A Day with Raymond Carver I spent the day with Raymond Carver, reading story after story: “Feathers,” “Chef’s House,” “A Small Good Thing,” and “Fever.” Carver’s talent lies not in big ideas but in making ordinary life feel important. His characters are Sandy’s husband, Chef, Wes, the blind man drawing a cathedral, Mr. Carlyle, and […]
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” I left Paris to find you. I became a writer because of you. Every journey I have started on was to reach you.”
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“My love is a Bright Strong light,
That shuts out the darkness of
the Night
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Robert Browning\’s Life and Work in Chronological Order 1812: Robert Browning is born on May 7 in Camberwell, near London, to Robert Sr. and Sarah Anna Weidmann Browning. 1820s: Browning begins his formal education at a local elementary school but is quickly dismissed for being ahead of his classmates. He is then educated at home
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Biographical Sketch of Kate Chopin (Catherine O’Flaherty) Catherine O’Flaherty was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on February 8, 1851. Her father, Thomas O’Flaherty, was an Irish immigrant who became a prosperous merchant. Chopin’s father, Thomas, had one son, George, who was 4 years old when his mother died. Thomas O’Flaherty needed a wife to
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AuthorSylvia Plath: Life and Works: Timeline Sylvia Plath: Life and Works: Timeline “Some writers are born to be perpetual exiles and think of themselves as sea creatures.” (American Isis The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath by Carl Rollyson) 27 October 1932: Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, three weeks early at 2:10 P.M.
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AuthorRachel Carson, the author of Silent Spring Rachel Carson, the author of Silent Spring Amazon Book Link: Rachael Carson Published in 1962 in the United States Rachel Carson\’s book Silent Spring is a groundbreaking literary piece. It surveys mounting evidence that the widespread use of pesticides has endangered life on Earth. Rachel openly and
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