J.D. Salinger                                       

(January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010)

Jerome David “J. D.” Salinger was an American writer who won acclaim early in life. He led a very private life for more than a half-century. His novel, The Catcher in the Rye (1951) brought him a lot of public attention-which he did not like. He published Franny and Zooey in 1961 and gave his last interview in 1980.

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E. M. Forster                                     

(January 1, 1879 – June 7, 1970)

Edward Morgan Forster was an English novelist, short story writer and essayist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster’s 1924 novel, A Passage to India brought him his greatest success.

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Isaac Asimov

(January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992)

Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books, such as I, Robot. Asimov was prolific and wrote or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards and was considered one of the “Big Three” science fiction writers during his lifetime.

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Jacob Grimm                                     

(January 4, 1785 – September 20, 1863)

Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm was a German philologist, jurist and mythologist. He is known as the discoverer of Grimm’s Law, and as one of the Brothers Grimm (with his brother Wilhelm), as the editor of Grimm’s Fairy Tales.

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Stella Gibbons                                  

(January 5, 1902 – December 19, 1989)

Gibbons was an English author, journalist, and poet. She established her reputation with her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm (1932), which won the literary Prix Femina Étranger and has been reprinted many times.

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Wilkie Collins 

(January 8, 1824 – September 23, 1889)

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known work is The Woman in White.

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Jack London

(January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916)

John Griffith “Jack” London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. His most famous works include The Call of the Wild, set in the Klondike Gold Rush.

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Magdalen Nabb

(January 16, 1947 – August 18, 2007)

Nabb was a British author, best known for the Marshal Guarnaccia detective novels such as Death of an Englishman.

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Edgar Allan Poe

(January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849)

Poe was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story, and is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. His most famous works include The Tell-Tale Heart, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Masque of the Red Death and The Pit and the Pendulum.

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Edith Wharton  

(January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937)

Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. The Age of Innocence was Wharton’s twelfth book which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making it the first novel written by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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W. Somerset Maugham                                

(January 25, 1874 – December 16, 1965)

William Somerset Maugham was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s. He is most remembered for his novels: Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Sixpence, Theatre, The Painted Veil and The Summing Up.

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Virginia Woolf                                   

(January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941)

Woolf was an English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. Her most famous works include the novels: Orlando: A Biography, Between the Acts, The Common Reader and A Room of One’s Own.

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Lewis Carroll                                      

(January 27, 1832 – January 14, 1898)

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.

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Virginia Woolf — most know the name, but few know the obscure biographical facts behind the name. Below are 10 little known facts about the troubled writer.

•  Woolf once said that her death would be the “one experience I shall never describe.”

• When Woolf taught at Morley College, she made her students write essays about themselves.

• For a summer, she went mad believing that the birds were chirping in Greek and King Edward VII was saying curses from behind a nearby bush.

• Woolf was a difficult shopper, often arguing with shopkeepers over what products they had for sale and what products she imagined they should have for sale.

• After getting married, Woolf thought she should learn some domestic skills, so she enrolled in a school of cookery. Shortly after, she accidentally baked her wedding ring in a pudding.

• Before Woolf was even 7 years old, her mother, Julia, was teaching her Latin, French, and History.

• Woolf and five of her male friends once received a 40-minute tour of the British battleship H.M.S. Dreadnought with the ship’s commander after painting their faces black, dressing in robes, and presenting themselves as the Prince of Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) and his entourage.

• Woolf first tried to kill herself at the age of 22 by jumping out of a window. The window she jumped from, however, was not high enough to cause serious harm.

• When Woolf asked T.S. Eliot at a particular dinner party to define his belief in God, Eliot did not answer.

• When Virginia and Leonard Woolf, who together ran the Hogarth Press, received the manuscript of the first chapters of James Joyce’s Ulysses, they turned it down for publication because it was impossible to print the entire book on their handpress.

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Orlando: A Biography

Author: Virginia Woolf

ISBN: 9780141184272

Price: 24,5 GEL

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Between the Acts

Author: Virginia Woolf

ISBN: 9780141184524

Price: 24,5 GEL

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The Common Reader

Author: Virginia Woolf

ISBN: 9780141389899

Price: 14,9 GEL

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A Room of One’s Own

Author: Virginia Woolf

ISBN: 9780141018980

Price: 14,9 GEL

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Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century.

During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. Her most famous works include the novels Orlando (1928), Between the Acts (1941), the short essay The Common Reader (1925) and the book-length essay A Room of One’s Own (1929), with its famous dictum, “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”

Woolf suffered from severe bouts of mental illness throughout her life, thought to have been the result of what is now termed bipolar disorder and committed suicide by drowning in 1941 at the age of 59.

Please enjoy the clip below of Nicole Kidman’s portrayal of Virginia Woolf from the film The Hours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP-Ih1ENGn4

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