English Authors, Dramatists and poets
Langston Hughes
(February 1, 1902 - May 22, 1967) Was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance in New York City.
Herman Melville
American Novelist-This American Author of Benito Cereno, was a member of the Romanticism movement. His other works include: A Peep at Polynesian Life, Bartleby the Scrivener, Billy Bud, Sailor, and Moby Dick
Emily Dickinson
American poetess- This reclusive American poet was born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830. She rarely gave a title to her poems, so most of them are titled with the first line of the poem. Some of her more well known poems include Hope is the Thing with Feathers and Because I Could Not Stop For Death.
Harper Lee
Author of "To Kill a Mockingbird." never did press conferences. didn't overly like being famous
William Shakespeare
English Dramatist- Born on 26 April 1564, was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet, and the "Bard of Avon". Has approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other
F. Scott Fitzgerald
He attended Princeton University but failed to graduate turning to the army. While being stationed he met his wife Zelda. Greatest work was "The Great Gatsby." started drinking and suffered a fatal heart attack and died
Ernest Hemingway
He wanted to enlist n the army but couldn't because of a boxing injury. won the Pulitzer prize for "The Old Man and the Sea." won the Nobel Prize for literature. committed suicide in 1961
Alexandre Dumas
This author was born in Picardy, France, has been translated into over 100 languages. Some of his most famous novels are The Corsican Brothers, The Count of Monte Cristo, and the D'Artagnan Romances, which includes The Three Musketeers
Edgar Allan Poe
This American poet and author lived a very troubled life and died at the young age of 40. He married his first cousin, Virginia Clem, who was at the time 13. She died at the age of 24 of tuberculosis. His most famous works include Hop-Frog, The Pit and the Pendulum, and his poem, The Raven.
Robert Frost
This American poet was born in California but later moved to New England where he died. He is considered to be one of the greatest poets and is known for his poem "The Gift Outright" which he read at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy. He is also known for "TheMending Wall", "The Road Not Taken", and "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening."
T.S. Eliot
This American poet was born in St. Louis in 1888, but was naturalized as a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39. He was a leader of the modernist movement. Some of his works include Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, which acts as the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Cats, The Wasteland, Four Quartets, and his most famous poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
Charles Dickens
This Author, arguably one of the most famous, was born in England and lived to see great success. He was most famous for his Christmas stories. Many of his famous works have been turned into popular plays and movies, some of which include The Cricket on the Hearth, The Life and Andventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, his unfinished The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and A Christmas Carol.
James Joyce
This Irish author and poet is said to have perfected the technique of "stream of consciousness". He is known for Finnegan's Wake. His most famous novel, Ulysses, which is the Latinized name for Odysseus, follows a day in the life of Leopold Bloom.
John Steinbeck
writer of "Of Mice and Men." went to war not to fight but to be a journalist and came back shocked. Greatest work was "The Grapes of Wrath"