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Born in Texas in 1935, Tomas Rivera was a Mexican-American author and poet who was brought up as a migrant farm hand, spending much of his youth toiling in the fields of the Mid-West with his family. He managed to gain a good education despite the fact that his mother and father moved from place to place to secure work. As a ...
Born in 1874 in Geneva, Trumbull Stickney led a short but productive life and could well have been one of the great poets of the 20th Century had he not died shortly after his thirtieth birthday. It is certain that he had not realized the full extent of his literary powers and his finished work is now often characterized as a ...
Born in 1875 in the Ukraine, Shaul Tchernichovsky is considered one of the great Hebrew poets of the modern era. Brought up in the small village of Mykhailivka he went to a Jewish school for the first few years of his education before transferring to a Russian establishment in Odessa where he began to write poetry seriously. Tchernichovsky wrote his first poem, ...
The Japanese poet Shinkichi Takahashi has been described as the only 20th century Zen poet in Japanese literature and one of Japan’s all-time great poets. A pioneer in his own country of the European avant-garde art movement of Dadaism, he won the Ministry of Education Prize for Art for his Collected Poems in 1977. He was born in 1901 in a small fishing village ...
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, KStJ, DL is best known all over the world as the author of the Sherlock Holmes detective stories, a series of books which owed much to his medical background. The precise, forensic mind of Holmes was inspired by Doyle’s mentor during his medical training at Edinburgh, a man named Dr Joseph Bell. Indeed, when his good friend ...
Thomas Blackburn was a 20th century English poet whose published work also included musical dramas, novels and studies of other modern poets. He had a troubled childhood and his state of mind did not seem to improve much as he went through his adult years which included three marriages. His second marriage, to artist Rosalie de Meric, produced a daughter (Julia ...
Thomas Bracken was an Irish born poet, journalist and politician who spent much of his life in New Zealand following his migration as a boy to Australia. He was passionate about the interests of the Maori people, the indigenous population of the islands, and is famous for writing God Defend New Zealand. His words were set to music and then adopted as the ...
Thomas Edward Brown was a Manx poet of some distinction from the late Victorian era. More commonly known as T E Brown, he was born on the Isle of Man which lies off the north western shore of England. He strived for all of his life to bring to literary attention the old Anglo-Manx dialect. There are strains of Gaelic in this ...
Born in Kent in 1568, Sir Henry Wotton was a diplomat and writer who is perhaps best known for his work The Character of a Happy Life. He was born into a well-to-do family that included other diplomats and landed gentry and received a good education, first at Winchester College and then Oxford University, from which he graduated in 1588 ...
Over her short life, New Zealander Robin Hyde rose to become one of the country’s most famous poets. Born in South Africa in 1906 to Australian and English parents, she moved to Wellington in her first year and remained there for most of the rest of her life. Her initial education was at the Girls’ College in Wellington before she studied ...
