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Scottish poet Robert Burns’ works are known and loved wherever the English language is read. Burns touched with his own genius the traditional folk songs of Scotland, transmuting them into great poetry, and he immortaliz
One of America's most influential fiction writers, Nobel Prize winner William Faulkner set most of his novels in the imaginary Yoknapatawpha County, Miss., creating vivid characters and exploring the Southern past and ra
Best known for his novels Animal Farm and 1984, which condemn totalitarianism in all its forms, English writer George Orwell was born in India. Financially unable to pursue higher education in England, Orwell spent five
Born Samuel Langhorn Clemens, Mark Twain drew on his boyhood along the Mississippi River for many of his characters and plots. Celebrated as a humorist and storyteller, his fame grew with the publication of classic novel
American novelist, short-story writer and journalist Ernest Hemingway served as a war correspondent before joining Paris's expatriate community in the 1920s. His writing style, characterized by terse minimalism, is exemp
One of the most famous American writers of the 20th century, Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, Calif. He is best known for his gritty portrayals of the lives of the working class during the G
The Virginia Woolf biography in the Famous Authors series is an original Academy Media production directed by Malcolm Hossick.
English poet, engraver, painter and mystic William Blake is famed for his symbolic expressions of religious visions. Though largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake's works, such as The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Poe rose from the depths of despair at age 22, disinherited and destitute, to become one of the greatest figures in American literature. At that age he had three dozen poems published and went on to do about forty more.