Sherman Alexie's short stories have won numerous prizes. His collection The Toughest Indian in the World () won the Pen/Malamud Award for excellence in short-story writing.
The Complete Madame Guyon also presents examples of her passionate poetry, some of which has never before been translated into English. Nancy James's historical introduction explains the events of Guyon's life first as an aristocratic wife and mother of five, and later as a wido traveling around Europe as an author, who ended up incarcerated in.
Most famous for leading the rebellion which bears his name, Daniel Shays began his life as the son of Irish immigrants, Patrick and Margaret. His parents settled in Hopkinton, Massachusetts in the s and gave birth to Daniel in , the second of six children.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN FIVE SHORT CHAPTERS by Portia Nelson I I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk I fall in. I am lost I am helpless. It isn't my fault. It takes me forever to find a way out. II I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I pretend I don't see it. I fall in again.
In Anne and Simon Bradstreet, together with her parents and other Puritans, sailed for Massachusetts Bay Colony, where she lived for brief periods in Salem, Charlestown, and Cambridge. After a somewhat longer sojourn in Ipswich, she and her husband settled permanently in Andover.
The African American musician Ray Charles was widely admired as a singer, pianist, and composer (writer of music). He combined elements of jazz, gospel, and rhythm-and-blues to create a new kind of African American music known as soul.
Joseph Conrad (born December 3, , Berdichev, Ukraine, Russian Empire [now Berdychiv, Ukraine]—died August 3, , Canterbury, Kent, England) was an English novelist and short-story writer of Polish descent, whose works include the novels Lord Jim (), Nostromo (), and The Secret Agent () and the short story “Heart of Darkness” ().
Janus Unbound: Journal of Critical Studies, Fadhma Aïth Mansour Amrouche scholars tend to victimize her, underscoring her submission to the patriarchal order, embodied chiefly through her husband Belkacem and the most famous of her sons, the poet Jean Amrouche, under whose instigation she wrote her autobiography, Histoire de ma vie.
Alia Bhatt was born on 15 March to filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt and actress Soni Razdan in Mumbai, Maharashtra. She has an elder sister Shaheen Bhatt and Pooja Bhatt & Rahul Bhatt are her half-siblings. Her father is a Gujarati and her mother is of Kashmiri Pandit and British-German ancestry.
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