When looking for a true giant amongst the writers of the 19th and 20th centuries it would be hard to find anyone more deserving of that title than George Bernard Shaw. His primary writing output was in the form of plays and he wrote more than sixty of those. He wrote a few novels, though these were much less successful, and he ...
Born in New York in 1913, Delmore Schwartz was a poet who was often seen as victim of his own love of logic and suffered from mental health problems throughout a large part of his later life that saw him admitted to sanatoriums. He was from Jewish American decent and his parents divorced when he was young, which influenced much of ...
Born in Peru in 1892, Cesar Vallejo was a poet and journalist who was from a small village in the Andes and is noted for his wide range of works including plays and novels. During his lifetime he only ever published 3 original works of poetry but they have each in their turn been considered as masterpieces of the art. Vallejo was ...
Georgia Douglas Johnson, poet, playwright and newspaper columnist, was born of a mixed race heritage in Atlanta, Georgia, USA on September 10th 1880. Her schooling gave her a good grounding in literature and music. She learned to play the violin and this would be the basis of her later use of music in her plays. She was a teacher for a while ...
American novelist, short story writer and poet Herman Melville is probably best known for his novel Moby Dick, the most famous of his accounts of life at sea. The majority of his writing was done in his younger years and his work was largely forgotten until long after his death. Melville was born in New York City, August 1st 1819, the third child ...
