Anton Chekhov, in full Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, (born January 29, 1860, Taganrog, Russia – died July 15, 1904, Badenweiler, Germany) was a Russian playwright...
Read MoreJean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his pseudonym Molière, (baptized January 15, 1622, Paris, France – died February 17, 1673, Paris, France) was a French playwright...
Read MoreSylvia Plath, pseudonym Victoria Lucas, (born October 27, 1932, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. – died February 11, 1963, London, England) was an American poet, novelist,...
Read MoreF. Scott Fitzgerald, in full Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, (born September 24, 1896, St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S. – died December 21, 1940, Hollywood, California,...
Read MoreGeorge Bernard Shaw (born July 26, 1856, Dublin, Ireland – died November 2, 1950, Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England) was an Irish playwright, comic...
Read MoreEric Arthur Blair, known by his pen name George Orwell, (born June 25, 1903, Motihari, Bengal, India – died January 21, 1950, London, England)...
Read MoreMargaret Fuller, in full Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli, (born May 23, 1810, Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, U.S. – died July 19, 1850, Fire Island, New York,...
Read MoreNiccolò Machiavelli (born May 3, 1469, Florence, Italy – died June 21, 1527, Florence, Italy) was an Italian diplomat, philosopher, writer, and an important...
Read MoreAnaïs Nin, in full Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, (born February 21, 1903, Neuilly, France – died January 14, 1977,...
Read MoreSimone de Beauvoir, in full Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir, (born January 9, 1908, Paris, France – died April 14, 1986, Paris,...
Read MoreNapoleon Hill (born October 26, 1883, Pound, Virginia, U.S. – died November 8, 1970, South Carolina, U.S.) was an American author and one of...
Read MoreFranz Kafka (born July 3, 1883, Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary – died June 3, 1924, Kierling, Austria) was a German-language novelist and short story writer,...
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