Jonathan Swift Biography Books Facts
INTRODUCTION Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745), Anglo-Irish satirist and political pamphleteer, considered one of the greatest masters of English prose and one of the most impassioned satirists […]
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Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Biography Books Facts
Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797), English author and feminist, born probably in London. Soon after 1780 she left home to earn her living, running a school for […]
Raymond Douglas Bradbury Biography Books Facts
Bradbury, Ray (Douglas) (1920-2012), American writer of science fiction, best known for his novels and collections of short stories. He often blends science fiction with […]
Edith Newbold Wharton Biography Books Facts
Wharton, Edith Newbold (1862-1937), American writer, known for her portraits of manners and mores at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the […]
Frank Patrick Herbert Biography Books Facts
Herbert, Frank Patrick (1920-1986), American science fiction author, best known for his Dune Chronicles series. Herbert was born in Tacoma, Washington, and began his career […]
Bram Stoker Biography Books Facts
Stoker, Bram, full name Abraham Stoker (1847-1912), British writer, born in Dublin, Ireland, and educated at the University of Dublin. After ten years as a […]
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson Biography Books Facts
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour (1850-1894), Scottish novelist, essayist, and poet, who contributed several classic works to children’s literature. Born in Edinburgh, Stevenson studied engineering and […]
Alan Stewart Paton Biography Books Facts
Paton, Alan Stewart (1903-1988), South African writer and social reformer, whose works condemned apartheid, the policy of racial separation practiced in South Africa from 1948 […]
Gabriel García Márquez Biography Books Facts
García Márquez, Gabriel (1928-2014), Colombian novelist and short-story writer, known as one of the masters of magic realism, a style that weaves together realism and […]
Joseph Heller Biography Books Facts
Heller, Joseph (1923-1999), American novelist, whose comic absurdist novel Catch-22 (1961) is a leading example of the black-humor movement in American fiction. The book served […]