Stieg Larsson

Biography and Career: Stieg Larsson was born on August 15, 1954, in Skelleftehamn, Sweden. Following journalism as a career, he joined Tidningarnas Telegrambyri¥ as a graphic artist...

Stephanie Adams

Stephanie Adams was born on Friday, July 24, 1970 and she is a famous author. She is also famous for being a former Playboy Centerfold and a spokesmodel for the LGBT community. She...

Stephen King

Stephen King (full name Stephen Edwin King) was born on September 21, 1947 in Portland, Maine, United States of America. He is an award-winning best-selling American author. Stephen...

Scott Morrow

Scott Morrow is a talented writer and musician/ filmmaker with a taste for the obscure, absurd and unknown.Our editors need your help to write the biography of Scott Morrow. If you...

Stephenie Meyer

Stephenie Meyer (full name Stephenie Morgan Meyer) was born on December 24, 1973, in Hartford, Connecticut. She is a B.A. in English from Brigham Young University. She had received...

Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) War Poems in 1919 express the disillusionment of his generation. Short Biography: Educated at Cambridge, Sassoon enlisted in the army in 1915, serving...

Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu was a famous author from China. He lived between 544-496 BC. His writing about war strategies, Art of War, is known as the world's oldest military strategies and international...

Sir Thomas More

From 1509, Saint Thomas More (1478-1535) was favoured by Henry VIII and employed on foreign embassies. Short Biography: He was a member of the privy council from 1518 and Lord...

Stendhal

Stendhal (real name Marie-Henri Beyle) was born on January 23, 1783 in Grenoble France. He is considered one of the earliest practitioners of the realistic form. Biography and Career...

Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Harry Lewis (1885-1951) was an American novelist. Short Biography: He made a reputation with Main Street (1920), depicting American small-towm life; Babbitt (1922),...

Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow (1915-2005) was an American novelist of Russian descent, born in Canada, who settled in Chicago with his family in 1924. Short Biography: His works include the picaresque...

Stephen Leacock

Stephen Butler Leacock (1869-1944) was a Canadian humorist, whose writings include Literary Lapses in 1910, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town in 1912, and Frenzied Fiction in 1918. Short...

Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag (1933-2004) novel The Benefactor appeared in 1963, and she established herself as a critic with the influential cultural essays of Against Interpretation in 1966 and Styles...

Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) is noted for plays, poems, and many biographies of writers (Balzac, Dickens) and historical figures (Marie Antoinette, Mary Stuart). He and his wife, exiles...

Saint-John Perse

Pen name of Alexis Saint-Ledger (1887-1975) first book of verse, Eloges (1911), reflects the ambience of the West Indies, where he was born and raised. Short Biography: His later...

Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) diary, written 1659-1669 (when his sight failed) in shorthand, was a unique record of both the daily life of the period and the intimate feelings of the man....

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...

Sir Thomas Malory

Thomas Malory (born in 15th century) was a English author of the prose romance Le Morte d'Arthur (about 1470). Short Biography: It is a translation from the French, modified...

Sacha Gervasi

Sacha Gervasi (Sacha Alexander Gervasi) is a famous writer.Sacha dated Geri Halliwell.Do you think that Sacha Gervasi deserves to be famous? Why?Feel free to express your opinion about...

Sophocles

Sophocles (495-406 BC) modified the form of tragedy by introducing a third actor and developing stage scenery. Short Biography: He wrote some 120 plays, of which seven tragedies...

Sidney Kingsley

Sidney Kingsley was born on Thursday, October 18, 1906 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a famous playwright who won the famous Pulitzer Prize for his contributions. He lived...

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler (1835-1902) was a English author, who made his name in 1872 with his satiric attack on contemporary utopianism, Erewhon ('nowhere' reversed), but is now remembered for...

Sergei Aksakov

Sergei Aksakov (full name Sergei Timofeyevich Aksakov) 1791-1859. Sergei Aksakov was a Russian writer, born at Ufa, in the Urals. Under the influence of Gogol, he wrote autobiographical...

Sorin Preda

Sorin Preda - prose writer. Also journalist. Born on December 12th 1951 in Bucharest. He graduated from the Faculty of Letters at the University of Bucharest in 1974. He started his...