1.Saki
- Source:1.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hector_Hugh_Munro_aka_Saki,_by_E_O_Hoppe,_1913.jpg
- 2.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saki
The
biography
Name:
Born
in Akyab. He start his career as a journalist.
His job is to write the newspaper. His real name is
Hector
Hugh Munro, was the son of Charles
Augustus Munro and Mary Frances Mercer .In 1872, on a home visit to England,
Mary was charged by a cow; and the shock caused her to miscarry. She never
recovered and soon died.[2] Charles Munro sent his children,
including two-year-old Hector, to England, where they were brought up by their
grandmother and aunts in a strict puritanical household.
Work
Career
In
1900, Munro's first book appeared: The Rise of
the Russian Empire, a historical study modelled upon Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
From
1902 to 1908, Munro worked as a foreign correspondent
for The Morning Post in the Balkans, Warsaw, Russia (where he
witnessed Bloody
Sunday), and Paris; he then gave that up and settled in London. Many of the
stories from this period feature the elegant and effete Reginald and Clovis,
young men-about-town who take mischievous delight in the discomfort or downfall
of their conventional, pretentious elders. Shortly before the Great War, with the genre
of invasion
literature selling well, he also published a "what-if"
novel, When William Came, subtitled "A Story
of London Under the Hohenzollerns",
imagining the eponymous
German emperor conquering Britain.To recognize his contribution to English
literature, a blue plaque
has been affixed to a building in which Munro once lived on Mortimer Street in central London.
- Edgar Allan Poe
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The
biography
- NAME: Edgar Allan Poe
- OCCUPATION: Writer
- BIRTH DATE:January 19, 1809
- DEATH DATE:October 07, 1849 Place of birth——Boston Place of Death——Baltimore[ So I think he is the local author right?]
- EDUCATION: University of Virginia, U.S. Military Academy at West Point
- He is American's short story writer, poet, critic and editor. He is famous for his tales and poem of horror and mystery such us the Raven.
3.O'Henry
The
biography
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Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry
Work
or life's background
First,
his real name is William Sydney Porter.
He is an American writer. His short story is famous for their wit,
wordplay, warm characterization and
clever twist endings.
He
is born in Sep, 11 ,1862 and died in June , 5, 1910. His middle name at birth
was Sidney; he changed the spelling to Sydney in 1898. ut
Story
about:
Porter
gave various explanations for the origin of his pen name.[5] In 1909 he gave an interview to The New York Times, in which he gave an account of it:
（pen name）
Legacy
The
O. Henry Award is a
prestigious annual prize named after Porter and given to outstanding short
stories. Several schools around the country bear Porter's pseudonym.
In
1952, a film featuring five stories, called O. Henry's Full House, was made. The
episode garnering the most critical acclaim[citation needed] was "The Cop and the Anthem"
starring Charles
Laughton and Marilyn
Monroe. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf",
"The Ransom
of Red Chief" (starring Fred Allen and Oscar Levant), and "The Gift of the Magi".
The
O. Henry House and O. Henry Hall, both in Austin, Texas, are named
for him. O. Henry Hall, now owned by the University of Texas, previously served
as the federal courthouse in which O. Henry was convicted of embezzlement.
Porter
has elementary schools named for him in Greensboro,
North Carolina (William Sydney Porter Elementary[7]) and Garland, Texas (O. Henry
Elementary), as well as a middle school in Austin, Texas (O. Henry Middle
School[8]). The O. Henry Hotel in Greensboro
is also named for Porter.
4.
Julie Otsuka Biography
Julie
Otsuka was born and raised in California. She is a graduate of Yale University
and received her M.F.A. from Columbia. She is the author of the novels When the Emperor was Divine and The Buddha in the Attic and a recipient of the
Asian American Literary Award, the American Library Association Alex Award, and
a Guggenheim fellowship. She lives in New York City.
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Otsuka
5.William
Faulkner
Born:1897——Died:
1962.
He
came from an old southern family. Grew up in Oxford, Mississippi. He join the Canadian and British. And he also studies in the university of
Mississippi.
He
worked on a novel and short story on a farm in Oxford.
Their
theme is the decay of the old South, as represented by the Sartoris and Compson
families, and the emergence of ruthless and brash newcomers, the Snopeses.
Theme and technique - the distortion of time through the use of the inner
monologue are fused particularly successfully in The Sound and the Fury (1929), the
downfall of the Compson family seen through the minds of several characters.
The novel Sanctuary (1931) is about the degeneration of Temple Drake, a young girl from
a distinguished southern family. Its sequel, Requiem For A Nun (1951), written
partly as a drama, centered on the courtroom trial of a Negro woman who had
once been a party to Temple Drake's debauchery. In Light in August
(1932), prejudice is shown to be most destructive when it is internalized, as
in Joe Christmas, who believes, though there is no proof of it, that one of his
parents was a Negro. The theme of racial prejudice is brought up again in Absalom, Absalom!
(1936), in which a young man is rejected by his father and brother because of
his mixed blood. Faulkner's most outspoken moral evaluation of the relationship
and the problems between Negroes and whites is to be found in Intruder In the Dust (1948).
In
1940, Faulkner published the first volume of the Snopes trilogy, The Hamlet, to be
followed by two volumes, The
Town (1957) and The Mansion (1959), all of them tracing the
rise of the insidious Snopes family to positions of power and wealth in the
community. The reivers, his last - and most humorous - work, with great many similarities
to Mark Twain's Huckleberry
Finn, appeared in 1962, the year of Faulkner's death.
