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Lane, Rose Wilder

by Mr. Anderson - Thursday, February 21, 2013, 1:09 PM
 

Daughter of the famous author Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane was born in 1887 in De Smet, South Dakota. Lane began writing before her mother and for a while was better known. She wrote nonfiction books--including The Peaks of Shala, an account of her travels to Albania--ghostwrote fiction, and assisted her mother with teh Little House series. Lane died in 1968.


Mr. Anderson

Lazarus, Emma

by Mr. Anderson - Saturday, November 20, 2010, 7:32 PM
 
Born in 1849 to a prosperous Jewish-Portuguese family in New York City, Emma Lazarus began writing as a teenager. In 1886, her father published her first book of poems, entitled Poems and Translations. Lazarus was a contemporary of Ralph Waldo Emerson, who admired her writing and helped make Lazarus part of an elite circle of American writers. Lazarus was an advocate for Jewish immigrants escaping persecution in Europe and Russia, and many of her poems reflect that concern. Lazarus died of Hodgkin’s disease at age 38. Her poem "The New Colossus," which in 1904 was etched on the base of the Statue of Liberty, became one of the most often quoted poems in the English Language.