Authors' Biographies as Sources of Entertainment

Virginia Woolf was born in a lighthouse in St. Ives, Cornwall, England, in 1882.

Ian Fleming was a British naval intelligence officer during World War II. He later used his experiences as a spy to write the James Bond novels.

Anton Chekhov was a Russian physician before he became a writer. He often wrote about the lives of doctors and patients in his stories.

J.R.R. Tolkien was a British soldier during World War II. He was captured by the Germans and held as a prisoner of war for several months.

Gabriel García Márquez, Toni Morrison, and Nadine Gordimer are all Nobel Prize winners in Literature.

Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, and John Maynard Keynes were all members of the Bloomsbury Group, a group of British intellectuals who met regularly in London in the early 20th century.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, and Gertrude Stein were all close friends of Ernest Hemingway.

Carson McCullers was a mentor to Truman Capote. She helped him to develop his writing style and encouraged him to pursue a career as a writer.

Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs were all members of the Beat Generation, a group of American writers who rejected traditional values and explored alternative lifestyles.

Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Countee Cullen were all members of the Harlem Renaissance, a period of cultural and artistic flourishing among African Americans in Harlem, New York, in the 1920s and 1930s.

Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein were all members of the Lost Generation, a group of American writers who came of age during World War I and were disillusioned with the values of their parents' generation.

Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, and John Crowe Ransom were all members of the Southern Agrarians, a group of American writers who advocated for a return to traditional Southern values and culture.

Lionel Trilling, Irving Howe, and Hannah Arendt were all members of the New York Intellectuals, a group of American writers and intellectuals who were active in the 1930s and 1940s.

Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, and Haki R. Madhubuti were all members of the Black Arts Movement, a cultural and artistic movement among African Americans in the 1960s and 1970s.

Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, and Gloria Anzaldúa were all members of the Chicano Movement, a cultural and political movement among Mexican Americans in the 1960s and 1970s.