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/Home/Languages/Literature/Country, Language & Cultural Groups/African American Literature/Specific Authors Anniina's Alice Walker Page Votes:0 Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia, the eighth and last child of Willie Lee and Minnie Lou Grant Walker, who were sharecroppers. When Alice Walker was eight years old, she lost sight of one eye when one of her older brothers shot her with a BB gun by accident. In high school, Alice Walker was valedictorian of her class, and that achievement, coupled with a "rehabilitation scholarship" made it possible for her to go to Spelman, a college for black women in Atlanta, Georgia. After spending two years at Spelman, she transferred to Sarah Lawrence College in New York, and during her junior year traveled to Africa as an exchange student. She received her bachelor of arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College in 1965. After finishing college, Walker lived for a short tim Read More Go to Site Anniina's Toni Morrison Page Votes:0 Beloved Paradise Love Jazz Sula Tar Baby Song of Solomon The Bluest Eye Biographies Bibliographies Interviews Other Sources Bookstore Site copyright ©1996-2006 Anniina Jokinen. All Rights Reserved. Created by Anniina Jokinen on May 21, 1997. Last updated on May 31, 2006. August 5, 1997. April 7, 2000. Toni, Morrison, Paradise, interviews, Toni Morrison, African, American, books, Beloved, Jazz, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Bluest Eye, Nobel Prize, author, African-American, Woman, Women, Writers, Authors, writer, author, novelist, novel, novels, book, books, writing, Africa, Black, History, Slavery, contemporary, literature, Love, Grace, Nobel, Prize, Oprah, Oprah's Book Club, Reading, education, research, university, college, MLA, SAT, GRE, English, Female Read More Go to Site Fiction, Memoir, Poetry, Literary Links of Tony Thomas, MFA Votes:0 Fiction, Memoir, Poetry, Literary Links of Tony Thomas MFA Tony Thomas MFA, NYC, December 1998 Tony's MFA Diploma !!! Tony Thomas, Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, writes short fiction, poetry, memoir, and literary criticism. Unpublished work on linked sites is available for publication upon request. Any questions, comments or inquiries will be gladly answered. Address literary correspondence to shortfict@aol.com Tony Thomas is currently (year 2001) seeking part-time teaching, tutoring, and consulting work in creative writing, composition, or technical writing . He is currently an adjunct professor of English at Miami-Dade Community College in Miami, Florida. Web Site for English Composition Classes taught by Tony Thomas His resume is available at Tony Thomas Resume . The Short Sto Read More Go to Site History Votes:0 See History Archive at Bottom of page RICHARD WRIGHT 1908 - 1960 Richard Wright was born September 4, 1908 in Roxie, Mississippi, and died November 28, 1960 in Paris, France. Between these two dates he did many things. In 1927 he moved from Memphis to Chicago, where he would soon go to work in the post office, an experience he used in his novel Lawd Today !. In the early thirties, he began his literary career publishing poetry and short stories in such magazines as Left Front, Anvil, and New Masses. The success of Uncle Tom's Children in 1938 and Native Son in 1940 propelled Wright to international fame. In 1947, in reaction to the continued racism he encountered in America, Wright decided to move to France for an indefinite period. While in France, Wright took a growing interest in anti-c Read More Go to Site ITVS: Error Votes:0 About ITVS FAQ Projects/Services Accolades Staff Board Jobs Press Info Press Releases In the News ITVS News Beyond the Box ITVS Community Films & Resources About ITVS International The Films The Filmmakers True Stories Beyond Broadcast Broadcast Partners Advisory Board About Producer Resources Funding/Acquisitions Search Program Catalog Sites A-Z What's On TV? The file you requested does not exist. Try searching from the ITVS Home Page Home | Now Showing | Programs | For Producers | International | Community | News | Pressroom | About Contact us at itvs@itvs.org Copyright © ITVS Read More Go to Site Lady Freedom Among Us. Rita Dove Votes:0 Rita Dove LADY FREEDOM AMONG US View images and mpeg movies of the Janus Press text. Hear Rita Dove read the entire poem (2.7MB) . don't lower your eyes or stare straight ahead to where you think you ought to be going (174K) don't mutter oh no not another one get a job fly a kite go bury a bone (229K) with her oldfashioned sandals with her leaden skirts with her stained cheeks and whiskers and heaped up trinkets she has risen among us in blunt reproach (346K) she has fitted her hair under a hand-me-down cap and spruced it up with feathers and stars slung over one shoulder she bears the rainbowed layers of charity and murmurs all of you even the least of you (474K don't cross to the other side of the square don't think another item to fit on a tourist's agenda (218K) consider her drenched g Read More Go to Site Maya Angelou Votes:0 Maya Angelou Maya Angelou is a poet, historian, author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, producer and director. She lectures throughout the US and abroad and is Reynolds professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. She has published ten best selling books and countless magazine articles. At the request of President Clinton, she wrote and delivered a poem at the 1993 presidential inauguration. Dr. Angelou began her career in drama and dance. She married a South African freedom fighter and lived in Cairo where she was editor of The Arab Observer, the only English-language news weekly in the Middle East. In Ghana, she was feature editor of The African Review and taught at the University of Ghana. In the 1960s, at the request of Dr. Martin Luther King, Read More Go to Site Maya Angelou Votes:0 Welcome to the online collection of Maya Angelou Projects. It all started when the Niskayuna High 9 Honors English Class finished the book, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. After all the essays and projects where completed this web page evolved into what it is before you. This page is here to introduce our 9 Honors writers to the mighty World Wide Web. INDEX OF PAPERS: Stamps News The front page of Stamps News. With leading journalist Maggie Proulx, reporting on Sister Monroe's latest out-break. Opening to Class Debate The opening statement to a Class Debate on whether or not I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings should be taught schools. This was written by Jason Putorti. A Poem Inspired by Maya Angelou A poem by Stephanie Palmer, inspired by Maya Angelou's Life. Biography/Thesis Essay This pap Read More Go to Site MetroActive Books | Alice Walker Votes:0 [ Sonoma Independent | MetroActive Central | Archives ] Difficult Honor The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult By Alice Walker New York: Scribner, 1996; $24 Reviewed by David Templeton By the time Alice Walker's 1983 novel The Color Purple won a Pulitzer Prize for literature, the book had already begun its incomparable movement across and within American culture. Stunning and simple, told through the letters of a resilient and spirited Southern black woman, the book was vilified by some for its stark portrayal of physical and mental violence against women and for its moving description of two women finding love in each other. Despite the narrow-minded criticisms, The Color Purple was received in a manner that cannot be compared to the reception given any other book. It was swiftly ta Read More Go to Site Ostrom, Countee Cullen Votes:0 South Carolina Education Directory Click Here to See More Countee Cullen: How Teaching Rewrites the Writer Hans Ostrom University of Puget Sound Hans Ostrom is a Professor of English. His poetry and fiction have appeared in a variety of magazines, and he has published a novel, Three to Get Ready . In 1994 he was a Fulbright Senior Fellow at Uppsala University, Sweden. Among his scholarly books is Langston Hughes: A Study of the Short Fiction. I. More than most literary movements, the Harlem Renaissance continues to resonate and symbolize in our literary and political consciousness. This is so because the movement was at once contrived and spontaneous, potent and blighted, timeless and short-lived_and especially because it either confronted or foreshadowed most of the key conflicts among ra Read More Go to Site Paul Laurence Dunbar Digital Collection Votes:0 .topnav a:link { color:#FFFFFF; } .topnav a:hover { color:#FFFFFF; } .topnav a:visited { color:#FFFFFF; } Poetry Index Libretti Browse Books For Further Study Photo Gallery PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR 1872-1906 " He saw through every cloud a gleam - He had his dream " Paul Laurence Dunbar from "He Had His Dream" Introduction to Digital Text Collection The Digital Text Collection was established to honor Dayton poet and novelist, Paul Laurence Dunbar, upon the occasion of the rededication of the Wright State University Library as the Paul Laurence Dunbar Library on May 2, 1992. This digital collection of a selected group of Dunbar's poetry is intended to encourage the use of and interest in the works of Dunbar. New content and enhancements were made to the site in May of 2005. Read More Go to Site Paul Laurence Dunbar Homepage Votes:0 Paul Laurence Dunbar was the first African-American to gain national eminence as a poet. Born in 1872 in Dayton, Ohio, he was the son of ex-slaves and classmate to Orville Wright of aviation fame. Although he lived to be only 33 years old, Dunbar was prolific, writing short stories, novels, librettos, plays, songs and essays as well as the poetry for which he became well known. He was popular with black and white readers of his day, and his works are celebrated today by scholars and school children alike. His style encompasses two distinct voices -- the standard English of the classical poet and the evocative dialect of the turn-of-the-century black community in America. He was gifted in poetry -- the way that Mark Twain was in prose -- in using dialect to convey character. The Paul Lauren Read More Go to Site PBS | About This Site . Retired Site Votes:0 Tuesday, November 20, 2007 by topic... Arts & Drama History Home & Hobbies Life & Culture News & Views Science & Nature Retired Site The "Richard Wright: Black Boy" site has been retired from pbs.org. Information on the film can be found at http://www.itvs.org/richardwright/ To find related content on pbs.org, try a keyword search , visit a related topic area using the pulldown menu at the top of this page, or browse our Programs A-Z menu. 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Praise for Casanegra ?Actor Underwood (Sex and the City, etc.) teams up with accomplished authors Due and Barn Read More Go to Site The Evolution of the Title Character in Alice Walker?s Votes:0 The Evolution from Accepted Oppression to Moral Righteousness of the Title Character in Alice Walker's The Third Life of Grange Copeland OR You Only Live Thrice In her novel The Third Life of Grange Copeland , Alice Walker tells the story of Grange Copeland, a man who lives a life full of degradation and oppression, and accepts it as a natural state. However, because of some extraordinary changes he made in his life, he is able to break out of the rut of socially and personally accepted oppression, and changes his life for the better. Walker's message, shown through the progression of Grange's thoughts and actions, is that it is possible for men to lift themselves out of their constraints, to make a change so drastic that they become seemingly different people. The story begins in rural Ge Read More Go to Site The Most Amazing Thing Votes:0 The New Sun An Interview with Maya Angelou by David Frost David Frost: And one of your teachers, one of your religious teachers, said -- made you say, "God loves me, God loves me, God loves me," again and again, and then said, "Now try to know it." Maya Angelou: Yes, yes. DF: What was the liberating effect of knowing it? MA: David Frost. DF: Maya Angelou. MA: As the cockney say, "I come all over queer." Really. The idea that it, this creation, creator, it, loves me, me -- not me generically, but me, Maya Angelou -- is almost more -- it is more than I can comprehend. It fills me. It enters and makes me go inflate like a balloon. Really. The most amazing thing. I can't know it too frequently. I can't know it completely. My heart might burst. My veins might boil up, and my blood might boil up Read More Go to Site The W.E.B.DuBois Virtual University Votes:0 About | Bibliography | Biography | Classroom | Conferences | Library | Scholars | Pastors for Peace DC This site has been visited times since 2/1/97. wagerj@gusun.georgetown.edu Who says there are no *real* Black leaders around NOW? HOW ABOUT: Rev. Lucius Walker | Marian Wright Edelman | Angela Davis | Mumia Abu-Jamal | Someone in YOUR Community "WE are the ones that we have been waiting for..." --Audre Lorde So go out and JOIN an organization that is working for social justice! Created and maintained by Jennifer Wager, copyright 1995 Read More Go to Site Toni Morrison Winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature Votes:0 T ONI M ORRISON 1993 Nobel Laureate in Literature who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality. Background Born: 1931, Lorain, OH, U.S.A Residence: U.S.A Book Store Beloved Beloved [Video] (1998) - Starring Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover The Song of Solomon Jazz (Plume Contemporary Fiction) Paradise The Big Box The Bluest Eye The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 1993 [ABRIDGED] Sula Tar Baby Other books by and about Toni Morrison Featured Internet Links Bibliography Nobel Lecture Nobel Diploma Press release Curriculum vitae Swedish Nobel Stamps Women Nobel Prize Laureates Search WWW Search The Nobel Prize Internet Archive Nobel News Links Toni Morrison's Gift Morrison Awarded Nobel Writer's 'Visionary Force' Cited Links ad Read More Go to Site Toni Morrison Votes:0 Distinguished Women of Past and Present First Page Name Index Subject Index Related Sites Search Toni Morrison (1931-) Toni Morrison, the first black woman to receive Nobel Prize in Literature, was born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio, U.S.A. She was the second of four children of George Wofford, a shipyard welder and Ramah Willis Wofford. Her parents moved to Ohio from the South to escape racism and to find better opportunities in the North. Her father was a hardworking and dignified man. While the children were growing up, he worked three jobs at the same time for almost 17 years. He took a great deal of pride in the quality of his work, so that each time he welded a perfect seam he'd also weld his name onto the side of the ship. He also made sure to be well-dr Read More Go to Site Virginia Hamilton Votes:0 Virginia Hamilton died at 12:25 AM Tuesday morning, February 19, 2002 Her family can be contacted by FAX at (937) 767-1620 The family of Virginia Hamilton thanks everyone for their wonderful comments and warm wishes. This site will remain open for your use and comments. You may also get in touch with the family at arnoldadoff@aol.com Click here to visit Virginia's web site Read More Go to Site Visions: Maya Angelou Votes:0 HOME | RECENT | POLITICS | ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH | MEDIA & CULTURE | BLOGS | PHOTOJOURNALISM ABOUT US | PRESS | EVENTS | SUBSCRIBER SERVICES | ADVERTISE | DONATE | NEWSLETTERS | RSS MOTHER JONES BY E-MAIL Visions: Maya Angelou Arts: A celebrated poet issues a call to arms to the nation's artists By Ken Kelley May/June 1995 Issue "The black kids, the poor white kids, Spanish-speaking kids, and Asian kids in the U.S.--in the face of everything to the contrary, they still bop and bump, shout and go to school somehow. Their optimism gives me hope." TOOLS E-mail article Print article BACKTALK E-mail the editor Iraqi PMC Involved In Latest Civilian Shooting Talk about a Rock and a Hard Place: Inner City Parents Trying to do the Right Thing Is it Time for the Fred Thompson Death Watch? Maureen Dow Read More Go to Site Visions: Maya Angelou Votes:0 HOME | RECENT | POLITICS | ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH | MEDIA & CULTURE | BLOGS | PHOTOJOURNALISM ABOUT US | PRESS | EVENTS | SUBSCRIBER SERVICES | ADVERTISE | DONATE | NEWSLETTERS | RSS MOTHER JONES BY E-MAIL Visions: Maya Angelou Arts: A celebrated poet issues a call to arms to the nation's artists By Ken Kelley May/June 1995 Issue "The black kids, the poor white kids, Spanish-speaking kids, and Asian kids in the U.S.--in the face of everything to the contrary, they still bop and bump, shout and go to school somehow. Their optimism gives me hope." TOOLS E-mail article Print article BACKTALK E-mail the editor Iraqi PMC Involved In Latest Civilian Shooting Talk about a Rock and a Hard Place: Inner City Parents Trying to do the Right Thing Is it Time for the Fred Thompson Death Watch? Maureen Dow Read More Go to Site Women's Equity Resource Center Votes:0 This site is no longer active. Back to Women of Achievement Toni Morrison BIRTHDAY : February 18th, 1931 ABOUT HER In her first grade, Toni Morrison was the only black student in her class and the only student who could read. After graduation from college, she became an editor and started sending her own novel, The Bluest Eye , out for publication. It was published in 1970 to much critical acclaim. Her second book became an alternate selection by the Book-of-the-Month Club. It was nominated for the 1975 National Book Award in fiction. Song of Solomon won the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award. Toni Morrison was appointed to the National Council on the Arts. Her picture has appeared on the cover of Newsweek . Beloved wa Read More Go to Site Zora Neale Hurston, American Author Votes:0 b. 1891 d. 1960 Zora Neale Hurston Zora Neale Hurston was an American author who wrote stories, novels, anthropological folklore and an autobiography. She died in 1960 but her works have increased in popularity and are passing the test of time with staying power. She was a unique artist and scientist who produced for us a large body of work that stands equal to any body of work in American Literature and world literature. About writing she wrote: Anyway, the force from somewhere in Space which commands you to write in the first place, gives you no choice. You take up the pen when you are told, and write what is commanded. There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you. Works that are readily available by her include: Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934) Mules and Men (1935) Tell My Horse ( Read More Go to Site

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