-
It is 131 years today since Dorothy L. Sayers was born.
English writer and translator, born in Oxford as the only child of Henry Sayers, rector of Christchurch Cathedral Choir School, and his wife Helen Leigh Sayers. When Dorothy L. (Leigh) Sayers was four years old, the family moved to Bluntisham in Huntingdonshire where the father was appointed pastor. The parents had cultural and linguistic interests, and regularly travelled with their daughter to...
-
It is 159 years today since William Butler Yeats was born.
William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin to an Anglo-Irish family, but he spent most of his life in England and France. His father was a successful portrait painter, and the young Yeats intended to follow in his footsteps. He attended the School of Art in Dublin, but after three years he abandoned art for literature.
He published his first poetry collection, The Wanderings of Oisin and Other...
Sample of Authors
Döblin, Alfred
1878 - 1957
Alfred Döblin was a German author, born Bruno Alfred Döblin to a German-Jewish merchant family in Stettin (now Szcecin in P...
Further reading
Wahl, Mats
1945 -
Mats Wahl was born in Malmö and grew up with his grandparents in Slite on the island of Gotland from the age of two after ...
Further reading
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
1749 - 1832
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Frankfurt am Main. His father, Johann Kaspar Goethe, who had left public service...
Further reading
James, Henry
1843 - 1916
Henry James was an American author born in New York to a wealthy, intellectual family of Irish and Scottish origin. His...
Further reading