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| Author and illustrator Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1962. Some of her well-known works are Lizzy and Skunk; I'm a Tiger, Too!; You, Me and the Big Blue Sea; and The Long March. She has received numerous awards, including two Reading Association of Ireland Children's Book Awards, the Irish Chi....[more] |
| From the sensually romantic to humor and social commentary, Larry Jaffe impacts audiences with a rich emotional range, masterfully crafted. His poetry appears in numerous anthologies, magazines, and on the Internet where he has pioneered poetry web sites.
His entire professional career Larry Jaffe has been using ....[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] |
| Henry Rago 1915-1969
Poet and Professor
Henry Rago was a poet and editor of Poetry Magazine for 14 years from 1955-1969. He was also a Professor of Theology and Literature at the University of Chicago, jointly in the Divinity School and in the New Collegiate Division, since 1967. His seminars and research ex....[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] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| William Blake (November 28,1757- August 12, 1827) Blake was an was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. He was the third of seven children. Blake's father, James, was a hosier. William never attended school, and was educated at home by his mother Catherine Wright Armitage Blake. The Bible was an early and profoun....[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] |
| John Buchan, His Excellency The Right Honourable Lord Tweedsmuir (August 26, 1875 - February 11, 1940)
Buchan was the first child of John Buchan and Helen Jane Buchan. He was born in Perth, Scotland and raised in Kikcaldy, spending many summer holidays with his grandparents in the Scottish Borders. Buchan won a scho....[more] |
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