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Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen 1805-75, Danish poet, novelist, and writer of fairy tales. Reared in poverty, he left Odense at 14 for Copenhagen. He failed as an actor, but his poetry won him generous patrons including King Frederick VI. In 1829 his fantasy A Journey on Foot from the Holmen Canal to the... Read more
Storytelling Storytelling
Storytelling BIBLIOGRAPHY Storytelling may be broadly defined as an ancient method of conveying ideas, intimations, and emotions in a narrative form with or without the accompaniment of music or visual art. Originally an oral tradition, storytelling has evolved from its earliest form to... Read more
Mourning Dove Mourning Dove
Mourning Dove (1888–1936),storyteller. Her Native American name was Hum‐Ishu‐Ma, and she is thought to be the first Native American novelist, publishing late in life Cogewea the Half‐Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range (1927). She also recorded Okanagan... Read more
Yangzhou Yangzhou
Yangzhou or Yangchow , city (1994 est. pop. 355,500), Jiangsu prov., China, on the Grand Canal. It is an agricultural market and transportation center with textile and other light industries. An ancient walled city, Yangzhou was in the 6th cent. one of the three capitals of the Sui dynasty and... Read more
Louise Erdrich Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich Once named one of People magazine's most beautiful people, Louise Erdrich (born 1954) is a Native American writer with a wide popular appeal. She is no literary lightweight, however, having drawn comparisons to such noted American authors as William Faulkner. Louise Erdrich... Read more
Science Writer Science Writer
Science Writer All good journalists are storytellers, and science writers are simply journalists who like to tell stories about science. Still, it has only been in the last few decades that science writing has become a profession in its own right, with journalists specifically trained to cover... Read more
Paul Zindel Paul Zindel
Paul Zindel From Pulitzer prize-winning playwright to young adult fiction writer, American author Paul Zindel (born 1936) turned his real-life turbulent teens into fictional stories to show teenagers that their lives and feelings do matter. Paul Zindel did not choose to become a playwright,... Read more
Slick Rick Slick Rick
SLICK RICK Born: Ricky Walters; London, England, 14 January 1965 Genre: Rap Best-selling album since 1990: The Art of Storytelling (1999) Hit songs since 1990: "I Shouldn't Have Done It," "Mistakes of a Woman in Love with Other Men," "Sittin in My Car," "Street Talkin'" Slick Rick is one of... Read more
Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln , 1809-65, 16th President of the United States (1861-65). Early Life Born on Feb. 12, 1809, in a log cabin in backwoods Hardin co., Ky. (now Larue co.), he grew up on newly broken pioneer farms of the frontier. His father, Thomas Lincoln, was a migratory carpenter and farmer, nearly... Read more
Judy Sierra Judy Sierra
Sierra, Judy 1945-PersonalBorn Judy Strup, June 8, 1945, in Washington, DC; name legally changed, 1985; daughter of Joseph L. (a photographer) and Jean (a librarian) Strup; married Robert Walter Kaminski (a puppeteer and elementary schoolteacher); children: Christopher Robin Strup. Education:... Read more

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