Biographical Chapter
Literary Specialist Project -- Phase One
Possible Approaches to the Biographical Section
As you are collecting information on your selected author, you might want to consider the following “possible approaches” to the overall outline of the biographical phase of your project. These approaches give you possible ways to design your collected data. Use the ones that interest you or pertain to your particular author.
1. Give a brief overview of the life of your author (dates, birthplaces, key events, interesting details) in order to introduce your reading audience to your writer.
2. Did your author have traumatic experiences or interesting life events which might have influenced his writing? (For example, Virginia Woolf’s lifelong bout with depression definitely had an influence on her writing. Similarly, Charles Dickens’ love for the theatre and acting is revealed in the dramatic nature of his novels).
3. What personality traits best describe your selected author? (For instance, was she gregarious, isolated, eccentric, outgoing, shy, or dazzlingly brilliant?) What traits would best fit this author?
4. Are there other famous people who might have influenced your author? (For example, we know that Wordsworth was great friends with Coleridge--as Shelley was with Byron.)
5. From what you know about your author, did he get along with his family? (One is reminded of the difficult marriage of Thomas Hardy and how it inevitably influenced the “relationships” in his novels.)
6. In what way did your author influence or change the particular literary form in which she was working? For example, think about the growth of the mystery novel as a result of the work of Agatha Christie; or of the influence of Arthur Conan Doyle on the detective novel. How did your particular author change or advance literature?
7. What other interesting aspects concerning your selected author should be placed in this section of the research project? Remember, you want to make this section both interesting and informative for your reading audience.
Possible Approaches to the Biographical Section
As you are collecting information on your selected author, you might want to consider the following “possible approaches” to the overall outline of the biographical phase of your project. These approaches give you possible ways to design your collected data. Use the ones that interest you or pertain to your particular author.
1. Give a brief overview of the life of your author (dates, birthplaces, key events, interesting details) in order to introduce your reading audience to your writer.
2. Did your author have traumatic experiences or interesting life events which might have influenced his writing? (For example, Virginia Woolf’s lifelong bout with depression definitely had an influence on her writing. Similarly, Charles Dickens’ love for the theatre and acting is revealed in the dramatic nature of his novels).
3. What personality traits best describe your selected author? (For instance, was she gregarious, isolated, eccentric, outgoing, shy, or dazzlingly brilliant?) What traits would best fit this author?
4. Are there other famous people who might have influenced your author? (For example, we know that Wordsworth was great friends with Coleridge--as Shelley was with Byron.)
5. From what you know about your author, did he get along with his family? (One is reminded of the difficult marriage of Thomas Hardy and how it inevitably influenced the “relationships” in his novels.)
6. In what way did your author influence or change the particular literary form in which she was working? For example, think about the growth of the mystery novel as a result of the work of Agatha Christie; or of the influence of Arthur Conan Doyle on the detective novel. How did your particular author change or advance literature?
7. What other interesting aspects concerning your selected author should be placed in this section of the research project? Remember, you want to make this section both interesting and informative for your reading audience.
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