Carl Sandburg Biography Books Facts
Sandburg, Carl, (1878-1967), American poet and biographer, known for his unrhymed free verse which uses precise and vivid images to portray the energy and brutality […]
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Charles Dickens Biography Books Facts
INTRODUCTION Dickens, Charles John Huffam (1812-1870), probably the best-known and, to many people, the greatest English novelist of the 19th century. A moralist, satirist, and […]
James Joyce Biography Books Facts
NTRODUCTION Joyce, James (1882-1941), Irish author, whose writings feature revolutionary innovations in prose techniques. He was one of the foremost literary figures of the 20th […]
Ernest Hemingway Biography Books Facts
INTRODUCTION Hemingway, Ernest Miller (1899-1961), American novelist and short-story writer, whose style is characterized by crispness, laconic dialogue, and emotional understatement. Hemingway’s writings and his […]
Isaac Bashevis Singer Biography Books Facts
Singer, Isaac Bashevis (1904-1991), Polish-born American writer in the Yiddish language, whose work features passion for life and despair at the passing of tradition. He […]
John Updike Biography Books Facts
INTRODUCTION Updike, John (1932-2009), American writer of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Updike is known for his well-crafted prose that explores the hidden tensions and problems […]
George Orwell Biography Books Facts
Orwell, George, pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), British writer, whose brilliant reporting and political conscience fashioned an impassioned picture of his life and times. […]
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Thomas Hardy was an English author who lived at approximately the same time as Tolstoy. One of the crowning achievements of his later life was […]
About the Author
Robert Cormier was born in Leominster, Massachusetts, on January 17, 1925. As a member of a large, working-class family during the Great Depression, he came […]