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Myrtle Sue Lyles Eakin, known as Sue Eakin (December 7, 1918September 17, 2009),〔Obituary of Sue Lyles Eakin, Melancon Funeral Home, Bunkie, Louisiana, accessed September 21, 2009〕 was an American historian, a professor, and a journalist from Bunkie, Louisiana. She specialized in Louisiana history, particularly the Old South plantation system. Eakin is best known for documenting, annotating, and reviving interest in the 1853 ''Twelve Years a Slave,'' a slave narrative by Solomon Northup, a free man from New York who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841. In 2013, a popular film version of ''Twelve Years a Slave'', a Golden Globes nominee, was released. Directed by Steve McQueen and written by John Ridley, the picture stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup. Much of the photography was taken in the summer of 2012 in the New Orleans area.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Susan King and Rene Lynch, ''Golden Globes nominations: '12 Years a Slave,' 'Hustle' take Oscar lead'' )〕 ''Twelve Years a Slave'' won the 2013 Academy Award for Best Picture. In his acceptance speech for the honor, director McQueen thanked Eakin: "I'd like to thank this amazing historian, Sue Eakin, whose life, she gave her life's work to preserving Solomon’s book." Eakin discovered Northup's narrative when she was twelve years of age and again when in college; in time, she pushed the project to fruition after many years of work.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jodi Belgard, "Central Louisiana historian Sue Eakin's work gets Oscar mention", March 4, 2014 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Twelve Years a Slave'' Brad Pitt and Steve MoQueen's Best Picture Oscars Acceptance Speech in Full )〕 ==Early years and education== Eakin was born on the Compromise Plantation in the Lyles community at Loyd Bridge near Cheneyville in south Rapides Parish, Louisiana. She was the eldest child of the nine surviving children of Samuel Pickles Lyles, Sr., and the former Mary Myrtle Guy.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sue Eakin (1918-2009) )〕 She attended local schools and graduated from Lecompte High School in nearby Lecompte.〔Richard P. Sharkey, "Noted Louisiana historian Sue Eakin of Bunkie dead at 90", ''Alexandria Daily Town Talk'', accessed September 21, 2009〕 After completing her college degree, on January 31, 1941, Sue Lyles married Paul Mechlin Eakin, Sr.,〔 (July 19, 1917February 6, 1995)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Social Security Death Index )〕 of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, later New Jersey. They resided in Bunkie, where he was an accountant and she a professional freelance journalist and a columnist for the ''Alexandria Daily Town Talk''; the ''Opelousas Daily World'' in Opelousas, the seat of St. Landry Parish; and the ''New Orleans Times-Picayune'', traditionally the state’s largest newspaper. From 1957 to 1959, Paul and Sue Eakin also owned and operated the ''Bunkie Record'' newspaper.〔 At the age of forty-two in 1960, Eakin began graduate work at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge to earn two master's degrees, one in journalism and the other in history. She was one of thirteen women students in the nation to receive an educational grant from the American Association of University Women.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sue Eakin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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