But he was the son of a white mother from Kansas and an African, rather than an African-American, father from Kenya.
Yeats was busy dissuading his father from trying his hand at writing, an effort inspired in old age by his son's success.
This was initiated by Mr Tomiyama, the founder's grandson, who even went as far as to fire his own father from the board.
This is the full and unabridged letter Stuart Hazell, on trial for murdering the schoolgirl Tia Sharp, sent to his father from HMP Belmarsh.
Police are re-appealing for information about the killer of a father from Wirral who was shot in front of his girlfriend and son eight years ago.
Private Francheska Velez, daughter of a father from Colombia and a Puerto Rican mother, had recently served in Korea and in Iraq, and was pursuing a career in the Army.
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The preface to his answer is that he is a child of Europe, born in 1957 to a psychoanalyst mother of Polish extraction and a famous sociologist father from Romania, both Jewish.
Born in Rocinha to a father from the northeast of Brazil and American mother, Zezinho grew up in the favela before living in the U.S. on and off until 2008, when he decided to return to Rocinha for good.
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But Barlow noted that in this case studio marketers had to overcome audiences' unfamiliarity with the subject matter -- the 2000-year-old Chinese legend of a courageous young women who disguises herself as a man to enter the National Chinese Army in order to save her ailing father from being drafted.
Bush had a giant basket of names to start with--from Texas, from his father, from his work in Major League Baseball, from Yale, Harvard and Andover.
Her mother emigrated from El Salvador, and her father is from Mexico.
The family sought help from doctors, using the health insurance his father earned from his supermarket job.
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To be affected by the disease, however, puppies have to inherit two copies of the bad gene, one from their father and one from their mother.
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It had become a cultural norm, he says, transferred from generation to generation, from father to son, and from doctor to trainee - but it is a norm that is increasingly being challenged.
Yes, it was joyous to watch a 9-year-old girl welcome her father home from Afghanistan.
My father retired from the Air Force and took a job with NASA in California.
He was 8 when he and his pregnant mother watched his father return from work on horseback.
During Milton's childhood, his unrealistic father drifted from unsuccessful job to unremunerative project and the family subsisted on very little.
His father came from a line of Norman squires claiming a forebear who sailed with William to conquer England in 1066.
In Iwate prefecture, where my father is from, I recall how the entire township would get excited about a summer festival.
His mother and Ranj's father were from the same region in Punjab, and the two families became close in their new homeland.
You had Father Morrisette from Lowell, who spoke French to his parishioners.
Four years ago yesterday my father died from cirrhosis of the liver.
Her father emerged from the vehicle waving his arms in celebration to hundreds of reporters and neighbors gathered there, many of them chanting "Gina!"
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Schacter's son, Rabbi Jacob Schacter, said his father died from natural causes Thursday at a hospice residence in the Riverdale section of the Bronx.
With his father directing from the corner after a 13-year absence, he dominated Guerrero in a performance not totally expected at the age of 36.
The younger man had been taking his father back from shopping.
The father hailed from a Marwari trading family and was a dealer out of Kolkata in Rolex watches whose main sales were in steel wire.
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Her father switched from teaching middle-school Spanish to running a fish store in the Portland suburb of Clackamas, where her mother had a business producing couture dresses.
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When Lang was nine, he and his father moved from Shenyang to the capital to find better teaching and with hopes of gaining entrance to the conservatory.
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