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- 1201: Miguel de Cervantes
- Miguel de Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, born September 29, 1547, was a Spanish novelist, dramatist, and poet. Cervantes was the author of the novel Don Quixote, a masterpiece of world literature that was a great influence to other renaissance writers. Cervantes was born to a poor family in a town called Alcala de Henares. His father was a surgeon who made little money to support the ...
- 1202: Mark Twain
- ... letters to a San Francisco newspaper, and later formed into The Innocents Abroad, which was popular all over the world. In 1870 Mark Twain married Olivia Langdon. He then abandoned journalism to focus on serious literature. From 1870-1875, Twain produced many novels, including the famous tale, Tom Sawyer. A European vacation in 1878-1879, inspired novels like The Prince and the Pauper and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's ...
- 1203: Ernest Hemingway
- ... like to read to see how many ways you can interpret it but , you should read a novel to learn from others mistakes and also for the pleasure of expanding you knowledge American and English literature. I could name many different books in which I have read that have actually left a impact on my life in some sort or another. Bibliographies Bruccoli, Matthew J. Conversations with Ernest Hemingway. Mississippi: UP ...
- 1204: Ernest Miller Hemingway
- ... game. Though Ernest had a serious accident, and later became ill, he could never admit that he had any weaknesses; nothing would stop him, certainly not pain. In 1954 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Toward the end, Ernest started to travel again, but almost the way that someone does who knows that he will soon die. He suddenly started becoming paranoid and to forget things. He became obsessed with ...
- 1205: Emily Dickinson
- ... her friends had converted to Christianity, her family was also putting enormous amount of pressure for her to convert. No longer the submissive youngster she would not bend her will on such issues as religion, literature and personal associations. She maintained a correspondence with Rev. Charles Wadsworth over a substantial period of time. Even though she rejected the Church as a entity she never did reject or accept God. Wadsworth appealed ...
- 1206: Bede the Venerable
- ... writings. This work provides evidence that he was English and he thought of himself as English and not just a part of the kingdom or Northumbria. Bede was also a major provider of Roman Christian literature to the illiterate Anglo Saxon people, and that transformed and melded the Italic and Germanic cultures together forever.(Brown, 2). Bede showed that it was allowable to use English and it began being used in ...
- 1207: The Work of Cormac McCarthy
- ... 89-98. Iyer, Pico. "Leaning Toward Myth." Partisan Review 62 (1995): 309-14. McCarthy, Cormac. The Crossing. New York: Vintage Books, 1995. Microsoft Interactive Dictionary, 1995. Richey, Jean. "The Crossing-- Like Horses, But Different." World Literature Today November 1994: 140-41. Ryan, William G. "The Crossing." American Journal of Psychiatry 151 (1994): 1822. Young, Glen D. "The Border Trilogy." English Journal 84 (1995): 99-100.
- 1208: Joan of Arc
- ... a much more fair trial. At the end of the trial Joan was pronounced innocent. Four hundred years later, in 1920, she became canonized by Pope Benedict. Joan is now well known in art and literature. May 30 is now the traditional feast day in memory of, Joan of Arc. Sources Encarta Encyclopedia, and The Who's Who book
- 1209: Thornton Wilder
- ... of Our Teeth and Wilder's own life, there are many lesser connections in his other works. The year he spent in Rome, for example, and the love he shows for its architecture and classic literature is written about with great admiration in The Cabala and The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Papajewski 206). He creates characters similar to himself and to those around him. Aescylus in The Angel That Troubled ...
- 1210: The Life of Kurt Vonnegut
- ... graduating class at Bennington University. He was also invited to teach creative writing at Harvard University. Vonnegut won many awards for Slaughterhouse-Five including an honorary L.H.D degree from Indiana University and the Literature Award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters (Litz 759). The reason the book was so popular among younger people was because of it's strong antiwar message at a time when war wasn ...
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