Category: Biography

About Author William Gerald Golding was born on September 19, 1911, in England. He is a British writer who in his works describes the darkness of a man’s heart when facing a difficult situation. Golding’s novels present an experiment and research of spiritual and ethical aspects of human life. For Golding human life – is…

Roger Bacon English scientific philosopher, born according to one tradition near Ilchester, Somerset, and to another at Bilsey in Gloucestershire. Though probably educated in Oxford the first certain date in his career seems to be 1236 when he was studying in Paris. In or after 1251 he returned for a time to England and it…

Thomas More biography Thomas More was an English writer, philosopher, statesman, Lord Chancellor (1529-1532). He is the author of the social and political treatise Utopia and one of the founders of utopian socialism. Pope Pius XI canonized More in 1935 as a martyr. Pope John Paul II in 2000 declared him the “heavenly Patron of…

About Author Joseph Conrad – a son of Polish patriots, a man of three cultures Joseph Conrad was an officer of the merchant navy, a novelist and a classic of English literature. Conrad was an English writer of Polish origin. He is considered as one of the most prominent English prose writers, so it is…

About Author Toni Morrison is a famous American prose writer, Editor-in-Chief, Nobel Prize Winner of Literature, also well-known as the conscience of America. She was born in February 18, 1931, in Lorraine, Ohio. In adolescence she adopted Catholicism, and with it, the name Anthony – the abbreviation of “Tony” became her pseudonym. Real and fictitious names, “comfortable”…

Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church and Christianity as a whole, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech and separation of church and state. François-Marie Arouet, known as Voltaire, was born in 1694 in Paris in a family…

About Author Nabokov as the Russian and American writer, poet, translator, literary critic, and entomologist   He liked to emphasize that he was born “on the same day as Shakespeare and a hundred years after Pushkin, “mentioning the names and symbols of two great kinds of literature to which he equally belongs. He is famous…

Averroës (Abu-al-Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmed ibn Rushd) Arabic philosopher, jurist and medical writer, born in Córdoba, in Andalusia. He became ‘cadi’ (judge) in Córdoba, then in Seville, and wrote commentaries on the works of Aristotle, which were widely influential in the Middle Ages. He attempted to reconcile the Muslim religion and Aristotelianism, and wrote an encyclopaedia…

Maimonides (also known as RaMBaM, acronym for Rabbi Moishe ben Maimon)   Jewish philosopher, jurist and physician, born in Córdoba, Spain. The fundamentalist Almohads seized power in Córdoba in 1148 and in 1159 Maimonides and his family moved to Fez, Morocco, then in 1165 to Palestine. He received orthodox Jewish training, and in addition studied…

About Author Frederick Douglass is a well-known name in the history of American abolitionist movement. Through his autobiographical texts, he let the world see the reality of slavery that others wished to believe was fictional. He was the first African American to occupy a respected position among civil servants and will always be remembered for…