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
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
“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
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
Emily Pauline Johnson was born on March 10, 1861 on the Six Nations Reserve near Brantford, Ontario, Canada. She was a Mohawk Indian; her Indian name was Tekahionwake. Her family and friends called her Pauline. She was one of four children (two girls and two boys) born to George Henry Martin Johnson Continue reading the biography
Great lyrical poet of France Paul Verlaine was born on March 30, 1844, in city Metz. He has left bright record of what he felt and seen, on spirit and expression similar with later creativity of Blok, Chechov and other newest writers, and was also connected by strings of deep relationship with young Continue reading the biography
Dorothy Garlock, the former Texas native, writing from her home in Clear Lake, Iowa, touches more lives than she can imagine. She has published over 40 novels, which have been translated into 18 different languages and sold in 35 countries around the world. Currently she has over 20 million books in Continue reading the biography
BIOGRAPHY: (Written in first person) During my childhood I was fortunate enough to live in such exotic places as Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and several locations in Japan, as well as numerous Air Force SAC Bases in the United states. Being an only child, I was often lonely and occupied my time and overa Continue reading the biography