Study guides: authors, letter f

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) is the writer who represents the entire epoch known as the jazz age. He rose to prominence at the age of 24 just after his debut novel, This Side of Paradise, was printed. But most of the acclaim came to him in the 1950s when his third book got international popularity. In the opinion of another prominent American writer...

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Flannery O'Connor

You know some facts about Flannery O’Connor, but don’t understand who this woman was? This essay will help you to reveal some new facts in the biography of Flannery. She was one of the greatest southern writers, novelists and just personalities in the 20th century. Now we can open a new page of a story about an unusual woman of that time.   Childhood and early life Flannery...

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Franz Kafka

Childhood and Early Years The birth of the future popular author took place in Prague, in the Jewish ghetto. The boy was born on July 3rd, 1883, in Jews family. Franz's father named Herman Kafka earned his living by selling haberdashery. His family came from the Jewish community of South Czech. The boy's mother was from a wealthy German family of brewers. The family knew and spoke...

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Frederick Douglass

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 his passionate speeches, thorough editorial work, and an...

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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 and motifs. The writer is known for...

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