Aldous Huxley (26 July, 1894 – 22 November, 1963) was a writer and philosopher from England. Mr. Huxley is known for his famous novel Brave New World.
A.J. Cronin (19 July, 1896 – 6 January,1981) was a Scottish novelist born in Cardross, Dunbartonshire best known for his book The Citade & establishing the NHS.
Pablo Neruda (12 July, 1904 – 23 September, 1973) was a Nobel Prize winning poet from in Parral, Chile he was the son of a railway employee and a school teacher
Jean Cocteau was a French playwright, novelist and filmmaker. He is known for such novels as his novels Le Grand Écart and the 1946 movie Beauty and the Beast
Check out ten cool and Fun Facts about Jean-Paul Sartre (21 June, 1905 – 15 April, 1980) was a French novelist, biographer, critic, playwright and philosopher.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (14 June, 1811 – 1 July, 1896) is an American author, known for her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin but she was an avid writer all of her life.
Amelia Edwards was a novelist, journalist and Egyptologist from England. She was well known for her travelouge in Egypct called: A Thousand Miles Up the Nile.
Walt Whitman was an American journalist, essayist and a famous poet Mr. Whitman is, of course, one of the most influential poets in the American catalog.
William Trevor (24 May, 1928 – 20 November, 2016) was a playwright and novelist from Ireland. Books by William Trevor* Born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, as William Trevor Cox to a middle class family, Mr. Trevor graduated from Trinity College, Dublin with a history degree. He worked as a sculptor under the name Trevor Cox and to make extra money he worked as a teacher. In 1954 Mr. Trevor and his wife of two years, Jane Ryan, immigrated to England. In England Mr. Trevor worked as a copywriter and art teacher. Mr. Trevor won the Whitbread Prize three times, the Hawthornden Prize for Literature, and is a five time nominee for the Booker Prize. He won the prestigious Hawthornden Prize for his second novel, The Old Boys, published in 1964 During the 1970s, Mr. Trevor had great success in television and the theater. During 1973 alone he saw three of his plays performed in London theaters and three of his dramas were produced for television. Mr. Trevor was awarded an honorary Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1977 for “services to literature”, became a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) in 2002. In…
Frederic Prokosch was an American writer, known for his novels, poetry, & translations. He is mostly known for his novels The Asiatics and The Seven Who Fled.