Regarded by Byron, Keats, and Shelley as a genius, Thomas Chatterton was neglected and ignored despite minimal success under the pen-name Thomas Rowley. His pseudo-medieval poetry earned him a place i…
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considere…
Novels of Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun (born Knud Pedersen), include Hunger (1890) and The Growth of the Soil (1917). He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1920.
