Author Story List

Alexandre Dumas, one of the most famous French authors, was born on July 24, 1802, in Villers-Cotterêts, France. His full name was Dumas Davy de la ...

Arthur Conan Doyle, the famous author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, was born on May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh, Scotland. He grew up in a large family ...

Ayn Rand, born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum, was born on February 2, 1905, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. She grew up in a middle-class Jewish family, and ...

Charles Dickens, one of the greatest novelists of the 19th century, was born on February 7, 1812, in Portsmouth, England. He was the second of eight ...

Charlotte Brontë, one of the most famous English novelists of the 19th century, was born on April 21, 1816, in Thornton, Yorkshire, England. She was the ...

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. He was named after his distant relative, Francis Scott Key, ...

George Orwell, whose real name was Eric Arthur Blair, was born on June 25, 1903, in Motihari, India. At the time, India was part of the British Empire, ...

Hans Christian Andersen was born on April 2, 1805, in the small town of Odense, Denmark. His family was poor but loving. Hans's father, a shoemaker, ...

Harper Lee, one of America's most beloved authors, was born on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama. Her full name was Nelle Harper Lee, and she was ...

Henrik Ibsen, often called the "father of modern drama," was born on March 20, 1828, in a small town called Skien in Norway. His family was quite ...

James Joyce, one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, was born on February 2, 1882, in Dublin, Ireland. His full name was James ...

Jane Austen, one of the most beloved authors in English literature, was born on December 16, 1775, in Steventon, Hampshire, England. She was the seventh ...

One of the greatest writers in history, Leo Tolstoy, was born on September 9, 1828, in Yasnaya Polyana, a family estate in Russia. His full name was Lev ...

Lewis Carroll, whose real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was born on January 27, 1832, in Daresbury, England. He was the eldest son in a large ...

Louisa May Alcott, one of America’s most beloved authors, was born on November 29, 1832, in Germantown, Pennsylvania. She was the second of four ...

Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was born on November 30, 1835, in the small town of Florida, Missouri. He was the sixth of ...

Mary Shelley, the renowned author of Frankenstein, was born on August 30, 1797, in London, England. She came from a family of intellectuals and writers. ...

Virgil, whose full name was Publius Vergilius Maro, was born on October 15, 70 BCE, in a small village called Andes, near Mantua in northern Italy. His ...

William Golding, the famous British author and Nobel Prize winner, was born on September 19, 1911, in Newquay, Cornwall, England. He grew up in a small ...