Early Life Chinua Achebe was born on the 16th of November, in 1930 to Isaiah Okafo Achebe, a servant of the church missionary society, and Janet Anaenechi Iloegbunam. He spent his childhood in Igbo town. The storytelling was part of…
Category: Authors and Poets
Ezra Pound
Early Life Ezra Weston Loomis Pound is known as Ezra Pound in the literary world. He was born on the 30th of October in 1885 in Hailey, Idaho. His father was Loomis Pound, a federal land office official, and his…
Thomas Hardy
Early Life Thomas Hardy was born on the 2nd of June in 1840 in Higher Bockhampton, England. His father Thomas Hardy Sr. was a local builder, while his mother, Jemima, was a simple lady. He spent an isolated life amidst…
William Golding
Early Life William Golding was born on 19th September in 1911, in Cornwall, England. He was born to Alec Golding, a schoolmaster, Mildred, a social lady. William spent his early years at Marlborough, where his father taught as a science…
Christina Georgina Rossetti
Early Life Christina Georgina Rossetti knowns as Christina Rossetti in the literary world was born on the 5th of December in 1830, in London England. She was a brilliant daughter of Gabriele Rossetti, a poet while her mother, Frances Polidori was…
Alfred Edward Housman
Early Life Alfred Edward Housman was born on the 26th of March 1859, in Fockbury, Worcestershire, England. His father was Edward Housman, a country solicitor, and his mother was Sara Jane. Soon after his birth, his family moved to Bromsgrove…
Rudyard Kipling
Early Life Rudyard Kipling was born on 30th December 1865, in Bombay, India. He was a bright son of John Lockwood Kipling, an English art teacher, while his mother, Alice Kipling, was a Scottish woman. Kipling spent his early six…
Thomas Stearns Eliot
Early Life Thomas Stearns Eliot was born on 26th September in 1888 in St. Louis Missouri, U.S. He is mostly addressed as T. S. Eliot. Thomas Stearns Eliot was a brilliant son of Henry Ware Eliot, a prosperous businessman and…
William Butler Yeats
Early Life William Butler Yeats was born on June 13, 1865, at Sandymount in Dublin, the capital city of Ireland. He was a brilliant and intelligent child of a legal practitioner and a famous painter, John Butler. His mother, Susan…
Ted Hughes
Early Life Edward James Hughes, famously known as Ted Hughes, was an intelligent child of William Henry and Edith Hughes. He was born on the 7th of August in 1930 in Mytholmroyd in the West Riding of Yorkshire. His family moved to…
Langston Hughes
Early Life Langston Hughes was born on the 1st of February in 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. He was a brilliant son of James Hughes, a practicing lawyer and Carrie Langston, a school teacher. He was an unfortunate child as his…
John Donne
Early Life John Donne was born into a Roman Catholic family on the 22nd of January in 1572 in London, United Kingdom. His parents were John Donne, a wealthy Londoner, and Elizabeth Heywood. Thomas More, a famous catholic martyr, was…
Walt Whitman
Early Life Walt Whitman was born to Walter Whitman, a housebuilder, and Louisa Van Velsor. He was born on the 31st of May in 1819 in West Hills, New York. Soon after his birth, the family moved to Brooklyn, where…
John Keats
Early Life John Keats was born on the 31st October in 1795 in London, England, to Thomas Keats, an innkeeper, and Frances Keats. Unfortunately, his father breathed his last in 1803 when he was just eight years old, and his…
Emily Dickinson
Early Life Emily Dickinson was born on the 30th of December in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. She was a bright child of Edward Dickinson, a successful lawyer, and Congressional Member. Her mother, Emily Norcross Dickinson, was a timid woman who…
Robert Frost
Early Life Robert Lee Frost, mostly known as Robert Frost was born on the 26th of March in San Francisco, a Californian city. He was a bright child of William Prescott Frost, a renowned journalist, while his mother, Isabelle Moodie,…
William Shakespeare
Early Life William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, the United Kingdom in April 1564. He was a son of the middle-class parents, John and Mary Shakespeare. They lived in a small town of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, Shakespeare was the first…
Robert W. Service
Robert W. Service’s Life A popular English poet, Robert William Service was born on January 16, 1874, in Preston, Lancashire, England. His parents had ten children, of which Service was first. His father, Robert Service Sr., was a banker by profession and was…
William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats’s Life An Irish romantic poet and leading figure of twentieth century literature, William Butler Yeats was born in Sandymount, County Dublin, on June 13, 1865. His father, John Butler Yeats, was a linen merchant, a soldier, and…
George Gordon Byron
Early Life George Gordon Byron was born on the 22nd of January in 1788. He is well-known as Lord Byron or the 6th Baron Byron. He was an intelligent child of John (Mad Jack) Byron, a British army officer, while…
