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Fitzgerald was born in 1896 to an upper middle class American family. He went to expensive schools and Princeton University (although he never got a degree). He joined the Army...

Fyodor Sologub was the pen name of Fyodor Terternikov, born in 1863, the son of a poor tailor, in St. Petersburg. His father’s death from tuberculosis when he was only...

Grant Allen was born in Canada in 1848. He moved with his family to the USA and then France, before settling in the UK. Allen was a professor in the...

Guy de Maupassant was born in 1850 to wealthy parents. His mother was very well-educated and tried to plant her love of literature in her son. She introduced him to...

Henry Lawson was born in Australia in 1867, the son of a Norwegian immigrant to the country and a mother who encouraged her son to love books. When he was...

Henry van Dyke was born in Pennsylvania, USA, in 1852 and graduated from Princeton University, where he became a professor of literature for nearly twenty-five years. He was also a...

H. P. Lovecraft was born in the USA in 1890 but had a difficult childhood because his father went mad and spent the rest of his life in a mental...

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was born to a wealthy family in Russia in 1818, but had a very unhappy childhood. His father was often away from home with other women and...

Jack London was born in the USA in 1876. His mother did not want the baby and gave him to an ex-slave. All his life, London was unsure who his...

Born in Dublin in 1882, James Joyce set all his work there, although he chose to spend nearly his whole adult life abroad. He lived happily and quietly in France,...