... seventeen years of age. At the same time, he was working at "The New Yorker- where according to St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture; "He soaked up much of the literary heroines such as Willa Cather-. Capote's career at "The New Yorker- ended when he fell asleep during a speech from Robert Frost, who promptly showed indignation by heaving the book he ... world almost entirely devoid of social or political concern-. Even the treatment of human relationships has its air of isolation, of constriction. Capote stated, "The content of my work is literary as opposed to writing inspired by...

• Word Count: 1903
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

... being funnier. As a newspaperman out in Nevada and California, when he had recently adopted his pen-name (from the Mississippi leadsman's cry for two fathoms' draught), he assiduously followed the techniques of the others. To his pleasure and relief, the lectures went down equally well with New York audiences. Next, he acted as correspondent on a chartered Mediterranean tour. The letters he ... , it is true, are caught, in apathetic squalor, in small-town brutality, in meaningless bloodfeuds, of (like Jim) in Negro Slafvery. In his hands, comic jargon and dialect became a finished litera...

• Word Count: 1262
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... full support and encouragement of his parents. He attended Harvard from 1911 to 1915, studying literature and writing daily. He eventually joined the editorial board of the Harvard Monthly, a college literary magazine, where he worked with his close friends S. Foster Damon and John Dos Passos. In his senior year he became fascinated by avant-garde art, modernism, and cubism, an interest ... upon his arrival and was completely charmed by the city's bohemian atmosphere and abundance of art and artists. He was particularly impressed by the sketches of Pablo Picasso, whose cubist techniques...

• Word Count: 1201
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... began. Bombs fell from the sky and scattered our lives like leaves in a storm." This passage requires skills in higher level thinking, a skill that is more congruent with a level L book. Literary picture books are common for reading in one sitting, indicates a characteristic of this book as well, which is a characteristic of level K but the language suggests more challenging and sophisticated vocabulary ... the long stretches of easy text with pictures on every page. The illustrations support and extend the text, and this story lends itself well to a read aloud using expressive reading ...

• Word Count: 1992
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School