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Closely reading books, Prose studied word choice and sentence construction. Close reading helped her solve difficult obstacles in her own writing. Chapter Two: Words; Prose encourages the reader to slow down and read every word. She reminds the reader that words are the "raw material out of which literature is crafted."
A wood block engraved by Lynd Ward for plate #29 of his Prelude to a Million Years Ward is known for his wordless novels told entirely through dramatic wood engravings . Ward's first work, Gods' Man (1929), uses a blend of Art Deco and Expressionist styles to tell the story of an artist's struggle with his craft, his seduction and subsequent ...
George and Jean's children confront problems of their own. Katie, a single mother, announces her plans to marry Ray, a competent but lower-class man of whom George, Jean, and their son Jamie disapprove. As the story progresses Ray worries that Katie wants to be with him only for his house and so he can act as a father to her five-year-old son ...
Evelyn Nielsen Wood (January 8, 1909 – August 26, 1995) was an American educator and businessperson, widely known for popularizing speed reading, although she preferred the phrase "dynamic reading". She created and marketed a system said to increase a reader's speed over the average reading rate of 250 to 300 words a minute by a factor of ...
Katie Farris (born August 10, 1983) is an American poet, fiction writer, translator, academic and editor. Her memoir in poems Standing in the Forest of Being Alive, was shortlisted for 2023 T.S. Eliot Prize. She is an associate professor of creative writing at Princeton University in New Jersey.
Kathryn Schulz is an American journalist and author. She is a staff writer at The New Yorker. [1] In 2016, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her article on the risk of a major earthquake and tsunami in the Pacific Northwest. [2]
She studied English literature at Leeds Trinity University and the University of Leeds, writing her doctoral thesis on "Women Authors and the Early Nineteenth-Century Arthurian Revival". She was a senior lecturer in the Centre for Victorian Studies at Leeds Trinity University, [ 3 ] before becoming a freelance writer.
The same year, "Paddlin' Madelin Home" was published, with words and music by Woods. With Mort Dixon and Billy Rose, Woods composed "I Wish't I Was in Peoria", now a Dixieland jazz standard, in 1925. By 1926, Woods was an established songwriter on Tin Pan Alley and would become legendary with his new song " When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob ...