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John Jeffery Farnol was born on 10th February 1878 in Aston, Birmingham, England. Farnol's childhood years were spent in London and Kent. After losing his job with a Birmingham metal-working company he returned to London and enrolled in the Westminster School of Art. In...

Would you kill to write a bestseller? Well Adrian Slater says that he's prepared to do just that - and announces the fact in a creative writing class.Lecturer Dudley Grose is convinced that Slater is a psychopath and means what he says. But the...

Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, 1st Baronet PC, now better known as Gilbert Parker, was born on 23rd November 1862 at Camden East, Addington, Ontario. Parker initial career path was as a teacher, initially at Marsh Hill and Bayside schools in Hastings County and...

Florence Louisa Charlesworth was born on 2nd December 1862 in Limpsfield, Surrey, England, one of three sisters. In 1881, Florence married the Rev. Charles W. Barclay and they honeymooned in the Holy Land, where, in Shechem, they reportedly discovered Jacob's Well, which according to...

Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz was born on May 5th 1846, into an impoverished Polish noble family in Russian-ruled Congress Poland. He normally published under the shortened version as Henryk Sienkiewicz. It was only in 1866 that he completed his secondary-school diploma. At first...

Author: Eva Fischer-DixonISBN-10: 1469135825ISBN-13: 9781469135823Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/30/2011Pages: 120Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

Francis Hopkinson Smith was born in Baltimore, Maryland on October 23rd, 1838, the grandson of Francis Hopkinson, a signatory to the Declaration of Independence. Smith was educated at the Boys' Latin School of Maryland and from there he built a very successful career as...

Gene Stratton-Porter was born on August 17th 1863 as Geneva Grace Stratton in Wabash County, Indiana. Gene was entirely self-taught as well as being highly skilled as both a nature photographer and naturalist. Her first attributed novel was 'The Song of the Cardinal' (1903),...

Winston Churchill was born on November 10th, 1871 in St. Louis, Missouri, to parents Edward Spalding Churchill and Emma Bell Blaine. Tragically his mother died soon after his birth, and he was thereafter raised by Emma's half-sister, Louisa and her husband. He was educated...

Author: Eva Fischer-DixonISBN-10: 1469135817ISBN-13: 9781469135816Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/30/2011Pages: 120Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d

Winston Churchill was born on November 10th, 1871 in St. Louis, Missouri, to parents Edward Spalding Churchill and Emma Bell Blaine. Tragically his mother died soon after his birth, and he was thereafter raised by Emma's half-sister, Louisa and her husband. He was educated...

Winston Churchill was born on November 10th, 1871 in St. Louis, Missouri, to parents Edward Spalding Churchill and Emma Bell Blaine. Tragically his mother died soon after his birth, and he was thereafter raised by Emma's half-sister, Louisa and her husband. He was educated...

Bestsellers in Nineteenth Century America seeks to produce for students novels, poems and other printed material that sold extremely well when they first appeared in the United States. Many of the most famous American works of the nineteenth century that we know today --...

Lady Chatterley's Lover. The Blue Lagoon. Portnoy's Complaint. The Da Vinci Code. For the last century, the tastes and preferences of the common reader have been reflected in the American and British bestseller lists, and this Very Short Introduction takes an engaging look through...

Herbert George Wells was born on September 21st, 1866 at Atlas House, 46 High Street, Bromley, Kent. He was the youngest of four siblings and his family affectionately knew him as 'Bertie'. The first few years of his childhood were spent fairly quietly, and...