There, she was raised on the frontier among immigrants from Germany, Sweden, the Czech Republic, and Russia. She was born in Virginia and moved to Nebraska when she was nine. Willa Cather was born in 1873 in Virginia. In addition to her children’s fiction, she published two memoirs about her life growing up: The Girl from Yamhill and My Own Two Feet. Cleary’s own twin children inspired her characters Mitch and Amy. Her beloved character Ramona Quimby appears in a series about a spirited-but-exasperating girl growing up in Oregon. Henshaw about a boy who writes to his favorite author to cope with his parents divorce. In 1984, she received a Newberry Medal for her book Dear Mr. She is noted for portraying the lives of children with both accuracy and humor. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011.īeverly Cleary grew up on a farm in Oregon before moving to Portland. She eventually published I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings about her childhood years, and went on to publish several more autobiographical works. Her screenplay, Georgia, Georgia, was made into a movie, making her the first African American woman to have a screenplay made into a movie. As a young writer, she worked for newspapers in Egypt and Ghana. After a turbulent childhood, she moved to San Francisco with her mother and worked odd jobs before becoming a writer. Maya Angelou was born in 1928 in Missouri. The inscriptions on the disc identify the four figures pictured: Enheduanna, her estate manager Adda, her hair dresser Ilum Palilis, and her scribe Sagadu. In 1927, a British archaeologist found the Enheduanna calcite disc during excavations at the Sumerian site of Ur.
Enheduanna wrote 42 poems about her personal frustrations and hopes, her religious devotion, and her response to war. Her poetry and psalms were used throughout the ancient world and were the basis for some of the genres still used in present day.
She was an Akkadian/Sumerian poet and the world’s first author known by name.
To develop strong female writers in your classroom, check out our Building Writers student editions for independent writing practice!Įnheduanna was born in 2285 BCE. From poets to children’s book authors-and even a writer whose script was carved into discs-we’re tipping our hats to these women’s phenomenal and often-revolutionary contributions to literature. March is Women’s History Month and Learning Without Tears is celebrating 10 famous women writers whose writing is beloved by readers and esteemed by critics.
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