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American-born British author Henry James spent his life between the geographical and ideological borders of England and the America. A key element in his writing addresses the influence of the “Old World” on the “New World.” James was born in New York in 1843 and lived in London, Paris and other cities in Europe. He […]
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Thomas Edward Lawrence, mostly known as Lawrence of Arabia, was a British archeologist, military man, and writer. He was born in Wales in 1888, and as a young soldier was sent to the Middle East and fought during World War I. He wrote down his experiences in the volume Seven Pillars of Wisdom. He died […]
Mary de Morgan (1850-1907) was raised in an exceptional family in Victorian England, by mathematician Augustus de Morgan and spiritualist and social reformer Sophia de Morgan. She was a close friend of William Morris. The body of her work includes short stories, a novel, and essays, but she is mostly known as an author of literary fairy […]
Provocative, but elegant and keen on aesthetics and beauty; sharp, observant – and a hedonist: Oscar Wilde was born in Ireland in 1854, and became a pain in the neck of Victorian England. Wilde was convicted of “gross indecency” (meaning “homosexual activity”) and was sentenced to imprisonment and to hard labor. He is widely known […]
Gwyneth Jones (1952) is an English writer and critic of science fiction and fantasy. She is the author of many novels for teenagers, mostly horror and thrillers, under the name Ann Halam, and several highly regarded SF novels for adults. Jones has won the Tiptree award, two World Fantasy awards, the Arthur C. Clarke award, […]
Jane Rogers is a British novelist, editor, scriptwriter, and lecturer. She was born in London in 1952. She was educated at Oxford High School in Oxford, matriculated into New Hall, Cambridge to study English and graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1974. She completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Education at the University of Leicester in 1976. […]
Angela Carter (1940-1992) was a British author, journalist, and professor. She was born in Sussex, England. During the Second World War, she lived in Yorkshire with her grandmother, who used to tell her stories. Her first employment was with Croydon Advertiser, where she was hired as a journalist. She married her first husband, Paul Carter, in […]
Charlotte Riddell, aka Mrs. J.H. Riddell (1832-1906), was a British writer. She was born in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. She was the youngest daughter of James Cowan, High Sheriff for the County of Antrim, and Ellen Kilshaw, originally from Liverpool, England. Riddell was a natural born storyteller: before she was old enough to read and write, […]
Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen in 1882 in London, and became one of the most powerful voices of modernism in the 20th century. Alongside such prominent novels as Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, Woolf wrote essays and short fiction. With her husband, Leonard Woolf, she founded the Hogarth Press, a publishing house to which the Bloomsbury […]
Hilary Mantel was born in England in 1952. She lived in Africa and in Saudi Arabia for a few years with her husband, a geologist. She has written twelve novels, two short story collections, a memoir, as well as many articles and essays. Her books have received many awards, including the Cheltenham Prize and the […]
Saki is the pen name of British writer and playwright Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916). Munro was considered a master of the short story and was famous for his witty, sardonic stories that were strewn with black humor. He was born in British Burma to the Inspector General of the Indian Imperial Police and sent to […]
Ned Beauman is a 29-year-old British writer and journalist. His debut novel, Boxer, Beetle (2013), received much critical acclaim, and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and won the UK Writers’ Guild Award and the Goldberg Prize for Outstanding Debut Fiction. The Guardian and Granta Magazine selected him as one of 20 most promising […]
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