Презентация " Is reading important"? (8 класс)

Is reading important?

Joanne Rowling

Joanne "Jo" Rowling is a British novelist, best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series. The books become worldwide popular and won multiple awards. More than 400 million copies were sold.

Mark Twain

His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Mark Twain is an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and the sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) which is often called “the Great American Novel”.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1858-1930)

A Scottish physician who turned to writing, most famously known for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes

Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)

Highly talented American journalist and author. One of the most important authors of the 20th century. Ernest Hemingway was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and in 1954 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Charlotte Bronte (1816 – 1855)

Famous English novelist and poet and one of the three Bronte sisters who became the most famous women writers of the Victorian era. She first published her works, including Jane Eyre , under the pseudonym of Currer Bell.

Lewis Carroll (1832 –1898)

English writer, poet and photographer. He is most famous for his story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland which he told to a young friend, Alice Liddell, when he took the girl and two of her sisters on a boat trip. Alice enjoyed the story and asked Dodgson to write it down. Book become popular all over the world.

Margaret Mitchell (1900 - 1949)

American novelist best known for writing Gone with the Wind. Wrote only one novel and became a worldwide popular. Won Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning Gone With the Wind. She spent a lot of time to write her masterpiece, Mitchell began writing in 1926 and published it in 1936.

Daniel Defoe (1660 - 1731)

English writer, most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe became known as the father of the English novel. A man of many talents, he was not only a writer but also a businessman and a secret agent.