George Orwell where did the man get his ideas.
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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".
oh yes especially Rimbaud his biography was imazing !:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Inderjit Sanghe
Mary Shelley.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Perhaps, but I doubt his life was very interesting. He lived in Wisconsin.Quote:
Originally Posted by Statistic
Christopher Marlowe was purported to be an interesting guy.
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]