Lorene cary biography of albert bandura

Lorene Cary born [ 1 ] is an American author, educator [ 2 ] and social activist. Cary grew up in a working-class neighborhood [ 4 ] in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In , she was invited to the elite St. Paul's boarding school in New Hampshire , on scholarship, [ 5 ] entering in St. Paul's second year of co-education as one of the fewer than ten African-American female students.

Paul's, graduating in Paul's as a teacher. After writing a article about her experience at St. Paul's, [ 8 ] she published a longer memoir, Black Ice , which was published in by Alfred A. In , Cary published her first novel, The Price of a Child.

Professor Albert Bandura. He was

It is based on the escape of Jane Johnson , a slave from North Carolina who escaped to freedom with her two sons while briefly in Philadelphia with her master and his family. Set in , the novel tells the story of Ginnie Pryor, a slave from a Virginia plantation who is bought by the US Ambassador to Nicaragua. En route with her new owner to New York City, for their voyage to South America, she escapes via the Underground Railroad and works to build a new life in Philadelphia.

Fernanda Eberstadt , reviewing the novel in The New York Times , commented that Cary "is a powerful storyteller, frankly sensual, mortally funny, gifted with an ear for the pounce and ragged inconsequentiality of real speech and an eye for the shifts and subterfuges by which ordinary people get by". In , Cary published a second novel, Pride , which explores the experiences of four contemporary black middle-class women.