Rassundari Debi Biography Life and Literature Rassundari Devi is among the earliest woman writers in Bengali literature. Her autobiography ‘Amar Jiban’ (My Life) is known as the first published autobiography in Bengali language. Rassundari Devi lived in times when social reform had barely touched the lives of upper class/caste women in India. Education … Read more
Julian Barnes Biography Life and Literature of Julian Barnes Novelist Julian Barnes was born in Leicester on 19 January 1946, and was educated at the City of London School and Magdalen College, Oxford. After working as a lexicographer on the Oxford English Dictionary, he began a career as a journalist, reviewing for the Times … Read more
Joseph Conrad Biography Life and Literature of Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad was born Teodor Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski on December 3, 1857, the only child of a patriotic Polish couple living in southern Polish Ukraine. Conrad’s father was esteemed as a translator of Shakespeare, as well as a poet and a man of letters in … Read more
David Herbert Lawrence Biography Life and Literature of David Herbert Lawrence David Herbert Lawrence, novelist, short-story writer, poet, and essayist, was born In Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England, on September 11, 1885. Though better known as a novelist, Lawrence’s first-published works (in 1909) were poems, and his poetry, especially his evocations of the natural world, … Read more
John Osborne Biography Life and Literature of John Osborne John Osborne was born in London, England in 1929 to Thomas Osborne, an advertisement writer, and Nellie Beatrice, a working-class barmaid. His father died in 1941. Osborne used the proceeds from a life insurance settlement to send himself to Belmont College, a private boarding … Read more
Toni Morrison Biography An Introduction to Toni Morrison: Toni Morrison, original name Chloe Anthony Wofford, (born February 18, 1931, Lorain, Ohio, U.S.), American writer noted for her examination of black experience (particularly black female experience) within the black community. She received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. Morrison grew up in the American Midwest … Read more
