Famous american authors and their biography examples
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The Best Author Biographies To Keep You Turning the Pages
What do we really know about our favorite authors? We come to feel as though we know them through their books, stories, and poems, but often their lives remain tantalizingly out of reach. Some live in the public eye, while others shun the spotlight, but most of the time, writers are overshadowed by their own oeuvres.
Not in these 10 author biographies, however, which shed light on the lives (secret and otherwise) of some of our most beloved authors, from Walt Whitman to Virginia Woolf and far beyond. Containing Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning volumes among its own number, these 10 biographies are must-reads for fans of these fascinating authors – and great writing in general!
Looking for Anne of Green Gables
By Irene Gammel
While people all over the world have been following the exploits of little Anne Shirley – better known as Anne of Green Gables – for over a century, considerably less
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Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [OS 7 September] – 13 månad 1784), often referred to as Dr. Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. He was a devout Anglican. Politically, he was a committed Tory. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Johnson as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is the subject of James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, described by Walter Jackson Bate as "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature".Born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, Johnson attended Pembroke College, Oxford, for just over a year, but a lack of funds forced him to leave. After working as a teacher, he moved to London, where he began to write for The Gentleman's Magazine. His early works include the biography Life of Mr Richard Savage, the poems London and The Vanity of
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10 Famous Poets Who Left an Indelible Mark on Literature
Homer
Birth and death date unknown
Little is definitively known about this famous Greek poet who lived before the common era. Some even question whether the same person wrote both epics credited to Homer, The Iliad and The Odyssey. Some scholars believe he might have left hints about his own life through his descriptions of the blind minstrel character Demodokos in The Odyssey.
Despite these uncertainties, the two epics about the fall of Troy and subsequent events have influenced writers throughout history like J.R.R. Tolkien and James Joyce. The use of vivid similes and metaphors as well as the in media res narrative structure—beginning in the middle of the plot and flashing back to past events—are characteristics of Homer’s writings.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882
Originally ordained in the Unitarian Church, Emerson resigned from the clergy after three years. He took up w