A+E Networks. In early April 1968, shock waves reverberated around the world with the news that U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
Although One Hundred Years of Solitude has come to be considered one of, if not the, most influential Latin American texts of all time, the novel and Gabriel GarcÃ­a MÃ¡rquez have both received occasional criticisms.
The Mirror was written by Sylvia Plath in 1961 but wasn't published until 1971, eight years after her death by suicide. The free-verse poem tells the story of a woman who continuously looks at her reflection first in a mirror and then in a lake.