Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin (1851-1904) was an American author of short stories and novels.Katherine O’Flaherty was born in St. Louis, Missouri on February 8, 1850 to Irish immigrant and successful businessman Thomas
James Baldwin
Baldwin was born as James Arthur Jones to Emma Berdis Jones on August 2, 1924, at Harlem Hospital in New York City.He was reared by his mother and stepfather David
Henry James
Henry James was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest
Herman Melville
Born to a New York City merchant in 1819, Melville fought for a greatness that would not be realized during his lifetime.Melville's father supported his seven children importing French dry
Nelle Harper Lee
Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, the youngest of four children of Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee. She grew up in Monroeville, a small
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American short story writer and romance novelist who is best known for his short stories and two widely read novels; The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House of Seven
Tennessee Williams
He was brilliant and prolific, breathing life and passion into such memorable characters as Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski in his critically acclaimed A Street Car Named Desire. And like them,
William Faulkner
A Southern writer through and through, William Cuthbert Falkner (the original spelling of his last name) was born in the small town of New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. His
John Ernst Steinbeck
Born in 1902 in California, he is an American novelist best known for The Grapes of Wrath, which summed up the bitterness of the Great Depression decade and aroused widespread sympathy for the plight