Son's parents separated when he was about seven or eight. His mother took him to Tallulah, Louisiana, across the Mississippi River from Vicksburg, Mississippi. When Son was in his early teens, they moved to Algiers, New Orleans.
George Eliot. Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 â 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Ann or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.
In the same period Evans turned her powerful mind from scholarly and critical writing to creative work. In 1857 she published a short story, Amos Barton, and took the pen name George Eliot in order to prevent the discrimination (unfair treatment because of gender or race) that women of her era faced.