Tag: Biography Day
Biographers Day
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Pick-and-Shovel-Poet.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/16/2005 Biographers Day Transcript It’s Biographers Day today, in honor of the first meeting in London, in 1763, of James Boswell and that formidable man of letters, Samuel Johnson, who would soon become the subject of Boswell’s celebrated biography. We usually think of biographies […]
Biography Day
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Biography-Day.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 5/16/2000 Biography Day Transcript In celebration of Biography Day, I am going to read from one of the first biographies of George Washington for young people, written by Mason L. Weems, first published in 1800. In this biography, Weems focused on the private rather […]