Harlan Ellison ( who began reading van Vogt as a teenager ) wrote, " Van was the first writer to shine light on the restricted ways in which I had been taught to view the universe and the human condition.

Roberta had an acting experience as a mentally disturbed teenager in Paul Zindel's The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds.

Rousseau's choice of a Catholic vicar of humble peasant background ( plausibly based on a kindly prelate he had met as a teenager ) as a spokesman for the defense of religion was in itself a daring innovation for the time.

As a teenager, she befriended a group of outcasts, one of whom had albums by African-American blues artists Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and Lead Belly, whom Joplin later credited with influencing her decision to become a singer.

Styne attended Chicago Musical College, but before then he had already attracted attention of another teenager, Mike Todd, later a successful film producer, who commissioned him to write a song for a musical act that he was creating.

Andy is interviewed for the story and explains that, as a teenager, he had used escapist novels in order to cope with his alienating school and home life in Buffalo, NY.

On March 25, 1969, Orbison married German teenager Barbara Jakobs, whom he had met several days before his sons ' deaths.

The viewer had to read Rachel's and Lorcán's blogs as well as watch video diaries detailing the thoughts of each character to solve the mystery of missing teenager, Ciara.

His father described Salem as a quarrelsome teenager who had problems with alcohol and petty theft.

As a teenager, Mort had a personality and temperament that made him rather unsuited to the family farming business.

The piece, titled " My Mummy Was Beautiful ", was dedicated to Lennon's mother, Julia, who had died when Lennon was a teenager.

" Smith had bulimia since she was a teenager.

Despite smoking in some of his films, Eastwood is a lifelong non-smoker, has been conscious of his health and fitness since he was a teenager, and as a Vegan practices healthy eating and daily Transcendental Meditation. While promoting his film, Hereafter, Eastwood spoke about his views on religion and meditation by saying " I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them.

As we have seen, Byrd had begun setting Latin liturgical texts as a teenager, and he seems to have continued to do so at Lincoln.

By his senior year in high school, Fonda had grown to more than six feet tall, but remained a shy teenager.

Born in New Jersey, Solanas said that she was the victim of sexual abuse by her father ; and, after her parents ' divorce, she had a volatile relationship with her mother and stepfather as a teenager with her unruly behavior.

In December 2007 the Associated Press reported on a story concerning the Church of Satan, in which a teenager had sent an e-mail to High Priest Gilmore stating he wanted to " kill in the name of our unholy lord Satan ".

However, as the Governor of Illinois he was told about a teenager who had survived an automobile accident while his friend was killed.

" At the time of the apparent appointment Subh-i-Azal was still a teenager, had never demonstrated leadership in the Bábí movement, and was still living in the house of his older brother, Bahá ' u ' lláh.

On that documentary was a young teenager, Amit Ghose, who had decided for himself to have corrective surgery at the age of 14.

By the time he was a teenager, Orff was writing songs, although he had not studied harmony or composition ; his mother helped him set down his first works in musical notation.

By the time he was a teenager, Scheele had learned the dominant theory of gases in the 1770s, the phlogiston theory.

Though Findley had declared his homosexuality as a teenager, he married actress / photographer Janet Reid ( born 1930 ) in 1959, but the union lasted only three months and was dissolved by divorce or annulment two years later.

Early attempts to get into the police force when he was a teenager were unsuccessful on account of his asthma, so when it had been cured, he could then pursue his ambition to become a professional police officer.

Francis II had a brief reign, becoming king as a teenager without experience, when the kingdom was struggling with religious troubles.

She was such a well-rounded teenager, having been a twirler, Future Farmers sweetheart, and secretary of Future Homemakers.

A real world example is when a teenager becomes pregnant after having unprotected sex, people assume that she has been engaging in unprotected sex for longer than someone who has been engaging in unprotected sex and is not pregnant.

As a teenager, Polgár has been credited with contributing to the popularity of the opening variation King's Bishop's Gambit.

In more recent years, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, Lost Laysen, have been published.

Beatty's costar, Natalie Wood, was in a transition period in her career, having mostly been cast in roles as a child or teenager, and she was now hoping to be cast in adult roles.

In those years, the Texas hero Sam Houston, for whom the street is sometimes incorrectly said to have been named, was an unknown teenager in Tennessee.

Having been a loner as a teenager, Spielberg described the film as " a minority story ".

Juana Josefina Cavazos had been captured by Comanches as a teenager.

As a teenager, with her gorgeous red hair and undeniable charm, Margie had been crowned Queen of the New Jersey State Fair.

Emo music has been blamed for the suicide by hanging of teenager Hannah Bond by both the coroner at the inquest into her death and her mother, Heather Bond, after it was claimed that emo music glamorized suicide and her apparent obsession with My Chemical Romance was said to be linked to her suicide.

As a teenager, Costello had been an amateur boxer in his hometown of Paterson, New Jersey.

As a result, Superman ( both as an adult and a teenager ) and the current version of Supergirl have been reincorporated into Legion history.

The teenager was soon hailed as a possible late call-up for Alf Ramsey's 1966 World Cup squad, having been included in the original 40-man squad announced in April 1966, but he was not included in the final 22.

The original provisions of the " devise " have been described as bizarre and obsessive and as typical of a teenager, while incompatible with the mind and needs of a pragmatical politician.

Stevens ( no relation to Nicky ) had been performing as a big-band singer since a teenager in the late 1960s.

Known internationally as a representative of Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest, he has been composing his own music since he was a teenager.

Described by Wilson and friend Jesse Greer as having been a generally happy if somewhat mischievous and sassy teenager, Ballard experienced a change in personality, from which she seemingly never recovered, as the result of an incident that occurred in the summer of 1960.

The City of Belfast Youth Orchestra set up a Stephen Parker Memorial Trust in memory of teenager Stephen Parker, who had been a music student and played the French Horn in the orchestra at the time he was killed.

In films and TV serials the character has been played by Siddahartha Chattopadhyay, Saswata Chattopadhyaya, and Parambrata Chattopadhyay at different times. He is a teenager.

When Tutankhamun died while still a teenager, Horemheb had already been officially designated as the rpat or iry-pat ( basically the " Hereditary or Crown Prince ") and idnw (" Deputy of the King " in the entire land ) by the child pharaoh ; these titles are found inscribed in Horemheb's then private Memphite tomb at Saqqara which dates to the reign of Tutankhamun since the child king's ...