Not what you would call a musical family, but my father used to play saxophone, and I discovered many genres of music when I was a child.
Rokia Traore
My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him along with me all through my life. Every elderly... →
P. L. Travers
My father and brothers were coal miners.
Merle Travis
When my mother died, it sort of put a damper on things. My career didn't have the same significance or excitement. It had always been about doing... →
John Travolta
My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
Natasha Trethewey
My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.
My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.
As much as we love each other, there is some growing difficulty in my adult relationship with my father. Because we're both writers, we're... →
Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering... →
My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he'd tell me, if I got bored in the car, to write a... →