In the second half of the session we will explore the question of voice and voices in biography through written exercises that will draw on letters, diaries, memoirs and interviews.
Several paintings chosen for the exhibition, which will continue to July 20 then go to the Phoenix Art Museum, do indeed evoke alternate universes or draw on letters, flags or arcane symbols.
Above and below ground, the land was their common lot; one grandfather died under a tractor, the other just survived a pit explosion.In this section Cultural Revolution Vaut le détour On the barricades Well read Relative values Freefall ReprintsMost family histories draw on letters and diaries.
Personal essay drawing on letters to friends and family from Tallil Air Base.
"The Sea House," dedicated to her father, the painter Lucian Freud, draws on letters her grandfather (Sigmund's son) wrote to his wife.
By drawing on letters, diaries and interviews, as well as Israel's rich official archives, Mr Segev mixes a meticulous narrative with a shrewd analysis of the complex Israeli psyche.The broad sequence of events is familiar.
For such an intense friendship, the two men spent very little time together; the bulk of I'm Proud of You" draws on letters, e-mail messages and phone conversations, woven neatly into the narrative of Madigan's personal difficulties.
Drawing on letters not discovered until 1980 and not published until 1995, Esther Schor, a poet and professor of English at Princeton, has written a sympathetic and balanced life of Lazarus.
Ray Coleman, a British journalist who knew Lennon in the Beatles years, drew on letters and other materials provided by both Ms. Ono and Lennon's first wife, Cynthia, for his 768-page "Lennon" in 1985 (reissued in 1992 by HarperCollins).
Sisman puts the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge at the center of a study of the literary and publishing world of the early 19th century, drawing on letters, journals and the poems themselves.
Thorough social history comes from Orlando Figes, in The Whisperers, drawing on letters, memoirs and conversations to depict the devastation of personal life in Stalin's Russian; and David Kynaston's Austerity Britain, drawing together the voices of many different witnesses to the postwar reconstruction of the UK.
