One of the most famous and celebrated novelists in India, Munshi Premchand was born as Dhanpat Rai Srivastav 31st July 1880 in Lamahi in Northern India. He was the fourth child of a post office clerk father, Ajaib Lal and Anandi Devi. He had one surviving sister; two of his siblings died ...
Louise Glück was a contemporary American poet born April 22nd 1943 in New York City to a Hungarian immigrant father, Daniel, an inventor. She was brought up in Long Island and currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her interest in writing poetry surfaced during her teens when, encouraged by her parents she would submit poems to magazines. In the mid 1960s she studied ...
Kamala Das was born in 1934 in India into an artistic family with a father who was managing editor of the Daily Mathrubhum and a mother who was a much respected poetess. She is noted for her honest poems and other writings that cover a wide range of issues. She was born in Kerala where Malayalam is spoken, an Indian dialect ...
A lyric poet and cleric who lived through the turmoil of the English Civil War, Robert Herrick was born in Cheapside in London in 1591. When he was just one year old, his father died after a fall from a window. The young Herrick was educated at the Merchant Taylor's School before, at the age of 16, going to work as ...
French poet Arthur Rimbaud was born in 1854 in the Ardennes and went on to influence many writers and singers of the 20th century including Dylan Thomas, Nabokov and even Bob Dylan. Reputed to have little moral sense and a deep restlessness, he began writing poems at a very early age but stopped suddenly when he was just 21 years ...
