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Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions, the Autobiography of a Horse is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was written in the last years of her life, during which she was bedridden and seriously ill. [ 1 ]
Anna Sewell (/ ˈsjuːəl /; [2] 30 March 1820 – 25 April 1878) [1] was an English novelist who wrote the 1877 novel Black Beauty, her only published work. It is considered one of the top ten best-selling novels for children, although the author intended it for adults. [3] Sewell died only five months after the publication of Black Beauty ...
Ntozake Shange (/ ˌ ɛ n t oʊ ˈ z ɑː k i ˈ ʃ ɑː ŋ ɡ eɪ / EN-toh-ZAH-kee SHAHNG-Ê; [1] October 18, 1948 – October 27, 2018) was an American playwright and poet. [2] As a Black feminist, she addressed issues relating to race and Black power in much of her work.
The Black Beauty author was born in a house across the road from the market place in Great Yarmouth in 1820. The artwork, Anna Sewell's Black Beauty, by the Scotland-based artist Lois Cordelia ...
Contents. Zadie Smith. Zadie Smith FRSL (born Sadie; 25 October 1975) is an English [ 1 ] novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, White Teeth (2000), immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. She became a tenured professor in the Creative Writing faculty of New York University in September 2010.
Audre Lorde (/ ˈɔːdriˈlɔːrd / AW-dree LORD; born Audrey Geraldine Lorde; February 18, 1934 – November 17, 1992) was an American writer, professor, philosopher, intersectional feminist, poet and civil rights activist. She was a self-described "Black, lesbian, feminist, socialist, mother, warrior, poet" who dedicated her life and talents ...
Contents. Lorraine Hansberry. Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an American playwright and writer. [ 1 ] She was the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway. Her best-known work, the play A Raisin in the Sun, highlights the lives of black Americans in Chicago living under racial ...
Black Beauty is a 1994 family drama film, written and directed by Caroline Thompson in her directorial debut. [1] The fifth cinematic adaptation [2] of Anna Sewell's 1877 novel of the same name, the film stars Andrew Knott, who, the year prior, had played Dicken in The Secret Garden (another of Caroline Thompson’s film credits, as screenwriter), as well as Sean Bean, David Thewlis and Alan ...