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Arthur Miller was born in New York City (1915). His father was the wealthy owner of a coat factory, and the family had a large Manhattan ap...

Playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett was born in a rich suburb of Dublin, Ireland called Foxrock (1906). His mother was a tall, strict wom...

American writer Truman Capote was born in New Orleans (1924). Even as a child, Capote wanted to become famous. He moved with his mother to...

Poet E. E. Cummings (Edward Estlin Cummings) was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (1894). He was a man who wrote joyful, almost childlike ...

*Having just enough imagination to carry him through each successive day, and no more, he was tranquilly sure of himself; and from the very ...

Author's Note THE main characteristic of this volume consists in this, that all the stories composing it belong not only to the same per...

1) Gevalt: Yiddish interjection expressing anxiety 2) Dovening: davening ( making the prescribed daily prayers of Jewish worship 3) T...

Fireflies in the Garden Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, And here on earth come emulating flies, That though they never equal s...

Novelist Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey (1933). He grew up in a crowded Jewish neighborhood, and he always loved listening to ...

Novelist Bernard Malamud, born in Brooklyn, New York (1914). He grew up in Brooklyn in a household where both Yiddish and English were sp...

*A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth. *A man's most open actions have a secret side to them. *Action...

Born in Edmonton, Alberta, 1911, the writer and critic MARSHALL McLUHAN – said, "It is the medium that is the message because the med...

Ernest Hemingway, born in Oak Park, Illinois (1899). He gave us the novels The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), For Whom ...

(born October 31, 1967) is a songwriter, composer, and record producer. He is the bassist for the bands Fountains of Wayne and Ivy. He is an...

I never thought that I could be so satisfied, Everytime that I look in your angel eyes. A shock inside me that words just can’t describe, An...

Novelist Bret Easton Ellis, born in Los Angeles (1964). He grew up in California, but he went to college in Vermont, as far away from Calif...

Nothing Gold Can Stay Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then l...

*I had to work like a coal-miner in his pit quarrying all my English sentences out of a black night. *Not only does each customer diffe...

Journalist, poet, novelist and biographer Carl Sandburg, born in Galesburg, Illinois (1878). As a hobo he collected and learned a number o...