Study guides: authors

Albert Camus - French writer, winner of the Nobel Prize. Albert Camus is French writer, dramatist, journalist, author of philosophical essays and Nobel Prize laureate. Camus was one of the most important authors and thinkers of the 20th century. In his artistic and philosophical works, he broke issues that were tangent to the leading ideas of existentialist philosophy. As an artist, he developed...

Aldous Huxley is a bright representative of British Literature who became famous due to such his works as «Brave New World,» «The Doors of Perception,» «Crome Yellow,» «Island» etc. He is a prominent philosopher as well. The writer is said to be one of the most intelligent persons of his generation. It's worth mentioning that his candidacy was...

John Anthony Burgess Wilson, also known as Joseph Kell or John Burgess Wilson, was born on February 25, 1917, in a suburb of Manchester in a Catholic family. His mother died when he was one year old, so he was raised by his aunt and later, by his father and a stepmother. During 1937-1940 Anthony Burgess studied English literature at the Victoria University of Manchester. He wanted to explore...

Arthur Charles Clarke (December 16, 1917 – March 19, 2008) is the distinguished English science fiction writer, inventor, and humanist. Throughout his lifetime he created more than 70 works including non-fiction scientific books. Joined by Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein, Clarke is the member of the group of writers who brought science fiction into its golden age – the “Big...

Till nowadays Arthur Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) occupies a rightful place in the American Theatre Hall of Fame. The author of many outstanding plays – All My Sons, The Crucible, and Death of a Salesman – has played a significant role in the development of American theatrical tradition. The journey of the dramatist and screenwriter started in Harlem, New York...

Ayn Rand is a famous American writer and philosopher, one of the main creators of the Objectivism movement in philosophy. The writer was born on January 20, 1905, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Her name at birth was Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum. The author is widely known among American and western literary circles. She used to be hardly read in her country of origins, the first translation of...