never ended up having children and divorced 4 years later in 1957. Although they were split, Nemiroof remained dedicated to her work. He was a literary executer and published her three unfinished plays after …show more content…
Helen was the first of two daughters born to Kathrine and Arthur H. Keller. At the age of 19 months, Helen became deaf and blind due to an unknown illness. As she grew in age, she developed a very limited but effective method of communication with Martha Washington, the daughter of the family cook. Keller later became very wild and uncontrollable. Many of her family members beloved she should be put in an institution due to the fact that when she was angry she would kick ad scream but when she was happy she would giggle unruly. As the family was looking for answers, they found inspiration in a travelogue by Charles Dickens. Her mother read about a successful education for a blind and deaf child, and yearned to do the same for Helen. Keller and her parents traveled to the institute for blind in Boston, Massachusetts where they met the school’s directors Michael Anagnos. Immediately a mentor was sent to Keller’s home and put her to work. After that, she went to the school for deaf for 25 years, learned how to speak so others could understand