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| The Austrian psychologist and doctor, most famous for identifying and then naming the “inferiority complex”, helped usher in the era of individual psychology. Born in 1867 in Vienna, a severe childhood case of pneumonia greatly influenced Adler’s pursuit of medical knowledge. In 1895, he earned a medical degree from th....[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] |
| Shmuel Yosef Agnon (July 17, 1888 – February 17, 1970) is an important figure in modern Hebrew fiction. He is best known for his novels about the experience of Eastern European Jews. Agnon was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1966. Agnon is often referred to as Shai Agnon. In English, Agnon’s works are publ....[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] |
| 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] |
| Louis Aragon (October 3, 1897 – December 24, 1982) was a French poet, novelist, editor, and essayist. Along with the French writers Andre Breton and Philippe Soupault,
Aragon was a founder of the surrealist movement. He was also a member of the Communist Party and The Société littéraire des Goncourt (English transl....[more] |
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Declared by some to be the greatest Russian Jewish writer of all time, Isaac Babel was a journalist, playwright and short story writer. Born to a Jewish shopkeeper, Babel faced prejudice from an early age, not being allowed to attend a better school because they had already filled their Jewish Quota, a common practi....[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] |
| 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] |
| Edward Bellamy (1850-1897) is a well known American author and member of the socialist party. His most famous novel “Looking Backward” is regarded by some to hold its place among other bestsellers such as “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and “Ben-Hur”.
Bellamy was born in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts and went on to study law, w....[more] |
| Martin Buber (February 8, 1878 - died June 13, 1965)— died June 13, 1965) Buber born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary and died in Jerusalem. He was the son of Carl Buber and Elise Wurgast, who divorced when he was three years old, and for the next ten years he was raised by his grandparents, Solomon and Adele Buber. He was....[more] |
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