Jacob Grimm

Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm (1785-1863) was a German philologist and collaborator with his brother Wilhelm Karl (1786-1859) in the Fairy Tales (1812-1814), based on collected folk tales....

Fulke Greville

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke (1554-1628) was a Poet and courtier, friend and biographer of Philip Sidney. Short Biography: Greville's works, none of them published during...

Franz Grillparzer

Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872) was a Austrian poet and dramatist. Short Biography: His plays include the tragedy Die Ahnfrau / The Ancestress (1817), the classical Sappho (1818)...

Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray (1716-1761) was a English poet, whose "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (1750) is one of the most quoted poems in English. Short Biography: Other poems include...

Robert Graves

Robert Ranke Graves (1895-1985) was severely wounded on the Somme in World War I, and his frank autobiography Goodbye to All That (1929) is one of the outstanding war books. Short...

Maxim Gorky

Pen name of Alexei Peshkov (1868-1936) was a Russian writer. Short Biography: Born in Nizhny-Novgorod (renamed Gorky 1932 in his honour) he was exiled 1906-1913 for his revolutionary...

Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer (born in 1923) is a South African novelist, an opponent of apartheid and censorship. Short Biography: Her finest writing is characterized by beautiful evocations...

Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) was a Irish writer, whose works include the novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), the poem The Deserted Village (1770), and the play She Stoops to Conquer...

Nikolai Gogol

Nicolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1809-1852) was a Russian writer. Short Biography: His first success was a collection of stories, Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka (1831-1832), followed...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was a German poet, novelist, and dramatist, the founder of modem German literature, and leader of the Romantic Sturm und Drang movement, which...

Jean Giraudoux

Jean Hippolyte Giraudoux (1882-1944) was a French playwright and novelist, who wrote the plays Amphitryon 38 (1929) and La Folle de Challoti / The Madwoman of Chllot (1945), and the...

W. S. Gilbert

William Schwenk Gilbert (1836-1911) was a British humorist and dramatist who collaborated with Arthur OSullivan, providing the libretti for their series of light comic operas from 1871;...

Bishop T.D. Jakes

Thomas Dexter "T. D." Jakes Sr. is an American entrepreneur and chief pastor of the The Potter's House which is a 30,000 member church in Dallas, Texas. He was born June 9, 1957. Jakes...

Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell was born on November 8, 1900 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA as daughter of Eugene Muse Mitchell and Maybelle Mitchell. She is an American author who won the Pulitzer Prize...

Andre Gide

Andre Gide (1869-1951) was a French novelist, born in Paris. Short Biography: His work is largely autobiographical and concerned with the themes of self-fulfilment and renunciation....

Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Pen name of James Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935) was a Scottish novelist, author of the trilogy A Scots Quair: Sunset Song, Cloud Howe, and Grey Granite (1932-1934), set in the area South...

Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) was a British historian, author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1788). Short Biography: The work was a continuous narrative...

Stefan George

Stefan George (1868-1933) early poetry was influenced by French Symbolism, but his concept of himself as regenerating the German spirit first appears in Des Teppich des Lebens / The...

Jean Genet

Jean Genet (1910-1986) was a French dramatist, novelist, and poet, an exponent of the Theatre of Cruelty. Short Biography: His turbulent life and early years spent in prison...

John Gay

John Gay (1685-1732) was the friend of Pope and Arbuthnot, and wrote Trivia in 1716, a verse picture of 18th-century London. Short Biography: His The Beggar's Opera in 1728,...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gabriel García Marquez (born in 1928) is an Colombian novelist, whose Gen ahos de soledad / One Hundred Years of Solitude in 1967, the story of six generations of a family, is an example...

John Galt

John Galt (1779-1839) was a Scottish novelist. He is probably best known for the Annals of the Parish in 1821 in which he portrays the life of a Lowlands village, using the local dialect. Born...

John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy (1867-1933) was a British novelist and dramatist, whose work examines the social issues of the Victorian period. Short Biography: He is famous for The Forsyte...

Thomas Fuller

Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) was a English writer. Short Biography: He served as a chaplain to the Royalist army during the Civil War, and at the Restoration became the king's chaplain....