Affected Authors

[ant2004sti]

Who are some authors that their lives greatly affected their style of writing?
I have to do a research paper for college and I am having a little trouble finding authors in this category, any suggestions?

[Eagleheart]

Dostoevsky.../if you are not a follower of the theory of divine revelation/...

Most of the anarchist writers/this is more than logical, it is compulsary/you can put an emphasis on Bachunin but I do not know if it is appropriate for a college work/in Bulgaria in high-school you are already a potential threat to national security with this kind of an interest/....

[PeterL]

I would think that all writers write in ways that are (were) affected by their lives. Take Victor Hugo as one example.

[Mark F.]

Keats. Knowing you're not likely to live to be thirty has to affect the way you write.

[PeterL]

Keats. Knowing you're not likely to live to be thirty has to affect the way you write.

Keats didn't know that he had TB until after he had written nearly all of his noteworthy work. The dates get confusing in his biographies, so I had had that same misunderstanding, until I was told to look more closely.

[Mark F.]

He learned he had TB when he was 20 right? Died at 25? That's what I remember, correct me if I'm wrong though.

[Stefan]

Edgar Allan Poe.

[Vedrana]

Alexander Solzhenitstyn...spending years in a Soviet prison camp is bound to have a major impact on anyone's writing, and his works that I have seen, 'The Gulag Archipelago' and 'A Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich' were both about his experiences.

[Pensive]

I can't think of anyone else than Edgar Allan Poe at the moment.

[PeterL]

He learned he had TB when he was 20 right? Died at 25? That's what I remember, correct me if I'm wrong though.

No, he died in 1821, and he learned that he had TB in February of 1820. Nearly all of his poetry was written by 1819. His brother died of TB in 1818, and John spent three months tending him, so it is likely that he contracted the disease then. A volume of his poetry was published in 1820, but that was work mostly written in 1817 and 1818.

http://www.online-literature.com/keats/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keats
a more detailed bio
http://englishhistory.net/keats/life.html

[bazarov]

Dostoevsky definitly, surviving of death penalty and prisonery in Sibir changed his whole life and had a massive effect an his books. It's not just me, he said it also:D

[Mark F.]

Dostoevsky, especially on "The Idiot" and "Memories From The House Of The Dead".

[subterranean]

Perhaps Orwell, particularry in his essays/reviews like Down and Out in Paris and London, Homage to Catalonia and The Road to Wigan Pier.