William Gaddis was an American novelist and satirist. Mr. Gaddis is known for his novel, The Recognitions which was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 best novels
Muriel Rukeyser was an American writer, biographer, and political activist. She is know for her poems on social justice, Judaism, equality, and feminism
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson was a Norwegian politician, poet and novelist. He is considered to be one of the four great Norwegian writers
Thomas Paine was an American philosopher, writer, and political activist & theorist known for Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776–1783)
As an editor for St. Nicholas Magazine, Mrs. Mapes was in charge of it becoming one of the most successful children magazines in the late 1800s
Guy de Maupassant (5 August, 1859 – 6 July, 1893), who wrote under several pseudonyms, was a French writer and a master of short stories.
Mr. Wouk said that the two most important influences on his life were his grandfather and the United States Navy
Victor Hugo was a French author best known for his novels Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. He was also a human rights activist
As a young man Mr. Goethe was tutored at home in the usual subjects learned at the time, but specifically in languages. He learned Latin, Greek, French, Italian, English and Hebrew among others.
Down All the Days, an expansion of My Left Foot, was an international best seller was said to be “the most important Irish novel since Ulysses.”
