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- 281: The Writings of Pat Conroy
- ... of his appearance at a book signing where he signed as "The Great Santini". Peg Conroy left her husband the day after his retirement parade (Burns 1-3). She presented The Great Santini at the divorce hearing. It was made into a movie in 1979 (Disc. Auth. 3). Pat Conroy's most well known book, Prince of Tides, was published in 1986. It is a story about unemployed English teacher, who ...
- 282: David Letterman
- ... He started to become a perfectionist. When something wasn't right, he got very mad and was very unhappy. This unhappiness is what caused Dave and his wife since 1969, Michelle Cook, to get a divorce. "I misbehaved. There's no way of getting around that. The responsibility for the end of our marriage is squarely on my shoulders. I have a measure of ongoing guilt about that. . . I was very ...
- 283: The Works and Life of Charles Dickens
- ... notice that Dickens grew increasingly bitter with each novel. "His criticism of society became more radical, his satire more biting and less sweetened by humor" (Ochojski). This may have been the cause of his eminent divorce from his wife, and the constant questioning of his bitter childhood by the media. (Sundell) As Dickens neared his death, he seemed even more sad and bitter in his writings. Of course, the more bitter ...
- 284: The Nomination ofAndrew Jackson to the "Presidents Hall of Fame"
- ... he became a member of a powerful political faction led by William Blount. He was married in 1791 to Rachel Donelson Robards, and later remarried to him due to a legal mistake in her prior divorce in 1794. Jackson served as delegate to Tenn. in the 1796 Constitutional convention and a congressman for a year (from 1796-97). He was elected senator in 1797, but financial problems forced him to resign ...
- 285: John Dos Passos
- ... life; to settle down with a beautiful wife and acquire a satisfying job. He eventually does win the heart of Ellen Thatcher and becomes a successful writer, but in the end he allows Ellen to divorce him, and on the last few lines of the book he says, At a cross-road where the warning light still winks and winks, is a gasoline station, opposite of the Lighting Bug lunchwagon. Carefully ...
- 286: Michael Jackson
- ... Lately, most interviews have been about him being a father-to-be and his recent marriage to Debbie Rowe, the mother of his child. Past interviews have been about his marriage in 1994 and his divorce in the summer of 1996 from Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis Presley's daughter. Another subject of his past interviews have been about his alleged rape a few years ago. That was my report on Michael ...
- 287: John Lennon
- ... in 1967. In just a few weeks, the two were inseparable. This new relationship destroyed John's marriage with Cynthia and eventually destroyed his relationship with Paul McCartney, and the other Beatles. After John's divorce from Cynthia, John Winston Lennon changed his name to John Ono Lennon in honor of Yoko Ono. He insisted on using "JOHNANDYOKO" as his official signature and identity. John and Yoko were married in the ...
- 288: Gerard Manley Hopkins
- ... s love with the face of an epigram. Hopkins faith was a source of anguish. He said he never wavered in it, but that he never felt worthy of it. Hopkins felt that language must divorce itself from such archaisms as ''ere,'' ''o'er,'' ''wellnigh,'' ''whattime,'' and ''saynot.'' But Hopkins invented many new words like: beechhole (trunk of a beech tree), bloomfall (fall of flowers), bower of bone (body), firedint (spark ...
- 289: Ernest Miller Hemingway
- ... The Sun Also Rises, a saying from the Bible. This book, as in his other books, shows Hemingway obsessed with death. In 1927, Ernest found himself unhappy with his wife and son. They decided to divorce and he married Pauline, a woman he had been involved with while he was married to Hadley. A year later, Ernest was able to complete his war novel which he called A Farewell to Arms ...
- 290: Robert Penn Warren
- ... scholar, where he wrote his first book: John Brown: The Making of a Martyr in 1929. "Red" Warren, as he was known to his friends, married Emma Brescia in 1930, a marriage which ended in divorce 20 years later. In the last several years of that period, Warren was penned with depression and a lack of new material. His period of dissolution did not end until his second marriage to Eleanor ...
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