Category: Novelists

Margaret Mitchell

(1900–1949) Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell Filmography as Writer: Gone with the Wind 1939 Director: Victor Fleming Starring: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh   Born November 8 1900 Atlanta, GA (USA) Died August 16 1949 Atlanta, GA (USA) Occupation Journalist Novelist Writer Awards National Book…

Guillaume Apollinaire

(1880–1918) Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Aleksander Apolinary Kostrowicki Works: • Alcools (1913) • L’hérésiarque et Cie (1910) • L’oeuvre du divin Arétin (1910) • Les trois Don Juan (1914) • (Méditations esthétiques) Les Peintres cubistes (1913) Quotes: • Guillaume Apollinaire: Quotations Apollinaire in Art: Derain, André (1880-1954) Le chevalier…

Pierre Loti

Pseudonym of Julien Viaud (1850–1923) Pierre Loti in Art: Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Portrait de Monsieur X 1906 Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich     See also: • Novelists | Rousseau, Henri | Writers

Émile Zola

(1840–1902) Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola Works: • Au Bonheur des Dames (1883) • Contes à Ninon (1864) • Germinal (1885) • La Bête humaine (1890) • La Conquête de Plassans (1874) • La Curée (1871-1872) • La Débâcle (1892) ◊ The Downfall…

Agatha Christie

(1890–1976) Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, née Miller, Lady Mallowan, DBE born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller Works: • The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) • The Secret Adversary (1922) Agatha Christie in Film: Agatha 1979 Director: Michael Apted Starring: Vanessa Redgrave,…

Louisa May Alcott

(1832–1888) Works: • A Garland for Girls (English) • A Modern Cinderella (English) • A Modern Mephistopheles (English) • A Supplementary Reader for the Fourth Year of School (English) • An Old-Fashioned Girl (English) • Aunt Jo’s Scrap Bag, Volume…

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

(1749–1832) Works: • Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life (English) • Belagerung von Mainz (German) • Βέρθερος (Greek) • Briefe aus der Schweiz (German) • Briefe Schillers und Goethes an A. W. Schlegel (German) • Briefe von Goethe…

Leo Tolstoy

(1828–1910) Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy Works: • A Confession (English) ◊ Ma confession (French) • A Critical Essay on Shakespeare (English) • A Letter to a Hindu (English) • A Russian Proprietor, and Other Stories (English) • Anna Karenina (English) ◊ Anna Karenina (Dutch) ◊ Anna…

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

(1821–1881) Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky Works: • Crime and Punishment (1866) • Notes from the Underground (1864) • Poor Folk (1846) ◊ Arme Leute (German) • Short Stories (English) • The Brothers Karamazov (1880) ◊ The Grand Inquisitor (English) ◊ Der Großinquisitor (German)…

Benito Pérez Galdós

(1843–1920) Benito María de los Dolores Pérez Galdós Works: • Bailén (Spanish) • Cádiz (Spanish) ◊ Doña Perfecta (English) • Electra (Spanish) • Fortunata y Jacinta (Spanish) • Gloria (Spanish) • La de Bringas (Spanish) • La desheredada (Spanish) •…