Thomas Hardy (1840 – 1928) Thomas Hardy was an English poet and novelist, famous for his depictions of the imaginary county Wessex. Hardy’s work reflected his stoical pessimism and sense of tragedy in human life. Thomas Hardy was born Egdon Heath, in Dorset, near Dorchester on June 2, 1840. His father was a master mason and building contractor. Hardy’s mother, whose tastes included Latin poets and French romances, provided for his...

Thomas Browne (1605 – 1682) Thomas Browne was born in London on October 19, 1605. After graduating M.A. from Broadgates Hall, Oxford (1629), he studied medicine privately and worked as an assistant to an Oxford doctor.  He then attended the Universities of Montpellier and Padua, and in 1633 he was graduated M.D. at Leiden. Browne’s medical education in Europe also earned him incorporation as M.D. from Oxford, and in 1637- he...

Sylvia Plath (1932 – 1963) American writer whose best-known poems are carefully crafted pieces noted for their personal imagery and intense focus. Plath wrote only two books before her suicide at the age of 31. Her posthumous Ariel (1965) stunned the literary world with its power. Plath was born in Boston as the daughter of German immigrant parents. Her father was a professor of biology at Boston University, and had specialized...

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...