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| English poet Alfred Tennyson was born on August 6, 1809 in Lincolnshire, England. The fourth of twelve children, Tennyson spent a few years unhappy with traditional schooling before being tutored at home. In 1827, Tennyson moved to Cambridge where he enrolled in Trinity College. That same year, his work was publishe....[more] |
| Sir Kingsley William Amis was an English author who wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, short stories, radio and television scripts, books concerning social criticism, and was considered one of the “angry young men” of the 1950s. Moreover, as of 2008 The Times ranked him 9th on their list of 50 greatest B....[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] |
| It is hard to find a more polarizing author than Austen, who was revered by her admirers and despised by her critics. Either way, her works demand a passionate response two hundred years after they were published. Born in 1775 in England to a middle-class family, Austen had her greatest success shortly before her death....[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] |
| 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] |
| Brendan Francis Behan (1923 – 1964) was born in Dublin, Ireland and grew to become a well known Irish and English playright, short story writer and novelist.
Behan came from an active family. His mother was highly involved in politics of the time, his father was active in the Irish War of Independence, Behan’s unc....[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] |
| Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was an English novelist, journalist, and dramatist known for his depiction of English life and society in the “Five Towns” series of novels that was based on his birthplace, the Potteries district of Staffordshire, England.
Bennett was born in Burslem, one of the centers of the Staffordshi....[more] |
| Rupert Chawner Brooke (August 3, 1887 - April 23.1915) Brooke was the second of three sons of William Parker Brooke and Ruth Mary Cotterill Brooke. He attended Hillbrow Prep School and was educated at Rugby School. His thesis, entitled “John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama” was composed while traveling in Europe a....[more] |
| Robert Browning (May 7, 1812 - December 12, 1889) Browning was born in Camberwell, a suburb of London, England, the only child of Robert and Sarah Anna Browning. Browning’s father owned a library of about 6,000 books so Robert always had considerable literary resources. By age twelve Browning had written a book of p....[more] |
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