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Jack London January 12, 1876, (145)

Jack London, pseudonym of John Griffith Chaney, (born January 12, 1876, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died November 22, 1916, Glen Ellen, California), American novelist and short-story writer whose best-known

works—among them The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906)—depict elemental struggles for survival. During the 20th century he was one of the most extensively translated of American authors.

Hugh Lofting January, 14, 1886 (135) born Maidenhead, Berkshire, Eng.—died Sept. 26, 1947, Santa Monica, Calif., U.S.), English-born American author of a series of children’s classics about Dr. Dolittle, a chubby, gentle, eccentric physician to animals, who learns the language of animals from his parrot, Polynesia, so that he can treat their complaints more efficiently. Much of the wit and charm of the stories lies in their matter-of-fact treatment of the doctor’s bachelor household in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, where his housekeeper, Dab-Dab, is a duck and his visitors and patients are animals.

Eleanor Farjeon February, 13, 1881 (140) the first laureate of the International H.Ch.Andersen award (1956)

(13 February 1881 – 5 June 1965) was an English author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire. Several of her works had illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Some of her correspondence has also been published. She won many literary awards and the Eleanor Farjeon Award for children's literature is presented annually in her memory by the Children's Book Circle, a society of publishers. She was the sister of thriller writer Joseph Jefferson Farjeon

Patrick Carman born February 27, 1966 (55) Salem, Oregon, U.S. Novelist, short story writer, screenwriter Genre Young adult, fantasy, science fiction, children's literature Notable works Skeleton Creek Saga, The Land of Elyon Series, Atherton Series, Atherton Thirteen Days to Midnight, and Elliot's Park Series

Meindert De Jong 4 March 1906 (115) Meindert De Jong, sometimes spelled de Jong, DeJong or Dejong (4 March 1906 – 16 July 1991) was a Dutch-born American writer of children's books. He won the international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1962 for his contributions as a children's writer. • Shadrach and Hurry Home, Candy were both runners-up for the Newbery Medal in 1954.[4] • The Wheel on the School won the U.S. Newbery Medal in 1955[4] and the second annual Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1957 (in its German translation, Das Rad auf der Schule, with new illustrations by Marianne Richter).[5] It was named to the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list in 1963.[6] • The House of Sixty Fathers received the Josette Frank Award (then named the Children's Book Award of the Child Study Association) in 1956. It was a Newbery runner-up in 1957.[4] • Along Came a Dog was a Newbery runner-up in 1959. • Journey from Peppermint Street won the inaugural National Book Award in category Children's Books in 1969.

Virginia Hamilton March, 12, 1936 (85) She won the international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1992

Virginia Hamilton, American children’s author (born March 12, 1936, Yellow Springs, Ohio—died Feb. 19, 2002, Dayton, Ohio), was a master storyteller who preserved black oral tradition following intensive research that uncovered long-forgotten riddles, stories, and traditions, many of which she resurrected in such books as The People Could Fly (1985) and Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom (1993).

Her first work, Zeely (1967), appeared at a time when most books devoted to the African American experience dealt with issues such as racial segregation and poverty. Her novels, which she termed “liberation literature,” moved away from “problem” story lines; instead, her tales underscored the experiences of ordinary African Americans. Among her more than 35 works were picture books, folk tales, science-fiction stories, realistic novels, biographies, and mysteries. Hamilton’s children’s novel M.C. Higgins, the Great won a National Book Award and a Newbery Medal in 1975, and she was the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation grant in 1995.

Samuel Beckett April, 13, 1906 (115), author, critic, and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. He wrote in both French and English and is perhaps best known for his plays, especially En attendant Godot (1952; Waiting for Godot). Samuel Beckett was born in a suburb of Dublin.

Murphy (novel)

Molloy (novel)

фр. Malone meurt, англ. Malone Dies (novel)

Watt (novel by Beckett)

Watt, Absurdist novel by Samuel Beckett, published in 1953. It was written in 1942-44 while Beckett, an early member of the French Resistance, was hiding in southern France from German occupying forces.

Charlotte Brontë April, 21, 1816 (205)

Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) British author Charlotte Brontë, English novelist noted for Jane Eyre (1847), a strong narrative of a woman in conflict with her natural desires and social condition. The novel gave new truthfulness to Victorian fiction. She later wrote Shirley (1849) and Villette (1853).

Harper Lee

April, 28, 1926 (95)

in full Nelle Harper Lee, (born April 28, 1926, Monroeville, Alabama, U.S.—died February 19, 2016, Monroeville), American writer nationally acclaimed for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird (1960).

Farley McGill Mowat May, 12, 1921 (100) Canadian environmentalist and author

Farley McGill Mowat, Canadian environmentalist and author (born May 12, 1921, Belleville, Ont.—died May 6, 2014, Port Hope, Ont.), informed readers about the ecology of the Canadian north and the corruption and exploitation visited by the Canadian government upon the native peoples there. His most famous book, Never Cry Wolf (1963; film 1983), chronicled his solo work as a biologist studying wolves in northern Manitoba.

L. Frank Baum

May, 15, 1856 (165)

in full Lyman Frank Baum, (born May 15, 1856, Chittenango, New York, U.S.—died May 6, 1919, Hollywood, California), American writer known for his series of books for children about the imaginary land of Oz.

Тerens Hanbury White May, 29, 1906 (115)

Terence Hanbury "Tim" White (29 May 1906 – 17 January 1964) was an English author best known for his Arthurian novels, The Once and Future King, first published together in 1958. One of his most memorable is the first of the series, The Sword in the Stone, published as a stand-alone book in 1938.

Harriet Beecher Stowe June, 14, 1811 (210) née Harriet Elizabeth Beecher

American writer and educator

Harriet Beecher Stowe, née Harriet Elizabeth Beecher, (born June 14, 1811, Litchfield, Connecticut, U.S.—died July 1, 1896, Hartford, Connecticut), American writer and philanthropist, the author of the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which contributed so much to popular feeling against slavery that it is cited among the causes of the American Civil War.

(Alice) Patricia Wrightson June, 19, 1921 (100), Australian children’s book author (born June 19, 1921, Lismore, N.S.W., Australia—died March 15, 2010, Lismore), penned more than two dozen novels for children; she was particularly noted for her sensitive and generally respectful use of Aboriginal figures and motifs, as in The Rocks of Honey (1966) and Behind the Wind (1981).

Wrightson’s first novel, The Crooked Snake (1955), was named the Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Book of the Year. Three more of her works also received that honour—The Nargun and the Stars (1973), The Ice Is Coming (1977), and A Little Fear (1983). She was made OBE in 1977, and in 1999 New South Wales granted the first annual Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature. The Swiss-based International Board on Books for Young People in 1986 bestowed on Wrightson its highest honour, the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award for lifetime achievement in children’s literature.

Sir H. Rider Haggard June, 22, 1856 (165), in full Sir Henry Rider Haggard, (born June 22, 1856, Bradenham, Norfolk, Eng.—died May 14, 1925, London), English novelist best known for his romantic adventure King Solomon’s Mines (1885).

Richard David Bach June 23, 1936 (85)

(born June 23, 1936) is an American writer widely known as the author of some of the 1970s' biggest sellers, including Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970) and Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977). Bach has written numerous works of fiction, and also non-fiction flight-related titles.

Garry Douglas Kilworth 5 July 1941 (80)

Garry Douglas Kilworth (born 5 July 1941 in York) is a British science fiction, fantasy and historical novelist. Kilworth was raised partly in Aden, South Arabia, the son of an airman. Having an itinerant father he travelled widely, both in Britain and abroad, and attended over 20 different schools before the age of 15. He later went to military school and subsequently was himself in the Royal Air Force for 18 years. In 1962 he married Annette Bailey, the daughter of an R.A.F. Catalina aircraft pilot.

William Makepeace Thackeray July 18, 1811 (210)

(born July 18, 1811, Calcutta, India—died Dec. 24, 1863, London, Eng.), English novelist whose reputation rests chiefly on Vanity Fair (1847–48), a novel of the Napoleonic period in England, and The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. (1852), set in the early 18th century.

A.J. Cronin July 19, 1896 (125)

A.J. Cronin, in full Archibald Joseph Cronin, (born July 19, 1896, Cardross, Dumbartonshire, Scot.—died Jan. 6, 1981, Montreux, Switz.), Scottish novelist and physician whose works combining realism with social criticism won a large Anglo-American readership.

Cronin was educated at the University of Glasgow and served as a surgeon in the Royal Navy during World War I.

He practiced in South Wales (1921–24) and then, as medical inspector of mines, investigated occupational diseases in the coal industry. He opened medical practice in London in 1926 but quit because of ill health, using his leisure to write his first novel, Hatter’s Castle (1931; filmed 1941), the story of a Scottish hatmaker obsessed with the idea of the possibility of his noble birth. This book was an immediate success in Britain.

Irish dramatist and critic George Bernard Shaw

July 26, 1856

(165)

George Bernard Shaw,

(born July 26, 1856, Dublin, Ireland—died November 2, 1950, Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England), Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, and socialist propagandist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.

Beatrix Potter

July 28, 1866

(155)

Beatrix Potter, in full Helen Beatrix Potter, (born July 28, 1866, South Kensington, Middlesex [now in Greater London], England—died December 22, 1943, Sawrey, Lancashire [now in Cumbria]), English author of children’s books, who created Peter Rabbit, Jeremy Fisher, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, and other animal characters.

Thomas Anstey Guthrie 8 August 1856 (165)

Thomas Anstey Guthrie (8 August 1856 – 10 March 1934) was an English author (writing as F. Anstey), most noted for his comic novel Vice Versa about a boarding-school boy and his father exchanging identities. His reputation was confirmed by The Tinted Venus and many humorous parodies in Punch magazine.

Pamela Lyndon Travers

August 9, 1899 (115)

P.L. Travers was her pen name. She was born Helen Lyndon Goff on August 9, 1899, in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia. Her wealthy relatives, however, did not approve; feeling that Australians lacked humor and lyricism, she left for London, England in 1924, to seek the literary life.

Published in London in 1934, Mary Poppins was Travers’ first literary success. Sequels followed (the last in 1988). While appearing as a guest on BBC Radio 4’s radio program Desert Island Discs in May 1977, Travers revealed that the name “M. Poppins” originated from childhood stories that she contrived for her sisters, and that she was still in possession of a book from that age with this name inscribed within. Travers’ great aunt, Helen Morehead, who lived in Woollahra, Sydney, and used to say, ‘Spit spot, into bed’ is a likely inspiration for the character. Travers was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1977. Travers died in London on 23 April 1996 at the age of 96.

Sir Walter Scott

August 15, 1771

(250)

Sir Walter Scott August, in full Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, (born August 15, 1771, Edinburgh, Scotland—died September 21, 1832, Abbotsford, Roxburgh, Scotland), Scottish novelist, poet, historian, and biographer who is often considered both the inventor and the greatest practitioner of the historical novel.

The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)

Marmion (1808)

The Lady of the Lake (1810)

Rokeby (1813)

The Lord of the Isles (1815)

Waverley

Guy Mannering (1815)

The Antiquary (1816)

Tales of My Landlord

The Black Dwarf

Old Mortality (1816)

Rob Roy (1817)

The Heart of Midlothian (1818)

The Bride of Lammermoor

A Legend of Montrose (both 1819)

Ivanhoe (1819)

The Monastery and The Abbot

The Pirate and The Fortunes of Nigel

Kenilworth (1821)

Quentin Durward (1823)

Redgauntlet (1824)

The Talisman (1825)

Bret Harte

August 25, 1836 (185)

Bret Harte, original name Francis Brett Harte, (born August 25, 1836, Albany, New York, U.S.—died May 5, 1902, London, England), American writer who helped create the local-colour school in American fiction.

a series of Spanish legends

“ The Luck of Roaring Camp”

“ The Outcasts of Poker Flat.”

“ Plain Language from Truthful James” (1870), better known as “The Heathen Chinee,”

“ Ingénue of the Sierras”

“ A Protégée of Jack Hamlin’s” (both 1893)

Theodore Dreiser

August 27, 1871

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Theodore Dreiser, (born Aug. 27, 1871, Terre Haute, Ind., U.S.—died Dec. 28, 1945, Hollywood, Calif.), novelist who was the outstanding American practitioner of naturalism. He was the leading figure in a national literary movement that replaced the observance of Victorian notions of propriety with the unflinching presentation of real-life subject matter. Among other themes, his novels explore the new social problems that had arisen in a rapidly industrializing America.

Sister Carrie (1900)

Jennie Gerhardt (1911)

The Financier (1912)

The Titan (1914)

The Stoic (1947)

The ‘Genius’ (1915)

An American Tragedy (1925)

The Bulwark (1946)

Roald Dahl

September 13, 1916

(105)

Roald Dahl, (born September 13, 1916, Llandaff, Wales—died November 23, 1990, Oxford, England), British writer, a popular author of ingenious, irreverent children’s books.

The Gremlins (1943)

Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying (1946)

Someone like You (1953; rev. ed. 1961)

Kiss, Kiss (1959)

James and the Giant Peach (1961; film 1996)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)

Fantastic Mr. Fox (1970; film 2009)

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972), The Enormous Crocodile (1978), The BFG (1982; films 1989 and 2016), and The Witches (1983; film 1990)

Matilda (1988), was adapted as a film (1996) and as a stage musical (2010)

several scripts for movies, among them You Only Live Twice (1967) and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968). His autobiography, Boy: Tales of Childhood, was published in 1984

William Golding

September 19, 1911

(110) .

William Golding, in full Sir William Gerald Golding, (born September 19, 1911, St. Columb Minor, near Newquay, Cornwall, England—died June 19, 1993, Perranarworthal, near Falmouth, Cornwall), English novelist who in 1983 won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his parables of the human condition. He attracted a cult of followers, especially among the youth of the post-World War II generation.

Golding’s first published novel was Lord of the Flies (1954; film 1963 and 1990), the story of a group of schoolboys isolated on a coral island who revert to savagery. Its imaginative and brutal depiction of the rapid and inevitable dissolution of social mores aroused widespread interest. The Inheritors (1955), set in the last days of Neanderthal man, is another story of the essential violence and depravity of human nature. The guilt-filled reflections of a naval officer, his ship torpedoed, who faces an agonizing death are the subject of Pincher Martin (1956). Two other novels, Free Fall (1959) and The Spire (1964), also demonstrate Golding’s belief that “man produces evil as a bee produces honey.” Darkness Visible (1979) tells the story of a boy horribly burned in the London blitz during World War II. His later works include Rites of Passage (1980), which won the Booker McConnell Prize, and its sequels, Close Quarters (1987) and Fire Down Below (1989). Golding was knighted in 1988.

H.G. Wells

September 21, 1866

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H.G. Wells, in full Herbert George Wells, (born September 21, 1866, Bromley, Kent, England—died August 13, 1946, London), English novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds and such comic novels as Tono-Bungay and The History of Mr. Polly.

H.G. Wells

born

September 21, 1866

Bromley, England

died

August 13, 1946 (aged 79)

London, England

notable works

“ The War of the Worlds”

“ The Island of Doctor Moreau”

“ The Time Machine”

“ Tono-Bungay”

“ The Invisible Man”

“ The Shape of Things to Come”

“ The New Machiavelli”

“ Love and Mr. Lewisham”

“ The Outline of History”

“ Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul”

subjects of study

cultural evolution

F. Scott Fitzgerald

September 24, 1896

(125)

F. Scott Fitzgerald, in full Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, (born September 24, 1896, St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.—died December 21, 1940, Hollywood, California), American short-story writer and novelist famous for his depictions of the Jazz Age (the 1920s), his most brilliant novel being The Great Gatsby (1925).

His private life, with his wife, Zelda, in both America and France, became almost as celebrated as his novels.

Philip Pullman

October 19, 1946

(75)

Philip Pullman, in full Philip Nicholas Pullman, (born October 19, 1946, Norwich, England), British author of novels for children and young adults who is best known for the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials (1995–2000).

Won Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (2005). Northern Lights (1995; also published as The Golden Compass, 1996)

The Amber Spyglass (2000)

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

November 11, 1836

(185)

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, (born Nov. 11, 1836, Portsmouth, N.H., U.S.—died March 19, 1907, Boston), poet, short-story writer, and editor whose use of the surprise ending influenced the development of the short story. He drew upon his childhood experiences in New Hampshire in his popular classic The Story of a Bad Boy (1870).

Aldrich left school at 13 to work as a merchant’s clerk in New York City and soon began to contribute to various newspapers and magazines. After publication of his first book of verse, The Bells (1855), he became junior literary critic on the New York Evening Mirror and later subeditor of the Home Journal. From 1881 to 1890 he was editor of The Atlantic Monthly.

His poems, which reflect the cultural atmosphere of New England and his frequent European tours, were published in such volumes as Cloth of Gold (1874), Flower and Thorn (1877), Mercedes and Later Lyrics (1884), and Windham Towers (1890).

His best known prose is Marjorie Daw and Other People (1873), a collection of short stories.

Carlo Lorenzini

24 November 1826

(195)

Carlo Lorenzini (24 November 1826 – 26 October 1890), better known by the pen name Carlo Collodi (Italian pronunciation: [ˈkarlo kolˈlɔːdi]), was an Italian author, humorist, and journalist, widely known for his fairy tale novel The Adventures of Pinocchio.

Poul Anderson

November 25, 1926

(95)

Poul Anderson, in full Poul William Anderson, (born November 25, 1926, Bristol, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died July 31, 2001, Orinda, California), prolific American writer of science fiction and fantasy, often praised for his scrupulous attention to scientific detail.

180 years The Deerslayer, or The First Warpath (1841) by James Fenimore Cooper «Зверобо́й, или Пе́рвая тропа́ войны́»

170 years Moby Dick; Or The Whale (1851) by Herman Melville «Моби Дик, или Белый кит»

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Презентация в помощь Методическим Объединениям для внеурочной деятельности по английскому языку. Тема: “Литературные юбилеи 2021 года” Под-тема: Писатели, прозаики, поэты стран английского языка. Подготовила учитель МБОУ «ЯСШ № 6» Л.Н.Керимова