... that he uses, for example, the farm. As you read, you'll find out that he was a creative person whose stories are loved by many children. Leading American essayist and literary stylist of his time. White was known for his crisp, gracefull, relaxed style. White's stories ranged from satire to children's fiction. White often wrote from the perspective of slightly ionic ... to New York. He worked as a production assistant and advertising copywriter before joining the newly established New Yorker. There he met his wife, Katherine Sergeant Angell, who was the magazines literary editor. E.B. ...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... enrolled in the elite McBurney School and was known as standoffish and unexceptional student academically. In 1936 he graduated from the Valley Forge Military Academy at which he served as literary editor of the senior yearbook and began to compile his first stories. He attended New York University for a short period of time where he "didn't apply himself." He then traveled ... the idea of having sex. This is like Salinger in the way that he has been known to pursue younger girls for sex (Morrill). To me, one of the main themes of the novel is alienation. Throughout the novel, Holden Ca...

• Word Count: 1119
• Approx Pages: 4
• 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 ... of Cummings's poems is markedly divided. Beginning with Tulips and Chimneys, reviewers described Cummings's style as eccentric and self-indulgent, designed to call attention to itself rather than to ...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... symbolism. It earned high praise however from several prominate critics. (BRITANNICA) Although this first novel is a fantasy about a start baseball player, most of his following writings are concerned with Jewish themes and reflect the sad, impoverish Brooklyn scenes of his own childhood. (Lardinois) He later went on to write several other books. The Assistant 1957 is about a young Gentile hoodlum and ... a series of rather satirical stories about a rather unsuccessful Jewish artist, Fidelman, which were published in 1969. Today, Malamud is widely regarded as a leader of the post-World ...

• Word Count: 841
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School