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Elizabeth Smart
Born in Canada in 1913, Elizabeth was a novel writer and a poet. She grew up in an affluent and renowned family. In fact, her father was a lawyer who regularly mixed with prominent people. With a good private education, Elizabeth was given the best beginning in academic life. This was not a surprise that she became interested in poetry and novel writing at her tender age.Apart from being an author, she loved music .when she was 18 years old, she chose to study at Kings College in England. When she graduated, she landed her first job as a secretary to Margret Watt who was the leader of women living in rural areas. It was the period that she met George barker’s poetry. The person could define much about her future.The relationship of Elizabeth with the English poet started during that period. Nevertheless, smart could even inform her friends that she love the man and would like to marry him.When she finished working as a secretary, Elizabeth returned to her home in Ottawa. This is where she began working on her local journals. This prompted her to begin her career in both poetry and writing.After venturing into the writing industry, she decided to make a visit to California and New York. This is where she met prominent writers for that time including Lawrence Durrell. At this time, she finally met with her lover of live, barker. Unfortunately, Barker was married, and he lived in Japan. However, he made an effort of traveling into the United States. This is where she met her and made a passionate and long-standing affair..Their relationship led to Elizabeth becoming pregnant. After that period, she went back to Canada being optimistic that Barker would follow her. But, her family intervened when he attempted to do so. Hence, the writer was refused an entry visa. This made Elizabeth to go back to the US again. Smart became pregnant again for the second child. At this time, she moved to England and worked in the ministry of defense whereby she was close to barker.It was during this moment when she wrote the most famous work, by grand central station’ I sat down and wept.’ This was a fictional story about the relationship with George Barker.Also, she had two more kids with Barker. She later took up as an advertising copy which took place until 1966. After that, she relocated to Suffolk where she became a creative writer.
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was a highly reputed poet, writer, actor, and playwright from England, who lived during the Elizabethan era. He is regarded as English language’s greatest writer and the pre-eminent dramatist in the world. Shakespeare is often called as the national poet of England. His wide range of works includes around 38 plays, a couple of long poems, 154 sonnets, several other verses, and some uncertain authorship. The plays written by Shakespeare have often been translated into almost every known language throughout the world. They are also performed widely and have been adapted in different art forms. Shakespeare’s birth had taken place in Stafford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. He married a girl named Anne Hathaway when he was 18 years old, and had three kids with her, named Susanna, Judith, and Hamnet. The later ones were twins. Between 1585 & 1592, Shakespeare was involved in acting in London. He was quite successful in this field. Shakespeare was even the part owner of a company known as Lord’s Chamberlain’s Men, which was later called King’s Men. It is believed that Shakespeare retired from acting at the age of forty nine in 1613 and stayed in Stafford until his death, 3 years after his retirement. A few records about the private life of Shakespeare have been preserved by the English government over the years. The records have stimulated speculations about matters regarding his sexuality, physical appearance, religious beliefs, and if his works actually written by some other people. Most of the known works of Shakespeare were produced from 1589 onwards. The early plays written by him were primarily histories and comedies. They are still included among the best works based on these genres. Later, he shifted his focus towards writing tragedies until the year 1608. Some of his finest works in this genre include Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, and Hamlet. During the last phase of his life, Shakespere collaborated with many other playwrights and wrote tragicomedies or romances. Many of Shakespeare’s plays were released in different editions of varying accuracy and quality during his career. Henry Condell and John Heminges, 2 of Shakespeare fellow actors and friends published a definite text after a few years of his death. This 1623 posthumous publication was called First Folio and comprised of a collected edition of several dramatic works of Shakespeare. The text was prefaced with one of Ben Jonson’s poem, in which he has hailed Shakespeare as not being of age, but for all the time. After the 19th century, Shakespeare’s plays were repeatedly adapted in various forms. They were also rediscovered by newfound movements in performance and scholarship.
Andy Weir
Andy Weir, an American author, made an impact with his science fiction and fantasy stories. His notable works include ‘The Martian,’ which was turned into a film in 2015 by Ridley Scott, and ‘Project Hail Mary,’ a finalist for the 2022 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Winning the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2016 highlighted his emerging talent. Originally a software engineer, Weir shifted to writing full-time, fueled by his passion for space and science.
Emily Bronte
Emily Bronte was an English author best known for the literary classic, Wuthering Heights. She was the fifth sibling of the popular Bronte family of writers that include Charlotte, and Anne Bronte. She was older than Anne Bronte and younger than Charlotte Bronte. Emily Bronte was born to Maria Branwell and Patrick Bronte in Thornton near Bradford, Yorkshire in 1818. When she was 6 years old, the Bronte family relocated to Haworth where her father had taken up a position as the incumbent curate. It was in Haworth that Emily’s and her sister’s literary talents flourished. After their mother passed on, the three sisters used literature to escape from the loneliness by inventing fantasylands they named Oceania, Gaaldine, Gondal, and Angria, the setting for most of their narratives. There is not much of Emily’s work from this period that can be found, save for a few character spoken poems that include, Fannie Ratchford and The Brontes’ Web of Childhood.
George R.R. Martin
George Richard raymond Martin, also called: GRRM. He was born on september 20, in New Jersey, he is a short story writer, novelist, producer, scenarist, journalist, and a professor of journalism. He is also a fan of chess and organized many competitions. He is very famous for his international bestselling series: “A song of Ice and Fire” which was adapted recently by HBO for the TV series “Game of Thrones”. He sold his first story in 1971 and since then exhibited a profound talent and passion about writing. He had been working on many films and television series in Hollywood, such the beauty and the beast, and the twilight zone. Today he is living in Santa Fe, New Mexico with his wife Parris MacBride, and Augustus and Caligula, his two cats. He was named amongst the 100 most influential people in the world in 2011 by the “Time Magazine”.
David Lynch
David Lynch is an American screenwriter, filmmaker, and author that has made a name for himself for his mind-bending and uniquely disturbing visual and artistic work. His films usually juxtapose the shockingly macabre with the cheerfully mundane to defy explanation. Lynch was born to a US Forest Service research scientist, which meant that the family was often moving across the country during his childhood. He has lived in the likes of Spokane, Washington, Idaho, Sandpoint, Montana, and Missoula as his father was often sent to different places by the US Department of Agriculture. This part of his life is also refracted and reflected in his novels such as “Twin Peaks” and “Blue Velvet.” He came into the limelight when he made the very original film “Eraserhead” in 1977 which would go on to become a huge hit. Since then, he has received nominations for the Academy Awards for the films “Blue Velvet” and “The Elephant Man.” “Twin Peaks” mania would sweep the country in 1990 after it started airing on ABC before “Wild at Heart” got the Palme d’Or award. Lynch has also established himself as one of the wittiest artists with tremendous amounts of humor. He made his writing debut with the publishing of “Catching the Big Fish,” a novel about transcendental meditation.
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