WRITERS

He is an American novelist, and his debut novel The Sojourn (inspired by Krivak’s own family history, particularly the experiences of his grandparents and their contemporaries), was nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction, won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Andrew Krivak is a graduate of St. John’s College in Annapolis. He have wanted to write for some time …

Do not forget, she has an asteroid named after her, and also she has the first Dutch digital online museum dedicated to the life and work of an author. Hélène Haasse is born on February day, 1918 in Jakarta. She was the daughter of civil servant and author Willem Hendrik and concert pianist Katharina, her family was not very religious. …

From the age of nine Marcel Proust had had his first serious asthma attack, and was therefore considered a sick child. Proust’s mother, Jeanne Clémence Weil, was the daughter of a wealthy Jewish family from Alsace. At age eleven, he became a pupil of the Lycee Condorcet, but his education was interrupted by his illness. He had a close relationship …

He is one of America’s most admired writers and broadcasters (he has won every major award in broadcasting). Scott Simon was born in Chicago, Illinois, grewing up in major cities across the United States and Canada, (including Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Montreal, Cleveland, and Washington, D.C.). His books include Home and Away: Memoir of a Fan; Jackie …

All his works are stylistically very different from one another. He has a reputation for being hard to place in terms of literary style. He is a Danish writer of fiction, and was born in Copenhagen (Denmark), but before becoming a writer, he worked variously as a sailor, ballet dancer and actor. He received a Master of Arts in Literature …

He’s sometimes referred to as Lithuanian Albert Camus. His style is full of unexpected metaphor and subconscious. He was born in a November day, 1910. Antanas Škėma, was a Lithuanian writer, and during World War I he lived in Russia with his parents. In 1921, they all came back to Lithuania. From 1940 to 1944 he did work in Vilnius …

Yukio Mishima was born in Tokyo on January 14, 1925. Writer, playwright, essayist and poet, he was also well known as an actor and film director. His numerous works ranged from the novel to modernizzatee adapted forms in a modern traditional Japanese theater. A grandmother will become a very important figure in the development of his character, both as regards …

He was born in an August day, 1922. John Edward Williams was an American author, best known for his novels Stoner. He was raised in northeast Texas, and his grandparents were farmers. He served in the Army Air Corps in Asia in World War II, becoming a sergeant. At the end of the war, he moved to Denver, Colorado and …

Lightning in Kansas City is the first chapter in the biography that Stanley Crouch dedicated to Charlie Parker, the greatest saxophonist of all time. This book reconstructs the life of ‘Bird’ in the years from birth in 1920 until 1940 (his childhood in Kansas City dominated from the underworld; the relationship with an overprotective mother; the marriage at sixteen and …

He was a Polish novelist (and the 1924 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature). His best-known work, is the award-winning four-volume novel The Peasants. He was born in the village of Kobiele Wielkie, near Radomsko. His mother, had a talent for story-telling. Władysław Reymont spent his childhood near Łódź, to which his father had moved in order to work …