Famous Biographies

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1804. Hawthorne went to Bedowin College in Maine. Captain Hawthorne, Nathaniel’s father died when he was four, so he was raised by his mother alone. Hawthorne was very shy, but during college, he made some friends such as the President, F Continue reading the biography

Mary Shelley was born in London, England on August 30, 1797. She died in Bournemouth, England on February 1, 1851, of a brain tumor. Her father, William Godwin, was a philosopher and writer. Mary Wollstonecraft, her mother, was also a writer who died when Mary was just a young girl. At a relatively Continue reading the biography

Herman Melville was born August 1, 1819, in New York City. His parents were Allan Melville, a Unitarian, who made a living as a merchant-importer, and Maria Gansevoort Melville of New York Dutch ancestry and a member of the Calvinistic Dutch-Reformed Church. Herman’s father was volatile and s Continue reading the biography

Anne Dudley Bradstreet was born in Northhampton, England in either 1612 or 1613, to Thomas Dudley and Dorothy Yorke. Thomas Dudley was a steward at the manor house Of the Earl of Lincoln, and young Anne enjoyed the aristocratic mansion nestled in the English countryside. Her early years were spent b Continue reading the biography

Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) Biography Thornton Wilder American writer and playwright, best known for the Pulizer Prize awarded play OUR TOWN (1938), which was seen by the critic Brendan Gill as “a nightmare of passive awareness felt through all eternity”, misinterpreted as a slice of Continue reading the biography

1894 EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS (”Estlin”) is born October 14 in family residence 104 Irving Street, Cambridge, Mass., the son of EDWARD and REBECCA CLARKE CUMMINGS. His energetic, versatile, and highly articulate father teaches sociology and political science at Harvard in the 1890’s Continue reading the biography

Siegfried Sassoon 1886-1967 Siegfried Sassoon was born in Weirleigh, Kent, England on September 8, 1886 into a leisurely society of country living. His father, a Sephardic Jew, and mother, a Catholic, separated when he was five years old. When his father died of Tuberculosis a few short months after Continue reading the biography

Biography of S.S Van Dine THE mysterious Willard Huntington Wright was born in 1888 in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was educated at St. Vincent College, California, 1903; Pomona College, California, 1904; and Harvard University, 1906. At Harvard he was a prize student in anthropology and ethnology. Continue reading the biography

The Roman Poet Horace Biography Quintus Horatius Flaccus was born on the 8th of December, B.C. 65 at Venusia, a Roman colony on the confines of Apulia and Lucania. His father was a libertinus, or freedman, by whom emancipated is not known. Horace was technically ingenuus, having been born after his Continue reading the biography

Ismail Merchant Born(1936 – ) Occupation:     Producer Also:     Director Born:     December 25, 1936, Bombay, India Education:     St. Xavier’s University, Bombay; New York University (business administration) This Bombay-born producer is one half of the prolific Merchant/Iv Continue reading the biography