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Coming of Age

Coming of Age. The authors’ voices. Shirley Jackson 1916-1965. “I delight in what I fear.” Born in San Francisco and always had an interest in writing. At age 12, she won a poetry contest.

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Coming of Age

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  1. Coming of Age The authors’ voices

  2. Shirley Jackson1916-1965 “I delight in what I fear.” • Born in San Francisco and always had an interest in writing. At age 12, she won a poetry contest. • Attended University of Rochester, but suffered from depression. Transferred to Syracuse University where earned BA in English. • She married Stanley Edgar Hyman (literary critic and college professor) in 1941. They moved to a secluded shack in New Hampshire to focus on their writing. • Moved to Vermont and had four children. • Never saw writing as a primary career but saw it as “great fun”; made $25 on her first publication.

  3. Gish Jen1955- • Born in Scarsdale, NY. – 2nd generation Chinese American • English degree from Harvard University • Real name is Lillian…She chose Gish as her pen name. • “A fellow writer described my situation when he said that making fiction is like making soup. There’s lots of different ingredients: some come from your life, some from things you’ve read, some from other people’s lives, and many, many you’ve just made up.”

  4. Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve1933 - • Was raised on the Rosebud Reservation in South by parents James Driving Hawk (a minister) and Rose Ross Posey. Due to financial difficulties, had to travel/live off reservation for seasonal work. • Member of the Sioux tribe. • Began writing in 1972 because saw stereotypes in books her children reading. • An English teacher/counselor • Lives in SD with husband

  5. Jesse Stuart1906-1984 • “First…last…always, I am a teacher. Good teaching is forever and a teacher is immortal.” • 2nd of 7 children of Martha and Mitchell Stuart, who was a coal miner & tenant farmer in Greenup County, Ky. Father was uneducated, but wanted his children to have best. • Stuart decided to become a school teacher at 19. After a year of teaching, he became principal, and after earning a graduate degree at Vanderbilt University, was named School Superintendent of Greenup County Schools. • Able to write his best at home and said his stories were based on true stories that happened to him or people he knew.

  6. Sandra Cisneros1954- • “Because we moved so much and always to neighborhoods that appeared like France after WWII – empty lots and burned-out buildings– I retreated inside myself.” --- Sandra Cisneros • Born in Chicago, the only daughter in a Latino family of 7 children. • Earned a bachelor’s degree from Loyola-Chicago and a master’s degree from the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop. • Lives and lectures in San Antonio

  7. Stephen Crane1871-1900 • Born in Newark, NJ, to Mary Peck and Jonathon Crane, a methodist minister. • Attended Syracuse University – didn’t graduate • Started writing short stories for newspapers and magazines. • Met and married Cora Taylor, who owned a brothel in Florida. They moved to England. • Most famous for writing “Red Badge of Courage”

  8. Ray Bradbury1922-2012 • Born to Leonard and Ester Bradbury in Illinois, but moved to California in 1934. • By the time he was 12-13 years old, he had decided to become a writer. Best known for sci-fi/ fantasy such as The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451 and 28 other books. • Married Maggie McClure in 1947, and they had 4 daughters. • Won a Pulitzer in 2004, and was named “ideas consultant” for the 1964 World’s Fair. • “Libraries raised me. When I graduated high school, it was during the depression and we had no money. I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.”

  9. Maya Angelou1928 - • Born in St. Louis, MO, and raised there and in Stamps, AK, by her mother and grandmother, respectively. • She is a true global renaissance woman. She is a celebrated poet, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker and civil rights activist. • Named Marguarite, but called Maya, because her brother couldn’t pronounce her name.

  10. Studied dance at St. Francisco’s Labor School, but dropped out when she was 14 to become the city’s first African American cable car operator. • Worked as a writer and editor in Cairo and Ghana • Can speak six languages • Presidential Medal of Arts in 2000 • Lincoln Medal in 2008 • 3 Grammy awards • Poet Laureate of the United States • Is a professor at Wake Forest University

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