Augusta Jane Evans Early years What were her early years like? She was born Augusta Jane Evans on May 8, 1835, in Columbus, Georgia, Did she stay in Columbus for her entire childhood? scarcely ten when they moved to San Antonio, Texas, in 1845. Was she poor growing up? Her father suffered bankruptcy and lost the family's Sherwood Hall property in the 1840s. Did things ever improve for her family? I don't know. Did she have any brothers or sisters? family of ten Was her childhood overall happy? she became a voracious reader at an early age.
When did she begin writing?
When did Augusta Jane Evans begin writing?
She was born Augusta Jane Evans on May 8, 1835, in Columbus, Georgia, the eldest child of the family. The area of her birth was then known as Wynnton (now MidTown). Her mother was Sarah S. Howard and her father was Matthew R. Evans. She was a descendant on her mother's side from the Howards, one of the most cultured families of Georgia. As a young girl in 19th-century America, she received little in the way of a formal education. However, she became a voracious reader at an early age.  Her father suffered bankruptcy and lost the family's Sherwood Hall property in the 1840s. He moved his family of ten from Georgia for Alabama, and scarcely ten when they moved to San Antonio, Texas, in 1845. When the Mexican-American War had ended, and everything was in a disorganized condition, consequently there were no schools of any prominence. Had her mother not been cultivated and literary, Evans could never have obtained the education which fitted her for the work she later accomplished. During the Mexican war, San Antonio was the rendezvous for the United States troops sent to assist General Zachary Taylor, and the brilliant uniforms of the soldiery, the martial music, and the exciting events that accompany war, combined with the picturesque, enchanting scenery around San Antonio, furnished an excellent theme for Evans' first novel. In 1850, at the age of fifteen, she wrote Inez: A Tale of the Alamo, a sentimental, moralistic, anti-Catholic love story. It told the story of one orphan's spiritual journey from religious skepticism to devout faith. She presented the manuscript to her father as a Christmas gift in 1854. It was published anonymously in 1855.  However, life in a frontier border town like San Antonio proved dangerous, especially with the Mexican-American War. By 1849, Evans' parents moved the family to Mobile, Alabama. She wrote her next novel, Beulah, at age 18; it was published in 1859. Beulah began the theme of female education in her novels. It sold well, selling over 22,000 copies during its first year of publication, a staggering accomplishment. It established her as Alabama's first professional author. Her family used the proceeds from her literary success to purchase Georgia Cottage on Springhill Avenue. CANNOTANSWER
In 1850, at the age of fifteen, she wrote Inez: A Tale of the Alamo,
Malka Locker (1887–1990; ) was a Ukrainian-born Israeli poet, writing primarily in Yiddish.

Biography 
Malka Locker was born in 1887 in Kuty, known in Yiddish as Kitev, a town in what was then the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, now Ukraine. She came from a long line of rabbis, and education was important to her family, with Malka receiving a secular education as well as a Yiddish one. She went on to learn German, French, and English, as well as Polish, Ukrainian, and Hebrew.

In 1910, she married the Zionist activist Berl Locker, who was her cousin. The couple traveled the world together, spending a decade living in London from 1938 to 1948. They permanently settled in Israel in 1948, having first spent time in then-Mandatory Palestine in the 1930s.

Locker is best known for her work as a poet, but she did not begin writing poetry until she was 42 years old. She began writing on the suggestion of a friend, who had identified a "poetic quality" in her correspondence. As she began to publish poems in the 1930s, her work received some notice from Yiddish critics.

She published at least six books of poetry, beginning with Velt un mentsh ("World and Man") in 1931. Subsequent collections included Du ("You") in 1932; Shtet ("Cities"), about London, in 1942; and The World Is Without a Protector: 1940-1945 in 1947. While she wrote primarily in Yiddish, she also published one book of poems in German, and her writing was also translated into Hebrew and French.

Locker also produced various works of literary criticism, with a focus on French romantic and symbolic poetry, including a 1965 book on Arthur Rimbaud, a 1970 biography of Charles Baudelaire, and a 1976 biography of Paul Verlaine. She was also a composer, notably writing the choral works "Luekh trts"v" and "Luekh trts'kh" in 1938, and would sing in Yiddish locally and internationally.

She died in Jerusalem in 1990, at age 103.

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1887 births
1990 deaths
People from Galicia (Eastern Europe)
Ukrainian women poets
Israeli women poets
Israeli poets
Yiddish-language poets
Israeli centenarians
Women centenarians Muriel Diallo (born 19 May 1967) is an Ivory Coast writer.

Diallo was born in Boundiali in 1967.  Although she is known for her writing she taught art for a living. She has exhibited her paintings and she has won a number of awards for her writing. Her first story was published in 1998. Her stories are written in French, for young people and frequently illustrated by Diallo. Diallo has written several books for young children with titles that begin "Bibi does not like..." and then titles deal with subjects like vegetables, medical treatment and football.

Diallo was troubled by murders caused by intolerance in her home country. She has moved to live in Paris where she paints and illustrates.

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1967 births
Living people
Ivorian writers Shreshta is a Telugu-Language lyricist and writer. She became popular for her lyrics for the songs in the movies, Pelli Choopulu and Arjun Reddy. After her debut, she was lauded as Telugu cinema’s first female lyricist.

Early life
She was born in Mancherial in Adilabad district, Telangana. She is the only child, her father is a businessman and mother a government employee. Her mother a Hindu Brahmin and raised in a devout Hindu family and devotional songs were part of family culture. She was interested in writing from early age. She did her schooling in Mancherial and did her Bachelors in Commerce and LLB at Osmania University. She use to write poems and was encouraged by her grandfather, Panchadhara Venkata Kishan. She first started writing poems when she was in tenth standard.

Career
She was encouraged by popular Telugu language lyricist, Vennelakanti to take up a career in penning lyrics. Initially, she started writing devotional songs, before pushing a career in movies.

Tollywood
She made Tollywood debut in 2013 with the film, Oka Romantic Crime Katha. She also penned lyrics for the Telugu films, Ko Ante Koti and Courier Boy Kalyan. Pelli Choopulu was her 9th movie as a lyricist.

Filmography

Awards
 Debutant Award at Cine Maa Mahila Awards in 2013

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Telugu-language lyricists