Does the listview disappear when you navigate back to the previous activity?

Question

Android

I have 3 Activities:
On the main, when the application starts, a selection is made in the listview, then when you click on any element of this lv, a new activity opens and another selection is made in the new listview by the value of the pressed element. Further, when you click on an element in the textview on the third Activity, infa comes out.
And so:
When from Activity #3 you go back on 2 Activity all is empty. And when from the second to the first you go lv in place with a selection.

Answer 1

The second activity does not receive anything from the first? Show a code fragment with the opening of the 2nd activity and its onCreate() method.

Answer 2

Joe Ballad
Gets the value of the listView row that was clicked by the user.

lvAuthorsAndPoems.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> adapterView, View view, int position, long l) {

                Intent intent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, AuthorSelectedActivity.class);
                intent.putExtra("authorName", authorPoemsList.get(position).getAuthorName());
                startActivity(intent);
            }
        });

@Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_authorselected);

        lvAuthorSelected = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.lvAuthorSelected);
        dbHelper = new DatabaseHelper(this);
        arrayList = new ArrayList();

        Intent intent = getIntent();
        authorName = intent.getStringExtra("authorName");
        setTitle(authorName);

        dbHelper.openDatabase();
        Cursor cursor = dbHelper.mDatabase.rawQuery("SELECT p.description FROM poem p, authors a WHERE p.authorID=a._id AND a.authorName LIKE '%" + authorName + "%'",null);
        cursor.moveToFirst();
        while(!cursor.isAfterLast()){
            arrayList.add(cursor.getString(0));
            cursor.moveToNext();
        }
        cursor.close();

        arrayAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, arrayList);
        lvAuthorSelected.setAdapter(arrayAdapter);
        dbHelper.closeDatabase();


        lvAuthorSelected.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> adapterView, View view, int i, long l) {

                Intent iPoemText = new Intent(AuthorSelectedActivity.this, PoemTextActivity.class);
                iPoemText.putExtra("description", arrayAdapter.getItem(i));
                iPoemText.putExtra("authorName", authorName);
                startActivity(iPoemText);
            }
        });

    }