David Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York in February of 1962 to parents Sally Foster and James Wallace. He spent his early childhood and adolescent years in Illinois and was regionally ranked as a junior tennis player in his teens. Wallace’s parents were both professors and when it came time to go toContinue reading “Influential and Innovative Writings by David Foster Wallace”
Monthly Archives: March 2015
The Award-Winning Novels and Short Stories of Bernard Malamud
Bernard Malamud’s story began like many self-made persons in America during his era, as a child born to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Malamud came of age during the start of the Great Depression and attended Erasmus Hall High School, a popular public high school at the time while Brooklyn’s populationContinue reading “The Award-Winning Novels and Short Stories of Bernard Malamud”
The Prize-Winning Literature of V.S. Naipaul
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, also known as V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in the early 1930s. Naipaul’s father had emigrated from India with his grandparents in the 1880s, who sought work as indentured servants in Trinidad’s sugar plantations. Three years before Naipaul’s birth, his father began contributing to the Trinidad Guardian as an English-languageContinue reading “The Prize-Winning Literature of V.S. Naipaul”