Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine (1737-1809) influential pamphlets include Common Sense in 1776, The Rights of Man in 1791, and The Age of Reason in 1793. Short Biography: He advocated republicanism...

Tom Clancy

He was born on April 12, 1947 and he is a famous writer. His birth name is Jr. Thomas Leo Clancy. He is the co-owner of the Baltmore Orioles. His writings contains realistic, carefully...

Tennessee Williams

Thomas Lanier Williams (1911-1983) work is characterised by fluent dialogue and searching analysis of the psychological deficiencies of his characters. His plays, usually set in...

Ted Hughes

Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was an English poet, poet laureate from 1984. Short Biography: His work includes The Hawk in the Rain in 1957, Lupercal in 1960, Wodwo in 1967, and River...

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy was born on the June 2, 1840, at Higher Bockhampton. He was a famous British novelist, poet and short story writer. Biography and Career : He attended the village...

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...

Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard (born in 1937) achieved fame with Rosencrantz and Gulidenstem are Dead in 1967. Short Biography: This was followed by comedies including The Real Inspector Hound...

Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe (born in 1931) in the 1960s a founder of the "New Journalism", which brought the techniques of fiction to reportage, Wolfe recorded US mores and fashions in Pop style in The...

Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) was a Scottish essayist and social historian. Short Biography: His work included Sartor Resartus in 1836, describing his loss of Christian belief,...

Thornton Wilder

Thornton Niven Wilder (1897-1975) won the Pulitzer Prize for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey in 1927, and for the plays Our Town in 1938 and The Skin of Our Teeth in 1942. His...

Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) was an American novelist, formerly a Chicago journalist. Short Biography: He wrote the naturalistic novels "Sister Carrie" in 1900 and "An American...

T. S. Eliot

Thomas Steams Eliot (1888-1965) was an American poet, playwright, and critic, who lived in London from 1915. Short Biography: His first volume of poetry, Prufrock and Other...

Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien (full name John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) was born on January 3, 1892 in Bloemfontein, South Africa. He was a famous British writer. Biography and Career : J. R....

Thomas De Quincey

Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859) was a English author, whose works include Confessions of an English Opium-Eater in 1821 and the essays "On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth" in 1823...

Tom Manoff

Tom Manoff is a composer and author. He is also a music critic on NPR.Our editors need your help to write the biography of Tom Manoff. If you want to contribute, please feel free to...

Tinu Parvulescu

Tinu Parvulescu - prose writer. Also essayist and journalist. Born on September 2nd 1967 in Lugoj (Timis). His father is a psychiatrist and his mother, a psychologist. After graduating...

Tudor Arghezi

Tudor Arghezi was born on May 21, 1880 in Bucharest and he was a Romanian writer, best known for his contribution to poetry and children's literatur. Biography and Career Tudor...

Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann (1875-1955) first novel was Buddenbrooks in 1901 which, followed by Der ZauberberglThe Magic Mountain in 1924, led to a Nobel prize in 1929. Short Biography: Later...

Thomas Middleton

Thomas Middleton (c. 1570-1627) produced numerous romantic plays, tragedies, and realistic comedies, both alone and in collaboration. Short Biography: The best-known are A Fair...

T.O. Bobe

T.O. Bobe (pseudonym of Teodor Dobrin) - poet. Also journalist. Born on February 13” 1969 in Constanţa. After graduating the Pedagogical secondary school (Philology-History) in...

Terence Rattigan

Terence Rattigan (1911-1977) play Ross in 1960 was based on T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia). Short Biography: Rattigan's work ranges from the comedy French Without Tears in...

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay (1800-1859) History of England in five volumes (1849-1851) celebrates the Glorious Revolution of 1668 as the crowning achievement of the Whig...

Tacitus

Publius Cornelius Tacitus (AD c.55-c.120) was a public orator in Rome, he was consul under Nerva 97-98 and proconsul of Asia 112-113. Short Biography: He wrote histories of the...

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....