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Authors' Biographical A-D
Authors with Last Names Begining with the Letter A-D
There are 7 videos in this category and 58 videos in 18 subcategories.
Subcategories:
- Angelou, Maya
- Austen, Jane
- Bradbury, Ray
- Bronte, Emily Jane
- Byron, George Gordon (Lord)
- Cabot, Meg
- Carle, Eric
- Cole, Henry
- Curtis, Christopher Paul
- Curtis, Jamie Lee
- Dickens, Charles
- Degen, Bruce
- de Paola, Tomie
- Dessen, Sarah
- DiCamillo, Kate
- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
- Duncan Edwards, Pamela
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Ages: 12 - 18
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"Two new stories by Octavia Butler are going to be printed; one of them was discovered in the archives, apparently, and has never seen the light of day. These are going to make a new little booklet. I think that's some of the best news science-fictio...n fans could possibly get," explains acclaimed science-fiction author and Octavia E. Butler fan Samuel R. Delany. (02:47)
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June 22, 2018 at 09:49 AM
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Ages: 12 - 18
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This video features six selections from the American Masters film " Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women." The selections lead viewers through Alcott's life from her childhood through the writing of Little Women. Features interviews with ...historians, critics, readings from Alcott's writings, and dramatic re-enactments.
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June 8, 2010 at 06:07 PM
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Ages: 14 - 18
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Dante, one of the world’s finest and most influential poets of western literature, was born in Florence, Italy, in 1265. He got caught up in the economic and political upheavals of his day. Length 3:42
June 28, 2012 at 11:18 AM
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Ages: 12 - 18
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After Dante was banished from Florence in 1302, he wrote his great masterpiece "The Divine Comedy." By writing it in Italian, the language of the people, he helped drag readers out of their slavish devotion to Latin. Length 4:10
June 28, 2012 at 11:27 AM
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Ages: 11 - 18
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This two and a half hour video features interviews with experts that explain the influence of the late 18th and early 19th century frontier and Native-American relations on James Fenimore Cooper. Cooper wrote several frontier-themed novels, including... The Last of the Mohicans, the book is the major part of this video done from the
Fenimore Art Museum. There are call in questions. A good video about the treatment of Native Americans. A good video to show the influence of Cooper and how it reflects his beliefs and writings.
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February 20, 2011 at 12:51 PM
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Ages: 12 - 18
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Here's a short virtual movie of the great Sir Arthur Conan Doyle virtually reading a letter he wrote to his mother from South Norwood Southeast London. The attached information is more valuable than the video as it tells about the author's desire to ...write more about history and less about Holmes. (00:47)
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December 17, 2011 at 09:42 PM
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Ages: 11 - 18
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A really interesting reading of this poem is the subject of this two minute video. It has an image of Crane animated so as to be looking as if he is reading War is Kind. Would be useful for students who don't understand that the reading of a poem is ...important and for those who are studying Crane's work.
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February 20, 2011 at 01:01 PM
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