BIOGRAPHY Joan Didion was born in Sacramento, CA, in 1934, the daughter of an officer in the Army Air Corps. From the start of her life, Didion took an interest in reading and writing. In fact, Didion was “a shy, bookish child… Didion spent her teenage years typing out Ernest Hemingway stories to learn …
Biography Herman Melville (1819-1891) is an American author who wrote novels, short stories, and poems. He grew up in New York state. His family struggled with poverty after the death of this father in 1832 after having already struggled with the failure of the family import business two years earlier. Melville ended up spending much …
Biography: Born in Denmark, Jacob Riis immigrated to American when he was twenty years old. Finding work was difficult in his time here, and Riis found himself passing through many states in the north east, such as Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York, in search of one. He would take whatever job came to him, …
People walk like darts, each on a mission to get to their next destination. You look up and notice the buildings looming over the street, self-aggrandizing like gods, looking for people to worship them. Some do, they look up, their backs arching, chests pointing towards the sky as they stare in reverence at the …
Trinity Church is one of the most popular landmarks in New York City, and currently stands on Manhattan’s Wall Street. According to a New York Times article entitled, “The Church With the $6 Billion Portfolio” written by Jane Margolies, Trinity Church was created when “King William III” issued a “charter […] in 1697” (Margolies). The …
Margaretta Faugères, daughter of John and Ann Eliza Bleecker, was born in New York City in 1771. After her birth, the family move their country estate in Tomhannock, presently known as Troy, New York. After the death of Ann Eliza Bleecker in 1783, twelve-year-old Faugères and her father moved back to New York City. There, …
Crane was born on November 1, 1871, in Newark, NJ. His major works are the novels, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Red Badge of Courage and the short stories “The Open Boat”, “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky”, and “The Blue Hotel.” Crane was an American short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He …
William Sydney Porter, better known by his pen name O. Henry, was born in 1862 in Greensboro, North Carolina. Growing up he liked to read authors such as Charles Dickens and Sir Walter Scott. Porter worked various jobs such as a clerk, bookkeeper, assistant draftsman, bank teller, and even cartoonist as a side job, along …