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The book took eight years to write, and is the extension of Elliott's original reporting 2013 on the life of Dasani, a homeless black girl in New York city. [1] The book explores several themes, including the failure in the city's safety net and support for those in poverty, glaring wealth disparity, and the cycle of violence.
Teege, who was born Jennifer Göth to a Nigerian father and an Austrian-German mother, grew up in foster care. [1] She was adopted at the age of seven. [2] Her grandmother was Ruth Irene Kalder [], who had a two-year relationship with Amon Göth until the end of the Second World War, and with whom she had a daughter, Monika Hertwig [], who was born in November 1945 and whom he never met. [3]
Govindas Vishnoodas Desani (1909–2000), known as G.V. Desani, was a British-Indian journalist, lecturer, writer and educator. [1] Desani is best known for his novel [2] All About H. Hatterr, first published in Great Britain in 1948, which cast an absurdist, comedic light on the plight of a common man in a multicultural, pan-ethnic world.
Tademy began researching her family history after leaving her job, and joined the Natchitoches Genealogical and Historical Association. [9] Her manuscript was rejected 13 times before finding an agent. After several rewrites, which included reducing the page count from 800 to 400, her first book, Cane River, was published in 2001 by Warner ...
Rosamund Gotch grew up in the same house. The second book was a biography of her great-great-aunt by marriage Maria, Lady Callcott. [7] She died at 20 St Giles, Oxford in January 1949, aged 84. [8] Her daughter was the violist Veronica Gotch, a member of the Whinyates String Quartet in the 1930s and early 1940s. [9]
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years is a 1993 New York Times bestselling book that was compiled by Amy Hill Hearth and contains the oral history of Sarah "Sadie" L. Delany and A. Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany, two civil rights pioneers who were born in the late 19th century to a former slave.
an excerpt of the book Your Best Year Yet! by Jinny S. Ditzler This document is a 35-page excerpt, including the Welcome chapter of the book and Part 1: The Principles of Best Year Yet – three hours to change your life First published by HarperCollins in 1994 and by Warner Books in 1998
Bhagyashree married Himalaya Dasani on 19 January 1989. [22] [23] [24] They have two children, a son [25] and a daughter. [26] Her son, Abhimanyu Dasani, won the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut for his performance in the 2019 film Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota. [27] Her daughter, Avantika Dassani, debuted with the web-series Mithya. [26]