Enrique’s Journey My Nonfiction Book that I read this term was Enrique’s Journey. Enrique’s Journey was written by Sonia Nazario and was first published as a newspaper series in the Los Angeles Times, and then later published in 2006 by the New York Random House. Enrique’s Journey was inspired when Sonia had a house cleaner (Carmen) who told her about her 4 children (2 girls and 2 boys) who she had left behind in Guatemala for 12 years so she could come to America to work to send money for her children back in Guatemala. Carmen goes on to tell Sonia that in 1998, her oldest son set off to find her, and he eventually found his way on Carmen’s doorstep. This is where Sonia got her idea for writing a book about the separation of a mother and her children.
Her father was a Baptist preacher, tenant farmer, and carpenter, and her mother was a schoolteacher (Wikipedia). Even though Zora Neale Hurston claimed as an adult that she was born in Eatonville, Florida in 1901, she was actually born in Notasulga, Alabama, where her father grew up; her family moved to Eatonville (Wikipedia). In 1904 her mother died and her father remarried almost immediately. John Hurston, her father, and new stepmother sent her away to Jacksonville, Florida for school. She later worked as a maid to the lead singer in a traveling Gilbert & Sullivan theatrical company (Wikipedia).
Later about a year of graduating college she moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she got a job submitting book reviews (1). Through time people became more aware of her writing skills which lead to her writings of short stories. This is when her long journalistic career began. While living in Pittsburgh Willa Cather would end up becoming a high school teacher. As a teacher she taught at two different schools, Central High School is where she taught for her first year (1).
She worked briefly as a maid, and at sixteen was hired as a wardrobe girl for a touring theatrical troupe and traveled the South for eighteen months. She attended Howard University in Washington D.C. from 1923 to 1924 and in 1925 moved to New York City. She studied anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University with the anthropologist Franz Boas, an experience that profoundly influenced her work. After graduating in 1928, Hurston received a fellowship to do anthropological field research on African American folklore in the South. The data she collected over the next four years, would be used both in her collections of folklore and in her fictional works.
The Poet Behind the Poems David Chapman Berry was born July 23, 1942, in Vicksburg, but he mostly grew up in Greenville, Mississippi (Gale). His parents were David Berry and Annette Hays, who also had a daughter named Bettty Berry (Jacobs). Berry started writing poetry in ninth grade because of boredom in church (“D.C.B. Biography”). As a young man, Berry found a love for chorus and drama and continued performing until he graduated from Greenville High School in 1960 (Few).
For Colored Girls For Colored Girls is a Dram film modified from Ntozoke Shanges from the 1970’s stage play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enough. The movie was directed and written by Tyler Perry in 2010. For Colored Girls was Tyler’s first rated R film and took in $20.1 million dollars during his first opining weekend. The film feathered Janet Jackson, Phylicia Rashad, Whoopi Golderg, Thandie Newton, Lorette Devine, Anika Noni Rose, Kimberly and Kerry Washington. The move is based on the lives of 9 woman and their struggles through life as colored woman.
Although Steinbeck gave up on writing for a few years, he eventually returned to begin a new start on his career. His novels were about economic problems and laborers in the 1900’s. Steinbeck grew up in Salinas, California and was born on February 2nd, 1902 and died December 12th, 1968. His mother was a school teacher who had encouraged his love for writing. John lived in a farm-like environment with many small ranches with his two sisters, Esther and Elizabeth (cited 6).
Shortly after her mother passed, Zora’s father remarried and sent Zora to a boarding school in Jacksonville and attempted to relieve his responsibility of her (Contemporary Black Biography). At the age of 14, Zora was wayfaring all over. She was even traveling with a theatrical company until she left them in Baltimore, Maryland and enrolled at Morgan Academy (Contemporary Black Biography). Hurston was 26 years old, but was able to manage to
He marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. to Washington, D.C. During the early 1980s, Baldwin was on the faculty of the Five Colleges in Western Massachusetts. While there, he mentored Mount Holyoke College future playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2002. Baldwin died of cancer in 1987 at the age of 63. writings fiction: Go Tell It on the Mountain (novel; 1953) Giovanni's Room (novel; 1956) romance from Paris, white protagonist tortured by the uncertainty of his sexual feelings Another Country (novel; 1962) tragic story of a black musician Greenwhich Village, reflects racial, moral, sexual and artistic problems of B. 's generation Going to Meet the Man (short stories; 1965) Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone (novel; 1968) an important black actor reviews his life during a long convalescence If Beale Street Could Talk (novel; 1974) an idealized romance between a black sculptor and a black girl, B. 's final denuciation of American racism Just Above My Head (novel; 1979) Harlem Quartet (novel; 1987) essays: Notes of a Native Son (1955) Nobody Knows My Name (1961) The Fire Next Time (1963) No Name in the Street
She became one of the major figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Her first novel, Jonah’s Gourd Vine, written in 1934, combines folklore with biblical themes centered around her parents’ marriage. To read Jonah’s Gourd Vine is to understand some of her feelings about slavery, oppression, recovery from oppression as well as to gain a little perspective on her own life. Their Eyes Were Watching God, written in 1937 is considered her masterpiece, and it is filled with imagery, rich characters, and delightful prose. The reader follows Janie as she grows up, gets married, becomes widowed at a young age, takes up with the interesting young man called Teacake, and is eventually tried for his murder .