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| J.M. Coetzee's full name is John Michael Coetzee. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1940, Coetzee is a writer and critic who uses the political situation in his homeland as a backdrop for many of his novels. Coetzee published his first work of fiction, Dusklands, in 1974. Another book, Boyhood, loosely chronicles an ....[more] |
| Lynne Connolly writes historical romance and paranormal romance. She lives in England with her family and her mews, a cat called Jack.
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| Laurie R. King is a mystery writer. She was born in Watsonville, California. King holds a master's degree in theology. King published a novel, Grave Talent, in 1993 and the book won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Since then she has continued to publish approximately a book per year. |
| 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] |
| Under the penname Cricket Starr, I love to write sexy stories encompassing the fantasies we've all had, about meeting the perfect lover and the man of our dreams. But then I like to explore that place where fantasy ends and love becomes real and everlasting. This is the theme I used in THE DOLL, an Ellora's Cave quicki....[more] |
| Shiloh Walker has been writing since she was a kid. She fell in love with vampires with the book Bunnicula and has worked her way up to the more...ah...serious vampire stories. She loves reading and writing anything paranormal, anything fantasy, and nearly every kind of romance. Once upon a time she worked as a nurse, ....[more] |
| Douglas Noel Adams (1952 - 2001) was an English writer, dramatist, and musician. He is best known for science fiction comedy, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Adams was born on March 11, 1952 in Cambridge, England. He had one younger sister. In 1957, his parents divorced. Adams, his sister, and his mother mo....[more] |
| Louisa May Alcott was born November 29, 1832 in Germantown, Pennsylvania. She was the second of four daughters born to Amos Bronson Alcott, a well-known transcendentalist philosopher and educator, and Abigail May Alcott. In 1834, the Alcott family moved to Massachusetts, where they became acquainted with writers and ....[more] |
| 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] |
| Horatio Alger, Jr. is an American author of boy’s adventure stories. The story of a poor boy going on to live an adventurous life leading to a comfortable middle class life was the central theme of his writings. Alger was born on Friday the 13th in January, 1832 in Chelsea, Massachusetts. He was born near-sighted and ....[more] |
| Nelson Algren was an American writer born 28 March 1909 in Detroit, Michigan. His stories were heavily influenced by Chicago and he provided an authentic picture of the darker shades of city life. His name at birth was Nelson Ahlgren Abraham and he was the youngest of three children. At age three, he moved with his pa....[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] |
| 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] |
| Sherwood Anderson, born in Camden, Ohio, in 1876, was an American writer of short stories and novels. Anderson led a transient life, moving frequently with his parents and siblings as a child, as his parents struggled to find work, and continuing this theme into his adult life. As a result of his family’s nomadic lifes....[more] |
| Anthony Hope (February 9, 1863 – July 8, 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. His best-known works are the adventure novel The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau (1989). The Prisoner of Zenda is considered Hope’s best work and has been adapted repeatedly for the screen. Hope is the orig....[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] |
| Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher who wrote about physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, dance, philosophy, psychology, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, morality, biology, botany, agriculture, and zoology. He was a student of the Classical Greek philosopher Plato and went on to te....[more] |
| Isaac Yudovich Ozimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American author, best known for his science fiction novels and short stories. He also wrote mystery, fantasy, and non-fiction. Asimov wrote or edited approximately five hundred books and more than nine thousand letters and postcards. One of his short sto....[more] |
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