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Peter Solis Nery is a Filipino poet, fictionist, author, and filmmaker. Writing in Hiligaynon, he is a Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature Hall of Fame Awardee, [1] the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Literary Grant, and the All-Western Visayas Literary Contest (National Commission for Culture and the Arts) winner. [2]
Fast was born in New York City.He attended Princeton University, and earned graduate degrees at Columbia University and Yeshiva University.He has a daughter, Molly Jong-Fast, from his first marriage, to author Erica Jong, [1] and two sons from his marriage to Barbara Fast, a Unitarian minister.
One significant secular example of a biography from this period is the life of Charlemagne by his courtier Einhard. In Medieval Western India, there was a Sanskrit Jain literary genre of writing semi-historical biographical narratives about the lives of famous persons called Prabandhas.
Miller was born on February 3, 1920, in Charleston, West Virginia, the son of George E. Miller, a steel company executive [1] and Florence (née Armitage) Miller. [3] Soon after his birth, his parents divorced, and he lived with his mother during the Great Depression, attending public school and graduating from Charleston High School in 1937.
The worst occurred over 50 years ago when four unarmed Kent State University students were killed, and another paralyzed, by National Guardsmen during a protest of the U.S. bombings in Cambodia.
An intelligent student, he consistently topped his class from grade school to high school. His writing career began when he won his first national literary award for a short story he wrote while still in high school. Driven by his passion to pursue his dreams, he ran away from home and took a bus to Manila.
The Filipino Short Story in English: An Update for the ‘90s at the Wayback Machine (archived March 23, 2005) University of Michigan; Remembering NVM by Jose Y. Dalisay Jr. University of East Anglia; Christchurch City Council, New Zealand; Filipinas Heritage Library; University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee; Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia
The $7.992 billion mistake raises questions about DOGE's accounting and savings claims as it works to swiftly gut the federal bureaucracy.