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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 – 1894) Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish essayist, poet and author of fiction and travel books, known especially for his novels of ad-venture. Stevenson was born on November 13, 1850 in Edinburgh as the son of Thomas Stevenson, joint-engineer to the Board of Northern Lighthouses. Stevenson’s grandfather was Britain’s greatest builder of lighthouses. Since his childhood, Stevenson suffered from tuberculosis. During his early years, he...
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Robert Herrick (1591 – 1674) Robert Herrick was an English poet, generally considered the greatest of the Cavalier poets. He was born in Cheapside, Lon-don, in 1591, the seventh child of Nicholas Herrick, a prosperous goldsmith. In November 1592, two days after making a will, Nicholas killed himself by jumping from the fourth-floor window of his house. The Queen’s Almoner had to be paid a £220 fee for not to confiscate...
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Robert Frost (1874 – 1963) Robert Frost was one of the finest of rural New England’s 20th century pastoral poets. Frost published his first books in Great Britain in the 1910s, but he soon became in his own country the most read and constantly anthologised poet. Frost was awarded the Pulitzer Prize four times. He was born in San Francisco, California on March 26, 1874. His father, a journalist and local...
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