Sentences with phrase «year career as a writer»

Publishing: A Writer's Memoir By Gail Godwin Bloomsbury • $ 16 • ISBN 9781620408254 The novelist and three - time finalist for the National Book Award reflects on her 45 - year career as a writer, from her early struggles to find her voice to the often frustrating ups - and - downs of the publishing business.

During her 35 - year career as a writer, Linda Oatman High has penned more than 20 books for children and young adults, three plays and numerous feature articles and news stories.

Not exact matches

I wrote my first article and essentially began my second career as a writer when I was 39 years old.

Brenda Chapman, an animation writer - director with a storied career (Disney's The Lion King, DreamWorks» The Prince of Egypt), made headlines three years ago when she penned a New York Times op - ed addressing her painful experience being removed as the first female feature film director for Pixar's Brave, a mother - daughter fairytale she created, and replaced by a male colleague.

Although we've known one anoehtr for many years and have worked together on numerous stories you as writer, I as publicist I didn't realize the scope of your writing career until now!

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Laverne Fator, Hailey, Idaho rider who won more than 1,000 races in a 14 - year career as jockey, received posthumous tribute as writers and broadcasters elected him to National Jockeys Hall of Fame, Pimlico.

After thirty years of caring for thousands of kids and parents (from working moms to superstars like Madonna), Dr. Karp launched a new career as a writer... and soon became America's # 1 pediatric advisor.

During the first 5 years of his career as a medical writer, Jim worked on many projects that didn't move forward, including a COX - 2 inhibitor that the firm chose not to advance to the market.

THE story behind the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 began nine years earlier, when Janos Vargha, a biologist from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences began a new career as a writer with a small monthly nature magazine called Buvar.

Over the last couple of years, I've worked hard to improve as a writer, preparing for my transition into a career in science communication.

In the coming months and years, we, the writers and editors of Science Careers, will incorporate changes in NIH procedures, new funding opportunities, and so on, and will keep it evolving as we learn more and get better advice from new sources.

John received his bachelor science degree in biology from Yale in 1981 after which he worked for several years in a laboratory at Harvard Medical School before embarking on his career as a science writer.

Plus, my career began as a marketer and writer, so writing your profile is an extension of what I did for years.

Funnyman Steve Oedekerk never quite broke through as a standup comic, but his years on the standup circuit did lead to a thriving career as a writer and director for some of Hollywood's biggest comedy stars, as well as periodic acting jobs.

For his follow - up to the bewitching A Ghost Story, writer - director David Lowery dramatizes the twilight years of this late criminal career, with screen legend Robert Redford cast as the infamous outlaw, Sissy Spacek as the woman who loved him, and Casey Affleck as the detective in hot pursuit.

After a few years on Saturday Night Live, Adam Sandler kick - started his career as a writer and actor with his back - to - back hits Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore.

Writer Andréa R. Vaucher and David Bloom joined Chaplin at the Panama Film Festival to discuss her incredible career; working with David Lean, Carlos Saura, Robert Altman, Alan Rudolph, and J. A. Bayona; her teenage years as a ballerina; and, of course, her father.

«Eddie Murphy has had a spectacular career as a comedian, actor, writer, producer and director, spanning more than 35 years,» said dick clark productions CEO Allen Shapiro.

One of the Sundance Film Festival's favorite sons returned to Park City on Sunday night, as writer - director Kevin Smith debuted «Yoga Hosers,» the second film in his Canada - based True North trilogy and the most bizarre movie of his 22 - year career — a real feat coming on the heels of «Tusk.»

This year's Director Tribute recipient, Oliver Stone, is a true visionary whose prolific career as director, writer, and producer has given us some of the most influential, iconic, and often controversial films of the last few decades.

Lake Bell not only stars in In A World... but she also serves, for the first time in her career, as writer, director, and producer, and in all respects, she emerges through like she's been at it for years.

Ellie Herman taught English electives for five years at Animo Pat Brown Charter High School in Los Angeles, a career change after 20 years as a TV writer.

I have been working as a freelance writer for the past 10 years and I am really interested in writing which guided me to choose writing career.

In the accompanying interview, Towles recounts his journey from a successful 21 - year career as the co-founder of an investment fund to full - time writer and says he can't wait to start his next book

Today we have some sage advice for writers from a proven practitioner of the art and craft of literary commerce who's had a successful career as a writer for more than 50 years.

In my three years career as an academic writer, I assisted many college - goers with high - quality assignments on this subject.

I just left my agency of almost 30 years because of my dissatisfaction with both it and «legacy» publishing and what it seems to be doing — or not doing — to my career as a writer.

Listed in «Who's Who In America» for the past ten years, his career in the music business began as a singer / songwriter under production agreements with Chess Records in Chicago and both Capitol and Columbia Records in New York, and as a staff writer for Beechwood Music at 1650 Broadway.

Once back in the States, she embarked on a thirty - year career in Human Resources and a secondary career as writer / journalist / essayist / author.

During a long New Year's Eve walk, she takes herself — and readers — back through her very eventful life, which included a lengthy career as the highest paid female ad writer for Macy's.

Now, here at last, is McCourt's long - awaited book about how his thirty - year teaching career shaped his second act as a writer.

McCourt's long - awaited book about how his thirty - year teaching career shaped his second act as a writer.

I have always thought that if I am going to make any kind of career as a writer I will have to write at least a book a year, possibly two (I currently take around 9 - 12 months, including rewrites).

In five years a whole «generation» of writers will have made careers as writers without having ever been published by anyone other than themselves.

For her 20 + years as a technical writer, teacher and trainer, Snider's entire career consistently grows based on a simple task... answering questions.

I have had a 40 - year career as a sports writer, primarily for daily newspapers.

Richard Lowe Jr left his 20 year long career as a leader and manager at Trader Joe's Company to pursue his dream of becoming a professional author and writer.

My main focus back then (11 years ago) was developing a career as a freelance writer which I knew went well with the location independent lifestyle; it turned out that having a successful travel blog was a beautiful complement to freelance writing — and these days I'd suggest that a personal blog or website is a downright necessity as a freelance writer.

Learn how she turned copy writing into a travel writing career with Elance.com and a gig as a ghost writer into a year of travel.

An Arizona chiropractor who gave up her career five years ago, Cacinda Maloney now works as a full - time luxury travel writer and blogger.

A selection of recent paintings demonstrate the rich and bold palette that has gained international attention in recent years for an artist who has a long, successful career as a writer and poet.

After three years as assistant curator of European painting at the Philadelphia Museum of Art he moved to London to pursue a career as a freelance writer on art and exhibition organiser.

The catalogue presents a variety of archival images tracing the artist's fifty - year career from the 1960s through the present day, as well as installation images from the exhibition at Kunsthall Stavanger, and commissioned texts from artist and writer Thomas Micchelli, and Le Tigre band member and writer Johanna Fateman, as well as an interview by artist Maurizio Cattelan.

The Writer tells her whole story chronologically, from Martin's birth in Saskatchewan and her early years as an artist, living in derelict Manhattan shipping lofts with Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly and others, to the seven years she stopped painting, just as her career was taking off, the months she spent roaming the country in a pickup truck and her last 30 years, in Taos some of that time, in an adobe house she built with her own hands.

In the early eighties, after a ten - year career as one of the early seventies writers, he broke away from one of graffiti's most sacred traditions: the letterform as subject matter.

Coco has a career that spans over 40 years, first as a 15 - year - old «writer» on subway cars and later evolving into a studio artist employing stretched canvas.

Mark Green joined API after a career in newspaper journalism, including 16 years as national editorial writer for The Oklahoman in the paper's Washington bureau.

The exhibition spans the entire career of Bernard Rudofsky (1905 1988), including his roots in the early years of European modernism; his world travels, which shaped his views as a designer and critic; and his influence as a curator and writer on international discourse on architecture, fashion, and design.

I have spent the better part of the last few years focusing on my career as a comedian / writer / actor.