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Hemingway Ernest
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works have become classics of American literature, and he… Read More
Machen Arthur
Arthur Machen was a Welsh author and journalist best known for his occult, mystical, and supernatural fiction, and greatly admired in his own day by Oscar Wilde and H.P. Lovecraft.
Thomas Dylan
Dylan Marlais Thomas (1914-1953) was foremost a poet, but also a short story writer, playwright, radio broadcaster and non-fiction writer. Given the brevity of his life – he died aged 39 – he produced a remarkable number and range of important twentieth-century works, including the radio play Under Milk Wood, the short story collection Portrait… Read More
Orwell George
Eric Blair (George Orwell as he was to become when a published writer) was a child of the Empire, born in Bengal, India, on June 25, 1903, the second child of Richard and Ida Blair. Richard was a civil servant in the Opium Department (the trade between India and China having been legalised under British… Read More
Gray Rosemary
Rosemary Gray served her apprenticeship in the legendary bookshops of the Charing Cross Road in the 1960s. She moved on to work in the editorial departments of a number of publishers, notably Methuen, Allen & Unwin, Cassell and Harrap, independent publishing companies which flourished in the twentieth century. In 1985 she joined the staff of… Read More
Benson E. F.
Edward Frederic Benson (1867–1940), novelist, was born at Wellington College on 24 July 1867, the third son of Edward White Benson (1829–1896) and Mary Sidgwick (1841–1918). His father was headmaster of Wellington College and subsequently archbishop of Canterbury. He was a younger brother of Arthur Christopher Benson (1862–1925), Mary Eleanor Benson (1863–1890), and Margaret Benson (1865–1916), and… Read More
Keynes John Maynard
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is perhaps the foremost economic thinker of the twentieth century. On economic theory, he ranks with Adam Smith and Karl Marx; and his impact on how economics was practiced, from the Great Depression to the 1970s, was unmatched.
Wells H.G.
H. G. Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) is famously often referred to as ‘the father of science fiction’
Chopin Kate
Kate Chopin, born Katherine O’Flaherty on February 8, 1850, was an American author of short stories and novels. She is now considered by some to have been a forerunner of the feminist authors of the 20th century.