William Makepeace Thackeray (born July 18, 1811, Calcutta, India – died December 24, 1863, London, England) was an English novelist, poet, and illustrator, mainly...
Read MoreHelen Adams Keller (born June 27, 1880, Tuscumbia, Alabama, U.S. – died June 1, 1968, Easton, Connecticut, U.S.) was an American author and lecturer...
Read MoreGabriel García Márquez (born March 6, 1927, in Aracataca, Colombia – died April 17, 2014, in Mexico City, Mexico) was a Colombian novelist, short...
Read MoreJames Joyce (born February 2, 1882, in Dublin, Ireland—died January 13, 1941, in Zürich, Switzerland), in full James Augustine Aloysius Joyce, was an Irish...
Read MoreLord Byron (born January 22, 1788, in London, England – died April 19, 1824, Missolonghi, Greece), in full George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron,...
Read MoreJoseph Rudyard Kipling (born December 30, 1865, Bombay, British India – died January 18, 1936, London, England) was an English short-story writer, poet, novelist,...
Read MorePhilip Kindred Dick (born December 16, 1928, Chicago, Illinois, U.S. – died March 2, 1982, Santa Ana, California, U.S.) was an American writer known...
Read MoreWilliam Blake (born November 28, 1757, London, England – died August 12, 1827, London, England) was an English writer, artist, and one of the...
Read MoreThomas Stearns Eliot (born September 26, 1888, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. – died January 4, 1965, London, England), known as T. S. Eliot, was...
Read MoreAgatha Christie, in full Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, née Miller, (born September 15, 1890, Torquay, Devon, England – died January 12, 1976, Winterbrook,...
Read MoreJean-Jacques Rousseau (born June 28, 1712, Geneva, Switzerland – died July 2, 1778, Ermenonville, France) was a Swiss-born philosopher, writer, political theorist, and composer....
Read MoreSamuel Beckett (born April 13, 1906, Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland – died December 22, 1989, Paris, France), in full Samuel Barclay Beckett, was an Irish...
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