Early Life Charlotte Bronte was born on the 21st of April in 1816 in Thornton, England. She was the eldest daughter of Patrick Brontë, an Irish priest and author, while her mother, Maria, was a house maker. The family spent…
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Philip Larkin
Early Life Philip Arthur Larkin was born on the 9th of August in 1922 in Radford, England. He was a fortunate child of Sydney Larkin, a Coventry City treasure, and his mother, Eva Emily Larkin. His early years were cloaked…
Paulo Coelho
Early Life Paulo Coelho was born on the 25th of August in 1947 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was a bright child of Pedro Paulo Queima Coelho de Souza, an engineer, while his mother, Lygia Coelho de Souza, was…
Joseph Conrad
Early Life Joseph Conrad was born on the 3rd of December in 1857 in Berdychiv, Ukraine. He was the only child of Apollo Korzeniowski, a translator and political activist, while his mother, Ewa Bobrowska. Due to his father’s political activism, the…
Mary Shelley
Early Life Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley famously known as Mary Shelley was born on the 30th of August in 1797, in Somers Town, London. She was the daughter of William Godwin, a great English philosopher, and novelist, while her mother, Mary…
Tony Morrison
Early Life Toni Morrison was born on 18th of February, in 1931 in Lorain, Ohio. She was the second among the four children. Their parents were George Wofford, a welder, and her mother, Ramah, who was a homemaker. Her parents…
Dan Brown
Early Life Daniel Gerhard Brown, famously known as Dan Brown, was born on 22nd of June in 1964, in New Hampshire, the United States. He was a brilliant son of Richard G. Brown, a church organist, and Mathematics teacher, while…
Hermann Hesse
Early Life Hermann Hesse was born on the 2nd of July in 1877, in the Black Forest town of Calw, Germany. He was an intelligent child of Johannes Hesse, a missionary in India, and his mother, Marie Gundert, too, served…
Franz Kafka
Early Life Franz Kafka was born on the 3rd of July in 1881 in Prague, Bohemia. He was a brilliant son of Herman Kafka, a fashion retailer, while his mother, Julie, was the daughter of the retail merchant. He belonged…
George Orwell
Early Life Eric Arthur Blair, known by his pen name George Orwell was born on the 25th of June, in 1903, in Bengal, India. He was the bright son of Richard Wellesley Blair, a civil servant in the Indian Army,…
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Early Life Nathaniel Hawthorne (Note: given surname was Hathorne) was born on the 4th of July 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts. His parents were Nathaniel Hathorne, a sea captain, and Elizabeth Clarke Manning, from an aristocratic background. William Hathorne was Nathaniel’s…
Jane Austen
Early Life Jane Austen was born on the 16th of December in 1775, in Stevenson, Hampshire, England. She was an intelligent daughter of George Austen, a famous cleric at one of the Anglican parishes. Her mother, Cassandra Leigh, was a wealthy…
Nikki Giovanni
Early Life Nikki Giovanni or Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni Jr. was born on the 7th of June in 1943 in Knoxville, Tennessee. She’s a brilliant daughter of Yolanda Cornelia Sr. and Jones Giovanni. The family settled in Cincinnati shortly after…
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
Early Life Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, often mentioned as F. Scott Fitzgerald, was born on the 24th of September, in 1896, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Francis was a bright son of Edward Fitzgerald, an Irish man, while his mother, Mary…
Lewis Caroll
Early Life Charles Lutwidge Dodgson is famously known by his pen name Lewis Caroll. He was born on the 27th of January in 1832 in Daresbury, England. His father was Charles Dodgson, a famous clergyman, and his mother was Frances…
Nelle Harper Lee
Early Life Nelle Harper Lee is known as Harper Lee in the literary world. She was born on 28th April in 1926 in Monroeville in the state of Alabama. Her father, Amasa Coleman Lee, was a famous lawyer and political activist,…
Benjamin Johnson
Early Life Benjamin Johnson is known as Ben Johnson in the literary world. He was born on 11th June in 1572, in Westminster, London. Sadly, his father died soon after his birth. His mother re-married a bricklayer to raise her…
Audre Lorde
Early Life Audre Lorde was born on the 18th of February in 1934, New York, the United States. Her parents were Frederick Byron Lorde and Linda Gertrude Belmar Lorde. Her parents were Caribbean immigrants who settled in Harlem. Despite parental estrangement,…
Charles Dickens
Early Life Charles John Huffam Dickens, known as Charles Dicken in the literary world, was born on the 7th of February in 1812 in Landport, England. He was the intelligent son of John Dickens, a clerk in the navy pay…
Kurt Vonnegut
Early Life Kurt Vonnegut was born on the 11th of November in 1922 in Indianapolis. He was the son of Kurt Vonnegut Sr., an architect and Edith Liber, the daughter of a wealthy Indianapolis brewer. His parents were German immigrants…