Great Writers

Brief biography of Czeslaw Milosz, Polish-American poet and writer, 1980 Nobel laureate for literature, first poetry book, Poem of the Frozen Time, aged 21.

Dec 14, 2009 - Tel Asiado

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.'

Dec 12, 2009 - Tel Asiado

Brief biography of Russian novelist, playwright, and short-story writer Nikolai Gogol, famous for masterpiece epic Dead Souls, a satirical long short-story fiction.

Dec 4, 2009 - Tel Asiado

Brief biography of French novelist, playwright and critic André Gide, 1947 Nobel Prize Winner for literature, best known for The Immoralist and The Counterfeiters.

Dec 3, 2009 - Tel Asiado

Brief biography of Roman Poet Sextus Propertius, best known for elegies of passionate love. His name is mentioned alongside Horace and Ovid.

Nov 29, 2009 - Tel Asiado

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.

Nov 25, 2009 - Tel Asiado

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.

Nov 25, 2009 - Tel Asiado

Brief biography of Irish playwright Sean O'Casey, famous for Mirror in My House and The Shadow of a Gunman.

Nov 23, 2009 - Tel Asiado

Brief biography of Dominican-born British novelist and short story writer Jean Rhys, whose fiction echoes her childhood, best known for Wide Sargasso Sea.

Nov 22, 2009 - Tel Asiado

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.

Nov 22, 2009 - Tel Asiado

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.

Nov 20, 2009 - Tel Asiado

Brief biography of American Southern author Eudora Welty, 1973 Pulitzer Prize winner for her The Optimist's Daughter.

Nov 16, 2009 - Tel Asiado

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.

Nov 16, 2009 - Tel Asiado

Brief biography of prolific French playwright Jean Anouilh, best known for Antigone, Becket, The Lark, and The Traveller without Luggage.

Nov 15, 2009 - Tel Asiado

Brief biography of American playwright Eugene O'Neil, best known for dramatic plays of modern town life such as Long Day's Journey into Night and The Iceman Cometh.

Nov 6, 2009 - Tel Asiado

Brief biography of Mexican poet Octavio Paz, famous for The Labyrinth of Solitude, Sun Stone and other poetry on the theme of harmony.

Nov 5, 2009 - Tel Asiado

Brief biography of William Hazlitt, one of the greatest English writers of essays, famous for Characters of Shakespeare's Plays and Life of Napoleon.

Oct 26, 2009 - Tel Asiado

Brief biography of British writer Arnold Bennett, England's exponent of realistic writing, his novels set in the Potteries.

Oct 26, 2009 - Tel Asiado

A biography of German philosopher Friedrich von Schiller, with focus on his work as a playwright and poet, best known for Ode to Joy, The Robbers, and historical dramas.

Oct 25, 2009 - Tel Asiado

Brief biography of Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian playwright and poet of early 20th century Lenin era, best known for his revolutionary literary works.

Oct 20, 2009 - Tel Asiado

Brief biography of essay inventor Michel de Montaigne, French writer and philosopher, famous for Essays containing his beliefs.

Oct 19, 2009 - Tel Asiado

Brief biography of Irish writer Samuel Beckett, influential British writer of the 20th century, leading dramatist and Nobel laureate in literature.

Oct 14, 2009 - Tel Asiado

Brief biography of Norwegian author Knut Hamsun, one of Scandinavia's greatest novelists. Aside from The Growth of the Soil, he is known for the novels Hunger and Pan.

Oct 14, 2009 - Tel Asiado

Brief biography of children's writer and artist Edward Lear, best known for his limericks, laughable lyrics and poetry like The Owl and the Pussycat.

Oct 11, 2009 - Tel Asiado

Brief biography of French writer Jean de La Fontaine, known for his children's writings.

Oct 9, 2009 - Tel Asiado