Born: January 25, 1882, London, EnglandDied: March 28, 1941, near Rodmell, Sussex Virginia Woolf was a British author who made an original contribution to the form of the novel and was one of the most distinguished critics of her time.Virginia Woolf was educated at home by her father, Sir Leslie Stephen, and, after his death […]
Born: April 27, 1759, London, EnglandDied: September 10, 1797, LondonMary Wollstonecraft was an English author and feminist, born probably in London. Soon after 1780 she left home to earn her living, running a school for two years with her sisters and subsequently serving for a year as a governess in Ireland. The moderate success of
Born: c. 1844, Humboldt Sink, Mexico[now in Nevada, U.S.]Died: Oct 16, 1891, Monida, Montana, U.S. Sarah was a native American educator, lecturer, tribal leader, and writer best known for her book Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims (1883). Her writings, valuable for their description of Northern Paiute life and for their insights into
Born: c. 1753, present-day Senegal, West AfricaDied: December 5, 1784, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Phillis Wheatley was an American poet, born in Africa, generally recognized as the first important black American poet. Captured by slave traders at the age of eight, she was brought to the American colonies and sold to the Wheatley family of Boston,
Born: Nov. 3, 1920, AustraliaDied: Sep 16, 1993, BrisbaneKath Walker was an Australian Aboriginal writer and political activist, considered the first of the modern-day Aboriginal protest writers. Her first volume of poetry, We Are Going (1964), is the first book by an Aboriginal woman to be published. Raised on Stradbroke Island, off Moreton Bay, Queensland,
Born: July 2, 1923, Bnin [now part of Kórnik], Poland Wislawa Szymborska is a Polish poeters, winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for literature, “for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality”. She is admired for her direct and concise lyric poetry
Born: June 9, 1843, Prague, Bohemia, Austrian Empire [now in Czech Republic]Died: June 21, 1914, Vienna Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita Von Suttner was an Austrian writer and peace activist who in 1905 became the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Her novel Die Waffen nieder (1889; Lay Down Your Arms, 1892) depicted the
Born: April 22, 1766, Paris, FranceDied: July 14, 1817, ParisGermaine de Staël was a French writer and intellectual, famed for her international salon. Her full name was Anne Louise Germaine, Baronne de Staël-Holstein. Born in Paris and generally known as Madame de Staël, she was the daughter of the French financier and statesman Jacques Necker.
Born: Aug 30, 1797, London, EnglandDied: Feb 1, 1851, London Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was a English novelist. Daughter of the British philosopher William Godwin and the British author and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, she was born in London, and privately educated. She met the young poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in May 1814, and two months
Born: c. 966, JapanDied: c. 1025, JapanSei Shonagon was a diarist and poet, a witty, learned lady of the court, whose Pillow Book (Makura no soshi), apart from its brilliant and original Japanese prose style, is the best modern-day source of information on Japanese court life in the Heian period (784-1185). Sei Shonagon was the
Born: c. 610, Lesbos [now part of Greece]Died: c. 570 BC Sappho was Greek poeters, whose poetry was so renowned that Greek philosopher Plato referred to her two centuries after her death as the tenth muse. Sappho was born on the island of Lesbos (now Lésvos), probably in the city of Mytilini. Although the details
Born: July 1, 1804, ParisDied: June 8, 1876, Nohant, France George Sand, pseudonym of Amandine Aurore Lucile, Baronne Dudevant, was a French novelist of the romantic movement, whose irregular life and many love-affairs shocked Parisian society.Sand was born in Paris on July 1, 1804, the daughter of a French army officer named Dupin who was
Born: July 31, 1965, Chipping Sodbury,near Bristol, England J. K. Rowling is a British author, who writes about the magical adventures of a boy wizard named Harry Potter. The Harry Potter books dominated bestseller lists in the late 1990s and early 2000s, attracting fans worldwide among children and adults alike.Joanne Kathleen Rowling was born in
Born: July 28, 1866, South Kensington, Middlesex[now in Greater London], EnglandDied: Dec 22, 1943, Sawrey, Lancashire [now in Cumbria] Beatrix Potter was English writer and illustrator of children’s books, born in London, and privately educated. During most of her adult life, she lived in a farm cottage in Sawrey, Westmoreland County, where she kept many
Born: Oct. 27, 1872 or Oct 3, 1873, Baltimore, Md., U.S.Died: Sep 25, 1960, New York Emily post was an American authority on social behaviour who crafted her advice by applying good sense and thoughtfulness to basic human interactions.Emily Post was educated in private schools in New York City. A popular debutante, she married Edwin
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