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Author's Calendar: Pegasos Literature Resources: Carl Sandburg

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides a decent biography of Sandburg, along with the text of his poem "Be Ready," and a good list of Sandburg's major works.
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Author's Calendar: J. D. Salinger

For Students 9th - 10th
Good biography on Salinger. Includes quotes and selected bibliography.
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Author's Calendar: Edmond Rostand

For Students 9th - 10th
A biographical site on the French playwright, Edmond Rostand, best known for his play, Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Author's Calendar: Kuusankoski Public Library: Patrick White

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Kuusankoski Public Library provides a good biography an Patrick White includes a list of his works.
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Author's Calendar: Molnar, Ferenc

For Students 9th - 10th
A good, comprehensive biography Ferenc Molnar, the "Hungarian-American playwright, director, novelist, short-story writer, and journalist."
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Author's Calendar: Kirjasto: Kobayashi Issa

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides both biographical information and some analysis of Issa's work. Links to significant names.
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Author's Calendar: Yasunari Kawabata (1899 1972)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site presents a biography of Yasunari Kawabata, who was the first Japanese novelist to win the Nobel prize for literature. The biography highlights the poetic nature of Kawabata's fiction.
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Author's Calendar: Kirjasto: John Gay (1685 1732)

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief biography of the English poet, John Gay.
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Author's Calendar: Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus

For Students 9th - 10th
A general biography of Qintus Horatius Flaccus, better known as Horace, an outstanding lyric poet and satirist.
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Author's Calendar: Kirjasto: Jacinto Benavente (1866 1954)

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a detailed biography of the Spanish playwright, relevant links, and a list of selected works.
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Author's Calendar: Eugene (Gladstone) O Neill

For Students 9th - 10th
Informative biography of O'Neill, chronicling his turbulent personal life, as well as his professional successes.
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Author's Calendar: John Gay

For Students 9th - 10th
A short biography of English poet and dramatist John Gay, author of "The Beggar's Opera" and one of finest wits of the neoclassical period of English literature, along with Swift and Pope.
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Author's Calendar: Horace

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This biography of Quintus Horatius Flaccus, better known as Horace, profiles the Roman lyric poet and satirist as well as feature quotes from his work and a bibliography.
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Author's Calendar: Virgil

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This biography of Virgil, author of the famous Roman epic The Aeneid, is complemented by selected quotes from his works and a detailed bibliography.
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Author's Calendar: Lorraine Hansberry

For Students 9th - 10th
Site offers a good biographical sketch of Lorraine Hansberry, along with a link to more information and a list of selected works.
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Author's Calendar: Amiri Baraka

For Students 9th - 10th
Until 1968, Amiri Baraka was known as Everett LeRoi Jones. After converting to the Muslim faith, "he assumed the name Imamu Amiri Baraka". Amiri's life story is found at this site, along with his works listed in chronological order.
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Author's Calendar: Erich Remarque

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives the reader a brief biography of the German writer and author Erich Maria Remarque, and includes a few short excerpts from his works.
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Author's Calendar: Margaret Atwood

For Students 9th - 10th
A lengthy biography and list of works by Atwood.
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Author's Calendar: Czeslaw Milosz

For Students 9th - 10th
Czeslaw Milosz, "Polish-American author, translator and critic, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature."
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Author's Calendar: Harriet Beecher Stowe

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the life and career of Harriet Beecher Stowe discusses her early life, her marriage, and her writing career, mentioning her various works. There is also a complete bibliography of her work.
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Author's Calendar: Osamu Dazai

For Students 9th - 10th
This biographical sketch of Osamu Dazai focuses on how his personal life and experiences were reflected in his writing.
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Author's Calendar: Saul Bellow

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed biography of Bellow's (1915-2005 CE) life, this site includes quotations from his work, and an extensive bibliography.
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Author's Calendar: Maryse Conde

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography on Maryse Conde which discusses her literary career. Also provides an extensive biography of her work.
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Author's Calendar: Michel De Montaigne

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent and thorough biography and exploration into Montaigne's works, career, and philosophy.