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Author's Calendar: Jorge Luis Borges
Biographical information on Argentinian writer, Jorge Luis Borges.
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Author's Calendar: George Sand
This site contains an overview of the personal and professional life of author George Sand. Discusses her turbulent personal life and her many affairs, her most famous novels and the themes that were incorporated in her works, and the...
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Author's Calendar: Gunter Grass
Short biography and writer that includes a list of related links and a page that focuses on "The Tin Drum."
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Author's Calendar: James Boswell
A brief biography on the life and times of James Boswell, lawyer, essayist and author of The Life of Samuel Johnson.
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Author's Calendar: Yukio Mishima
A biographical sketch of the Japanese author Yukio Mishima with a description of his better known works. Also included is a selected list of his writings.
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Author's Calendar: Allan Sillitoe
This site has a short biography and bibliography of this writer, perhaps best known for "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner."
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Author's Calendar: Jozsef Attila
A brief description of 20th Century Hungarian poet, Jezsef Attila. Includes discussion of and excerpts from his various works. This site also provides links to other websites about Jozsef Attila.
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Author's Calendar: Fredric Brown
This site includes a biography of the writer Fredric Brown. Included towards the end of the article is a list of his books. Good overall and very factual.
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Author's Calendar: Anita Desai
This site gives the history and biography of Indian novelist and short story writer, Anita Desai. It includes a discussion of some of her works, quotations, and links to further information.
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Author's Calendar: Louis Leakey
Short biography of Louis Leakey. Lists his findings, his books, and information about the rest of his family.
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Author's Calendar: Doris Lessing
Biographical sketch of Doris Lessing, 20th century British feminist writer.
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Author's Calendar: Rabindranath Tagore
This site is a biography of Bengali poet, novelist, educator, and an early advocate of Independence for India, Rabindranath Tagore. It includes quotations, and links to further information.
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Author's Calendar: Jean Paul Sartre
This site gives a biography of French novelist, playwright, existentialist philosopher, and literary critic, Jean-Paul Sarte. It provides his life overview, a list of major works with a bibliography, quotations, and links to further...
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Author's Calendar: Jack London
Contains a biography, bibliography, and complete list of his works.
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Author's Calendar: Endre Ady
The student will find this to be a very brief narrative of the life of Endre Ady, poet journalist and short story writer. Several excerpts from poems by this Hungarian writer can also be found.
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Author's Calendar: Anna Akhmatova
A biography and brief history on the life of Anna Akhmatova. Gives brief description of her childhood, family and education. Also lists some of her writings. Includes quotations, and links to further information.
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Author's Calendar: Raymond Chandler
This site offers a biography and a bibliography. It also has several reviews on a few of his novels.
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Author's Calendar: Ralph Ellison
This site offers a biography, bibliography, with quotes and reviews from "The Invisible Man."
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Author's Calendar: E(dward) M(organ) Forster
This site gives a short biography of Forster with a quote and a bibliography of his works. Also included is a list of other works about him.
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Author's Calendar: Samuel Johnson
An account of the life and times of Samuel Johnson. Includes a list of selected works by Samuel Johnson.
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Author's Calendar: W(illiam) Somerset Maugham
This generous biographical note about the British novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and once the highest paid author in the world profiles his life and such novels as Of Human Bondage and The Razor's Edge.
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Author's Calendar: Aleksandr Pushkin
This site offers a biographical look at Aleksandr Pushkin, the Russian 19th century author who many consider to be "His country's greatest poet and the founder of modern Russian Literature." At the bottom of the page you'll also find a...
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Author's Calendar: Jean Jacques Rousseau
This biographical sketch makes use of quotations from Rousseau's works. Provides a bibliography of his work as well.