Farmer Boy, published in , is the second of the Little House is the sole book that does not focus on the childhood of Laura Ingalls. It is focused on the childhood of Laura's future husband, Almanzo Wilder, growing up on a farm in upstate New York in the s.
Internationally recognized for her pioneering and cutting-edge work with family systems and addictive disorders, Dr. Claudia Black’s work with children impacted by drug and alcohol addiction in the late s fueled the advancement of the codependency and developmental trauma fields.
Arts (b. ) Achievements. Biography current as of induction in With self-deprecating humor, ruthless honesty, and unflagging compassion, author Anne Lamott has inspired her readers by sharing her own often difficult life experiences, earning the moniker “the people’s author.”.
He is the bestselling author of 13 books, including The Ghost Map, his acclaimed study of the cholera epidemic, and Where Good Ideas Come From. He also hosted and co-created the Emmy Award-winning PBS/BBC series How We Got To Now and is the current host of the podcast American Innovations.
Bret Harte was born Francis Brett Harte on August 25, He was born in Albany, New York, but lived with his family in Brooklyn, New York, from until he headed west to California in Harte did not attend school regularly but showed his love of the written word at age 11 when he had verses published.
Malcolm Godwin is a bestselling author and artist whose works have appeared in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Glasgow Art Gallery in Scotland, under the name Malcolm Carder.
Mandela benefits from Sampson’s thorough research and from his intimate knowledge of South Africa and of the myriad personalities who formed the cast for one of history’s most compelling dramas of personal sacrifice and redemption.
An extraordinary and hugely topical story of a Jewish man's passion for the Arab the border between West and East, a Jewish man with a passion for the Arab Reiss first came across Nussimbaum when he went to the ex-USSR to research Russia's oil reserves, and discovered a novel instead.
In August , Tresckow met, for the first time, a young staff officer named Lieutenant Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. Severely wounded in North Africa, Claus von Stauffenberg was a political conservative and zealous German nationalist. [3].
English poet and playwright – Shakespeare is widely considered to be the greatest writer in the English language. He wrote 38 plays and sonnets. Short bio of William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon on 23rd April
‘KIRAC 8: The Art of Simchowitz', a film about the Los Angeles art dealer Stefan Simchowitz. In his own unique way, artist Stefan Ruitenbeek observes Simchowitz’ daily life, capturing his movements through the colourful biotope of millionaire art buyers in Los Angeles.