Biography

gratifying job. He later found a job with Franklin Roosevelt’s Office of Price Administration. He was disappointed with the New Deal’s big-government and bureaucratic red tape which resulted in him leaving public service and enlisting in the Navy (Biography editors). Richard Nixon was Quaker and in the 1940’s, Quakers were excused from military service. He served as an aviation ground officer in the Pacific and surged to the rank of lieutenant commander before resigning in January…

He cursed, chewed tobacco, and ran wild through the streets (Carnagie 231). After many years of his inadequate behavior, his parents sent him to St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys, a Roman Catholic protectory for delinquents (“Babe Ruth” Biography Context). St. Mary’s was a big change for Ruth, but he learned vocational skills and his passion for baseball finally emerged. Brother Mathias, one of the monks at the school and a father figure for Babe, noticed his fondness for baseball and…

Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers is about the famous American author, F. Scott Fitzgerald. One of his friends once called him, “the most sensitive . . . the most distinguished – the most gifted and intelligent of all his contemporaries. And the most lovable – he is one of those great tragic American figures.” He is prominently known for his famous Roaring Twenties novel The Great Gatsby. Many of his novels are about the luxurious American Dream life and recreations of events…

Louis Armstrong Biography Louis Armstrong was born August 4, 1901. His parents were Mary Albert and William Armstrong. He had one sister and he name was Beatrice Armstrong Collins. Louis Armstrong attended Baptist and Catholic churches and Baptist Sunday school as a child. He had to overcome a lot of segregation but he also did it very well. He was skilled at singing playing the trumpet. Louis did attend school so he did get some education. Louis had four wives and two children. During his…

Purple. Her life shaped how she wrote. And I believe Walker is an author who never gave up her power. On February 9, 1944, Alice Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia. She was the youngest girl out of 8 children in a poor family (“Alice Walker Biography”). Willie Lee Walker and Minnie Lou Tallulah Grant were the parents of this amazing writer. Between dairy farming and sharecropping her father only made around…

Conference. She continued to work for society’s most vulnerable, and received an honorary master’s degree from Buckinghamshire New University in recognition of 30 years of work supporting refugees. Ms. Graessle also co-authored or edited 11 books from biographies to personal financial management. She is survived by her four siblings, Nancy, Julie, Bill and Bob, and two stepdaughters, Deborah and Susan.…

The reader of Raymond Edwards’ 2014 biography of J. R. R. Tolkien will indeed find an extensive examination of the author’s ‘academic interests,’ for the strength of this work is in its author’s sympathy with two of the major influences in Tolkien’s life: philology and Catholicism. The dust jacket says that Edwards “followed the Oxford undergraduate course originally devised by Tolkien,” which would have required mastery of Old English and Middle English philology as well as Anglo-Saxon and…

that wasn’t enough, Jeffrey’s father was offered a job in Ohio causing the family to move far from their home and worsening his insecurities. By his early teenage years he was extremely tense, disengaged and had very few friends. (Jeffrey Dahmer Biography) He was just fourteen years old when he claims he began to have thoughts about murder and developed a weird attraction to corpses. His parents divorced around the same time so there is some speculations as to…

“I don’t want to be better than you or her or him - I want to better than I am right now,” the stupendous Olympic volleyball player Kerri Walsh Jennings stated. Statistics show that Kerri Walsh is on her way to becoming the best female beach volleyball player of all time after only playing professionally for seven years, while she is juggling being a wife and mother. Kerri Walsh Jennings grew up in an athletic family, which inspired her career choice. She was born on August 15, 1978 in Santa…

City, where she began to experiment Heroin. While working in a professorship at Hunters College, she found her gift as a teacher (“Alice Sebold Biography” 2). After living in the city for ten years, she applied to graduate school at the University of California (Glaug 2). She graduated from there in 1998 with a MFA (Master of Fine Arts) (“Alice Sebold Biography” 2). Sebold went through a lot as a child and young adult; however, her rape experience was the most horrific. Going through such an…