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Thomas Hardy

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Jane Austen

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]

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]

Anthony Burgess

Aesop

For many, an illustrated version of Aesop’s Fables is ubiquitous with childhood. Born a slave, Aesop and his fables have become a staple of popular culture for generations. While his birthplace is a matter of much scholarly debate with Egypt, Ethiopia and Athens being presented as possibilities, some facts about his li....[more]

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George Ames Plimpton was born March 18, 1927. He was educated first at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, and then spent four years at Harvard majoring in English and editing the Harvard Lampoon, followed by two at King's College, Cambridge. Before he left for Cambridge, he served as a tank driver in Italy for t....[more]