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  • Mark Twain | Lit Fig

    References Worth Looking At Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens November 30, 1835-April 21, 1910 Parents: John Marshall Clemens & Jane Lampton Spouse: Olivia Louise Langdon (m. 1870–1904) Children: Langdon Clemens (1870-1872), Susy Clemens (1872-1896), Clara Clemens (1874-1962), Jean Clemens (1880-1909) Age: 74 Nationality: American Genre: Literary Era: Realism Info. Bio. Here you talk about them as a kid. And as a teenager. Then as an adult. Then as a successful person. Works The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1867) The Innocents Abroad (1869) Eye Openers (1871) Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography (1871) Screamers (1871) Roughing It (1872) The Gilded Age (1873) Sketches New and Old (1875) A Murder, a Myster and a Marriage (1876) Old Times on the Mississippi (1876) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion (1877) A Tramp Abroad (1880) The Prince and the Pauper (1881) The Stolen White Elephant (1882) Life on the Mississippi (1883) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians (1884) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) Merry Tales (1892) The American Claimant (1892) The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894) Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896) Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896) Following the Equator (1897) English as She is Taught (1900) Extracts from Adam's Diary (1904) King Leopold's Soliloquy (1905) Eve's Diary (1906) A Horse's Tale (1907) Christian Science (1907) Is Shakespeare Dead? (1909) The Mysterious Stranger (1916) Letters from Hawaii (1947) The Adventures of Colonel Sellers (1965) Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (2008) Letters from the Earth (2009) Themes Religion and Flaws in Society Humor and Adventure Children and Personal Growth Nature and Humanity Irony and Hypocrisy Cool Quotes It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. Buy land, they're not making it anymore. Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel. Back. Onward!

  • Margaret Atwood | Lit Fig

    Margaret Atwood Bio. Here you talk about them as a kid. And as a teenager. Then as an adult. Then as a successful person. Works The Circle Game (1964) The Animals in That Country (1968) The Edible Woman (1969) Procedures For Underground (1970) The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970) Power Politics (1971) Surfacing (1972) Survival (1972) You Are Happy (1974) Lady Oracle (1976) Dancing Girls (1977) Days of the Rebels (1977) Two-Headed Poems (1978) Up in the Tree (1978) Life Before Man (1979) Anna's Pet (1980) Bodily Harm (1981) True Stories (1981) Second Words (1982) Bluebeard's Egg ((1983) Murder In the Dark (1983) Interlunar (1984) The Handmaid's Tale (1985) Cat's Eye (1988) For the Birds (1990) Wilderness Tips (1991) Good Bones (1992) The Robber Bride (1993) Bones and Murder (1994) Mroning in the Burned House (1995) Strange Things (1995) Alias Grace (1996) The Labrador Fiasco (1996) Two Solicitudes (1996) The Blind Assassin (2000) Story of a Nation (2001) Negotiating with the Dead (2002) Oryx and Crake (2003) Bottle (2004) The Penelopiad (2005) Moral Disorder (2006) The Tent (2006) Payback (2008) The Year of the Flood (2009) In Other Worlds (2011) I'm Starved For You (2012) MaddAddam (2013) Stone Mattress (2014) Dire Cartographies (2015) On Writers and Writing (2015) The Heart Goes Last (2015) Hag-Seed (2016) The Burgess Shale (2017) Freedom (2018) The Bad News (2018) The Testaments (2019) War Bears (2019) My Evil Mother (2022) Old Babes in the Woods: Stories (2023) Cool Quotes References Worth Looking At Info. November 18, 1939-Now Parents: Carl Edmund Atwood & Margaret Dorothy Killam Spouse: Jim Polk (m. 1968–1973) & Graeme Gibson (together since 1973) Children: Eleanor Atwood Gibson (1976-Now) Age: 83 Nationality: Canadian Literary Era: Contemporary (Speculative) Themes

  • Sylvia Plath | Lit Fig

    Author Name (Real Name) Bio. Here you talk about them as a kid. And as a teenager. Then as an adult. Then as a successful person. Works x y z a b c Cool Quotes References Worth Looking At Info. Birth date-death date Parents: Spouse: Children: Age: Nationality: Genre: Literary Era: Themes

  • Jorge Luis Borges | Lit Fig

    Author Name (Real Name) Bio. Here you talk about them as a kid. And as a teenager. Then as an adult. Then as a successful person. Works x y z a b c Cool Quotes References Worth Looking At Info. Birth date-death date Parents: Spouse: Children: Age: Nationality: Genre: Literary Era: Themes

  • Agatha Christie | Lit Fig

    Author Name (Real Name) Bio. Here you talk about them as a kid. And as a teenager. Then as an adult. Then as a successful person. Works x y z a b c Cool Quotes References Worth Looking At Info. Birth date-death date Parents: Spouse: Children: Age: Nationality: Genre: Literary Era: Themes

  • H.G. Wells | Lit Fig

    Author Name (Real Name) Bio. Here you talk about them as a kid. And as a teenager. Then as an adult. Then as a successful person. Works x y z a b c Cool Quotes References Worth Looking At Info. Birth date-death date Parents: Spouse: Children: Age: Nationality: Genre: Sci-Fi Literary Era: Themes

  • Rene Descartes | Lit Fig

    Author Name (Real Name) Bio. Here you talk about them as a kid. And as a teenager. Then as an adult. Then as a successful person. Works x y z a b c Cool Quotes References Worth Looking At Info. Birth date-death date Parents: Spouse: Children: Age: Nationality: Genre: Literary Era: Themes

  • Alexandre Dumas | Lit Fig

    Author Name (Real Name) Bio. Here you talk about them as a kid. And as a teenager. Then as an adult. Then as a successful person. Works x y z a b c Cool Quotes References Worth Looking At Info. Birth date-death date Parents: Spouse: Children: Age: Nationality: Genre: Literary Era: Themes

  • Lewis Carroll | Lit Fig

    Author Name (Real Name) Bio. Here you talk about them as a kid. And as a teenager. Then as an adult. Then as a successful person. Works x y z a b c Cool Quotes References Worth Looking At Info. Birth date-death date Parents: Spouse: Children: Age: Nationality: Genre: Literary Era: Themes

  • JRR Tolkein | Lit Fig

    Author Name (Real Name) Bio. Here you talk about them as a kid. And as a teenager. Then as an adult. Then as a successful person. Works x y z a b c Cool Quotes References Worth Looking At Info. Birth date-death date Parents: Spouse: Children: Age: Nationality: Genre: Literary Era: Themes

  • Thomas More | Lit Fig

    Author Name (Real Name) Bio. Here you talk about them as a kid. And as a teenager. Then as an adult. Then as a successful person. Works x y z a b c Cool Quotes References Worth Looking At Info. Birth date-death date Parents: Spouse: Children: Age: Nationality: Genre: Literary Era: Themes

  • George Orwell | Lit Fig

    Back. Onward! George Orwell Eric Arthur Blair June 25, 1903-January 21, 1950 Parents: Richard Walmesley Blair & Ida Mabel Limouzin Spouses: Eileen Maud Blair (m. 1936-1945) & Sonia Mary Brownell (m. 1949–1950) Children: Richard Blair (1944-present) Age: 46 Nationality: British Genre: Dystopia & Politics Literary Era: Modernism Info. Bio. Here you talk about them as a kid. And as a teenager. Then as an adult. Then as a successful person. Works Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) Burmese Days (1934) A Clergyman's Daughter (1935) Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936) The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) Homage to Catalonia (1938) Coming Up for Air (1939) Animal Farm (1945) 1984 (1949) As I Please (1968) An Age Like This (1971) In Front of Your Nose (1971) My Country Right or Left (1980) Themes Censorship and Propoganda Freedom and Oppression Truth and Rebellion Communism and Totalitarianism Usurpation and Power Cool Quotes Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. References Worth Looking At "George Orwell Timeline" excellence-in-literature.com The Orwell Foundation (an organization dedicated to Orwell's legacy...in a positive way) orwellfoundation.com "George Orwell: A Life in Pictures" (BBC videos on Orwell) YouTube.com "What Orwellian Really Means" TedEd "Animal Farm Film" (full 1954 film) YouTube.com "1984 Apple 's Macintosh Commercial" (look what Orwell inspired) YouTube.com On 1984: A Biography by D.J. Taylor Orwell: The New Life by D.J. Taylor

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