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This week we celebrate authors of the past and present who had birthdays in the month of November. Check them out below.
Row 1: (L-R) Adeline Yen Mah, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Leander Kahney, Albert Camus Row 2: (L-R) Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, David Nicholls Row 3: (L-R) Roger Lancelyn Green, Jonathan Swift, L. M. Montgomery, Luke Rhinehart Row 4: (L-R) George Eliot, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Richelle Mead
Albert Camus
(November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960)
Camus was a French Nobel Prize winning author, journalist, and philosopher. He was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature “for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times.”
Mark Twain
(November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910)
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), The Prince and the Pauper (1881) and Tom Sawyer’s sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885).
Bram Stoker
(November 8, 1847 – April 20, 1912)
Stoker was an Irish author known today for his 1897 Gothic novel, Dracula.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(November 11, 1821 – February 9, 1881)
Dostoyevsky was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky’s literary works explore human psychology in the context of the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia. The Double was made into a film in 2013.
Luke Rhinehart
(November 15, 1932 – )
George Cockcroft, known by his pen name Luke Rhinehart, is an American writer, most notable as the author of The Dice Man series.
Richelle Mead
(November 12, 1976 – )
Mead is a bestselling American fantasy author. She is known for the Georgina Kincaid series, Vampire Academy. It was made into a film in 2014.
Leander Kahney
(November 25, 1965 – )
Kahney is a technology writer and author. He is a former managing editor, and previously a senior reporter, at ‘Wired News’, the online sister publication of ‘Wired’.
Winston Churchill
(November 30, 1874 – January 24, 1965)
Churchill was a British politician and Nobel laureate who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer and an artist. Churchill is the only British Prime Minister to have won the Nobel Prize in Literature since its creation in 1901, and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States.
Roger Lancelyn Green
(November 2, 1918 – October 8, 1987)
Green was a British biographer who became known primarily for his writings for children, particularly his retellings of the stories of King Arthur, King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, and Robin Hood, The Adventures of Robin Hood.
Adeline Yen Mah
(November 30, 1937 – )
Mah is a Chinese-American author and physician. Chinese Cinderella: The Secret Story of an Unwanted Daughter describes her experiences growing up in China during the Second World War.
Jonathan Swift
(November 30, 1667 – October 19, 1745)
Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, poet and cleric who is remembered for such work as Gulliver’s Travels.
George Eliot
(November 22, 1819 – December 22, 1880)
Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of several novels, including The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861) and Middlemarch (1871–72), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight.
Robert Louis Stevenson
(November 13, 1850 – December 3, 1894)
Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
David Nicholls
(November 30, 1966 – )
Nicholls is an English novelist and screenwriter. His book, One Day, was turned into a film in 2011.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
(November 24, 1849 – October 29, 1924)
Burnett was an English playwright and author. She is best known for her children’s stories, in particular Little Lord Fauntleroy (1885-86) and The Secret Garden (1911). Both were made into films.
L. M. Montgomery
(November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942)
Montgomery was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908. Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success.
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