George Orwell where did the man get his ideas.
George Orwell where did the man get his ideas.
Mark Twain is the number one person for me. No particular reason except that I like the man. So, I always like to know more about him. Another one is Edgar Allan Poe. He is so fascinating to me.
Percy Bysshe Shelley's life was very interesting, as was that of those associated with him, e.g. Mary and Claire - I'd love to read a bio of Claire Clairmont, a fascinating case of early nineteenth century "self-invented woman".
My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I weara care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence.I would not have thee believe in what I say nor trust in what I dofor my words are naught but thy own thoughts in sound and my deeds thy own hopes in action.
Khalil Gibran
Mary Shelley.
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
George Orwell - lived an interesting life: as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, as a tramp in 1920s London and as a starving British expatriate living in a dirty Parisian hostel full of interesting characters.
Also Charles Bukowski, because he lived a life that nobody wants to live; as a bum and alcoholic.
There are so many, but something about Franz Fafka's works always amazed me.Though I have other favortie authors, I'd love to read Kafka's biography the most.
I'm the patron saint of the denial,
With an angel face and a taste for suicidal.
Gary Gygax was an author of sorts, so I choose him. To be a main force in the evolution of roleplaying games, it must have been paradise.
When I thoroughly enjoy someone's works I also concern myself with his life. The next author I would like to get to know better is Heinrich Kleist.
Čłowjek je dwójny, te sam sebi. Tysacy słowow sym ka paćerki stykał na swoje lĕta a na kóncu spóznał, zo ani jednoho słowa njeje, kotre by jeho w ćĕle a dui we wej wĕrnosći wĕrnje pomjenowało.
Sylvia Plath. I know a bit about her life, and what I know is depressing. But her poetry suggests such huge depth... knowing even just a little about her makes reading it so much more moving.
"The magic gave me insight, and you gave me a heart, but for all the heart and insight in the world, I am still a cat."
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, an Italian futurist.Very charming lifestyle..
Simone de Beauvoir. Read some volumes of her autobiography and just relished it. Most of all I like to read the bit in the first volume where she meets Sartre. It seems so fateful: two young people meeting, none of them famous yet and some years later both would be two of the most influential intellectuals in Europe. Love that!
Edgar Allan Poe, Christopher Marlowe, and Tennessee Williams.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free.
-Goethe
"Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents."
- Feste, Twelfth Night
"...till human voices wake us and we drown."
- Eliot
Nathaniel Hawthorne led an unusual life. After university, he lived so secludedly. His solitary walks in woods.
Speaking of a solitary walker - it has reminded me of Wordsworth and Cumbria.
August Strindberg - look at his autobiographical novels "Son of Servant" and "Inferno".
As for Dostoevsky, I recommend his wife's Ana Dostoevsky "Memories"[/I]