An article from Biography.com Truman Capote Biography orig. Truman Streckfus Persons ( 1924 – 1984 ) RELATED WORKS Novels 1948 Other Voices, Other Rooms 1951 The Grass Harp 1958 Breakfast at Tiffany’s Writer. Born Truman Streckfus Persons on September 30, 1924, in New Orleans, Louisiana. One of the twentieth century’s most well-known writers, Truman Capote was as fascinating a character as those who appeared in his stories. His parents were an odd pair — a small-town girl named Lillie Mae and a charming schemer called Arch — and they largely neglected their son, often leaving him in the care of others. Capote spent much of his young life in the…

original name Marguerite Johnson ( 1928 – )   RELATED WORKS AUTOBIOGRAPHIES 2008 Letter to My Daughter 2004 – Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes 2002 – A Song Flung Up to Heaven 1986 – All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes 1981 – Heart of a Woman 1976 – Singin’ and Swingin and Getting Merry Like Christmas 1974 – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1970 – Gather Together in My Name PERSONAL ESSAYS 1997 – Even the Stars Look Lonesome 1993 – Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now Writer, dancer, African-American activist. Born Marguerite Johnson on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri.…

An article from Biography.com Dorothy Parker Biography née Dorothy Rothschild ( 1893 – 1967 ) RELATED WORKS Poetry 1926 Enough Rope 1928 Sunset Gun 1931 Death and Taxes Journalist, writer, and poet. Born Dorothy Rothschild on August 22, 1893, in West End, New Jersey. Dorothy Parker was a legendary literary figure, known for her biting wit. She worked on such magazines as Vogue and Vanity Fair during the late 1910s. Parker went on to work as a book reviewer for The New Yorker in the 1920s. A selection of her reviews for this magazine was published in 1970 as Constant Reader, the title of her column. She remained a contributor to The New Yorker for…

An article from Biography.com Edward Albee Biography in full Edward Franklin Albee ( 1928 – ) RELATED WORKS Plays 1958 The Zoo Story 1959 The Death of Bessie Smith 1959 The Sandbox (born March 12, 1928, Washington, D.C., U.S.) American dramatist and theatrical producer best known for his play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), which displays slashing insight and witty dialogue in its gruesome portrayal of married life. Albee was the adopted child of a father who had for a time been the assistant general manager of a chain of vaudeville theatres then partially owned by the Albee family. At the time of Albee’s adoption, though, both his parents were…

Civil War Background In the mid-19th century, while the United States was experiencing an era of tremendous growth, a fundamental economic difference existed between the country’s northern and southern regions. While in the North, manufacturing and industry was well established, and agriculture was mostly limited to small-scale farms, the South’s economy was based on a system of large-scale farming that depended on the labor of black slaves to grow certain crops, especially cotton and tobacco. Growing abolitionist sentiment in the North after the 1830s and northern opposition to slavery’s extension into the new western territories led many southerners to fear that the existence of slavery in america–and thus the backbone of their economy–was…