Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859)…
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's…
Wilbur Smith was a prolific and bestselling South African novelist renowned for his sweeping adventure stories set against the backdrop of Africa’s dramatic landscapes and turbulent history. Born in 1…
Robert Dennis Fulk is a medievalist and a linguist, specializing in Germanic and Celtic languages and literatures, the history of the English language, and comparative Indo-European linguistics. He is…
Born agricultural working class in Hampshire and passed the 11+, took a degree that included Economic History, a fascination ever since, taught for ten years, worked with the Police Force in Papua New…
Terry Cloutier is the bestselling author of the Wolf of Corwick Castle series, The First Emperor series, and The Past Lives Chronicles. The tenth book in the Wolf of Corwick series, titled The Wolf at…
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien: writer, artist, scholar, linguist. Known to millions around the world as the author of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien spent most of his life teaching at the University of Ox…
I was born in 1950 in Lancashire and attended a boy’s grammar school. After qualifying as an English and Drama teacher in 1972, I worked in the North East of England for the next 35 years. During that…
Hello! I’ve always been fascinated by history and would love to travel back and witness past events – the mundane as well as the momentous. But seeing I don’t have a time machine, the next best thing …
