William Faulkner was a Nobel Prize–winning novelist who wrote challenging prose and created the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. He is best known for such novels as 'The Sound and the Fury'.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 9 January 2025. English poet and artist (1757–1827) For other people named William Blake, see William Blake (disambiguation). William Blake Portrait by Thomas Phillips (1807) Born (1757-11-28) 28 November 1757 Soho, London, England Died 12 August 1827 (1827-08-12) (aged 69) Charing Cross, London.
Founder and chairman of the Columbia Broadcasting System, William S. Paley (1901-1990) was called alternately a broadcast programmer par excellence, an impresario, a super salesman, and the father of modern broadcasting.
In the words of war poet Edward Thomas, fellow writer William Henry Hudson (1841-1922) ‘did an eccentric thing for an English naturalist – he was born in South America’. In fact, Hudson lived on the pampas of Argentina until the age of 32, not setting foot in Britain until May 1874.
William Tell became a hero to the people of Switzerland, and his story has been passed down through the generations as a symbol of bravery and courage in the face of tyranny. William’s story teaches us that we should always stand up for what we believe in, even if it means risking our own lives.
He is easily best known to international film audiences as the roguish Lando Calrissian in the last two episodes of the original Star Wars trilogy: Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983).
Freshly translated poems reveal the complexity, self-realization, and spiritual freedom of three classical Daoist women poets. Yin Mountain presents a fascinating window onto the lives of three Tang Dynasty Daoist women poets. Li Ye (c. 734–784), Xue Tao (c. 768–832), and Yu Xuanji (843–868) lived and wrote during the period when Chinese poetry reached its greatest height. Yet while the.
William Manchester was born on April 1, 1922, in Attleboro, Mass., the first of two sons of William Raymond and Sallie Thompson Manchester. His father, a social worker, died when William was a.
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William Tyndale (l.c. 1494-1536) was a talented English linguist, scholar and priest who was the first to translate the Bible into English. Tyndale objected to the Catholic Church’s control of scripture.
William Goldman, who won AcademyAwards for his screenplays for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President's Men and who, despite being one of Hollywood's most successful.
On November 17, 2003, Kaynette Williams and Blake Shelton tied the knot in a small ceremony in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Williams looked gorgeous on her Demetrios wedding gown while Shelton was dashing in his Wranglers, boots, and cowboy hat.
Arizona Cardinals' wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald honored John McCain at his memorial service in Phoenix on Thursday, saying some may wonder how they became friends, given their differences.
Joanne Kathleen Rowling, known worldwide as J. K. Rowling for her astonishingly popular Harry Potter novels, isn’t just famous in her native Britain or the West. She’s a global brand with numerous translations of her writing. J. K. Rowling was born on 31 July 1965 at Yate General Hospital near Bristol.
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Deirdre Bair has written an outstanding biography of the iconic 20th Century Irish author Samuel Beckett. Perhaps best known for his play Waiting for Godot, and winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature, he was one of the 20th century's most outstanding writers and Bair gives a detailed and very readable account of his life up to 1973 (he died in 1989.).
When Elizabeth “Eliza” Schuyler married Alexander Hamilton in December 1780, the pair would have seemed like a great mismatch on paper. She was rich, he was poor. She came from a.
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