William Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, U.S.A. and died on July 6, 1962 in Byhalia, Mississippi. His most notable works include, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay […]
William Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, U.S.A. and died on July 6, 1962 in Byhalia, Mississippi. His most notable works include, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay […]
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was born on October 28th, 1903 in West Hampstead, London, England and died in Somerset at age 62. He was a novelist, travelogue and also wrote short stories and biographies. His […]
Marguerite Yourcenar was born on June 8, 1903 in Belgium and died in Bar Harbor, Maine, U.S. when she was 84 years old. She was French-American novelist, essayist, and poet. She was the first woman […]
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Enugu, Enuga, Nigeria in 1977. She is one of Nigeria’s best known authors around the world along with Chinua Achebe. Her three novels, Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow […]
Honoré de Balzac was born on May 20th, 1799 and died on August 18th, 1850. He is best known for his magnum opus, La Comédie humaine. He is considered one of the exponents of realism […]
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born on February 2, 1882 in Dublin, Ireland and died on January 13, 1941. He was a world renowned Irish author or Ulysses (1922) and Dubliners (1914). We will be reading three short stories […]
Flannery O’Connor was born on March 25, 1925 and died on August 3, 1964. She was an American novelist and short story writer well known for her Southern Gothic style. Her Complete Stories, published posthumously, […]
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Мико́ла Васи́льович Го́голь, was born on March 31st, 1809 and died on March 4th, 1852. He was a Russian novelist and playwright of Ukrainian origin. While he critiqued the Russian elite and […]
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born on February 2, 1882 in Dublin, Ireland and died on January 13, 1941. He was a world renowned Irish author or Ulysses (1922) and Dubliners (1914). «For myself, I […]
Zadie Smith was born in London in 1975. She was educated at Hampstead Comprehensive and King’s, Cambridge, where she occasionally performed as a singer and actor. Her story, «The Embassy of Cambodia» originally appeared in The New […]