The Biography of John Steinbeck Born February 27, 1902 to a County Treasurer and a schoolteacher, John Steinbeck was raised in the small town of Salinas, California. With no more than a population of 2500, this rural farming community influenced and formed many of John Steinbeck’s stories. Being the third of four children and the [...]
The Life of Jack London The short lived life of Jack London is a direct reflection of his literary works major theme, the struggle for survival of strong men driven by primitive emotions. “To Build A Fire” and White Fang are two of his works that coincide his life experiences and illustrate his literary theme. [...]
The Life and Works of Author C.S. Lewis Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland on November 29, 1898, Clive Staples (“Jack”) Lewis was raised in a very educated home, one in which the reality he found on the pages of the books within his parents’ extensive library seemed as tangible and meaningful to him as anything [...]
William Shakespeare was a supreme English poet, and playwright, universally recognized as the greatest of all the dramatists in the early seventeenth centuries. A complete, authoritative account of Shakespeare‘s life is lacking; much supposition surrounds relatively few facts. His day of birth is traditionally held on April 23, and he was baptized on April 24, [...]
Rupert Chawner Brooke‘s Biography Rupert Chawner Brooke was born in 1887 in England. The son of the Rugby School’s housemaster, Brooke excelled in both academics and athletics. He entered his father’s school at the age of fourteen. A lover of verse since the age of nine, he won the school poetry prize in 1905. A [...]
Robert Frost Biography Robert Frost was an intelligent and influential poet in the early 1900′s. He was the most famous American poet of his time. Robert Frost‘s life, poems, and external influences, brought enjoyment through his poetry to many of his readers. The life of Robert Frost was an uphill battle for many years. He [...]
Mary Shelley Biographical Essay Mary Shelley was born on August 30th, 1797. She was born to William Godwin, a philosopher, and Mary Wollstonecraft, one of the first radical feminists. Both of her parents were extremely active in the revolutionary movements of the late eighteenth century. Her father was a minister but later became an atheist [...]
Lorenzo Valla was born into an affluent Roman family in 1407, and died there in 1457. Valla was a humanist as well as a philosopher, philologist, priest and author. Valla single-handedly disproved the dubious, yet sacred document enabling the Papacy to own territory in Constantinople in his book, Falsely-Believed and Forged Donation of Constantine, or [...]
Life in Algeria for Albert Camus Although born in extreme poverty, Camus attended the lycee and university in Algiers, where he developed an abiding interest in sports and the theater. His university career was cut short by a severe attack of tuberculosis, an illness from which he suffered periodically throughout his life. The themes of [...]
Life and Career of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe’s whole fifteen-year career was a constant struggle for survival. He received only ten dollars for “The Raven” which was first published in 1845, and, within a few months, read, and recited wherever the English language was spoken. Less than a year later his brother poet, [...]
