It has never been an easy ride for African-American people and for those growing up in the 1950s it was particularly hard. There was a lot of racial tension and discrimination to contend with and many found it extremely hard to cope with it. While some integrated, somehow, into predominantly white neighbourhoods, others found themselves segregated, both socially and economically. This happened ...
The Irish poet and novelist James Stephens was born in Dublin in February 1880. His father, Francis Stephens, died two years later. The young lad was taken in by the Collins family, who his mother worked for and adopted by them but was largely living in an orphanage. Known by friends as Tiny Tim due to his small stature at the Meath ...
Louise Bogan has been called by some critics the most accomplished woman poet of the twentieth century and one of the finest lyric poets America has produced. She was born in 1987 as Louise Marie Bogan to her parents who lived in Livermore Falls, MA in the United States. She was the product of a troubled marriage between her mother, Mary Helen Murphy ...
Born in 1822, poet Matthew Arnold is considered one of the major writers of the Victorian era. Over his life he was heavily involved in education as an inspector of schools and his works show a keen interest in addressing the social issues of the day. He was initially educated by his uncle before attending Winchester College and from there went ...
Better known for literary masterpieces such as A Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899 and went on to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. Whilst in later years he gained the reputation as an avid hunter and inveterate drinker, Hemingway wrote a great deal of poetry, especially in his ...
