Fri, Jan 23, 2009
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was one of the most prolific writers of the modern theater. He invented the modern comedy of ideas, expounding on social and political problems with a razor-sharp tongue. He won the 1925 Nobel Prize for literature.
Fri, Jan 23, 2009
American novelist and playwright Booth Tarkington, (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) won a Pulitzer Prize for Alice Adams in 1922.
Thu, Jan 01, 2009
Francois-Marie Arouet (Pen name: Voltaire; 1694-1778) spent his life both delighting and annoying his contemporaries. His satire was aimed mostly at religion and politics, sending him into exile for 23 years and into jail from time to time. An enemy of tyranny, Voltaire was a genius of the Enlightment.
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