Writers

  Writers are the people who produce written material to communicate ideas. Writing encompasses several genres and writers may write for occupational or as an outlet for their creativity. Professinal writers screenwriters, content writers, journalists, etc. Whose job entails writing scripts,web content and news reports. Others like short story writers and novelists often begin writing as hobby before converting it to a full time profession.

  

                    Alexandra Ripley



Name: Alexandra Ripley



Born: in Charleston, South Carolina, The United States January 08, 1934
Died: January 10, 2004


Gender: female
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Nationality: American
Born On: 08 January 1934 AD    Famous 8th January Birthdays
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn    Famous Capricons
Died On: 10 January 2004 AD
Spouses: Leonard Ripley,
Children: Merrill Ripley Geier, Elizabeth Lyon Ripley

A lexandra Ripley was a prominent American writer. She was best known for her novel "Scarlet", the sequel to the famous novel "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Michel. After serving in the advertising department of "Life" magazine, she did various types of jobs before taking her writing assignment of ghostwriting papers for neurosurgeons. This romantic and historic writer authored many best-selling novels before she wrote the "Scarlet" which eventually topped the British best seller list. Despite a number of negative opinions from literary critics, this book received huge commercial success. Warner Books won the rights to publish this novel for $4.94 million. The success of the novel was so immense that it sold eight million copies in five years. This novel was translated into 18 languages. Later, an eight hour television mini-series which was based on this novel was broadcast on CBS television. She wrote her first novel "Who's That Lady in the President's Bed?" under the pseudonym of B.K. Ripley. She dedicated her first historical novel "Charleston" which was a best seller, to a loan officer who had lent her money to pay her rent. Some of her novels that earned her critical acclaim include "New Orleans Legacy" and "From Fields of God".


                    Adrienne Rich


Also Listed In: Poets
Also Known As: Adrienne Cecile Rich
Nationality: American
Born On: 16 May 1929 AD    Famous 16th May Birthdays
Zodiac Sign: Taurus    Famous Taureans
Born In: Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Died On: 27 March 2012 AD
Place Of Death: Santa Cruz, California
Father: Arnold Rice Rich
Mother: Helen Elizabeth Jones Rich
Spouse: Alfred Haskell Conrad (m.1953-1970)
Children: David, Paul, Jacob

Education: Harvard University, Radcliffe College


Adrienne Rich was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was born to Jewish-Protestant parents. Her father encouraged her to read and write from a very young age and home tutored her. She spent a great deal of her time in her father's library which was stocked with works of great writers. She worked hard to fulfil her father's wishes, and by the time she was twenty-two, she come out with her first collection of poems, 'A Change of World'. She married Alfred Conrad, an Economics Professor and had three sons. Their marriage became severely strained because of her being a lesbian. They separated and Conrad committed suicide. A large portion of her work portrayed her thoughts about lesbianism and feminist activism. Her poems and essays were well received, and she won a series of awards and recognitions from various quarters. Her collections of poems include 'The Diamond Cutters', 'Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law', 'Twenty-One Love Poems', 'A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far', and 'The Fact of a Doorframe'. Her critically acclaimed essays include: 'The Art of the Possible: Essays and Conversations' and 'Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence'.

 
Awards and Achievements


During her legendary career, Rich won many awards, including a fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in 1994. She did turn down one prestigious honor in 1997, refusing to accept a National Medal of Arts from President Bill Clinton for political reasons. More recently, Rich picked up the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2005 for School Among the Ruins, Poems 2000-2004



            Agatha Chirstie


Name:- Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller
Born:-15 September 1890 England
Died:- 12 January 1976 (aged 85) England
Pen name:- Marry Westmacott
Occuption :- Novelist/Short story writer/Play wright/Poet
Literary movement:- Golden Age of Detective Fiction
Awards:- Edgar Award by the MWA for the Best Play
                        Anthony Award for the Best Writer Of The Century
                 Anthony Award for Best Series Of The Century

A gatha Christie , known as te " Queen of Crime"  was a  renowned English Writer who wrote over 66 detective-novels. She is best known as the creator of Beigian detectiveHercule Poirot and village lady Miss Marple. She is credited for writing world's longest running play 'The Mousetrap'. Her first succeful piblication was 'The Mysterious Affair at Styles' that introduce the character of Poirot.
According to Index Translationum, her books have been translated into 103 different languages, and her works rank third rank after the works of William Shakespeare and the Bible, as the world's most widely published books. This is short about Agatha Christie the great writer.

          Charles Dickens


Name:- Charles Dickens
Born:-7 February 1812 England
Died:- 9 June 1870 (aged 58) England
Occupation:- Writer
Nationality:- British

C harles Dicken was one the grand master of Victorian literature, Charles Dicken was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport, Portsea England. He died in Kent on June 9, 1870. The second of  eight children of a family continually plauged by debt, the young  Dickens coma to know not only hunger and privation, but also the horror of hte infamous debtor's prison and the evils of child labour. A turn of fortune in the shape of a legacy brought release from the nightmare of prision and "salave" factories and afforded Dickens th opportunity of two years 'formal schooling at Wellington House Academy. He worked as an attorney's clerk and newspaper reporter until his Sketches by Boz (18336) and  The Pickwick Papers (1837) brought him the amazing and insatnt success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. In later years, the pressure of serial writing, editorial duties, lectures, and scoial commitments led to his separation from Catherine Hogarth after twenty-three years of mariage. It also hastened his death at the age of fifty-eight, when he was characteristically engaged in a multitude of work.

                                 Sir Thomas More

Name:- Sir Thomas More
Born:- 7 February 1478 in London ( England)
Died:-  6 July 1535 (aged 57)
Religion:- Roman Catholic

S ir Thomas More was born on 7 February in London city of England. He known to Roman Catholics as Saint Thomas More was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted  Renaissance humanist. He was an important councillor to Henry VIII and Lord Chancellor from October 1529 to 16 May 1532. More opposed the Protestant Reformation, in particular the theology of Martian Luther and William Tyndale whose books he buried and whose followers he persecuted.