Tan Sitong: A Scholar and Martyr 谭嗣同:为国赴难的学者 Tan Sitong(18651898), native of Hunan province. He was a famous reformist who was well versed with both writing and sword. Tan Sitong loved reading extensively and was especially keen...
The Patriotic Poet: Qu Yuan 爱国诗人:屈原 An outstanding statesman and patriotic poet in the state of Chu during the late Warring States period, Qu Yuan (339BC-278BC) was born in Dan Yang, Hubei Province. Qu Yuan lived through three reigns of...
American Poet: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 美国诗人:朗费罗 On February 27, 1807,Longfellow descended from well-established New England families. His birth place was Portland, Maine. In his home and in the town library, he had access to many...
Fyodor Dostoyevsky 费奥多尔陀思妥耶夫斯基 Dostoyevsky was born in 1821 in Moscow. His childhood was very unhappy. His father, a doctor, was bad-tempered and violent. He believed in very strict discipline for little children. Fyodors mother...
A Word Warrior: Maxine Hong Kingston 文字勇士:汤婷婷 Kingston was born in Stockton, California 1940, she was the 3rd of eight children to a Chinese immigrant parents, and the first to be born in America. Her American name, Maxine, was after a...
Ha Jin: Across an Ocean of Words 哈金:超越字海 Xuefei Jin, who writes under the pen-name Ha Jin, was born in 1956 in Liaoning province in northern China. At only 14 years of age, Ha Jin joined the Peoples Liberation Army. He began teaching hi...
Shakespeare: Soul of the Age 莎士比亚:时代的灵魂 Shakespeare was born on the 23rd of April 1564, at Stratford-upon-Avon, a little town in the heart of England. He was the eldest son of the family and educated at the local grammar school, b...
English Poet: John Milton 英国诗人:约翰弥尔顿 John Milton was born in London on December 9, 1608,into a middle-class family. He was educated at St. Pauls School, then at Christs College, Cambridge, where he began to write poetry in Lat...
A Sci-Fi Writer: Arthur Clarke 科幻作家:阿瑟克拉克 Born in western England, on December 16th, 1917, the son of a farmer, Arthur Clarke became addicted to science fiction after buying his first copies of the magazine Amazing Stories. He beg...
Maupassant: The Secret of Writing 莫泊桑:写作的秘籍 He always longed to make literature his career. Many critics have called him the Allan Poe of France. Many cite him as one of the progenitors of the modern short story. Much of his work is...