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Author's Calendar: Mao Zedong (1893 1976)

For Students 9th - 10th
Visit this site for a biographical sketch of the life of Chinese dictator Mao Zedong. It discusses his political career, as well as his literary career. A bibliography of his selected works is also provided.
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Author's Calendar: Leopold Senghor

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete biography of Senghor. Includes a complete list of all his works along with a definition of negritude.
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Author's Calendar: Pegasos: Eugene O'neill (1888 1953)

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a biography of Eugene O'Neill, an expressionist writer. It includes quotes as well as further bibliographical references.
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Author's Calendar: Kirjasto: Lope De Vega: Father of Spanish Drama

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical essay on Lope de Vega, the most respected playwright of Renaissance Spain. Features extensive personal information and a bibliography of de Vega's plays and other works.
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Author's Calendar: Daniel Defoe

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives a thorough biography of Defoe. It includes quotes from his writing and information about his most important works.
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Author's Calendar: Henry Fielding

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Good biography of Henry Fielding (1707-1754 CE), the English Romantic novelist.
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Author's Calendar: l.m. Montgomery

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Kuusankoski Public Library provides information on the life and works of L.M. Montgomery.
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Author's Calendar: Nadine Gordimer

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A biography of Gordimer which focuses on her writing. Includes a bibliography of her works.
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Author's Calendar: Dorothy Parker

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers an organized collection of biographical information on Dorothy Parker.
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Author's Calendar: George Eliot

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about Mary Ann Cross -- better known as George Eliot -- who was the author of "Middlemarch" and "Silas Marner." This page includes biographical information as well as insight into individual literary works by Eliot.
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Author's Calendar: Simone De Beauvoir

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography and brief history on the life of Simone de Beauvoir. Contains quotations, and links to further information.
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Author's Calendar: Guillaume Apollinaire

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief biography on the life of French author and playwright, Guillaume Appollinaire.
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Author's Calendar: Ludovico Ariosto

For Students 9th - 10th
The biography on this Italian poet is thorough and contains a selected bibliography.
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Author's Calendar: Bertolt Brecht

For Students 9th - 10th
A very thorough biography on German playwright Bertolt Brecht. Discusses his upbringing, his career as a playwright, and his overall controversial life.
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Author's Calendar: Vicente Aleixandre

For Students 9th - 10th
This essay describes the influences and work of Nobel Prize winner, Vicente Aleixandre.
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Author's Calendar: Countee Cullen

For Students 9th - 10th
Includes Countee Cullen's early life, his works and contains links to his contemporaries.
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Author's Calendar: T(homas) E(dward) Lawrence

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains a biography of British archeological scholar, adventurer, and military strategist, T.E.Lawrence. It gives details on his early life and life in Arabia. It includes quotations, and links to further information.
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Author's Calendar: Anatole France

For Students 9th - 10th
A fairly thorough biography in English with an attached bibliography.
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Author's Calendar: Chinua Achebe

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A complete biography of Achebe includes quotes from him as well as a brief synopsis of his novels. There is a list of all his works.
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Author's Calendar: Roald Dahl

For Students 9th - 10th
This biography on author Roald Dahl (1916-1990 CE) provides information about his literary career and personal life. It comments on his often-used taste for cruelty, rudeness to adults, and comic grotesque themes used in his books by...
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Author's Calendar: Langston Hughes

For Students 9th - 10th
Langston Hughes is known mainly for his rhythmic poems set to music. This site gives an in-depth look at his background, including biographical information, what he wrote about, who influenced him, and his level of success.
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Author's Calendar: Okot P'bitek

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography of African poet Okot p'Bitek. Discusses some of his accomplishments and the topics of his poems.
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Author's Calendar: Wole Soyinka

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A complete biography of Nigerian writer, Wole Soyinka, with a list of his works. He was the first black, African Nobel prize winner and has written a variety of literature from plays to poems.
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Author's Calendar: Maksim Gorky

For Students 9th - 10th
Informative biographical essay focusing on Gorky's political and social activities. Features several quotations from major works, and links to pages on Tolstoy and Chekhov.