Author Story List

Aldous Leonard Huxley was born on July 26, 1894, in Godalming, England, into a highly intellectual and distinguished family. His father, Leonard Huxley, ... Author Story

Alexandre Dumas' life was diverse and varied; his lineage and skin color, his childhood and education, his women and children, his debut and rise to ... Author Story

Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany, to Otto and Edith Frank. She had an older sister, Margot. The Franks were a well-to-do ... Author Story

Many people know Conan Doyle for Sherlock Holmes, but this well-known author's life included much more than that character. Originally a doctor with over ten ... Author Story

Ayn Rand, born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum, was born on February 2, 1905, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. She grew up in a middle-class Jewish family, and ... Author Story

Booker T. Washington was one of the most influential African American leaders of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born into slavery on April 5, ... Author Story

Abraham "Bram" Stoker was born on November 8, 1847, in Clontarf, a coastal suburb of Dublin, Ireland. His early years were marked by a serious illness, ... Author Story

Charles Dickens faced hardship from a young age, working as a child laborer in a shoe polish factory at 12. Two years later, his family was evicted for not ... Author Story

When discussing Charlotte Brontë, it is essential to mention her sisters. The Brontë sisters are among the most famous writers in world literature, their ... Author Story

David Herbert Lawrence, commonly known as D. H. Lawrence, was born on September 11, 1885, in the coal-mining town of Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England. ... Author Story

Edith Wharton, born Edith Newbold Jones on January 24, 1862, in New York City, was a prominent American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She ... Author Story

Elie Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928, in Sighet, a small town in what was then part of Romania, now Ukraine. He was raised in a close-knit Jewish ... Author Story

Emily Brontë remains one of the most enigmatic figures in 19th-century English literature. Though her life was brief and outwardly sheltered, she wrote a ... Author Story

Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. He was the second of six children in the family of Clarence ... Author Story

Frances Hodgson Burnett was born on November 24, 1849, in Cheetham, Manchester, England. She was the third of five children in the Hodgson family. Her ... Author Story

Franz Kafka was born on July 3, 1883, in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, into a middle-class Jewish family. His father, Hermann Kafka, ... Author Story

Frederick Douglass, one of the most influential African American figures of the 19th century, was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in ... Author Story

The Jazz Age, as depicted in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novels, refers to the period in American society from the end of World War I until the Great Depression of ... Author Story

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, one of Russia’s most influential novelists, was born on November 11, 1821, in Moscow. He was the second of seven ... Author Story

George Bernard Shaw, one of the most influential playwrights, critics, and intellectuals of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was born on July 26, ... Author Story

George Orwell, whose real name was Eric Arthur Blair, was born on June 25, 1903, in Motihari, India. At the time, India was part of the British Empire, ... Author Story

Many consider Hans Christian Andersen to be unfortunate. His modest beginnings, the impoverished childhood spent cramped into a small room with his family, ... Author Story

Harper Lee published To Kill a Mockingbird at age 34, achieving immediate success and winning the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the following year. The book has ... Author Story

Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811, in Litchfield, Connecticut, into a prominent religious and intellectual family. She was the seventh of ... Author Story

Henrik Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright and theater director, and the founder of modern realist drama. Before him, plays were often moralistic stories, with ... Author Story

Herman Melville was born on August 1, 1819, in New York City to Allan and Maria Gansevoort Melville. His father was a merchant who faced financial ... Author Story

Herbert George Wells, commonly known as H.G. Wells, was born on September 21, 1866, in Bromley, Kent, England. He was the youngest of four children in a ... Author Story

Homer remains an enigmatic figure in literary history. Little is known about his life, and much of what is believed about him is based on legend and ... Author Story

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was born on November 9, 1818, in Oryol, Russia, into a wealthy noble family. His father, Sergei Nikolaevich Turgenev, was a ... Author Story

Jack London, born John Griffith Chaney on January 12, 1876, in San Francisco, California, was one of the most celebrated American writers of his time. ... Author Story

1. Life Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm and Wilhelm Carl Grimm, commonly known as the Brothers Grimm, were born in Hanau, Germany, Jacob on January 4, 1785, and ... Author Story

James Fenimore Cooper was born on September 15, 1789, in Burlington, New Jersey, into a family that played a significant role in early American society. ... Author Story

Throughout James Joyce's life, nationalism was a constant theme. In his works, we see only one city: Dublin. Joyce's love may not have been solely for the ... Author Story

Austen's works are lighthearted and humorous, filled with comedic conflicts. However, she never married and supported herself as a writer within an ordinary ... Author Story

Jerome David Salinger was born on January 1, 1919, in New York City. He was the second child of Sol Salinger, a successful Jewish cheese importer, and ... Author Story

John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. was born on February 27, 1902, in Salinas, California. He was the third of four children and the only son of John Ernst ... Author Story

Jonathan Swift Biography in 6 Minutes Jonathan Swift, one of the most distinguished satirists in the English language, was born on November 30, 1667, ... Author Story

Joseph Conrad, born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski on December 3, 1857, in Berdychiv (then part of the Russian Empire, now Ukraine), was a Polish ... Author Story

Kate Chopin, born Katherine O’Flaherty on February 8, 1850, in St. Louis, Missouri, was an American writer whose work explored themes of femininity, ... Author Story

Kenneth Grahame was born on March 8, 1859, in Edinburgh, Scotland. His early life was marked by tragedy, as his mother passed away from scarlet fever ... Author Story

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was born on November 11, 1922, in Indianapolis, Indiana, into a prominent German-American family. His father, Kurt Sr., was an ... Author Story

Leo Tolstoy was born into an aristocratic family and was wealthy. His writing was not for money. He observed, practiced, and aimed to improve society in line ... Author Story

Lewis Carroll, whose real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was a longtime mathematics lecturer at Christ Church College, Oxford. He held many titles, ... Author Story

Lyman Frank Baum, better known as L. Frank Baum was born on May 15, 1856, in Chittenango, New York. He was the seventh of nine children born to Cynthia ... Author Story

Louisa May Alcott was born into a poor, utopian family and became part of society at a young age, taking on family responsibilities. She worked numerous jobs, ... Author Story

Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was born on November 8, 1900, in Atlanta, Georgia, into a family deeply rooted in Southern history and culture. Her father, ... Author Story

Mark Twain is widely regarded as the founder of critical realism in American literature. He left school at age 12 to support himself. He worked as a ... Author Story

At 16, Mary eloped with her lover, taking her younger sister, while he abandoned his pregnant wife. At 17, her first child died 11 days later. At 19, she ... Author Story

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts, into a family with deep Puritan roots. His ancestors played a significant role in ... Author Story

Niccolò Machiavelli was born on May 3, 1469, in Florence, Italy, during the height of the Italian Renaissance. He came from an old, though not ... Author Story

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol was born on March 31, 1809, in the Ukrainian village of Sorochyntsi, then part of the Russian Empire. He was the son of Vasily ... Author Story

Oscar Wilde, one of the most celebrated playwrights and authors of the 19th century, was born on October 16, 1854, in Dublin, Ireland. He was the second ... Author Story

Paulo Coelho was born on August 24, 1947, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, into a middle-class Catholic family. His father, Pedro, was an engineer, and his ... Author Story

Ralph Waldo Ellison was born on March 1, 1913, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, a time and place where African Americans experienced both a degree of ... Author Story

Ray Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois. He grew up in a loving family that encouraged his creative interests. As a child, ... Author Story

Robert Louis Stevenson was born on November 13, 1850, in Edinburgh, Scotland, into a family of engineers. His father, Thomas Stevenson, was a prominent ... Author Story

Susan Eloise Hinton was born on July 22, 1948, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Growing up in a working-class neighborhood, she was an avid reader from an early age. ... Author Story

Sinclair Lewis, born Harry Sinclair Lewis on February 7, 1885, in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. ... Author Story

Stephen Crane was born on November 1, 1871, in Newark, New Jersey, the fourteenth and youngest child of Mary Helen Peck Crane and Jonathan Townley Crane ... Author Story

Thomas Hardy, one of England’s most celebrated novelists and poets, was born on June 2, 1840, in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset. He was the eldest of four ... Author Story

Upton Sinclair, an influential American writer, journalist, and social reformer, was born on September 20, 1878, in Baltimore, Maryland. He was the only ... Author Story

Victor Hugo was born on February 26, 1802, in Besançon, France. He was the third son of Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo, a general in Napoleon’s army, and ... Author Story

Virgil lived in Rome 2,000 years ago and played a key role in the development of Western literature. He created a new kind of epic, introducing fresh content ... Author Story

Virginia Woolf, born Adeline Virginia Stephen on January 25, 1882, in London, England, was one of the most influential modernist writers of the 20th ... Author Story

François-Marie Arouet, better known by his pen name Voltaire, was born on November 21, 1694, in Paris, France. He was the youngest of five children in a ... Author Story

Sir Walter Scott was born on August 15, 1771, in Edinburgh, Scotland, into a respected family. His father, Walter Scott Sr., was a solicitor, and his ... Author Story

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, commonly known as W. E. B. Du Bois, was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He grew up in a ... Author Story

Willa Cather was born on December 7, 1873, in Back Creek Valley, Virginia, but her family moved to Nebraska when she was nine years old. The vast ... Author Story

William Golding was interested in reading and writing. At Oxford University, he switched from science to literature. He worked as a teacher, joined the Royal ... Author Story

William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. He was the son of John Shakespeare, a successful glove-maker and ... Author Story