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Haitian Art Collection | Haiti Art - Voodoo Flags - Vodou - Voudou - 0 views

  • Despite the hardships and political trauma suffered by this country, Haiti remains a wellspring of creativity and imagination. Many of the painters exhibited here hang in prestigious galleries and museums. All of them are well-known and collectible artists.
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Harper Lee Biography - Biography.com - 1 views

  • Born Nelle Harper Lee on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama
  • Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller
  • her one and only novel.
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  • she grew up as a tomboy in a small town.
  • he youngest of four children
  • her mother suffered from mental illness
  • rarely leaving the house
  • Lee often stepped up to serve as Truman’s protector
  • who shared few interests with boys his age
  • both shared in having difficult home lives.
  • l, Lee developed an interest in English literature. After graduating in 1944,
  • she could have cared less about fashion, makeup, or dating.
  • Lee was known for being a loner and an individualist.
  • Lee began expressing to her family that writing—not the law—was her true calling
  • She went to Oxford University in England
  • which was first titled Go Set a Watchman, then Atticus, and later To Kill a Mockingbird. Working with editor Tay Hohoff, Lee finished the manuscript in 1959.
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About the Author | Thomas L. Friedman - 0 views

  • degree in modern Middle East studies from Oxford
  • Oxford
  • In January 1994, Friedman shifted again, this time to economics, and became the Times's International Economics Correspondent, covering the nexus between foreign policy and trade policy.
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  • Friedman is a member of the Brandeis University Board of Trustees and, since 2004, of the Pulitzer Prize Board
  • Friedman and his wife, Ann, reside in Bethesda, Maryland. Ann, who teaches first-grade reading in the public school system in Montgomery County, Maryland, is also chairman of the board of directors of the SEED Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., that developed a college-prep public boarding school model for underserved urban students.
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