Sentence examples for literary upbringing from inspiring English sources

"It was a seminal part of my literary upbringing," she said.

She told the BBC News website why he had been a key figure in her literary upbringing.

But despite her literary upbringing (Joan Didion, Gore Vidal and Ray Bradbury were regulars at her parents' house at Rincon Point), Conrad doesn't do much writing.

Hayden's upbringing was less literary than musical: her father came from a long line of musicians, and her mother began playing piano at only three years old.

This timely memoir seeks to reconcile an evangelical upbringing in Texas with literary life in a godless New York.

In person he gives off an aura of the kind of elitism that can come with a privileged upbringing and a successful literary career.

' Brody and Remnick found that they shared a love of Bob Dylan, a Jewish upbringing in the suburbs, and 'a literary school of sorts'.

America has regressed to an unforgiving puritanical order reminiscent of Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter," a literary touchstone that has probably eluded the fundamentalist upbringing of Jordan's protagonist, Hannah Payne.

She is less well known as a perennial outsider who was ostracised for her West Indian upbringing, and then shunned by the literary establishment after a descent into alcoholism and prostitution.

Organized chronologically, the exhibition begins with "The Path of Poetry" at the Thyssen and includes paintings and illustrations from Mr. Chagall's early years in Paris, before World War I. Steeped in Paris's art and literary circles, he illuminated memories of his Hasidic upbringing in Russia with vibrant colors, exemplified in works like "The Violinist" and "The Yellow Room".

He seamlessly weaves biography with literary criticism to show how Orton's working-class upbringing, his almost pathological promiscuity and the psychosexual battleground that his relationship with Halliwell had become, informed his work.