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Branwell Brontë, self-portrait, 1840. The Brontës ( / ˈbrɒntiz /) were a nineteenth-century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848) and Anne (1820–1849), are well-known poets and ...
Life of William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare was an actor, playwright, poet, and theatre entrepreneur in London during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras. He was baptised on 26 April 1564 [ a] in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England, in the Holy Trinity Church. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had ...
Junot Díaz. Junot Díaz ( / ˈdʒuːnoʊ /; born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican-American [ 1] writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a former fiction editor at Boston Review. He also serves on the board of advisers for Freedom University, a volunteer organization in Georgia that provides post ...
Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech, [ 2] Frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early 20th century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes.
Bienvenido Santos. Bienvenido Nuqui Santos (March 22, 1911 – January 7, 1996) was a Filipino-American fiction, poetry and nonfiction writer. He was born and raised in Tondo, Manila. His family roots are originally from Lubao, Pampanga, Philippines. He lived in the United States for many years where he is widely credited as a pioneering Asian ...
11372082. LC Class. PZ7.M2225 Sar 1985. Followed by. Skylark. Sarah, Plain and Tall is a children's book written by Patricia MacLachlan and the winner of the 1986 Newbery Medal, [ 1] the 1986 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, [ 2] and the 1986 Golden Kite Award. [ 3] It explores themes of loneliness, abandonment, and coping with change.
She explores issues of gender, class and race as well as family and history. She is known for using these common themes in ground-breaking ways. [12] While many of her characters are given labels that make them "invisible" to society, Woodson is most often writing about their search for self rather than a search for equality or social justice. [10]
Official website. Louis Sachar ( / ˈsækər / SAK-ər; [1] born March 20, 1954) is an American young-adult mystery-comedy author. He is best known for the Wayside School series and the novel Holes . Holes won the 1998 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature [2] and the 1999 Newbery Medal for the year's "most distinguished ...