Jupiter Hammon was born October 17, 1711, a slave of Henry Lloyd of Lloyd’s Manor (Queens Village), Long Island, New York. His 88-line poem “An Evening’s Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penitential…
Novels, including Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), and nonfiction writings of American folklorist Zora Neale Hurston give detailed accounts of African American life in the South.
Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870) was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. Hi…
Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland. She was awarded the 2018 No…
