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English Writers

Willam Shakespeare

• William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon".His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of 38 plays,154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
• Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Charles John Huffam Dickens

• Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870), pen-name "Boz" , was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era and one of the most popular of all time. He created some of literature's most memorable characters. His novels and short stories have never gone out of print .

Lewis Carroll

• Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

(27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll , was an English author, mathematician , logician , Anglican deacon and photographer . His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass as well as the poems " The Hunting of the Snark " and " Jabberwocky ", all examples of the genre of literary nonsense .

John Tolkien

• John Ronald Reuel Tolkien ,
• (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer , poet , philologist , and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit , The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion .

J.K.Rowling

• Joanne " Jo " Murray , (née Rowling ; born 31 July 1965),better known under the pen name J. K. Rowling is a British author best known as the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series, the idea for which was conceived whilst on a train trip from Manchester to London in 1990. The Potter books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, sold more than 400 million copies, and been the basis for a popular series of films.

Robert Louis Stevenson

• (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. Stevenson was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway etc…
• Novels
• Treasure Island (1883) His first major success, a tale of piracy, buried treasure, and adventure, has been filmed frequently. He originally entitled it The Sea Cook but an editor changed it.
• The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses (1883) An historical adventure novel and romance set during the Wars of the Roses.
• Prince Otto (1885) Stevenson’s third full-length narrative, an action romance set in the imaginary Germanic state of Grünewald.

George Gordon Byron

• (22 January 1788– 19 April 1824) was a British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. Amongst Byron's best-known works are the brief poems She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, and So, we'll go no more a roving, in addition to the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan. He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential, both in the English-speaking world and beyond.