Language and Composition: The Art of Voice (Muller and Whiting)Chapter 7:
History, Culture, and Civilization: Are We Citizens of the World?Author Biography LinksJ. B. PRIESTLEY, Wrong Ism Author Biography Links Here is the official site for Priestly.
http://www.jbpriestley.co.uk/JBP/Home.html This is the site for the J.B. Priestly Society, with a biography, photos, and links.
http://www.jbpriestley-society.com/ The link here includes a bulleted biographical timeline. Compare these sources for content and accuracy.
http://www.miskatonic.org/jbp/biblio.html This site refers to some of Priestley's cultural interests. Do you recognize any of these names, titles, or pieces? What do you know about them, and why would they interest Priestley?
http://www.miskatonic.org/jbp/pp.html
ISHMAEL REED, America: The Multinational Society Author Biography Links The American Academy of Poets has put up a Web page about Reed. Here you will find a photo, a biography, and links.
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/750 Click here for a hyperlinked biography of Reed to a bibliography and to other places of interest on the Web.
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/reed/reed_ishmael_bio.html This Web page is a fairly comprehensive look at Reed's life and work, from The Oxford Companion to African American Literature.
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/reed/about.htm The University of Delaware Library has a collection of Ishmael Reed papers, covering the years 1964–1995. This is the homepage of the site, and you will find information about Reed’s novels, plays, and poems, and many other types of writing.
http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/findaids/reed/
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, The Myth Of The Latin Woman: I Just Met A Girl Named Maria Author Biography Links This biography of Cofer has links included.
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-488 Ready to read some more of Cofer’s works? Click for some excerpts from her book Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/0820322423/slide-show/lib_dp_sp_1/103-5589237-9300628 This site features video clips of Cofer talking about identity, what it means to write from experience, and the physical effects of poetry. She also reads her poem "Beans."
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-488
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Globalization: The Super-Story Author Biography Links Friedman's homepage is located here. It has a biography and additional links.
http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/ Friedman is a columnist at The New York Times. Click on the newspaper's biography of the writer at this link.
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/opinion/FRIEDMAN-BIO.html Friedman's books can be found at this site. Is there any topic that thematically connects them all? Explain.
http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/bookshelf.htm
AMARTYA SEN, A World Not Neatly Divided Author Biography Links Sen won the Nobel Prize for economics in 1998. Here is a lengthy autobiography on the Nobel Prize Web site.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/ laureates/1998/sen-autobio.html For a shorter biography with a list of Sen’s works, see his biography on the Harvard Web site.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~phildept/sen.html
EDWARD T. HALL, The Arab World Author Biography Links Here is a biography of Hall, along with a photograph and a detailing of his innovations.
http://www.csiss.org/classics/content/13 The Amazon.com entry for Hall's famous book Beyond Culture can be found here. After learning more about it, are you more likely to read it?
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385124740/ 104-1264630-0343950?v=glance
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