{"id":32,"date":"2023-01-24T14:20:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T14:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/?p=32"},"modified":"2023-01-28T13:38:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T19:38:08","slug":"biographical-sketches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/2023\/01\/24\/biographical-sketches\/","title":{"rendered":"Biographical sketches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"508\" src=\"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116\/2023\/01\/2-1024x508.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116\/2023\/01\/2-1024x508.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116\/2023\/01\/2-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116\/2023\/01\/2-768x381.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116\/2023\/01\/2-1536x761.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116\/2023\/01\/2-2048x1015.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By Elizabeth Cali and Howard Rambsy II<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who are these people who composed memorable fictional tales, and under what conditions did they write their works? How did their childhoods inform their novels, and in what ways did the places where they lived and traveled influence their artistic output? Questions like these are at the core of biographical work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And really, it\u2019s our curiosities. We long to know more about the people responsible for producing captivating literary works. We want to know why they felt compelled to tell this particular tale with that specific lead character in that place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brief takes on the lives of novelists enrich our considerations of their books or experiences beyond their books.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Elizabeth Cali and Howard Rambsy II Who are these people who composed memorable fictional tales, and under what conditions did they write their works? How did their childhoods inform their novels, and in what ways did the places where they lived and traveled influence their artistic output? Questions like these are at the core <a href=\"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/2023\/01\/24\/biographical-sketches\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Biographical sketches<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographical-sketches"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}