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James Boswell Biography
Brief biography of Scottish writer and biographer, James Boswell, famous for writing the biography of Samuel Johnson, author of the first English dictionary.
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Samuel Johnson Biography
Brief biography of Dr. Johnson, English translator, literary critic and poet, best known for the first dictionary of the English language.
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Samuel Richardson Biography
Brief biography of English novelist Samuel Richardson, known for epistolary novels, famous for Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded and Clarissa: or, the History of a Young Lady.
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Biography of Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)
Brief biography of novelist Marie-Henri Beyle, known by pen name Stendhal, famous for novels The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma.
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Mary Shelley Biography
This article is a biography of novelist Mary Shelley, English horror writer famous for Frankenstein and wife of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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Anna Jameson Traveler, Art Historian
Governess, art historian, inveterate traveler Anna Jameson conveyed her many interests through her 19th century writings.
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Voltaire's Candide and Other Works
Voltaire's life works and brief biography, famous for many satires including his best known Candide, and Philosophical Letters.
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Educational Efforts of Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy was a driving force behind educational changes in Russia by challenging ideas of who and how to teach.
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August Strindberg Biography
Brief biography of Swedish playwright and novelist August Strindberg, whose success started with novel The Red Room prior famous plays, Miss Julie and The Father.
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Dylan Thomas Biography
Brief biography Welsh Dylan Thomas, poet and writer, best known for writing about life in Wales, apparently depicted in Under Milk Wood.
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Margaret Laurence and The Diviners
Margaret Laurence, one of Canada's most honored and respected writers faced controversies related to censorship of The Diviners.
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Margaret Laurence Biography
Jean Margaret Laurence nee Wemyss, one of Canada's most revered writers, presented a wonderful depth of feelings in her characters such as Morag in The Diviners.
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Czeslaw Milosz Biography
Brief biography of Czeslaw Milosz, Polish-American poet and writer. He was the 1980 Nobel laureate for literature; his first poetry book was Poem of the Frozen Time.
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Karel Capek Biography
Brief biography of Czech author Karek Capek, best known for the play R.U.R. about race robots that became human, and credited for the word 'robot.'
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Nikolai Gogol Biography
Brief biography of Russian novelist, playwright, and short-story writer Nikolai Gogol, famous for masterpiece epic Dead Souls, a satirical long short-story fiction.
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André Gide Biography
Brief biography of French novelist, playwright and critic André Gide, 1947 Nobel Prize Winner for literature, best known for The Immoralist and The Counterfeiters.
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Sextus Propertius Biography
Brief biography of Roman Poet Sextus Propertius, best known for elegies of passionate love. His name is mentioned alongside Horace and Ovid.
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William Carlos Williams Biography
American poet, short story writer and novelist W.C. Williams, also an obstetrician, was a prolific poet and writer. He is best known for Pictures from Brueghel.
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Thornton Wilder Biography
Brief biography of American writer Thornton Wilder, multi-awarded Pulitzer Prize winner of The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Our Town, and The Skin of Our Teeth.
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Sean O'Casey Biography
Brief biography of Irish playwright Sean O'Casey, famous for Mirror in My House and The Shadow of a Gunman.
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Jean Rhys Biography
Brief biography of Dominican-born British novelist and short story writer Jean Rhys, whose fiction echoes her childhood, best known for Wide Sargasso Sea.
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Luigi Pirandello Biography
Brief biography of Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello, best known for Six Characters in Search of an Author and Right You Are, If You Think You Are.
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Ray Bradbury Biography
Brief biography and books of Ray Bradbury, one of the founders of modern science fiction, best known for Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and other sci-fi novels.
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Eudora Welty Biography
Brief biography of American Southern author Eudora Welty, 1973 Pulitzer Prize winner for her The Optimist's Daughter.
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Hilaire Belloc Biography
Brief biography of Hilaire Belloc, a versatile English writer and parliamentarian best known for children's verses like Cautionary Tales and Bad Child's Book of Beasts.
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