Trained as a physician, he opened a practice but closed it because he never received any patients.
Mr. Baum was an adamant supporter of women’s rights. His mother in law, Matilda Joslyn Gage, even wrote a book,…
Robert Browning (8 May, 1812 - 12 December, 1889) was an English poet with a flair for the dramatic. Works…
Heller’s agent sold the unfinished manuscript of Catch-22 to Simon and Schuster. The publisher paid $750 and promised another $750…
Karen Blixen (17 April, 1883 - 7 September, 1962) was a Danish author who wrote under the name Isak Dinesen.
In his book A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (1828) Washington Irving gave birth to the…
In 1906 Gorky went on a fund raising trip, on behalf of the Bolsheviks, to the United States. During the…
He is considered one of the most influential dramatists and poets of the 19th century, second only to William Shakespeare.
Lady Gregory founded the Irish Literary Theatre as well as the Abbey Theatre with William Butler Yeats and Edward Martyn.
He was born in Aracataca because his grandfather killed a man in a gunfight and fled to this new town,…
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