![]() ![]() ![]() He has twice won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and in 1949 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Miller was granted with the 2001 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. His latest book is On Politics and the Art of Acting. Morgan (1991), The Last Yankee (1993), Broken Glass (1993), which won the Olivier Award for Best Play of the London Season, and Mr. More recent works include a memoir, Timebends (1987), and the plays The Ride Down Mt. ![]() ![]() He has also written two novels, Focus (1945), and The Misfits, which was filmed in 1960, and the text for In Russia (1969), Chinese Encounters (1979), and In the Country (1977), three books of photographs by his wife, Inge Morath. His plays include All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), A View from the Bridge and A Memory of Two Mondays (1955), After the Fall (1963), Incident at Vichy (1964), The Price (1968), The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972) and The American Clock. Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915 and studied at the University of Michigan. ![]()
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If I wrote a new poem, I would recite it to her while we dipped our hands into the cool water. ![]() Mami had no time to pat her hair down, let alone share private thoughts the way we did on wash day.Īt the river’s edge, I’d tell Mami all the special things I had thought about during the week. Then I’d have to keep on sharing Mami with everyone, especially Papi, who sat on the porch and never moved. WASH DAY WAS the day I’d get Mami all to myself. Mami and me smooth the wrinkled clothes right. To dry in the sun and flap in the breeze. Then WHACK! I smack the clothes on the rocks ![]() Where sun rays glimmer on a whisper of shade.Īnd Mami and me tie our hair up in braids. 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I remembered it before I turned the corner and saw it, in all its dilapidated red-brick glory: the Hempstocks' farmhouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This was followed by almost 20 additional graphic novels over the following 25 years. In 1978, Will Eisner wrote "A Contract with God," the first modern Graphic Novel. The textbooks that he wrote were based on his course and are still bestsellers. Will Eisner taught Sequential Art at the New York School of Visual Arts for 20 years. ![]() After the war this continued as the Army's "PS Magazine" which is still being produced today. Mystic, Uncle Sam, Blackhawk, Sheena, and countless others.ĭuring World War II, Will Eisner used the comic format to develop training and equipment maintenance manuals for the US Army. In a career that spanned nearly eight decades - from the dawn of the comic book to the advent of digital comics - Will Eisner was truly the 'Father of the Graphic Novel' and the 'Orson Welles of Comics.' He broke new ground in the development of visual narrative and the language of comics and was the creator of The Spirit, John Law, Lady Luck, Mr. By the time of his death on January 3, 2005, Will Eisner was recognized internationally as one of the giants in the field of sequential art, a term he coined. Will Eisner was born on Main Brooklyn, New York. ![]() ![]() ![]() We went out to dinner tonight with my sister and her family, and had a thoroughly pleasant evening. So, I’m having a couple of nights here with them. My Mum came down to Melbourne for the book launch and stayed with me in the conference hotel for the weekend, attending the awards dinner on Saturday night, but my Dad isn’t strong enough now to travel that far. There are character profiles, an author Q & A, questions for reading groups to discuss, and you can download the first chapter to read.Īfter the fun, inspiring, and motivating weekend at the RWAustralia conference, I flew up to Canberra yesterday to see my Dad. Please do hop on over and have a look around. I will, of course, being a neurotic enthusiastic first-time author, check the airport bookshops tomorrow as I’m flying home, but they’re the only bookshops I’ll see for a day or two.īut what did happen today was that the book’s website went live – It’s not supposed to be out until tomorrow or Thursday, so this is no major surprise. ![]() Okay, I confess I checked a couple of bookshops today, just in case they had it out early, but there was no sign of it. As Darkness Falls will be out on the shelves in the next couple of days. ![]() |