By selecting the option of writing for publication I chose to construct a section from a biography. A biography is simply the story of a life. This means you can write a story about an object's life such as a building or you can write about the life of a person. Biographies can vary in size; th...

In the biography Fat Man In A Middle Seat on JackW. Germond's life as a reporter the reader if notalready knowing, learns about a man who knew everyone,saw everything, and went everywhere involving politics. The places, people, and situations involving Germond'slife were inflicted in his writing. S...

How to write a book report on a Biography, that's definitely an interesting question. It is definitely something they do not teach you in high school English classes. When writing a book report of this nature one can wonder if a summary of the book is reasonable or if a summary of the life of the ...

The Many Traits of Richard WrightRichard Wright was a young black man growing up in the South in the early 1900's. Richard has to over come many obstacles in succeeding in life and one of the biggest was racism. Richard presents himself in many ways in the biography Black Boy, two traits that are ...

As I have recently read E.B. White\'s biography, leading American essayist and literary stylist of his time, White was known for his crisp, graceful and relaxed style. \"No one can write a sentence like White,\" says the author of White\'s biography. White\'s stories ranged from satire to children\'...

I gained so much from the experience of the Junior Author Paper that I feel that I came away from it with so much more than I was able to bring to it. Throughout this project, I have developed my writing in so many different ways and my writing skills have progressed immensely. It is interesting to ...

There are many preconceptions of what the history of music is. Some people think it is mainly a biography of composer's lives, but they are wrong. The history of music is primarily the history of musical style. In order to appreciate this, it is essential to become acquainted with the diffe...

This is the biography of John Champlin Gardner, Jr., an American writer, who was born in Batavia, New York. He was a teacher, lecturer, and prolific writer of fiction, children's books, poetry, radio plays, and scholarly medieval studies. He studied at Washington University in St. Louis, graduated i...

Sometimes authors were so famous that we know almost too much about them. Nobody can ever not find enough information writers like Shakespeare and Chaucer. Then there are others that there is almost nothing about them. However, historians have managed to find a happy medium for Robert Her...

The Falcon This book is written in the perspective of a teenagers life. The writers name is Luke Carver and he is seventeen years old. Luke starts the story off by writing "Man, is this lame or what? A seventeen year old guy writing a journal." (pg3) Luke then starts explaining how ...

John Clare was born in the village of Helpstone, Northamptonshire, England, in 1793. He was the son of an agricultural laborer, and he was a hedge setter, day laborer, and gardener at Burghley House from 1810 to 1811. He had no schooling so instead, he studied James Thompson\'s \"Seasons\" and began...

Washington IrvingWashington Irving is one of the most memorable writers in history for his many works. To learn more about Washington Irving these are three most important points of this author, historical background, work, and his last years as a famous writer.To begin is the historical background ...

There are few female authors that have had an impact on literature as great as that of Willa Cather. Not only was she an exquisite author, but she broke through into writing during a time when few female authors were successful. Her life, which was directly influential to her writing, was of a s...

Sandra Cisneros' writing has been shaped by her experiences. Because of her unique background she is very different from traditional American writers. An important theme of her work is the heterogeneity of the Mexican-American community, expressed through differences of class, gender, education, a...

A research paper is a document in logical order that informs or influences an audience of a precise topic. There are many different types of papers that attain these standards. Informative papers include compare and contrast, analytical, descriptive, narrative, book reports, autobiographies, and b...

Timothy Findley was a Canadian novelist and playwright, who was one of Canada's most famous writers. He was born in 1930 Toronto and was raised in the Rosedale district. He self educated himself after grade 10, after which he pursued a career in the arts, studying dance and acting despite his parent...

\"Does not my fortune sit high upon my brow? Dost not see the little wanton god there all gay and smiling have I not an air about my face and eyes, that distinguish me from the crowd of common lovers?\" --Aphra Behn, The Rover She was not the first woman ...

Born on the eleventh day of September in 1885, David Herbert Lawrence was the fourth child of an illiterate coal miner. Lawrence was raised in a small mining town of Eastwood, Nottingham by his mother who happened to be a school a teacher. Threw his childhood David Herbert shared a very close relat...

People long to find a passion in their lives, something they can not put down or forget. Robert Frost found his love in poetry and nature. Robert Frost was brought into thisworld in San Francisco, on March 26, 1874. As a young boy, Robert Frost had a normallife for a late-nineteenth century schoo...

People long to find a passion in their lives, something they can not put down or forget. Robert Frost found his love in poetry and nature. Robert Frost was brought into thisworld in San Francisco, on March 26, 1874. As a young boy, Robert Frost had a normallife for a late-nineteenth century schoo...

Criticizing (or Praising) the AuthorAn author may never know if their creation will be popular, liked, or just plain forgotten, but they can rely on one simple fact, that no matter what eventually someone is going to read their book and criticize it in one way or another. There are many different w...

Poetry EssayIn "Dulce et Decorum Est," Wilfred Owen uses a range of literary devices to give the reader a highly realistic portrait of the true horror of war. While the most important part of Owen's poem is the structure, since the poems organization is critical to a clear understanding of the poet'...

Louis L'Amour was born on March 22, 1908, in Jamestown, North Dakota. His father, Louis Charles, was a veterinarian and farm machinery salesman and was also involved in local politics. Charles served as alderman of Jamestown's largest ward for many years as well as deputy sheriff, but he lost his ...

Thesis: Sarah Orne Jewett, a native of Maine, was one of the first and most skilled members of the local color movement in literature.I.The Life of Sarah Orne JewettA.Looking BackB.The rise and fallII.Jewett's Style of WritingA.Why write?B.Style of WritingC.How it affects today's literatureIII.The C...

Female Authors and the Portrayal of WomenIn writing, each individual has a unique style; one that they can call their own. The kind of style and the quality of the story is what separates a good writer from an extraordinary writer. As part of my research process, I have read a number of bookswritten...