Curated category
20th-century British male writers
- George W. BernardGeorge William Bernard built one of his most debated arguments on a single poem. Lancelot de Carles wrote the verse, and Bernard used it to argue that Anne…
- T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot wrote the opening of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" when he was twenty-two years old. The lines compared an evening sky to "a patient…
- C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis collapsed in his bedroom at 5:30 pm on the 22nd of November 1963, and died a few minutes later at age 64. That same afternoon, approximately 55…
- George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw refused his own first name. He insisted on being called Bernard Shaw, dropping the George after 1876.
- Salman RushdieSalman Rushdie was born on the 19th of June 1947 in Bombay, in British India, into a world on the verge of shattering and remaking itself.
- Friedrich HayekFriedrich Hayek wrote on the 26th of October 1929, three days before the Wall Street crash, that there was no reason to expect a sudden collapse of the New…
- Henry Stephens SaltHenry Shakespear Stephens Salt was born on the 20th of September 1851 in Naini Tal, British India, and by the time he died at Brighton Municipal Hospital on…
- Eric HobsbawmEric John Ernest Hobsbawm was born on the 9th of June 1917 in Alexandria, Egypt, and he died on the 1st of October 2012 in London, just shy of his 96th…
- Frederick CoplestonFrederick Charles Copleston was born on the 10th of April 1907 in the parish of Trull, near Taunton in Somerset, and he would go on to write one of the most…
- Vincent CroninVincent Cronin's full name at birth was Vincent Archibald Patrick Cronin, sometimes recorded as Cronogue. He was born in Tredegar, Monmouthshire, on the 24th…