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Author's Calendar: Thomas Moore

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a biography of Thomas Moore, Irish poet and friend of Lord Byron. Content is interspersed with excerpts from his more renowned poems.
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Author's Calendar: Robert Penn Warren

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers a very lengthy biography, along with a bibliography. It also has excerpts of poetry from PROMISES AND THIRTY-SIX POEMS.
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Author's Calendar: Washington Irving

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides a detailed biography of Washington Irving along with analysis of his works and contribution to American literature. Includes quotations from his work and a bibliography.
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Author's Calendar: Heinrich Boll

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography on the life of Heinrich Boll discusses many of his famous writings. Boll's works portrayed Germany after World War II with a deep moral vision and attacked the materialistic values of the post-war society. Also contains a...
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Author's Calendar: Thomas Carlyle

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief biography of writer and historian Thomas Carlyle. Includes a list of his works and details his relationships with other important figures in Victorian literature and culture.
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Author's Calendar: Leo Tolstoi

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers a very interesting account of the life of Russian author, Leo Tolstoy.
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Author's Calendar: Fyodor Dostoevsky

For Students 9th - 10th
This site presents an accurate account of the events in the life of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Also includes a bibliography of works by and about the author.
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Author's Calendar: Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 1926)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a short biography of Rainer Maria Rilke and a list of his many works.
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Author's Calendar: Thomas Mann (1875 1955)

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a short biography of German essayist/novelist Thomas Mann.
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Author's Calendar: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers a biography of Goethe, a brief discussion of his most famous work, "Faust," and a list of the many versions of this work. Also includes a bibliography.
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Author's Calendar: Books and Writers: Virgil Biography and Quotes

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed biography of the ancient Roman writer Virgil complemented by selected quotes from his works. Also provides a bibliography.
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Author's Calendar: Jerome David Salinger

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a short biography on the author J.D. Salinger.
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Author's Calendar: (Harry) Sinclair Lewis

For Students 9th - 10th
A short biography, a list of selected works, and a list for further reading of the famous American novelist and playwright, Sinclair Lewis.
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Author's Calendar: j.m. Barrie

For Students 9th - 10th
The Scottish journalist, playwright, and children's book writer J.M. Barrie became world famous with his play and book Peter Pan (1904).
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Author's Calendar: Robert Browning

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is on Robert Browning (1812-1889 CE) the English poet, noted for his mastery of dramatic monologue.
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Author's Calendar: Ambrose Bierce

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography-bibliograhy of "Bitter Bierce," the American newspaper columnist, satirist, essayist, short-story writer, and novelist who disappeared during the the Mexican Revolution.
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Author's Calendar: Carl Gustav Jung

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief biography of Carl Jung and history of his split with Freud. Also includes a general description of the main point of his analytic theories. Contains quotes, and links to further information.
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Author's Calendar: Julio Cortazar

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete biography of Cortazar along with a complete list of all his works.
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Author's Calendar: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is on Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861 CE) the English poet, the wife of Robert Browning, the most respected and successful woman poet of the Victorian period, considered seriously for the laureateship that eventually was...
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Author's Calendar: Charles Dickens

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the life, story and work of Charles Dickens (1812-1870 CE).
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Author's Calendar: Edgar Allan Poe

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a biography of Edgar Allan Poe, one of "the greatest and unhappiest of American poets, master of the horror tale, patron saint to the practitioners of the detective story."
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Author's Calendar: Carson Mc Cullers

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides biographical information of American author, Carson McCullers.
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Author's Calendar: Churchill, Sir Winston (Leonard Spencer)

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides information about Winston Churchill and his political career.
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Author's Calendar: Arthur Miller

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains biographical information about Arthur Miller. Includes quotes from "Death of a Salesman," "A View from the Bridge," and "An Open Book."