In her October 2006 obituary for British romance novelist and former wartime nurse Lucilla Andrews, journalist Julia Langdon noted that Andrews’ ‘personal experiences of war-time nursing provided the backcloth for the hospital scenes in Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement (2006a, para. 1). Langdon ret...
Darrell Wendall Holland Sr., Obituary Darrell Wendell Holland Sr., newspaper writer, editor, ordained Pastor, marathoner and mountain climber, passed away on November 30th, 2024, in Cleveland, Ohio, where he lived for over forty years. He was 92 years old at the time of his passing. Dar...
“An Obituary for Roman” an autofiction by Daria Serenko, translated from the Russian by Ksenya Gurshtein “I called upon all residents of Omsk who follow me on social media to contact the fitness club where Roman was working and demand his firing for threatening women. My request went far...
But Paul’s father, a dim figure constantly urging on his son the example of more enterprising young men, becomes increasingly enraged by his son’s behavior. He pulls him out of the school he barely seems to be attending, forbids the theater to employ him or to let him through the door...
… And has left me feeling considerable affection and respect for the man. In fact, I discovered that I could not write a novel* set in the early days of his town, without making Mr. H. L. Williams a character in it. And when I came upon this obituary, it broke a piece of my ...
LM:The later part of your novel takes Charlotte (the character) out of history and into a darker, more gothic realm, when she visits her father’s family and meets her Irish relations. As a result of that visit, your Charlotte begins to write an Irish story. This is another intriguing,...
you felt you knew him. You told me that the tribute I’d written for another of our friends was also warm and heartfelt. You said, “Cecily, when it’s my time, I want you to write my tribute, my obituary!”We laughed and I said I would write yours, if you would write mine!
Obituary for Stephen Hawkings, one byThe New York Timesand one by ChatGPT. Which is which? Directions: pick one–guessing is fine–then immediately check the answer. Don’t wait. Answer link directly below the passages. Passage 1Passage 2 ...
(two of whom died in infancy) from original family, two step-brothers and nine half-brothers and sisters.His family moved from the Melbourne area to Echuca and then to Cobar, Dubbo and other parts of country NSW.In 1932 when his fatherCOs marriage was struggling and times were difficult ...
feels like the end of an era for me, and I’m not sure what the next chapter will bring. But once I know, you’ll hear about it here first. A Geodesic Life with one comment After three years of work—and more than a few twists and turns—my latest book,Inventor of the Future:...