Perhaps the most notable member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s, Fitzgerald is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. A ...
Carrie Gracie (Chinese: 凱瑞; born 1962) is a Scottish journalist best-known as having been the China editor for BBC News. She resigned from this post at the beginning of January 2018, citing what she said was pay discrimination over gender for the BBC's international editors. She ...
“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligence greater than man’s.” H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds Check out our list of the best science fiction writers of all time. Modernism and Early...
When he visited Kimura Kenkadou of Osaka, he found among his book collection a book written by the Chinese Shuryuutei called “Guide to Ceramics”, which, it is said, inspired him to decide that ceramic art was his life’s calling.It is said that his mentors in ceramic art were Okuda...
76 Bohumil Hrabal (One of the Greatest Czech Writers of the 20th Century) Birth Year: 1914 Birthplace: Brno, Czechia Died: February 3, 1997 Bohumil Hrabal was a renowned Czech writer celebrated for his significant impact on 20th-century literature. His distinctive writing style, marked by humo...
1. He is considered as one of the most important and well-known writers of the 20th century. Born on July 21st, 1899 in Chicago, Hemingway was in a nice family—his father was a doctor, and mother a musician. Hemingway became a reporter after graduating from high school. When the ...
He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night, and his most famous, The Great ...
Not until the early twentieth century did Chinese fiction focus on women's emancipation, and then the subject became the backdrop of most novels that addressed the issue. After the Communist party established the People's Republic in the late 1940's, attitudes changed again: the gaining of ...
Context: Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together. I knew a lot of writers in London and many of them were award-winning writers and many of them were award-winning, respectable writers. And the trouble with being an award-winning, re...
Chinese philosopher & mystic, founder of Taoism 1 Comment » Brainy Quote – The mind is everything January 21st, 2013 “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.” ...