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Publisher: Teacher Created Resources
Published: 2008-07
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 1420690485
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides lessons to help students recognize the biography and autobiography genres, develop vocabulary, learn reading strategies, practice writing skills, make grammar connections, use graphic organizers, and assess what they have learned.
Author: Jean Marzollo
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780590450157
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHighlights the contributions in various fields of endeavor of famous men and women from around the world, including Marie Curie, Abraham Lincoln, Rachel Carson, Hokusai, and Martin Luther King.
Author: Jenn Shapland
Publisher: Tin House Books
Published: 2020-02-04
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 1947793292
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award, and a Lambda Literary Award Finalist for the National Book Award Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction How do you tell the real story of someone misremembered—an icon and idol—alongside your own? Jenn Shapland’s celebrated debut is both question and answer: an immersive, surprising exploration of one of America’s most beloved writers, alongside a genre-defying examination of identity, queerness, memory, obsession, and love. Shapland is a graduate student when she first uncovers letters written to Carson McCullers by a woman named Annemarie. Though Shapland recognizes herself in the letters, which are intimate and unabashed in their feelings, she does not see McCullers as history has portrayed her. Her curiosity gives way to fixation, not just with this newly discovered side of McCullers’s life, but with how we tell queer love stories. Why, Shapland asks, are the stories of women paved over by others’ narratives? What happens when constant revision is required of queer women trying to navigate and self-actualize in straight spaces? And what might the tracing of McCullers’s life—her history, her secrets, her legacy—reveal to Shapland about herself? In smart, illuminating prose, Shapland interweaves her own story with McCullers’s to create a vital new portrait of one of our nation’s greatest literary treasures, and shows us how the writers we love and the stories we tell about ourselves make us who we are.
Author: A. Scott Berg
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-08-01
Total Pages: 1092
ISBN-13: 1471130088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLindbergh was the first solo pilot to cross the Atlantic non-stop from New York to Paris, in 1927. This awe-inspiring fight made him the most celebrated men of his day-a romantic symbol of the new aviation age. However, tragedy struck in 1932, where his baby was kidnapped and found dead. The unbearable trial forced Lindbergh into exile in England and France. However, his soon fasciation and involvement with the Nazi regime, resulted in public opinion turning against him. His life was at the forefront of pioneering research in aeronautics and rocketry. Also, his wife became one of the century's leading feminist voices. This biography explores the golden couple who have been considered American royalty.
Author: Thomas Harry Williams
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 958
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHe was one of the most extraordinary figures in America's political history, a great natural politician who had become, at the time of his assassination, a serious rival to Franklin D. Roosevelt for the presidency.
Author: Patricia Bosworth
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2012-06-05
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 1453245014
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“The definitive work on the gifted, haunted actor” (Los Angeles Times) and “the best film star biography in years” (Newsweek). From the moment he leapt to stardom with the films Red River and A Place in the Sun, Montgomery Clift was acclaimed by critics and loved by fans. Elegant, moody, and strikingly handsome, he became one of the most definitive actors of the 1950s, the first of Hollywood’s “loner heroes,” a group that includes Marlon Brando and James Dean. In this affecting biography, Patricia Bosworth explores the complex inner life and desires of the renowned actor. She traces a poignant trajectory: Clift’s childhood was dominated by a controlling, class-obsessed mother who never left him alone. He developed passionate friendships with Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor in spite of his closeted homosexuality. Then his face was destroyed after a traumatic car crash outside Taylor’s house. He continued to make films, but the loss of his beauty and subsequent addictions finally brought the curtain down on his career. Stunning and heartrending, Montgomery Clift is a remarkable tribute to one of Hollywood’s most gifted—and tormented—actors.
Author: Sidonie Smith
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 0816669856
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Author: Caitríona Ní Dhúill
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-03-09
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 3030346633
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the contradictions of biography. It charts shifting approaches to the writing and reading of biographies, from post-hagiographical attitudes of the Enlightenment, heroic biographies of Romanticism and irreverent modernist portraits through to contemporary experiments in politically committed and hybrid forms of life writing. The book shows how biographical texts in fact destabilise the models of historical visibility, cultural prominence and narrative coherence that the genre itself seems to uphold. Addressing the fraught relationships between genre and gender, private and public, image and text, life and narrative that play out in the modern biographical tradition, Metabiography suggests new possibilities for reading, writing and thinking about this enduringly popular genre.
Author: Sebastian De Grazia
Publisher: Harvester/Wheatsheaf
Published: 1989-01-01
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 9780745006345
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this intellectual biography, de Grazia presents a new vision of Niccolo Machiavelli that evokes the great Florentine thinker's presence. After giving an engrossing account of Machiavelli's childhood and period of personal crisis that followed his imprisonment and torture, the book turns to an examination of The Prince. Photos.
Author: Susan Mackey Collins
Publisher: Teacher Created Resources
Published: 2008-07
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 1420690507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides lessons to help students recognize the nonfiction genre, develop vocabulary, learn reading strategies, practice writing skills, make grammar connections, use graphic organizers, and assess what they have learned.
