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Rick Bragg Biography

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Dates July 26, 1959 – present Other Names Used Ricky Edward Bragg: full name Alabama Connection Piedmont, Calhoun County: birthplace Possum Trot, Calhoun County: childhood residence Jacksonville, Calhoun County: brief adult residence Anniston, Calhoun County: brief adult residence Birming Continue reading the biography

Lord Byron Biography

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George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th baron Byron of Rochdale. Lord Byron b. January 22, 1788, d. April 19, 1824, was the quintessential poet of the romantic era. “She walks in beauty like the night”, a very famous and well known phrase. George Byron penned this poem about an aunt that he had s Continue reading the biography

Edgar Allan Poe Biography

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“Poe had a pretty bitter doom. Doomed to seethe down his soul in a great continuous convulsion of disintegration…” – D.H. Lawrence in Studies in American Literature Edgar Allen Poe was born on January 19th, 1809. He was the second of three children of Elizabeth Arnold and Dav Continue reading the biography

Dylan Thomas Biography

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Do not go gently into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Dylan Thomas from “Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night”. Dylan Marlais Thomas was born on October 27, 1914 in Swansea, Wales. He was the son of D.J. Thomas, Continue reading the biography