Category: Biography
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Kate Chopin
About Author Kate O’Flaherty (name in girlish years) was born February 8, 1850, in the city of St. Louis in the family of a businessman. Her father was an Irish immigrant, and the girl’s mother had French roots, which enabled her to speak two languages. The girl was taught not only the languages, but also…
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Anthony Burgess
About Author 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…
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Anaximenes
Anaximenes of Miletus Greek philosopher, born in Miletus, Asia Minor (now Turkey). A follower of *Anaximander, he addressed himself to the question of the original nature of all things. He believed that origin to be air, for by processes of condensation and rarefaction air could be transformed into all other things. Condensation of air…
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Ernest Hemingway
About Author Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was a celebrated novelist, short story writer and a journalist whose influence on the literary world can’t be overestimated. His works have already become the classics taught at schools and universities. His adventurous personality and a distinctive writing method turned Hemingway into a literary…
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James, William
William James was an American philosopher and psychologist, one of the founders and a leading representative of pragmatism and functionalism in the USA. He is also regarded as the father of modern psychology. His work The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (1902) was ranked 89th of 100 Top Books of all…
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Edgar Allan Poe
About Author The world of literature wouldn’t be the same without the contribution of the literary critic, poet and writer Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849). His ingenious poems and short stories explored feelings of despair, melancholy, and loss with fierce psychological intensity. An architect of the modern short story, Poe…
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
About Author Fyodor (Mikhailovich – patronym) Dostoevsky, is a Russian writer, whose name is enlisted to the greatest and most talented people of letters of the 20th century. Working in and establishing the style of existentialism and psychological realism for Eastern Literature, his novels, and shorts stories explore the psychological aspect of a man’s doings…
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Anaximander
Greek philosopher, born in Melitus, Asia Minor (now Turkey). Known for his elaborate system of cosmology, he conceived the universe as a boundless mass separated into hot and cold masses from which land, sea and air were ultimately formed. Apertures in misty substances enveloping parts of the hot mass appear as sun, moon and stars.…
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Jane Austen
About Author Jane Austen is a British writer, who is often referred to as the woman who has shaped the way modern novels look like. She was the one to introduce ordinary life of regular people into her books. Despite the fact that Austen works were widely read and positively acclaimed during her lifetime, the…
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Heraclitus
Heraclitus biography Heraclitus was a Greek philosopher, the founder of the first historical or original form of dialectics. Heraclitus was also known as the obscure or the Dark for his difficult and unclear teachings. His most famous quotations are “There is nothing permanent except change”; “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for…