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| Michele Torrey first became a published author at age ten, when her story about a dinosaur egg popping out of the kitchen sink appeared in the Seaview Heights Elementary newspaper. Her fifth grade class, located in Edmonds, Washington, wrote, edited, and published the newspaper.
While Torrey has lived most of her li....[more] |
| W. S. Merwin, 1927 - Poet W. S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927. He has authored over fifteen books of poetry and some of those titles include "The River Sound" (Alfred A. Knopf, 1999), which was named a New York Times notable book of the year; "The Vixen" (1996), which won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; "T....[more] |
| An ancient Greek playwright, Aeschylus is often called the father of tragedy. Among his revolutionary ideas, he expanded the number of characters in plays to allow for more interesting plots. Aeschylus was born around 525 B.C. to a wealthy family in a small town north of Athens. According to him, he started writing tra....[more] |
| Hans Christian Andersen, a Danish author, is most well-known for his fairy tales, which include ‘The Little Mermaid’, ‘Thumbelina’, and ‘The Ugly Duckling’. Andersen was born to poor parents, a washerwoman and a shoemaker, in Odense, Denmark, in 1805. Odense was the only town outside of Denmark’s capital to have a thea....[more] |
| Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (June 23, 1910 – October 3, 1986) was a French dramatist. Many of his plays explore idealism versus realism.
Anouilh was born in a small village on the fringe of Bordeauz, France. His father was a tailor and his mother was a successful violinist whose summer performances brought t....[more] |
| Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (August 26, 1880 – November 9, 1918) was a French poet, novelist, playwright, and critic who coined the term “surrealism.” His play, Les Mamelles de Tiresias, is considered one of the earliest surrealist works. He is known as Guillaume Apollinaire.
Apollinaire....[more] |
| Ludovico Ariosto (September 8, 1474 – July 6, 1533) was an Italian poet best known for his epic poem, Orlando Furioso (1516). Orlando Furioso is translated as “The Frenzy of Orlando” or “Mad Orlando.” It is a romantic epic poem that continues the earlier, incomplete romantic poem Orlando Innamorato (English translatio....[more] |
| Aristophanes (446-386 B.C.) was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. He wrote at least forty plays during his lifetime, eleven of which survive today. Because these eleven plays are the primary surviving relics of the genre known as Old Comedy, Aristophanes is considered the Master of Old Comedy. He is believed to ....[more] |
| Matthew Arnold (December 24, 1822 – April 15, 1888) was an English poet and critic. He is best known for the lyric poems “Dover Beach” (1867), “The Scholar-Gipsy” (1853), the commemorative poem “Thyrsis” (1865), a series of essays called Culture and Anarchy, and Literature and Dogma.
Arnold was born at Laleham on ....[more] |
| The famous poet, and namesake of the prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, was born in Klagenfurt, Austria in 1926. She attended several universities before receiving her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Vienna. Her first job post-graduation was at a local radio station where she worked as a scriptwriter and ....[more] |
| Not many struggling authors would declare that their newest project was going to make them a genius or even would set out to write a series of books that would try to encompass all elements of society in the first place. The result of Honoré de Balzac’s unique ambition was his life-work and masterpiece, “La Comédie hum....[more] |
| Most famous for creating the beloved character of Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie was born in Scotland in 1860. He was one of ten children and the death of his brother at age 14 would have a profound effect on Barrie’s life and when he would first get the idea for a character that remained a boy forever. Barrie himself would re....[more] |
| A talented Frenchwoman known for her complex novels and strong feminist views. Simon de Beauvoir was born in 1908 in Paris. Beauvoir was educated at an all girl’s school and lived a fairly comfortable life until after World War I when her grandfather went bankrupt, throwing the family finances into disarray. Her father....[more] |
| and short stories, was born in Dublin in 1906. Graduating from Trinity College, Beckett found work as a teacher. He soon befriended James Joyce, even taking dictation for parts of “Finnegans Wake”. Beckett began writing, starting as a poet but then moving on to essays and finally publishing his first novel, “More Prick....[more] |
| Aphra Behn (July 10, 1640 – April 16, 1689) was a woman writer during the Restoration in England. She was one of the first women to earn a living through her writing. Behn was raised by Catholic parents Bartholomew Johnson and Elizabeth Denham and went on to become a family nurse before stepping into the writing scene....[more] |
| Jacinto Benavente (1866-1954) was a prolific Spanish dramatist of the 20th century known for his revolutionary and characteristic style of drama that critiqued Spanish society. He wrote over 170 plays in his lifetime and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1922.
Benavente was born to a famous pediatrici....[more] |
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