Study guides: authors, letter m

Margaret Atwood

Mrs. Atwood is known worldwide as a literary genius of Canadian heritage. She isn’t simply a talented writer, she is also a skilled literary critic and a fierce environmental activist. She won numerous awards and prizes, founded different writing organizations, and patented a number of tools that help writers develop their talents. In 2001 her name appeared on Canada’s Walk of Fame...

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Mark Twain

Mark Twain became one of the most eminent literary pseudonyms of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. His biography is full of amazing events that will be interesting to historians studying his works. He was born at a time when Halley's Comet flashed over the Earth. According to a mysterious coincidence, the second flight of this celestial body over the planet will occur exactly on the day of the...

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mary Shelley is often known as a wife of a poet Percy Shelley and the author of the Gothic novel “Frankenstein”. Besides editing the works of her husband, Mrs. Shelley wrote many novels, drama pieces, essays and short stories before and after “Frankenstein”. However, only one of her hovels deserved the spotlight that doesn't fade even in the 21st century – &ldquo...

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Life of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra This famous author was born in Spain in the year 1547. He is well-known as a novelist, poet, playwright, and, what is the most important – the creator of Don Quixote. After the novel saw the world, he became one of the most important Spanish writers of that century. Moreover, he still keeps being the important figure of their culture and literature...

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