Hesiod biography Hesiod (750 – 600 b.C.), poet. He was born in Ascra, Boeotia, Greece. His family settled in Boeotia, after leaving behind Cumas, home of...
The Brothers Grimm biography The Brothers Grimm were philologists and folklorists. Born in Hanau, Berlin, Germany. Jacob Grimm was the eldest (1785 – 1863) and Wilhelm...
Eurípides biography Euripides (September 23, 480 – 406 b.C.), poet and dramatist. He was born on the island of Salamis, just as the famous battle of...
Aesop biography Aesop (VI a.C.) fabulist. This man was described by Herodotus, in his works, as a slave of a citizen of Samos called Xanthus. According...
Dan Brown biography The writer and musician Daniel Brown, known simply as Dan Brown, was born on June 22, 1964, in the town of Exeter, Rockingham...
Charles Perrault biography Charles Perrault (January 12, 1628 – May 16, 1703) writer. He was born in Paris, France. He grew up in a bourgeois family,...
Charles Dickens biography The writer Charles John Huffam Dickens, known simply as Charles Dickens, was born on February 7, 1812, in the city of Portsmouth, England,...
Bruce Lee biography The martial artist, actor, philosopher, and writer Lee Jun-Fan, widely known by the name of Bruce Lee, was born on November 27, 1940,...
Agatha Christie biography The writer and playwright Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller, more widely known by the name of Agatha Christie or by her pseudonym Mary Westmacott,...
Miguel De Unamuno biography Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo was born in Bilbao, Spain, on September 29, 1864. He was a writer, poet, philosopher and one...