![]() Most of Chekov’s plays were written during the last 15 years of his life, although early productions were disastrous. When I tire of one, I go and sleep with the other." He also conducted thousands of interviews of convicts and settlers on Sakhalin Island, in Russia’s Far East, in 1890 these were published as The Island of Sahkalin, a powerful work calling for more humane treatment of convicts. He was quoted as saying, "Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. Though he trained as a doctor, his primary occupation became short-story writing, for which he won the Pushkin Prize in 1887, while only in his 20s. After the family became impoverished, Anton both supported them and financed his own education by writing for periodicals. ![]() ![]() Chekov’s father was abusive and accumulated ruinous debts. Anton Chekov was one of six children born to a grocer and his wife. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Tony also had a brother, Vinnie, who was killed in the Vietnam War. ![]() Tony has an older brother, Ralph, who is a social studies teacher and a sister-in-law (Angie) who is Ralph’s wife who is studying to be a teacher. This book is told from the POV of thirteen year old Tony Miglione, who’s from a working-class family in Jersey City. Because how dare we read about a boy having wet dreams, right? ![]() OK, it hasn’t been on the challenged list much recently. Constitution! So don’t just sit there: sit there and read a challenged book forgodssake. Our right to access ideas and intellectual information is sacred AND it’s protected by the U.S. Or you can check out the Freedom to Read Foundation for more information about censorship. The ALA (American Library Association) has lists each year of books that had been challenged the most. When I get to pester people to no end about the scourge of censorship in American Libraries. Happy Banned Books Week everyone! It’s my favorite time of the year. ![]() ![]() Joyce Hansen presently lives in South Carolina with her husband and writes full-time. She continued to teach and write until retiring from teaching in 1995. ![]() Joyce’s first children’s book, The Gift-Giver, published in 1980, was inspired by her own Bronx childhood and by her students. She also taught writing and literature at Empire State College (State University of New York). Other books by Joyce Hansen published by Clarion Books Yellow Bird and Me One True Friend Home Boy THE GIFT - GIVER JOYCE HANSEN CLARION BOOKS. She then began her teaching career in the New York City public schools and earned a Master of Arts degree from New York University. While working secretarial jobs during the day, Joyce attended Pace University in New York City at night, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree. ![]() She grew up with two younger brothers and her parents in an extended family that included aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents, all living nearby in the Morrisania section of the Bronx.Īttending Bronx public schools, she graduated from Theodore Roosevelt High School in 1960. Joyce was born and raised in New York City, the setting of her early contemporary novels. ![]() Joyce Hansen has been writing books and stories for children and young adults for over twenty years. ![]() |