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- 1871: Samuel Clemens
- ... Samuel Clemens A.K.A. Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known as Mark Twain, the distinguished novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and literary critic who ranks among the great figures of American Literature. Twain was born in Florida Missouri, in 1835, To John Marshall Clemens and Jane Lampton. As a new born Twain already had moved four times westward. In 1839 the family moved again, this time eastward ...
- 1872: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... Ralph Waldo. Microsoft Encarta. CD-ROM. 1998 ed. Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Lkd. Columbia University Homepage, at ILT Web. *http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/acedemic/digitexts/emerson/bio_emerson.html * Hodgins, Francis. ed. Adventures in American Literature. Orlando: Harcourt, 1989. Myerson, Joel. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Grolier Encyclopedia. CD-ROM. 1993 ed.
- 1873: Frost, Robert
- ... less traveled and more difficult. Is the traveler happy with the decision he has made to take the road less traveled? Many critics think he may have had second thoughts. Magill's Survey of American Literature states that there are many contradictions throughout the poem, "
He seems to contradict his own judgment. The poet appears to imply that the decision is based on evidence that is, or comes close to being ...
- 1874: Fredrick Douglas
- ... could hear, this gifted man helped America come to terms with slavery as it really was. Bibliography 1. Douglass, Frederick. (1988) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Norton Anthology of American Literature, (4th edition), vol.I.2.
- 1875: Ernest Hemmingway
- ... game. Though Ernest had a serious accident, and later became ill, he could never admit that he had any weaknesses; nothing would stop him, certainly not pain. In 1954 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Toward the end, Ernest started to travel again, but almost the way that someone does who knows that he will soon die. He suddenly started becoming paranoid and to forget things. He became obsessed with ...
- 1876: Emily Dickinson
- ... her friends had converted to Christianity, her family was also putting enormous amount of pressure for her to convert. No longer the submissive youngster she would not bend her will on such issues as religion, literature and personal associations. She maintained a correspondence with Rev. Charles Wadsworth over a substantial period of time. Even though she rejected the Church as a entity she never did reject or accept God. Wadsworth appealed ...
- 1877: Einstein
- ... Einstein, and uncle set up a small electro-chemical business. He was fortunate to have a family with which he held strong relationships. Alberts mother, Pauline Einstein, had an intense passion for music and literature, she introduced her son to the violin in which he found much joy and relaxation. Also, he was very close with his younger sister, Maja, they could often be found in the lakes that were ...
- 1878: Allen Ginsburg In America
- ... poets and the like, including fellow students Lucien Carr and Jack Kerouac and friends William S. Burroughs and Neal Cassady. These delinquent young philosophers, you might say were equally obsessed with drugs, crime, sex and literature. Eventually, Allen got suspended from Columbia for various small offenses. He began hanging around with Times Square junkies and thieves (mostly friends of Burroughs), experimenting with Benzedrine and marijuana, and cruising gay bars in Greenwich ...
- 1879: Albert Einstien
- ... 1909) there, he completed an astonishing range of publications in theoretical physics. For the most part these texts were written in his spare time and without the benefit of close contact with either the scientific literature or theoretician colleagues. Einstein submitted one of his scientific papers to the University of Zurich to obtain a Ph.D. degree in 1905. In 1908 he sent a second paper to the University of Bern ...
- 1880: Albert Einstein
- ... uncle set up a small electro-chemical business. He was fortunate to have an excellent family with which he held a strong relationship. Alberts mother, Pauline Einstein, had an intense passion for music and literature, and it was she that first introduced her son to the violin in which he found much joy and relaxation. Also, he was very close with his younger sister, Maja, and hey could often be ...
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