Resumenthe True Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle By Edward Irving Wortis
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Edward Irving Wortis
Overview
In 1832, an American girl who had been studying in England is sent home to Providence, Rhode Island. The ship on which she is to sail is a brig, the Seahawk, a merchant ship that will take about two months to reach Providence. Before the ship even sails, matters grow dark forCharlotte Doyle. The two families that were to keep her company both cancel their plans to sail on the Seahawk.
Twice, porters carrying her luggage bolt and run when they learn that she is to sail on the Seahawk. The man assigned to see her safely on board, Mr. Grummage, is an overbearing, insensitive man, who cares nothing about Charlotte's safety; he dumps her on the ship and departs, leavingCharlotte alone among an unhappy crew. The ship's Captain Jaggery is a madman who is obsessed with orderliness and neatness, the crew is mutinous, and Charlotte has only the rules for a young lady's proper conduct to rely on in a situation that will require all her courage and fortitude to survive.
About the Author
Avi has dysgraphia, a handicap that affects his writing: He transposes words andletters. His manuscripts are often covered with red marks that indicate corrections in syntax and spelling. When his dysgraphia was diagnosed, he was told that he would never become a writer, but Avi had always been an avid reader, and in spite of once flunking out of school because of his bad writing, he strived to become a writer. In the meantime, he took up another seemingly unlikely career,that of librarian. After earning bachelor's and master's degrees in 1959 and 1962 from the University of Wisconsin, he earned a master's in library science from Columbia University.
He worked as a librarian in the Performing Arts Research Center at the New York Public Library from 1962-70, then as an assistant professor and librarian at Trenton State College (New Jersey) from 1970-86.While attending Antioch University, before going to the University of Wisconsin, he avoided English courses but took play writing courses. He had a strong-minded teacher who showed how to put together a plot and how to develop characters, and Avi credits him with providing a structural foundation for his own writings.
He was born Avi (pronounced Ah-vee) Wortis in New York City on December 23,1937, into an artistic family. His father was a psychiatrist and his mother a social worker, both of whom loved the arts and populated their home with books. Avi's relatives include other artists and writers, and he seems to have been part of lively discussions of arts and artistic enterprises all of his life. Further, he had a great attachment to books, saying that he learned more from reading onhis own than he did in school.
His love of the written word transcended his dysgraphia and the efforts of his elders to discourage him from pursuing writing as a career.
His becoming a librarian may have been a compromise between his passion for reading and his difficulty writing clear prose, although he wrote plays continually. On November 1, 1963, he married Joan Gabriner (they laterdivorced) and they had two children. Avi found himself telling his children stories, letting them pick a subject. Out of this grew his career as a writer for young readers. Slowly, he was able to illustrate other writers' books, then illustrate his own books, and then move on beyond picture books to long fiction for young adults and middle-aged youngsters. His picture books brought him renown, and hequickly became part of textbooks on children's literature.
He has won a number of awards, and The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle is his most honored book so far. Among the awards it has won is that of Newbery Honor Book for 1990. Avi lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with his wife Coppelia (nee Kahn), a college professor; he sets much of his fiction in Providence, as he does the...
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Edward Irving Wortis
Overview
In 1832, an American girl who had been studying in England is sent home to Providence, Rhode Island. The ship on which she is to sail is a brig, the Seahawk, a merchant ship that will take about two months to reach Providence. Before the ship even sails, matters grow dark forCharlotte Doyle. The two families that were to keep her company both cancel their plans to sail on the Seahawk.
Twice, porters carrying her luggage bolt and run when they learn that she is to sail on the Seahawk. The man assigned to see her safely on board, Mr. Grummage, is an overbearing, insensitive man, who cares nothing about Charlotte's safety; he dumps her on the ship and departs, leavingCharlotte alone among an unhappy crew. The ship's Captain Jaggery is a madman who is obsessed with orderliness and neatness, the crew is mutinous, and Charlotte has only the rules for a young lady's proper conduct to rely on in a situation that will require all her courage and fortitude to survive.
About the Author
Avi has dysgraphia, a handicap that affects his writing: He transposes words andletters. His manuscripts are often covered with red marks that indicate corrections in syntax and spelling. When his dysgraphia was diagnosed, he was told that he would never become a writer, but Avi had always been an avid reader, and in spite of once flunking out of school because of his bad writing, he strived to become a writer. In the meantime, he took up another seemingly unlikely career,that of librarian. After earning bachelor's and master's degrees in 1959 and 1962 from the University of Wisconsin, he earned a master's in library science from Columbia University.
He worked as a librarian in the Performing Arts Research Center at the New York Public Library from 1962-70, then as an assistant professor and librarian at Trenton State College (New Jersey) from 1970-86.While attending Antioch University, before going to the University of Wisconsin, he avoided English courses but took play writing courses. He had a strong-minded teacher who showed how to put together a plot and how to develop characters, and Avi credits him with providing a structural foundation for his own writings.
He was born Avi (pronounced Ah-vee) Wortis in New York City on December 23,1937, into an artistic family. His father was a psychiatrist and his mother a social worker, both of whom loved the arts and populated their home with books. Avi's relatives include other artists and writers, and he seems to have been part of lively discussions of arts and artistic enterprises all of his life. Further, he had a great attachment to books, saying that he learned more from reading onhis own than he did in school.
His love of the written word transcended his dysgraphia and the efforts of his elders to discourage him from pursuing writing as a career.
His becoming a librarian may have been a compromise between his passion for reading and his difficulty writing clear prose, although he wrote plays continually. On November 1, 1963, he married Joan Gabriner (they laterdivorced) and they had two children. Avi found himself telling his children stories, letting them pick a subject. Out of this grew his career as a writer for young readers. Slowly, he was able to illustrate other writers' books, then illustrate his own books, and then move on beyond picture books to long fiction for young adults and middle-aged youngsters. His picture books brought him renown, and hequickly became part of textbooks on children's literature.
He has won a number of awards, and The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle is his most honored book so far. Among the awards it has won is that of Newbery Honor Book for 1990. Avi lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with his wife Coppelia (nee Kahn), a college professor; he sets much of his fiction in Providence, as he does the...
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