Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey was born on January 29, 1954 and her name was given from the Bible. Her parents didn't marry. Her mother couldn't get a comfortable life for her so she had to live with her grandparents. She grew to be a clever and when she was six years old, she moved to Wisconsin for living with her mother and half-sister, Patricia, but she wanted Oprah to back to the farm. Oprah decided to ask her father to live with him and he accepted her asking. She had nice time with him and his wife, Zelma, but she started to live with her mother and her boyfriend and children. Her mother was very busy and she didn't enough time to spend with her so she wasn't happy. Also, she was unhappy at the school. She was a good student and other students don't like her. She maybe has stress and ran away from home. Her mother thought she should be in a home for problem girls but there wasn't enough room for her so her mother decided to give her over to her father. Then, her life with her father and his wife started.
In 1970, when she was seventeen, she went to Hollywood and wanted to be an actress. One day, she went to a radio station, was asked to read the news, and was very good. She got her first job in radio and was paid $100 a week. She thought this job was important so left college and took it. This time, no other woman or black person read the news on television in Nashville so the station paid her $15,000 a year. At the time, she was only nineteen years old.
She worked at WTVF-TV for three years but ideas between she and this company are different, so she quit.
In 1977, she started to do 'People Are Talking', which is a talk show. She did better and better, but she loved a man who had a wife, so she wanted to leave there.
She moved to Chicago because Debra DiMaio who worked for a TV station in Chicago wanted to meet her. She started doing the A.M. Chicago talk show in 1984. She had a new job and $200,000 a year. She was only twenty-nine years old.
She thought 'Television changes people's lives.', so she always would do her best and she thought reading was very important for her. She had been reading many books.
She is one of the richest woman in the world and she gives things to her friend and to people at work and uses her money for more serious things. In 1997, she started Angel Network. This builds houses for people and gives away money across the United States. Many people get money and help from her.
Oprah is now one of the most successful women in the world. Many people love her.
I hadn't known her before I read this book. I think she is very great. She affected many people all over the world. It is difficult to affect many people but it is important, I think.
