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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Contribution as English Writer
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, (1689-1762) cousin of writer Henry Fielding, was born in London to…
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, (1689-1762) cousin of writer Henry Fielding, was born in London to…
Robyn Archer, born in 1948 at Adelaide, has distinguished herself as a Australian singer, sta…
Mary Antin (1881-1949) Antin's The Promised Land (1912) is the most widely read account b…
A. L. O. E. (A Lady of England) Charlotte Maria Tucker (1821-1893) is a English writer of hym…
Mabel Esther Allan (1915-1998) Young people's author, who also wrote as 'Jean Estoril…
Phyllis Shand Allfrey (1915-1986) Journalist, politician and writer, who was born and lived i…
Edna Alford, born in 1947, Canadian short-story writer, editor and teacher whose conventional…
Isabella Macdonald Alden (Pansy) 1841-1930 American children's author and popular religio…
Joan Delano Aiken (1924-2004) — British writer of historical romances, thrillers and imaginat…
Ama Ata Aidoo (Christina) Ghanaian playwright, novelist, short-story writer and poet, born in…
Patsy Adam-Smith, (Patricia Jean) (1924-2001) Australian author best known for her popular hi…
John Simmons Barth grew up in Cambridge, Maryland on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay,…
James Arthur Baldwin (1924-1987) was an African-American novelist, playwright and essayist. H…
Born as LeRoi Jones in New York, New Jersey, he studied at Rutgars and Harvard Universities. …
J. D. Salinger (1919-2010), was a harbinger of new things to come in the 1960s. He has portra…
Two things were informative influences in William Burroughs’s life. His experience as a drug …
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) was the son of the prominent head of rabbinical court in Wa…
Born in Quebec, Canada and raised in Chicago, Saul Bellow (1915-2005) is of Russian Jewish ba…
Samuel Shepard Rogers (1943-2017), was born in Sheridan, Illinois. He was raised in Californi…
Born in the small town of Eatonville, Florida, Zora Neale Hurston (1903-1960) is known as one…