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Glasgow grew up watching Laverne and Shirley, Lenny and Squiggy, The Hardy Boys, and Mork and Mindy, among other famous duos from television series, which she cites as inspirations for The Agathas series. [3] She was the coordinator of the University of Minnesota's MFA in Creative Writing program for thirteen years. Before writing her first ...
Strachan grew up in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. [1] She studied Archaeology and Philosophy at the University of Glasgow and earned a MPhil in Creative Writing at the universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde. [2] She later herself became a creative writing tutor at the University of Glasgow. [3] Strachan lives in Glasgow with her partner, the novelist ...
O'Hagan was born in Glasgow City Centre in 1968, [1] [2] of Irish Catholic descent, and grew up in Kilwinning, North Ayrshire. [3] His mother was a school cleaner, his father worked as a joiner in Paisley, and he had four elder brothers. [1] His father was a violent alcoholic, and as a boy, he would hide books from his father under his bed. [4]
Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1961, to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father. She was adopted as a baby by a white Scottish couple, Helen and John Kay, and grew up in Bishopbriggs, a suburb of Glasgow. [8]
Alasdair James Gray (28 December 1934 – 29 December 2019) was a Scottish writer and artist. His first novel, Lanark (1981), is seen as a landmark of Scottish fiction. He published novels, short stories, plays, poetry and translations, and wrote on politics and the history of English and Scots literature.
Growing up, we spent Thanksgiving at my dad’s side, and Christmas with my mom’s. With my mom’s Alabama and Texas roots, that meant that Christmas dinner was a Southern affair, and ...
The Grinch. The Grinch can't steal our Christmas spirit, but he sure can deliver laughs. In the 2018 adaptation of Dr. Seuss' beloved children's storybook, Benedict Cumberbatch brings the mean ol ...
Poems such as 'the trick', 'speech balloon' as well as many other poems and books Imtiaz Dharker (born 31 January 1954) is a Pakistani-born British poet, artist, and video film maker. She won the Queen's Gold Medal for her English poetry [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and was appointed Chancellor of Newcastle University from January 2020.