{"id":2931,"date":"2014-12-22T15:45:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T11:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=2931"},"modified":"2015-04-21T10:17:37","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T06:17:37","slug":"celebrating-authors-of-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/celebrating-authors-of-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Theme of the Week: Celebrating Authors of December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we celebrate authors of the past and present who had birthdays in the month of December. Check them out below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/December-Authors.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2937\" alt=\"December-Authors\" src=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/December-Authors.jpg\" width=\"532\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/December-Authors.jpg 532w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/December-Authors-300x284.jpg 300w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/December-Authors-190x180.jpg 190w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/December-Authors-280x265.jpg 280w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/December-Authors-445x421.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Row 1: (L-R)<\/strong>\u00a0Eleanor H. Porter,\u00a0Jane Austen,\u00a0Philip K. Dick\u00a0<\/em><em><strong>Row 2: (L-R)<\/strong>\u00a0Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joseph Conrad <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(December 3, 1857 &#8211; August 3, 1924)<\/p>\n<p>J\u00f3zef Teodor Konrad, known as his pen name Joseph Conrad, was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English. <a href=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/shop\/englishlibrary\/the-secret-agent\/#\/\"><em>The Secret Agent<\/em><\/a> (1907) was made into a film in 1996.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/9780141199559.jpg\" width=\"147\" height=\"231\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\" http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/shop\/englishlibrary\/the-secret-agent\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"button small blue\">Buy the Book<\/a>\n<p><strong>Jane Austen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(December 16, 1775 &#8211; July 18, 1817)<\/p>\n<p>Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature.\u00a0 She achieved success as a published writer with the release of <a href=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/shop\/macmillan\/sense-and-sensibility\/\"><i>Sense and Sensibility<\/i><\/a> (1811), <a href=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/shop\/englishlibrary\/pride-and-prejudice-2\/#\/\"><i>Pride and Prejudice<\/i><\/a> (1813), <a href=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/shop\/penguin-books\/six-novels-sense-and-sensibility-pride-and-prejudice-mansfield-park\/\"><i>Mansfield Park<\/i><\/a> (1814), <a href=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/shop\/englishlibrary\/northanger-abbey-2\/#\/\"><i>Northanger Abbey<\/i><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/shop\/macmillan\/persuasion\/\"><i>Persuasion<\/i><\/a> (1818).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sense.jpg\" width=\"166\" height=\"256\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/9780141199078.jpg\" width=\"166\" height=\"256\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/9780141389424.jpg\" width=\"166\" height=\"256\" \/><\/p>\n<a href=\" http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/shop\/macmillan\/sense-and-sensibility\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"button small blue\">Buy the Book<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\" http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/shop\/englishlibrary\/pride-and-prejudice-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"button small blue\">Buy the Book<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\" http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/shop\/englishlibrary\/northanger-abbey-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"button small blue\">Buy the Book<\/a>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/persuasion.jpg\" width=\"166\" height=\"256\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/jane-austen-deluxe2.jpg\" width=\"166\" height=\"256\" \/><\/p>\n<a href=\" http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/shop\/macmillan\/persuasion\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"button small blue\">Buy the Book<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\" http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/shop\/penguin-books\/six-novels-sense-and-sensibility-pride-and-prejudice-mansfield-park\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"button small blue\">Buy the Book<\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Philip K. Dick\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(December 16, 1928 &#8211; March 2, 1982)<\/p>\n<p>Dick was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and philosopher whose published work is almost entirely accepted as being in the science fiction genre. <i>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?<\/i> (1968) was made into the very popular 1982 film, Blade Runner.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eltbooks.com\/cover\/9780194792226.jpg\" width=\"166\" height=\"256\" \/><\/p>\n[iphorm_popup id=&#8221;1&#8243; name=&#8221;\u10db\u10dd\u10d8\u10d7\u10ee\u10dd\u10d5\u10d4 \u10e1\u10d0\u10e1\u10e3\u10e0\u10d5\u10d4\u10da\u10d8 \u10ec\u10d8\u10d2\u10dc\u10d8&#8221;]Order this Book[\/iphorm_popup]\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eleanor H. Porter\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(December 19, 1868 &#8211; May 21, 1920)<\/p>\n<p>Porter was an American novelist who mainly wrote children&#8217;s literature, adventure stories and romance fiction. Her most famous novel is <em>Pollyanna<\/em> (1913). It was made into a film in 1960.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/moly.hu\/system\/covers\/normal\/covers_229696.jpg?1395450199\" width=\"166\" height=\"256\" \/><\/p>\n[iphorm_popup id=&#8221;1&#8243; name=&#8221;\u10db\u10dd\u10d8\u10d7\u10ee\u10dd\u10d5\u10d4 \u10e1\u10d0\u10e1\u10e3\u10e0\u10d5\u10d4\u10da\u10d8 \u10ec\u10d8\u10d2\u10dc\u10d8&#8221;]Order this Book[\/iphorm_popup]\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rudyard Kipling\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(December 30, 1865 &#8211; January 18, 1936)<\/p>\n<p>Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and its youngest recipient to date. Kipling&#8217;s works of fiction include <a href=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/shop\/others\/the-complete-childrens-short-stories\/#\/\"><i>The Jungle Book<\/i><\/a> (1894), <a href=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/shop\/others\/the-complete-childrens-short-stories\/#\/\"><i>The Second Jungle Book<\/i><\/a> (1895), <a href=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/shop\/others\/the-complete-childrens-short-stories\/#\/\"><i>Stalky &amp; Co.<\/i><\/a> (1899), <a href=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/shop\/englishlibrary\/kim\/\"><i>Kim<\/i><\/a> (1901),<a href=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/shop\/penguin\/just-so-stories\/#\/\"> <i>Just So Stories<\/i> <\/a>(1902), <a href=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/shop\/others\/the-complete-childrens-short-stories\/#\/\"><i>Puck of Pook&#8217;s Hill<\/i><\/a> (1906) and <a href=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/shop\/others\/the-complete-childrens-short-stories\/#\/\"><i>Rewards and Fairies<\/i><\/a> (1910).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/9780141321622.jpg\" width=\"183\" height=\"282\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/9781840220575.jpg\" width=\"166\" height=\"256\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/9780141199979.jpg\" width=\"166\" height=\"256\" \/><\/p>\n<a href=\" http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/shop\/penguin\/just-so-stories\/#\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"button small blue\">Buy the Book<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\" 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