Daniel Defoe was born in 1660 in London, England. He became a merchant and participated in several failing businesses, facing bankruptcy and aggressive creditors. He was also a prolific political pamphleteer which landed him in prison for slander. Late in life he turned his pen to fiction and wrote Robinson Crusoe, one of the most widely read and influential novels of all time. Defoe died in 1731.
Novelist George Eliot, a pen name for Mary Ann Evans, was born on November 22, 1819. She was a subeditor for The Westminster Review for three years. In 1851, she met the philosopher George Henry Lewes. Lewes was already married, but she spent the next 20 years of her life with him. She wrote several novels that explored aspects of human psychology, including The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner. She died in 1880.
Born on January 17, 1820, in Thornton, Yorkshire, England, Anne Brontë would go on to pen a book of poetry with sisters Charlotte and Emily. Anne worked as a governess. Her 1847 novel, Agnes Grey, was inspired by her experiences. Her subsequent novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, the story of a woman leaving her abusive spouse, was published the following year. Anne died of tuberculosis on May 28, 1849, in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England.
Daniel Defoe was born in 1660 in London, England. He became a merchant and participated in several failing businesses, facing bankruptcy and aggressive creditors. He was also a prolific political pamphleteer which landed him in prison for slander. Late in life he turned his pen to fiction and wrote Robinson Crusoe, one of the most widely read and influential novels of all time. Defoe died in 1731.
BRITISH WRITERS
MARK TWAIN (1835-1910) an American writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). His humorous story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was even translated into classic Greek. His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, make him a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty. Twain was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age".
WILLIAM FAULKNER (1897 – 1962) was an American writer from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays, and screenplays. Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers in American literature generally and Southern literature specifically. Faulkner was relatively unknown until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. Two of his works, A Fable(1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
TRUMAN CAPOTE (1924 – 1984) was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor, whose Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and the true crime novel In Cold Blood (1966) are recognized literary classics. At least 20 films and television dramas have been produced of Capote novels, stories, and plays. In the 1970s, he maintained his celebrity status by appearing on television talk shows.
MARK TWAIN (1835-1910) an American writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). His humorous story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was even translated into classic Greek. His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, make him a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty. Twain was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age".