American short story writers

Chapter 1 Introduction Jonathan Earl Franzen, an American writer, is one of the most acclaimed novelist and essayist of today’s era. Born in Western Springs, Illinois on August 17, 1959 this prolific writer has contributed greatly in the industry of literature by producing number of creative pieces of work throughout his writing career. Franzen was brought up in Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. In 1981 he graduated from Swarthmore College with a degree in German. His…

On 30th November 1835, the tiny village of Florida, Missouri witnessed the birth of one of the famous writers of American literature, Mark Twain. His original name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He was the sixth child of Jane and John Clemens. When he was of four years, he and his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, a port town on the Mississippi river that inspired the fictional town of ‘St. Petersburg in the ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’ and ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’. Slavery and…

Rough Draft Nathaniel Hawthorne is an American author from the early 1800s. Hawthorne wrote many children’s story’s and romance novels. As Hawthorne started publishing his short story’s he began to add an additional “w” to his name, his name went from “Hathorne" to “Hawthorne.” “Hawthorne had two characteristics of life, those who follow their head and intellect, and those who follow their heart” (Diorio 11). This was the basis of Hawthorne’s way of life. Nathaniel Hawthorne's writing has…

role within society originated from the belief that women were deceitful and fragile minded. This belief stemmed from the bible. The bible’s origin story famously known as Adam and Eve dispicts Eve as the one who is deceived by the devil to eat the forbidden fruit which went against God’s wishes. Eve then convinced Adam to eat the fruit as well. This story helped shaped the belief of deceitfully natured women. Societies way to contain this belief involved putting all the power into the man 's…

O’Connor is known as an American great writer, “Despite her brief life and relatively modest output, her work is regarded as among the most distinguished American fiction” (Meyer 350). Revelation was written by Flannery O’Connor and published in 1965 in her short story collection Everything That Rises Must…

Charles Bukowski was an American poet, novelist and short story writer, responsible for the thousands of poems written in the dirty realism literacy movement and was heavily influenced by the cultural, economic and social ambience of his home city in Los Angeles. A violent father, who at the time was out of work frequently during the great depression and often took his anger and pain out on his son, beating him regularly, up until his teenage years, marred Bukowski’s childhood. The poet became…

fiction because the term itself suggests that the story is rooted in ideas, concepts and events that are already present in the contemporary society. Atwood started writing the novel from the inspiration that she got when she found herself in the Northern region of Australia, bird watching with her partner. When she watched the red-necked crakes, which are water birds belonging to the family Rallidae, she was hit with the inspiration for the story. She also explains that the work is something…

the small rebellious acts against these unbalanced situations by key characters in the story provide a glimpse into the motivations of real activists fighting for their respective rights. Sammy’s willingness to break the rules and his unusual thought process in “A&P” are representative of larger moves for freedom civil rights groups were making at the time. It is obvious from the beginning of the short story that the generation to which Sammy belongs are inherently different thinkers. When an…

given: 1. Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people. 2. Something that is invented or untrue. Fiction is the classification of any ilk of writing propelled by imagination; it varies from play, short stories, novel, novella and so forth. Fiction constitutes an act of creative invention, so that faithfulness to reality is not typically assumed; in other words, fiction is not expected to present only characters who are actual people or…

The phoenix is a powerful symbol. This symbol is often used in literature for its symbolic meaning. The mythological bird bursts into flames at the moment of death, but that is only the beginning of the bird’s story. When the bird has transformed into a mere pile of ashes, it is reborn out of those ashes. Therefore, the phoenix is a symbol of rebirth, resurrection, renaissance, and persistence. The UXL Encyclopedia of World Mythology actually clarifies that, “The main theme of the myth of the…