Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888 – 1965) S. Eliot, American-British poet and critic, is one of the most distinguished literary figures of the 20th century. T. S. Eliot won the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature. He studied at Harvard, the Sorbonne and Oxford. In 1914, he established residence in Lon-don and in 1927 became a British subject. After working as a teacher and a bank clerk he began a publishing career; he...

Thomas Moore Thomas Moore was born in Dublin as the son of a grocer. His background was poor and he never varnished it. Moore studied at Trinity College, Dublin and London, and published his first book, The Poetical Works Of Thomas Little, in 1801. He became in 1803 a civil officer to Bermuda, where he stayed for a year, and then returned to England after travels in U.S. and Canada. Moore’s...

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...