She seemed to work to grow close to her son in the few days he spent at home, talking to him about some of the more pleasant moments of his childhood and then trying to talk to him about those things in which he alone was interested.

Born in Kaysersberg, Schweitzer spent his childhood in the village of Gunsbach, Alsace (), where his father, the local Lutheran-Evangelical pastor, taught him how to play music.

Abner spent his childhood in Auburn and later was sent to Cooperstown to live with his uncle and attend a private preparatory high school.

The Stoneys were a Protestant Anglo-Irish gentry family from both County Tipperary and County Longford, while Ethel herself had spent much of her childhood in County Clare.

He spent his early childhood like other Arab children of the time among the Bedouins who called themselves Ahl-i-Ba ' eer-the people of the camel, and developed a particular fondness for camels.

Alexis Andrew Nicholas Koerner was born in Paris to an Austrian Jewish father and a half-Turkish half-Greek mother, and spent his childhood in France, Switzerland, and North Africa.

Pike was born in Boston, Massachusetts, son of Ben and Sarah ( Andrews ) Pike, and spent his childhood in Byfield and Newburyport, Massachusetts.

Arnulf spent his childhood on the Mosaburch or Mosapurc, which is widely believed to be Moosburg in Carinthia, only a few miles away from one of the Imperial residences, the Carolingian Kaiserpfalz at Karnburg, which before as Krnski grad had been the residence of the Carantanian princes.

Nin was raised a Roman Catholic and spent her childhood and early life in Europe.

Watterson, who drew his first cartoon at age eight, spent much time in childhood alone, drawing and cartooning.

In 1938, he finished the World War I monument in Târgu-Jiu where he had spent much of his childhood.

Guest spent parts of his childhood in his father's native United Kingdom.

Since his early childhood he spent his free time by drawing on any material he could find.

His family's second home was in a completely different geological and ecological area: he spent much of his childhood at Bartley Lodge in the New Forest, England.

She spent most of her childhood and all of her adult life based in Paris and then the abbey at Poissy, and wrote entirely in her adoptive tongue of Middle French.

This stretch of interstate runs through Fortson, GA where Atkins spent much of his childhood.

Born to a middle-class family in Missoula, Montana, Lynch spent his childhood traveling around the United States, before going on to study painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he first made the transition to producing short films.

The son of a career naval officer, Donaldson spent his early childhood in different seaport cities in the eastern United States and in Germany.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Dennett spent part of his childhood in Lebanon, where, during World War II, his father was a covert counter-intelligence agent with the Office of Strategic Services posing as a cultural attaché to the American Embassy in Beirut.

His childhood was spent in Swansea, with summer trips to Carmarthenshire to visit Fernhill, a dairy farm owned by his maternal aunt, Ann Jones, the memory of which is used for the 1945 lyrical poem " Fern Hill ".

His childhood was spent in Prostějov, where he attended the elementary school.

The Duchy of Aquitaine was the largest and richest province of France ; Poitou ( where Eleanor spent most of her childhood ) and Aquitaine together were almost one-third the size of modern France.

Two years later, Carmine became the first flautist for the NBC Symphony Orchestra and the family moved to New York City, finding a home in Woodside, Queens, where Francis spent the remainder of his childhood.

He spent his childhood in Fuendetodos, where his family lived in a house bearing the family crest of his mother.

For Domitian, this meant that a significant part of his adolescence was spent in the absence of his near relatives.

Derek Freeman, an anthropologist who spent many years among the Samoans, was critical of Mead's findings that culture is responsible for the disturbances of adolescence, and that Samoans had a significantly different experience.

Fox spent his childhood and adolescence at the family ranch in San Francisco del Rincón in Guanajuato.

John spent most of his adolescence skipping school to opt for music activities instead, and ended up playing in local bands with friends and his cousin Tony Bongiovi, who owned the then famous New York recording studio, The Power Station.

After a troubled childhood and adolescence, during which he was expelled from a number of schools and eventually spent three months in prison for credit card fraud, he was able to secure a place at Queens ' College, Cambridge where he studied English Literature.

* Flannery O ' Connor, author, spent her adolescence and parts of her later life in Milledgeville ( at Andalusia ) and is buried in Milledgeville's Memory Hill Cemetery.

* Peter David ( born 1956 ), science fiction / fantasy author who spent his adolescence in Verona and has used it as a location in his fiction work, such as being the home location of villain Morgan le Fay in his first novel, Knight Life.

* Fred Krupp, President of the Environmental Defense Fund, spent his childhood and adolescence in Verona.

After the Second Council of Blachernae, his father was condemned and exiled, and Metochites seems to have spent his adolescence in the monastic milieux of Bithynia in Asia Minor.

She spent part of her childhood and adolescence in England.

It is known that Birger grew up and spent his adolescence in Bjälbo, Östergötland but the exact date of his birth remains uncertain and available historical sources are contradictory.

He spent his early childhood with his parents and four siblings in Eugene, Oregon, and his later childhood and adolescence in Santa Barbara, California.

Like John Vanbrugh, Wycherley spent some years of his adolescence in France, where he was sent, at fifteen, to be educated in the heart of the " precious " circle on the banks of the Charente.

After the war, Račan returned to Croatia and spent his childhood and adolescence in Slavonski Brod, before moving to Zagreb and enrolling at the University of Zagreb.

Cope ’ s family later moved to Tamworth, Staffordshire, where he spent his adolescence.

During his adolescence, Yuan spent time traveling from town to town, and befriended many Jesuits and foreigners along the way.

Most of Cort's adolescence was spent caring for his sisters and father ; his father had multiple sclerosis and died of it in 1971.

Little is known of Berry ’ s education but it is certain that he spent his adolescence among arts and literature ( Cazelles and Rathofer 1988 ).

His time spent there during the beginning of his adolescence was a time of peace and calm.

Since most of the early functionalist historians were West German, it was often enough for intentionalist historians, especially for those outside Germany, to note that men such as Broszat and Hans Mommsen had spent their adolescence in the Hitler Youth and then to say that their work was an apologia for National Socialism.

George Sand spent her childhood and adolescence there.

He spent his childhood and adolescence in Santa Rosa de Toay, Argentina.

He spent his adolescence in Wilno, attending a local gymnasium.

Dyer was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Melvin Lyle ( deceased ) and Hazel Irene Dyer and spent much of his adolescence in an orphanage on the east side of Detroit.