Emma Baldwin, a graduate of East Carolina University, has a deep-rooted passion for literature. She serves as a key contributor to the Book Analysis team with years of experience.
Holding multiple degrees including a B.A. in English, a minor in Creative Writing, a B.F.A. in Fine Art, a B.A. in Art Histories, and a Masters in Arts from East Carolina University, Emma brings a multidisciplinary approach to her work. Her expertise in literature is channeled into insightful contributions on Book Analysis.
B.A. in English, B.F.A. in Fine Art, and B.A. in Art Histories from East Carolina University.
Emma has been a voracious reader since she was in elementary school and has read novels, poems, and short stories from innumerable periods, authors, and literary movements.
Feminist Literature from all periods, especially the novels of Margaret Atwood, Virginia Woolf, Kate Chopin, and Louise Erdrich.
Try to focus on any repeating elements you experience while reading, such as a color, word, or object. These are often representative of something deeply important to better understanding the novel.
I always try to see the events of the novel through the characters' perspectives. Why are they doing what they're doing and what events from their pasts are influencing them?
When I was traveling in Estonia, I picked a discarded book out of the street and read it while on the trip.
This is an important work of nonfiction. It is a historical memoir by Solomon Northup after being freed from slavery in the Southern United States. Northup was an African-American man born free in New York in the early 1800s who was abducted into slavery.
This was one of the most important novels of the 19th-century. Written after escaping from twelve years of enslavement, the book details the author’s life experiences.
This is a powerful and important novel that tells the story of the author’s life after he was kidnapped into slavery. It uses quotes in different ways to speak about freedom, oppression, inhumanity, and much more.
This is an emotional narrative detailing the twelve years enslavement that Solomon Northup was forced to endure. He, along with those he meets along the way, struggle to survive.
This is an important work of non-fiction that details the author’s experiences. The memoir depicts Northup’s twelve years as a slave in the Southern United States.
Twelve Years a Slave is an autobiography. It details Northup’s life after he was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. in 1841 and sold into slavery.
Solomon Northup is the world-renowned author of the powerful ‘Twelve Years a Slave’ memoir. It was published in 1853, soon after Northup was freed from slavery in the American south.
Solomon Northup was an African American man born to a free family in Minerva, New York, in 1808. He was a skilled carpenter and violinist who lived a relatively comfortable life until he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841.
Much of Solomon Northup’s life is well-documented, but his death is not. So what happened after Northup was freed? And how exactly did he die?
The popular young adult book ‘Stargirl’ dives deep into the heart of a universal struggle: the challenge of standing out in a world that often rewards blending in.
