Stephen Crane (1871 – 1900) Stephen Crane American was an author, whose second novel, The Red Badge Of Courage (1895), brought him international fame. The Red Badge of Courage depicted the American Civil War from the point of view of an ordinary soldier. It has been called the first modern war novel. Crane was born in Newark, New Jersey, on November, 1871, as the 14th child of a Methodist minister. He...

Sir Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965) Sir Winston Churchill was a Statesman, historian, and biographer, whose five years of war leadership (1940-45) secured him a central place in modern British history. Churchill_ is widely considered as the greatest political figure in the 20th-century Britain. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953. He supported the Zionist movement in Palestine (1921-22), during the Abdication crisis (1926) he was loyal to Edward...

Sir Waiter Scott (1771 – 1832 ) Sir Walter Scott was a Scottish writer, poet and one of the great-est historical novelists. He was born on August 15, 1771, in Edinburgh as the son of a solicitor Walter Scott and Anne, a daughter of professor of medicine. Scott’s interest in the old Border tales and ballads had early been awakened, and he devoted much of his leisure to the exploration of...

Sir Thomas Overbury (1581 1613)     Sir Thomas Overbury, English poet and essayist, and the victim of one of the most sensational crimes in English history, was the son of Nicholas Overbury, of Bourton-on-the-Hill, and was born at Compton Scorpion, near Wilmington, in Warwickshire. He took his degree of B.A. in 1598 and came to London to study law in the Middle Temple. About the year 1601, he met Robert...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 -1930) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a British physician, novelist, detective-story writer, and the well-known creator of the unforgettable master sleuth Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh and educated at Stonyhurst College and the University- of Edinburgh. Doyle’s mother was interested in literature, and she encouraged his son to take to books. From 1882 to 1890, he practiced medicine in...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834) Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in Ottery St. Mary on 21 October 1772 to John Coleridge, a minister, and Ann Bowden Coleridge. His brother Luke died in 1790 and his only sister Ann in 1791, inspiring Col to write Monody, one of his-first poems, in which he likens himself to Thomas Chatterton. Col married Sara Hutchinson in October of 1795. With his marriage, Col tried...

Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie is a highly acclaimed writer whose books continue to trigger arguments on the nature of free speech and an author’s social responsibility. His book, Midnight’s Children, brought him critical acclaim and the Booker Prize in 1981. He was born in Mumbai, India, on June 19, 1947, almost exactly two months before India gained her independence from Britain. His parents, Anis Ahmed and Negin Rushdie, were devout Muslims,...

Rudyard Kipling  (1865 – 1936) Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, novelist and poet, remembered for his celebration of British imperialism and heroism in India and Burma. Kipling’s glorification of the British Empire and racial prejudices, stated in his poem The White Man’s Burden (1899), has repelled many readers. However he sounded a note of uncharacteristic humility and caution in The Recessional (1897). Kipling was the first Englishman to receive...