Analysis Of Joyce Carol Oates ' Academy

In the 1960’s the author was growing up with her mother and five other siblings, moving from place to place in search of a home where the

Eudora Welty’s sheltered, adolescent life, coupled with her parent’s emphasis on education and reading, helped to shape her as the writer she was by making her stylistic approaches daring and intelligent while keeping a southern tone and state of mind.

Angelou's concern for her son, whom she gave birth to at sixteen, brought her back to the United States. By thirty, Angelou made a commitment to become a writer. She was inspired by her friend, social activist, John Killens. She moved to Brooklyn to be near him and learn her craft.

She worked her whole youth by studying and trying to get her family stable, none of this was in vain; she became an author.

Susan Beth Pfeffer decided that she wanted to be a writer when her father dedicated the law book he was writing to his daughter. Right then and there she wrote her first little story about the love between a pair of scissors and an Oreo cookie. Her childhood experiences form the basis of her writing, seeing that she grew up in the suburbs in New York. This explains why most of her books focus on young people growing up in the suburbs. Pfeffer went on to New York University. After getting her degree in radio, television, and motion pictures she started a writing course and her first novel Just Morgan was published. Throughout her life she has published more than 75 books and some of them include: A Year without Michael, Devils Den, Life as We Knew it and Family of Strangers. The themes of her books usually include emotional problems, divorce, historical fiction, and people having fantasies of modeling/acting. Her science fiction stories contain apocalyptic futuristic events like her novel Life as We Knew it.

She was born March 3rd, 1925. O’Connor was raised by two very Catholic parents in Savanna, Georgia. Her father, Edward Francis O’Connor, worked as a real estate agent and was a World War II veteran. O’Connors mother, Regina Lucille O’Connor, was a very social woman and a stay at home mother. O’Connor was the only child of Edward and Regina, and was always a different type of girl. She was that type of girl who would always be alone on the playground during recess, talking to herself. She didn't have many friends, her only “friends” were her chickens, who she would knit clothes for. She had an interest of fowls, especially with oddities.

Background: Di Brandt is a mother of two daughters. While raising the girls, she attended graduate school to further her education in literature; going on to become a

Katrina went to college at the University of Florida. Her professors told her that she had “a way with words.” So then she began to dream about becoming a writer, telling stories for a living was what she wanted. Katrina wandered around from job to job. Such as selling tickets at Circus World, planting philodendrons in a greenhouse, calling bingo at a campground, running rides at an amusement park -- and the whole time, she talked incessantly about being a writer and reading books. At the age of 29 Katrina had an epiphany. She realized that she could spend all her life dreaming or she could follow her dream. So Katrina thought very seriously about what it takes to be a writer. She came to a conclusion the one thing that is required is writing.

Before Anne Fadiman became a writer she was a student at Harvard University. After graduating, she became a worker as a wilderness instructor in Wyoming before returning to New York to pursue he career as a writer. She has been a staff writer at Life and editor of The American Scholar and reading. She is also the author of Ex Libris and At Large and At Small. Now she has a family and is living in western Massachusetts and serves as the Francis Writer- in- Residence at Yale.

Zora Neale Hurston was born January 7, 1891 in a small town known as Notasulga, Alabama. She was born the fifth child of eight children to John and Lucy. Lucy, her mother, was an old schoolteacher and John, her father, was a Baptist preacher. Zora’s family relocated to Eatonville, Florida when she was just a young girl. When she was thirteen, her mother died in 1904. That same year, her father took her out of school to raise her brothers. At the age of sixteen, Zora was eager to escape the responsibility of looking after her brothers and became a member of a traveling theater. Afterward, she started doing labor work in a Caucasian household.

In a series of passages from Eudora Welty’s autobiography One Writer’s Beginnings (1983), Welty describes her early reading experiences that later influenced her writing. She conveys intensity and value in these beginnings through the use of connotative diction, narrative anecdotes, hyperbole, and compare and contrast strategies. Welty writes in a passionate tone to a general audience. She relates the impactfulness of childhood reading experiences in order to express their place in her life as a writer.

Flannery O’Connor was an extravagant author who lived a tough childhood. She lost her father to lupus at a young age, but continued to strive for excellence. She attended grammar school, high school, college, and earned a fellowship to Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. At age 22 she was ready to start her writing career. Some of her best work was written in the twentieth-century. One of her books even won the National Book Award. She was clearly a writer of success. Unfortunately, Flannery O’Connor’s writing career was cut short when she died of lupus right before her fortieth birthday (1925-1964). However, her work of brilliance continues to live on without her.

Oliphant was born in Scotland on April 4, 1828 as the youngest child to Francis and Margaret Wilson. Her education, involving only reading and writing, came from her ailing mother’s bedside. Her family mocked her writing, but Oliphant persevered. In 1849, at age twenty-one, she published her first novel, Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland. The book was praised by many, including Charlotte Bronte, and it launched her career as an author.

At the age of six, Oprah was sent to live with her father at Nashville, Tennessee. Her father and her stepmother, Zelma, noticed her interest in reading and encouraged her by buying more books. Her voracious reading helped her always stay ahead of her classmates.

At the age of eight, she was sent to a boarding school along with her sister Cassandra. Even though money was tight her father knew that it had to be done in order for his daughters to have an education worth using and having for their lives. When they came back from boarding school their father would be their teacher teaching them things that he knew. Being one in only two girls of the eight children in her family she was almost forced to create a strong relationship with her sister Cassandra. Although she was very close with her sister, she had a closer relationship with her older brother Henry. He would become her agent and help get her novels published.