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Happy Birthday Charlotte Brontë, born April 21, 1816, died March 31, 1855
Charlotte Bronte believed believed art was most convincing when based on personal experience; in Jane Eyre she transformed her experience as a governess into a novel with universal appeal.
Read Jane Eyre, one of the classics of English Literature.
Happy Birthday, Henry David Thoreau!
(25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950)
Eric Arthur Blair, who used the pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. We all read his most famous novels in high school: Nineteen Eighty-Four
(1949) and the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945).
Here’s Apple’s famous Macintosh commercial based on Orwell’s 1984:
Born in 1859, author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote 60 mystery stories featuring the wildly popular detective character Sherlock Holmes and his loyal assistant Watson.
Happy Birthday, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle!
Happy Birthday, Daphne du Maurier!
Born May 13, 1907, Died April 19, 1989Daphne du Maurier was an English author and playwright and is known most famously for her works which have been adapted into films. Some of these include
Rebecca, Jamaica Inn, and the short story The Birds (which was the inspiration for the Hitchcock film!).
Happy Birthday Jeannette Walls, born April 21, 1960
Jeannette is most well-known for her memoir, The Glass Castle, which remained on the New York Times Bestseller List for over 100 weeks.
Experience her unique voice for yourself and pick up copy of The Glass Castle.
Happy Birthday, Oscar Wilde, born October 16, 1854, died November 30, 1900
Known for his epigrams, Oscar Wilde’s last words were “My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go.”
Discover Oscar Wilde’s writings, or explore Gyles Brandreth’s Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries.
Arthur Conan Doyle was born 155 years ago.
There are 55 Sherlockian cakes in my queue.
(Don’t worry, you can block #the cakebook of sherlock holmes if you want.)
(via riseofgenius)
Happy 450th Birthday William Shakespeare!
Happy Birthday, Hans Christian Andersen, born 02 April 1805, died 04 August 1875.
Since 1967, on or around Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday, 2 April, International Children’s Book Day (ICBD) is celebrated to inspire a love of reading and to call attention to children’s books.