Curated category
20th-century British male writers
- George W. BernardGeorge William Bernard was born in London. He attended Reading School before moving to Oxford University. At St. Catherine's College, he pursued advanced…
- T. S. EliotThomas Stearns Eliot was born on the 26th of September 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri. He lived at a house on Locust Street for his first sixteen years before…
- C. S. LewisClive Staples Lewis was born on the 29th of November 1898 in Belfast, Ulster. His father Albert James Lewis worked as a solicitor while his mother Florence…
- George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw was born on the 26th of July 1856 at 3 Upper Synge Street in Portobello, a lower-middle-class part of Dublin.
- Salman RushdieSir Ahmed Salman Rushdie entered the world on the 19th of June 1947 in Bombay. This city was then part of British India and is now known as Mumbai within…
- Friedrich HayekFriedrich August von Hayek was born on the 8th of May 1899 in Vienna to a family that valued scholarship. His father worked as a medical doctor for the…
- Henry Stephens SaltHenry Shakespear Stephens Salt arrived in Naini Tal, British India, on the 20th of September 1851. His father served as a colonel in the British Army.
- David AttenboroughDavid Frederick Attenborough was born on the 8th of May 1926 in Isleworth, Middlesex. He grew up in College House on the campus of University College…
- Eric HobsbawmEric Hobsbawm entered the world on the 9th of June 1917 in Alexandria, Egypt. His father Leopold Percy Hobsbaum was a Jewish merchant from London's East End…
- Frederick CoplestonFrederick Charles Copleston was born on the 10th of April 1907 at Claremont in the parish of Trull, near Taunton in Somerset.
- Vincent CroninVincent Archibald Patrick Cronin entered the world on the 24th of May 1924 in Tredegar, Monmouthshire. His father was A.J.