Literary Library

Aiden Chambers

by Angela Beck
December 27, 1934 - British author of children's and young adult novelsAuthor of "The Present Takers", "Dance on My Grave" and "Postcards from No M...
British Carnegie Medal Children's Book Children's Book Author Children's Book Award Children's Books Children's Literature Association Award England English Great Britain Hans Christian Andersen Award Novel Novelist Young Adult

Thomas Gray

by Angela Beck
December 26, 1716 - July 30, 1771English poet, classical scholar and professorAuthor of only 13 poems including "Elegy Written in a Country Church...
British England English English History English Poetry Great Britain Poem Poems Poet Poetry Scholar University

William Collins

by Angela Beck
December 25, 1721 - June 12, 1759English poetAuthor of "Persian Eclogues" and "Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegorical Subjects"
British English English History English Poetry Great Britain Poem Poems Poet Poetry

Angelica Garnett

by Angela Beck
December 25, 1918 - May 4, 2012British writer, painter and artistAuthor of "Deceived With Kindness: A Bloomsbury Childhood" (for which she won the ...
Art Artist Arts British England English Great Britain Paint Painter Painting Writer

Matthew Arnold

by Angela Beck
December 24, 1822 - April 15, 1888English poet, cultural critic, school inspector and professorAuthor of "Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems", "Po...
British Critic Culture England English English Poetry Great Britain Poem Poems Poet Poetry Professor School Teach Teacher University

Gillian Cross

by Angela Beck
December 24, 1945 - British author of children's booksAuthor of "A Map of Nowhere", "Wolf" (for which she won the Carnegie Award in 1990) and "The ...
British Carnegie Medal Children's Book Children's Book Author Children's Books England English Great Britain Whitbread Children's Book Award

George Crabbe

by Angela Beck
December 24, 1754 - February 3, 1832English poet, surgeon and clergymanAuthor of "The Candidate", "The Village" and "The Burough"
British Church Clergy Clergyman Doctor England English English Poetry Great Britain Medical Medicine Physician Religion Religious Surgeon Surgery

Carol Ann Duffy

by Angela Beck
December 23, 1955 - British poet, playwright and profesorAuthor of "Standing Female Nude", "Selling Manhattan" (for which she won the Somerset Mau...
British England English English Poetry Great Britain Play Plays Playwright Poem Poems Poet Poet Laureate Poetry Professor Somerset Maugham Award T. S. Eliot Prize Teach Teacher United Kingdom University

Elizabeth Noble

by Angela Beck
December 22, 1968 - English novelistAuthor of "The Reading Group", "Alphabet Weekends" and "The Girl Next Door"
British England English Great Britain Novel Novelist

Charles Stuart Calverly

by Angela Beck
December 22, 1831 - February 17, 1884English poetAuthor of "Verses and Translations", "Translations Into English and Latin" and "Fly Leaves"Also pu...
British England English English Poetry Great Britain Poem Poems Poet Poetry

Hannah More

by Angela Beck
February 2, 1745 - September 7, 1833English religious writer, poet and playwrightAuthor of "The Inflexible Captive", "Fatal Falsehood" and "Coeleb...
British England English English Poetry Great Britain Play Plays Playwright Poem Poems Poet Poetry Religion Religious Theater Theatre

Charles Nordhoff

by Angela Beck
February 1, 1887 - April 10, 1947 English-born American novelist and memoirist Author of books that were turned into films: "The Hurricane" in 193...
Ambulance American British England English Film Films Great Britain Memoir Memoirist Novel Novelist War World War I