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Famous Poets & Writers

William Shakespeare 1564-1616

William Shakespeare is an English poet and playwright, often considered the greatest English-language writer and one of the best playwrights in the world. Often referred to as the national poet of England. The extant works, including some written jointly with other authors, consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, 4 poems and 3 epitaphs.

Daniel Defoe 1660-1731

Daniel Defoe is an English writer and publicist. He is mainly known as the author of the novel "Robinson Crusoe". Defoe is considered one of the first proponents of the novel as a genre. He helped popularize this genre in the UK, and some consider him one of the founders of the English novel. Defoe is a prolific and diverse writer, he has written more than 500 books, pamphlets and magazines on various topics. He was also the founder of economic journalism. In journalism, he promoted sanity, defended religious tolerance and freedom of speech.

Thanks to books such as The Letters of Daniel Defoe (edited by G. H. Healey, Oxford 1955), far more is known about his activities than is usual with such agents. His first reports included vivid descriptions of violent demonstrations against the Union. "A Scots rabble is the worst of its kind", he reported.

Jane Austin 1775-1817

Jane Austin is an English writer, the forerunner of realism in British literature, a satirist, wrote the so-called novels of morals. Her books are recognized masterpieces that combine the simplicity of the plot, deep psychological insight into the souls of the characters and ironic, soft, truly "English" humor.

Mary Shelley 1797-1851

Mary Shelley was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin in Somers Town, London, in 1797. She was the second child of the feminist philosopher, educator, and writer Mary Wollstonecraft and the first child of the philosopher, novelist, and journalist William Godwin.

Mary Shelley is a British writer, novelist, author of the famous work "Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus" and several other novels with fantastic plots.

Charles John Huffam Dickens 1812- 1870

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius.

Charlotte Bronte 1816-1855

Charlotte Bronte is an English poet, one of the most famous representatives of English romanticism and realism. The older sister of Emily Bronte and Ann Bronte. It is believed that Charlotte Bronte and her "Jane Eyre" gave birth to the feminist movement in literature. Charlotte brought out in her novel a strong female heroine who was not afraid to overcome difficulties and resist the blows of fate. Not a single authentic photograph of Charlotte has survived.

Robert Louis Stevenson is a Scottish writer and poet, the author of adventure novels and novellas, the largest representative of neo-Romanticism.

He is best known for such works as "Treasure Island", "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", "Kidnapped" and "Kindergarten Poems".

Bernard Shaw 1856-1950

Bernard Shaw is an Irish playwright and novelist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and one of the most famous Irish literary figures. A public figure, a Fabian socialist, a supporter of the reform of English spelling. He was one of the founders of the London School of Economics and Political Science. The second most popular playwright in the English theatre.

Arthur Conan Doyle 1859-1930

Arthur Conan Doyle is an English writer working in adventure, detective, science fiction and humorous styles, who has created more than seventy books, the holder of the Orders of St. John, the Medjidie, the Crown of Italy and the title of Knight Bachelor. Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859 in Edinburgh in the family of a talented artist, part-time clerk, and an admirer of literature.

Jerome K. Jerome 1859-1927

Jerome K. Jerome is an English humorist writer, playwright, permanent employee of the satirical magazine "Punch", edited in 1892-1897 the magazines "Lazy" and "Today".

During his lifetime he was a very famous humorist and one of the most published English-language writers. The author had a unique ability to extract comedy from the simplest life situations.

Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936

Rudyard Kipling is an English writer, poet, journalist and traveller.Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book, Kim, and many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King. Among his poems: "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "Gods of the ABC Truths" (1919), "The Burden of the White Man" (1899) and "If ..." (1910). In 1907, Kipling became the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as the youngest Nobel laureate in literature in the history of the prize. In the same year, he received awards from the universities of Paris, Strasbourg, Athens and Toronto; He has also been awarded honorary degrees from Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh and Durham Universities.

Somerset Maugham 1874-1965

Somerset Maugham was a secret agent of British intelligence and an outstanding British novelist. English playwright, short story writer, essayist, one of the most successful prose writers of the 1930s.

Alan Alexander Milne 1882-1956

A.A. Milne, in full Alan Alexander Milne, (born January 18, 1882, London, England—died January 31, 1956, Hartfield, Sussex), is an English humorist, the originator of the immensely popular stories of Christopher Robin and his toy bear, Winnie-the-Pooh. Milne’s father ran a private school, where one of the boy’s teachers was a young H.G. Wells. Milne went on to attend Westminster School, London, and Trinity College, Cambridge, the latter on a mathematics scholarship.

Alan Alexander Milne was a participant in the First World War as an officer of the British army, and then devoted many years to work in the editorial office of the English humorous magazine Punch and became an assistant editor.

Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan 1890-1976

Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan better known by her first husband's surname as Agatha Christie is an English writer and playwright. She is one of the most famous authors of detective fiction in the world. Agatha Christie's works have become one of the most published in the history of mankind, as well as the most translated.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien 1892-1973

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien is an English writer and poet, translator, linguist, philologist. He is one of the most famous writers of the XX century, the author of more than two hundred different publications and many unfinished works. He is best known as the author of classic works of "high fantasy": "The Hobbit, or There and Back", "The Lord of the Rings" and "Silmarillion". These books have spawned hundreds of translations, imitations, sequels and adaptations and have become a notable phenomenon of the culture of the XX century.

Clive Staples Lewis 1898-1963

Clive Staples Lewis is a British writer, poet, philologist and theologian of Irish descent. He is best known for his works in the fantasy genre, including The Chronicles of Narnia, The Space Trilogy, as well as books on Christian apologetics such as The Letters of Balamut, Just Christianity, Miracle, Suffering.

Clive Staples Lewis is one of the most prominent British cultural figures of the twentieth century.

Roald Dahl 1916-1990

Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl is a British writer, screenwriter, author of novels, short stories, and children's fairy tales. The most famous works of the writer were "Charlie and the chocolate factory", "James and the Miracle Peach" and "Charlie and the huge glass elevator". He is the winner of numerous awards and prizes in literature.

Joanne Rowling 1965

J.K. Rowling is a British writer, screenwriter and film producer, best known as the author of the Harry Potter series of novels. The Harry Potter books have won several awards and have sold over 500 million copies. They became the best-selling series of books in history and the basis for a series of films, which became the third highest-grossing series of films in history. J.K. Rowling herself approved the scripts of the films, and also joined the producers of the last two parts.