Sue Grafton's Life

Susan Eloise Hinton as known as, S.E. Hinton was born July 22, 1950 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She had grown up as a voluntary tom boy in love with horses. Susan could not write or even type to use her typewriter to write a letter. She had learned to write and taught herself to type in the sixth grade. Susan enjoyed reading but was not satisfied with the literature that was being written for young readers. So she began writing her own stories, focusing mainly on horses from a male child’s point of view. Along with her passionate love for horses, Hinton also had an undying passion for reading books. “I started reading about the same time everyone else did. . .” expressed Hinton whom once wrote in the Fourth Book of Junior Authors. Hinton told that a major influence on her writing was her reading. She stated that she read everything including Comet cans and coffee labels, she began to write a short time after. Hinton was around the age of fifteen and a half when she started writing The Outsiders, becoming a junior while attending Will Rogers’s high school in Tulsa. She became influenced by her peers and began writing and rewriting which took a year and a

In 1675, New England sees war breakout between Native American and English forces. Over one half of New England’s towns and settlements are rampaged by Indians, and both sides suffer thousands of casualties. However, through the bloodshed and wreckage, one woman lives to tell the story of her capture by Native Americans. Mary Rowlandson, the lucky survivor, spends eleven weeks in brutal captivity, after being seriously wounded and seeing her own child die in her arms. How she survives her experience is nearly impossible to pinpoint directly, but her devotion to her religion can be tied to her method of survival. Rowlandson’s commitment to her religion equips her with a coping mechanism and keeps her thoughts positive during her

In “The 11:59” by Patricia C. McKissack, Lester tries to prevent death in many ways once he hears the whistle of the 11:59 train. Legend says that once you hear the whistle of the 11:59, you will die in 24 hours. As much as Lester panics, there's nothing he can do to prevent it from coming. This leads to the theme you're going to die whether you like it or not, there's no way to prevent it. McKissack suggests the theme by using symbolism, exaggeration, and sentence length.

She does not understand why the older and well-known authors are not being read in high school. Prose uses a personal experience from her son’s sophomore English class. He had to read a “weeper and former bestseller by Judith Guest” (424), about a dysfunctional family dealing with a teenage son’s suicide attempt. “No instructor has ever asked my sons to read Alice Munro, who writes so lucidly and beautifully about the hypersensitivity that makes adolescence a hell,”(424). She again mentions books she approves of that should be read in English classes.

Susan R. Wolf (born 1952) is a moral philosopher who works extensively on the meaning of human life and is the Edna J. Koury Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Wolf addresses the questions of the meaning of life in hope to distinguish the characteristics and reasoning that gives meaning to life. According to Susan Wolf view about the meaning in life, “I would say that meaningful life are lives of active engagement in projects of worth… two key phrases, ‘active engagement’ and ‘projects of worth’” (Wolf, 205). However, I believe that her proposal leaves out our basic motives and reasoning that’s

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.

Jane Addams was a Victorian woman born into a male-dominated society on September 6, 1860 in Cedarville, Illinois. Her father was a wealthy landowner and an Illinois senator who did not object to his daughter’s choice to further her education, but who wanted her to have a traditional life. For years after his death, Addams tried to reconcile the family role she was expected to play with her need to achieve personal fulfillment.

Amy Tan was born in Oakland, California, in 1953. In 1970, Tan majored in English at San Jose State, in California. Tan began a carrier as a technical writer after she graduated, at the University of California. However, she changed her writing because she was inspired to write fiction book after reading of Louise Erdrich's novel “Love Medicine”. As a result of this, language has helped Amy Tan in becoming the successful writer she’s today. It helped her express her complete thoughts in a way that everyone who reads, understand. Additionally, the type of language that she uses in her writing makes people take her seriously and as important as everyone else.

Susan wolf interprets a meaningful life as one that has within the basis of an affirmative answer to the basis for an affirmative answer to the needs or belonging that are characteristically described as needs of meaning. She described meaningful lives as lives of active engagement in project worth. Which she divided into groups, first is ‘’active engagement’’ and project worth.

“Shoot for the moon even if you miss you’ll land among the stars,” quote by Les Brown. Caroline Curry did not technically shoot for the moon, but for the soccer goal instead. Making the decision to play soccer was one she did not regret. I guess you could say it landed on the moon. It may not seem like a big deal to take up a new sport, but joining soccer was vital to shaping her as a person.

S.E. Hinton is a well known author for writing many novels. She was only 17 (1967) when she released her first novel “The Outsiders”.She released many other books after that. Susan was born on the 22nd of July 1950 in Oklahoma. Since there wasn't many activities for girls she found lots of her interest in reading and writing. In the beginning she mostly wrote about Cowboys and gun fighting and horses. She typically was into “girl meets boy” stories but she wanted to write about something more realistic. She she decided to write about her personal experience.

Susan wolf interprets a meaningful life as one that has within the basis of an affirmative answer to the basis for an affirmative answer to the needs or belonging that are characteristically described as needs of meaning. She described meaningful lives as lives of active engagement in project worth. Which she divided into groups, first is ‘’active engagement’’ and project worth.

McCreight was praying for a sign, any sign. She finally had the opportunity to pursue her dream of becoming a writer when her fiancé was offered a one-year transfer to London in 2001. In an autobiography McCreight says, “I was lucky enough to take a leave of absence, defer payments of my loans for the year and pack my bags” (“Kimberly McCreight”). McCreight told herself she was going to write and sell a novel in the year she was in London. She took writing classes and also went to readings. While in London, McCreight wrote her first novel in six months. She was able to get an agent in 2002.

S.E Hinton, also known as Susan Eloise Hinton is an amazing author who has written many popular books. She was born on July 22, 1950 in Tulsa, Oklahoma and still lives there to this very day. When Hinton was just a little girl, she always loved to read and write. As S.E. Hinton grew older, she wasn’t happy with the selection of books there were, so she wanted to make her own book. However, Susan didn’t want to make a romance novel, she wanted to produce something that was realistic. When she was just 17 years old, she wrote her first book called “The Outsiders,” one of her most beloved books. As she gained popularity as an author, she continued on to write 8 other books and many of her bestsellers became movies. Even though S.E. Hinton

During my research of her, I learned that she has written several other books other than the alphabet murder series. She also has written screen plays, a fact that was new to me. This shows her diverse background in writing. In an interview with The Guardian about Grafton’s book “Kinsey and Me”, Crace describes that “Kinsey Millhone, then, is Grafton by another name. Grafton in a parallel universe.”. Crace explains that Kinsey often resembles Grafton. Kinsey is Grafton’s alter ego; saying and doing things that Grafton would not normally do in her everyday life.