Louis L Amour Research Paper

Louis L’Amour, author of “Rivers West” and many other famous books and short stories, was born in Jamestown North Dakota March 22, 1908. L’Amour was an indifferent student and dropped out of school at the age of 15. The next two decades L’Amour traveled the world and held many different jobs, he was a lumberjack, an elephant trainer, a miner, and during World War 2 he served as an officer in the tanks corps in Europe. It was not till he came back from World War 2 that he decided to be a writer and he wrote books as wells short stories, but finally after years his big break came at the age of 46 with the western book “Hondo” which later was adapted into a movie done by John Wayne. L’Amour married Katherine Elizabeth Adams in 1956, and they had two children. Over the next thirty years L’Amour wrote many more books and short stories, some were eventually adapted into movies, and on June 10,1988 Louis L’Amour died of lung cancer though he was not a smoker.

In 1788, Israel Ludlow, Matthias Denman, and Robert Patterson bought 800 acres of land from John Cleves Symmes along the Ohio River at the mouth of Licking River. John had purchased 2,000,000 acres of land from the Confederation Congress in 1787 and hoped to become rich by selling parts of the purchase to others. By early January 1789, Israel had planned out the town, dividing it into two types of lots. Israel, Matthias, and Robert provided the first 30 settlers with two free lots, one of each type. The men named the town Losantiville. The town grew slowly at first. Settlers had constructed twenty cabins and one frame house. Eleven families and two dozen single men lived on the land. Eventually it increased in size.

Johnny Lou was born to Franklin Lou, and Patricia Leo. At the age of two, his father left for a secret meeting with the Detroit Police Department in which he was murdered in a drive by shooting. After losing the love of her life, Patricia started to grow more and more depressed as she eventually started to take drugs such as methamphetamine and heroin. Eventually, Johnny, now six, was taken to his grandmother's house on an island called Giru (An island acquired by the United States in the year 1935) , as his mother was seen as unfit and unruly to be a mother after prostituting to pay for more drugs and baby food. But things were no better at his grandmother's house, in fact, things were much, much worse.

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The 1930s and 40s signified a major change in the boxing era, especially when it came to the rise of an African American fighter by the name of Joe Louis. Not only was Joe able to make a name for himself, he also brought pride to his own race along with the American people. The rise of Joe Louis came about from the high unemployment rate in Detroit during the Great Depression, his conformation to white cultural expectations, and the defeats of two opponents who represented foreign powers.

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Truman Capote Truman Capote was an astonishing, well-known writer. He wrote many great novels and short stories in the fifty-nine years of his life. Many of his works were made into movies, with many great actors starring in them. Even though his life was very reckless, he still managed to show how creative he was in his works.

In the years after leaving Jamestown Louis spent some time as a professional boxer. He was taught well by his father and older brothers and ended up making some extra money from the occasional prizefight. Though he left school at an early grade Louis had a thirst for knowledge. Throughout his life Louis went to libraries and bookstores all over the world, anywhere he could find. Louis always wanted to write but in his earlier days he thought his writing would take the form of poetry. He struggled for years to craft writings without much teaching except his own knowledge. Eventually, he broke out into a number of little magazines and began placing poems regularly, Poetry, however did not pay very well so he started writing short stories that drew on his life experience, finally, he sold a short story called “Anything for a Pal” to a pulp magazine called True Gang Life. He made less than eight dollars but he took that as a sign and devoted his time to writing for the pulps. In 1937 he sold a short story called “Gloves for a Tiger” to Thrilling Adventures Magazine and after this other sales followed quickly. Although he wrote in several genres, Louis’ most financially successful stories were the adventure tales he wrote about the captain of a tramp freighter and his crew. Late in the summer of 1942 Louis was inducted into the US army, after his discharge he returned to the US to find that the market

Truman Capote was best known for his vivacious and eccentric way of life, as well as his works in the 20th Century. While reading his first novel ever printed by him, Other Voices, Other Rooms, the characters and story line that Capote created was one that would clearly strike a touching insolence to many readers. Not only does Capote fascinate readers with his life, but also with the heart of life and nostalgia that is created when reading any of his work.

Ernest Hemingway is an American twentieth century novelist who served in World War I. During World War I, he served as an ambulance driver for the Italian army. He wrote the novel The Sun Also Rises in Paris in the 1920s. Hemingway argues that the Lost Generation suffered immensely after World War I because of severe problems with masculinity, alcohol, and love.

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