November 9, 2012
Jerry Siegel came of age during the 1910s and ’20s. The youngest child of Jewish Lithuanian immigrants, Siegel often felt out of place in the blue collar, Midwestern atmosphere of his Cleveland, Ohio, neighborhood. When… more>
categories: writing program, faculty research, usc dornsife magazine
tags: alice echols, creativity, dinah lenney, humanities, lois banner, mark richard, memory, peter c. mancall, usc dornsife magazine, writing
July 7, 2011
Mark Richard didn’t intend to write his latest book.
He had originally set out to explore the death of Nat Turner, an early 19th-century slave insurrectionist in Southampton County, Va., where Richard lived as a boy.… more>
categories: faculty research
tags: award, book, humanities, mark richard, master of professional writing program, mpw, writing