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Dear valued friends & visitors,

To consolidate efforts and time, “Authors Brief Biographies” blog has been merged with Books Shelf Life. New posts will be populated at Life Shelf.  This existing blog site, however, will remain available.

Thank you very much for understanding.

May Sarton

May Sarton (1912-1995)

American Author, Memoirist, Novelist, and Poet

American author May Sarton is one of the best-known memoirists of the 20th century. She is famous for Journal of a Solitude and I Knew a Phoenix, among others. Her other best-known work is Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing.

Sarton was a prolific writer, a novelist and poet, whose numerous books and collection of poetry were critically acclaimed and widely read.

Read more… May Sarton

Works by May Sarton

• Encounter in April, poetry, 1937
• Inner Landscape, poetry, 1939
• The Land of Silence, poetry, 1953
• In Time Like Air, poetry, 1957
• I Knew a Phoenix, 1959
• Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, novel, 1965
• Plant Dreaming Deep, journal, 1968
• Journal of a Solitude, 1973
• Halfway to Silence, poetry, 1980
• The Single Hound, novels, 1938
• The Bridge of Years, novels, 1946
• Shadow of a Man, novel, 1950
• The House by the Sea: a Journal, 1977
• Recovering: A Journal, 1980
• The Magnificent Spinster, novel, 1985
• After the Stroke, journal, 1988
• Coming into Eighty, poetry, 1993

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

English Novelist, Critic, Essayist, Feminist, Socialist

Virginia Woolf was a founder of the Bloomsbury Group of writers and artists. Her famous books include Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves.

She is best known for developing the ’stream of consciousness’ method of writing in which the reader follows the characters’ internal thoughts as the story unfolds. Her writing style is significantly influential in the development of the 20th century novel.

Read more…  Virginia Woolf Short Bio

Works by Virginia Woolf

• The Voyage Out, 1915
• Night and Day, 1919
• Jacob’s Room, 1922
• Mrs. Dalloway, 1925
• To the Lighthouse, 1927
• Orlando, 1928
• A Room of One’s Own, 1919
• The Waves, 1931
• The Years, 1937
• Between the Acts, 1941

Isak Dinesen

Isak Dinesen (1885-1962)

Danish Author Isak Dinesen Known for Seven Gothic Tales

Karen Blixen aka Isak Dinesen was the most famous of all Danish writers. She wrote gothic tales (Seven Gothic Tales, her first book) and African memoirs in English (Out of Africa.) Her last book was Shadows on the Grass. Karen Blixen Museum is in the outskirts of Nairobi on Karen road.

Read more — [Karen Blixen]

Isak Dinesen’s Major Books in English:

• The Authorship
• Seven Gothic Tales (1934)
• Out of Africa (1938)
• Winter’s Tales (1942)
• The Angelic Avengers (1944)
• Last Tales
• Anecdotes of Destiny
• Shadows on the Grass (1961)
• Marionette Plays
• Posthumous Publications