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Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) developed an elaborate, beautiful English prose style and probed many of the deep questions of modern fiction in his short stories and novels. His work was in turn adventurous and darkly pessimistic, interested in the traditional virtues of steadfastness and courage while also concerned with the epistemological lacunae that define modern existence and perception. Conard was born […]
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Jessie Greengrass was born in 1982. She studied philosophy at Cambridge and London, where she now lives with her partner and child. She is a founder member of the Brautigan Free Press magazine. Jessie has a great love for detective stories and knows who the murderer is in almost every novel Agatha Christie ever wrote. […]
Maurice Baring was born in London in 1874. He was a man of letters, a scion of a family long prominent in the financial ventures of the British Empire. The son of the 1st Baron Revelstoke (a director of the Bank of England and a senior partner at Baring Bros.), he was educated at Eton […]
Rudyard Kipling was an English writer. He is best known for his poems and stories set in India during the period of British imperial rule. Kipling was born in Bombay, India, in 1865. His father was an artist and teacher. In 1870, Kipling was taken back to England to stay with a foster family and […]
D.H. Lawrence, in full David Herbert Lawrence, born in 1885 in Nottinghamshire, was an English author of novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, and letters. His novels, Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), and Women in Love (1920), made him one of the most influential English writers of the 20th century. Thematically and […]
Adam Marek is a British short story writer. His stories have appeared on BBC Radio 4, and in many magazines and anthologies, including Prospect and The Sunday Times Magazine, and The Penguin Book of the British Short Story. His short story collections, The Stone Thrower and Instruction Manual for Swallowing are published in the UK by Comma Press, and in North America by ECW Press. […]
Graham Greene was born in Berkhamsted, England in 1904. His father was headmaster at the local school, but Greene often ran away and was eventually sent to London to live under the care of a psychoanalyst. He attended Oxford and converted to Catholicism in his twenties, becoming a devout believer. Upon completing his degree he moved […]
Doris Lessing (1919-2013), laureate of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, among the most important post-World War II writers, was born in Persia (now Iran) to British parents and raised in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). In 1949, disappointed with her country’s regime and disillusioned with the communist movement of which she and her friends were […]
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