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 […]

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 […]
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 […]
Leo Tolstoy is well known for his novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina. He is less well known for his short stories. The stories that we read in our last meeting were rather didactic and […]