Kathleen Eagle published her first book, a Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award winner, with Silhouette Books in 1984. Since then she has published more than 30 books, including historical and contemporary, series and single title—earning her nearly every award in the industry, including Continue reading the biography
Since she was a little girl, Linda Ladd has always been a romantic—loving nothing better than to lose herself completely in the far-away times and places of great novelists such as Jane Austen, Margaret Mitchell, and the Bronte sisters. Little did she dream that someday she would be transporting l 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 relativ Continue reading the biography
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
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