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Author's Calendar: Sir Walter Scott
Read a detailed biography of Sir Walter Scott, accounting his life and literary accomplishments. Lists published works.
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Author's Calendar: Nevil Shute
This site includes a selected bibliography of Shute's works and a short biography of this author best know for "On the Beach."
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Author's Calendar: Wislawa Szymborska
Still another brief biography - perhaps because not much is known about her life and she does not like to talk about it. Includes some good thoughts on her work.
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Author's Calendar: William Makepeace Thackeray
Biographial note on William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), English journalist, novelist. Includes disucssion of his famous novel, VANITY FAIR (1847-48), a tale of two middle-class London families.
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Author's Calendar: H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells
"This profile of the English novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian, whose science fiction stories such as The Time Machine (1895) have been filmed many times also includes a bibliography of selected works."
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Author's Calendar: William Wordsworth
Information on Wordswoth's life, as well as a list of selected works.
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Author's Calendar: Gustave Flaubert
A biography on Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880 CE), a French novelist of the realist school, best-known for MADAME BOVARY.
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Author's Calendar: Octavio Paz
A complete biography of Paz along with a list of all his works.
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Author's Calendar: Sherwood Anderson
This site, compiled by a public library in Finland, contains a brief biography of Anderson and a discussion of his major works. It also has a chronological list of his works.
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Author's Calendar: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This site offers a biography of Coleridge, with links to other historical figures and a list of his collected works.
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Author's Calendar: Roland Barthes Structuralist
Biography of a major proponent of structuralism. Provides life info and brief mention of his various work.
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Author's Calendar: Katherine Mansfield
A biographical sketch of New Zealand-born British fiction writer Katherine Mansfield, a contemporary of Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence.