Stendhal was One of the Greatest Writers of the 19th Century

Hillenbrand was a writer since she was born. She was born in Fairfax Virginia, May 15, 2015. She was on her swim team and when they would wait for the storm to pass the coach told them stories (bio.com). Hillenbrand wrote stories rather than doing her homework (bio.com). She impressed

Raoul Wallenberg was born near Stockholm, Sweden on August 4, 1912. His father died, due to an illness, only a few months before Wallenberg was born. As a result, his grandfather raised him, giving him a lavish childhood. Wallenberg grew up going on extensive trips around Europe and expiring many different cultures. After mandatory military school, Raoul went to a architecture academy in Paris, and graduated top in his class.

Mark Twain, one of the most famous and influential American writers, was born in Hannibal, Missouri on November 30, 1835 and died April 21, 1910. Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, he eventually adopted his famous pseudonym in 1863. Shortly after his father's death in 1847, when Clemens was twelve, his father passed away. After his father death, he applied for an apprenticeship at the local-printing shop. While working in the printing shop, Twain learned the skills required to be a printer and developed an aptitude for witty short essays and responses. Mark Twain was enthralled by his opportunity to develop his skills as a printer, and later he realized that he had a unique talent for writing. By working as an apprentice printer, he

John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California. John decided to be a writer at the very young age of fourteen. “John used to lock himself in his bedroom and to be alone and write stories and poem”(John Steinbeck Biography). John was the first in his family to have a striving desire to become a writer, his father did everything he could to keep food on the table and his mother was a former school teacher. To do this he worked several jobs at a time, he never got to enjoy what he does like Steinbeck went on to do. John went on to try to be a freelance writer, so he work as a construction worker and a newspaper reported in New York, New York. He wrote his first novel called The Cup of Gold while living in Lave, Tahoe working as a caretaker. John went on to marry Carol Henning. She was supportive by working several jobs to help him continue with his writing career.

    French authors and playwrights have been acclaimed worldwide for their dynamic prose, complex situations, and unpredictable endings. The same praises hold true for Edmond Eugene Alexis Rostand. Born of Provencal ancestry on April 1, 1868, Rostand was well-learned, as evidenced by his extensive childhood education as a student of the lycee of Marseille. His father was a prominent member of the Marseille Academy. As a direct result of this high influence, Rostand concluded his studies at the College Stanislas in Paris. He studied, under the direction of the then-renowned Professor Rene Doumic, the works of those creme de la creme authors held in high esteem --

R.L Stine was born on October 8, 1943 in Columbus Ohio. He is the son of Lewis Stine and Anne Feinstein. He grew up in Bexley, Ohio and his family was Jewish. Stine started writing at the age 9 when he found a typewriter in his attic.

Instead he met his future wife whom he married in 1925. He dropped out of Oxford University to move back to the United States after he married her. Geisel then decided to do cartooning full time as a job. A lot of his works were featured in magazines and newspapers in which he took in the name, Dr. Seuss. He was then offered a contract to illustrate a book (biography.com/people/dr-seuss-9479638#synopsis). The book didn’t sell very well but it helped Geisel on his career in becoming a children’s book author. He wrote his first children’s book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. It was denied 27 times probably because it was his first book. Geisel didn’t give up until it was published though. It was his first book so of course he wanted it to be published. When WWII started, he made political cartoons. That gave Geisel the chance to do training animation films and propagandas for the Treasury Department and War Production Board (biography.com/people/dr-seuss-9479638#synopsis). He continued his career in writing children’s books. Geisel wrote about 60 books in which most were

Theodor Seuss Geisel, the very famous author, cartoonist, and publisher, was born on March 2, 1904, in Springfield, Massachusetts. Being the creative mind behind over sixty books, Theodor Seuss Geisel had a wide, extraordinary imagination. Better known as Dr. Seuss, Mr. Geisel has been well known by not only children, but adults all over the world for generations.

The nineteenth century brought an impressive expansion of intellectual achievements and and progressions that lead to revisions of daily life in America. Technological advancements, such as the cotton gin, improved production capabilities in the south while transportation improvements, including railroads, allowed these products to become more accessible to northern communities and trade-driven towns. These various intellectual progressions, as well as others, performed collectively to reduce manual labor in America and improve communication:

Patrick Rothfuss was born on June 6, 1973 in Madison, Wisconsin. He was born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin and currently lives there with his wife and children. When Patrick was growing up he had a passion for writing short stories and poetry that inevitably helped him in his future endeavors as he would eventually become a well-known author. Patrick is best known as the author behind bestselling books; The Name of the Wind, The Adventures of the Princess and Mr. Whiffle and Wise Man’s Fear. Some of Patrick’s great accomplishments came from his great book, The Name of the Wind, which made the New York Times Bestseller List and won the Quill Award, a consumer-driven American Literary award. Patrick also reached #1 on the New York Bestseller

Shel Silverstein was a very successful illustrator and author for mainly children's books and poems. Going into the army in 1950 at a young age of 20 but only for 3 years. Which influenced his writing for Stars and Stripes Magazine ("Bio.com"). Silverstein and the career of an author or cartoonist really took off during his time of working for Playboy Magazine. It put his name out there working for such a

Dashiell Hammett was born on May 17, 1894; furthermore, he passed away on January 10, 1961. Overall, Dashiell released countless amounts of fascinating short stories, even without having a significant amount of educational experience. At the age of 26, Dashiell Hammett enlisted in the army, but was released one year later due to the hospitalization for Pulmonary Tuberculosis in 1920. Dashiell suffered the effects of the disease for one year, and was forced to leave his family so he would not pass on the disease to his daughter or wife. After being cured of the disease, he went out to work on a farm to obtain the knowledge of agriculture. Dashiell was a self-motivated person that worked an abundance of jobs and was relentlessly hard-working. Although Dashiell was not immensely fortunate in his childhood, he developed into a hard-working man and repeatedly achieved his goals.

Raoul Wallenberg was born on August 4, 1912 in Sweden. He was born into one of the richest families in Sweden, the Wallenbergs. Since his family was very wealthy, he had the opportunity to attend college abroad in another continent. In 1931, Wallenberg went to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in the United States to study architecture. He graduated in three and a half years with a bachelor’s degree of Science in Architecture. This bachelor’s degree allowed him to come into contact with many Jews that had escaped from Europe during the early years of persecution while he was working on architecture in Palestine (Raoul Wallenberg).

Kate Chopin went through a great amount of obstacles coming up as a child and an adult. She was born on February 8, 1850 in St. Louis, MO. Growing up around her surroundings made her the wise writer that she was. Chopin was sent off to school by her parents and her dad passed away while she was there. After her husband passed, she felt overwhelmed by all the deaths in family. All those tribulations shaped her into the writer she became.

Jules Verne born in Nantes France he was 1 of 5 he gave up his job as a stock broker to write stories Jules Verne's stories predicted the future, he had a large influence by science and technology most of his works became classics, and realities.