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Kristiana Gregory (born 1951) is an American children's author. [1]Gregory grew up in a small town by the sea near Los Angeles with her parents and two younger siblings. Gregory is a popular author of children's historical fiction, including several for the Dear America and The Royal Diaries ser
Several poems look at the narrator’s parents — the poetry isn’t necessarily autobiographical — particularly one called “Drunken Monologue From an Alcoholic Father’s Oldest Daughter.”
Frieda Rebecca Hughes (born 1 April 1960) [1] is an English-Australian poet and painter. She has published seven children's books, four poetry collections and one short story and has had many exhibitions. [2]
His poem "Heart's Needle" proved inspirational for her in its theme of separation from his three-year-old daughter. [8] Sexton first read the poem at a time when her own young daughter was living with her mother-in-law. She, in turn, wrote "The Double Image", a poem which explores the multi-generational relationship between mother and daughter.
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement is a 2015 non-fiction and poetic children's book by written by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Ekua Holmes. The book discusses the life of American civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977). Hamer was born to sharecropper parents in Mississippi ...
About Catrin she wrote a poem under her name. Clarke worked as an English teacher, first at the Reardon-Smith Nautical College and later at Newport College of Art . In the mid-1980s she moved to rural Ceredigion , West Wales, with her second husband, after which she spent some years teaching creative writing at the University of Glamorgan .
In "Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021" (published by St. Martin's Press), former German Chancellor Angela Merkel writes about two lives: her early years growing up under a Communist-controlled police ...
Her first book, My Father's Daughter, published in 1965, has been widely used as a literature text in schools all over the world, and her books have been translated into German, Danish, Norwegian and Greek. [1] Her work is included in the anthology Daughters of Africa (1992). [2]