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Posted by Tel on November 12, 2009
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.
Posted in Biographer, Children's Writer, Critic, Essayist, Fiction Writer, Historian, Journalist, Memoirist / Diarist, NonFiction Writer, Novelist, Playwright, Poets, Science Fiction, Screenplay Writer, Short Story writer, Writers | Tagged: Author, brief biographies of authors | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Tel on November 19, 2008
Robert Louis Stevenson, Teller of Tales
by Tel Asiado, Nov 13, 2008
Biography of Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, poet and travel writer, famous for classic novels Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (November 13, 1850–December 3, 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and a leading advocate of Neo-romanticism in English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors including Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Vladimir Nabokov. Most modernist writers dismissed him because he was popular and did not write within their definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond is popularity and give him a place in the literary world.
Full article … [Robert Louis Stevenson, Tusitala]
Posted in Poets, Writers | Tagged: Author, poet, robert louis stevenson, teller of tales, travel author, tusitala | 3 Comments »
Posted by Tel on October 26, 2008
Today, October 26 (1880), is the birthday of Russian poet, author and critic, Andrey Bely, a leading figure in russian symbolist movement during the twentieth century.
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Posted by Tel on December 19, 2007
Today, December 19 (1910), is the birthday of Jean Genet, French author and playwright. His novels and autobiographies were popular in the 1960s.
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