There were not a lot of successful authors in the late 1800’s. Most authors didn’t even want to write because there weren’t laws protecting their work from being stolen. Most authors who did write work weren't popular or remembered. But, there are some that are still popular today, such as Conan Doyle.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is most famous for his Sherlock Holmes series which has a worldwide fanbase. They were about a private detective known for his proficiency with observation, forensic science, and logical reasoning. This character died off around the time Doyle’s alcoholic father died in an asylum. Doyle went to the University of Edinburgh to pursue a medical degree, and his professor, Dr Joseph Bell, inspired him to write Sherlock Holmes.
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The original story was written by Rudyard Kipling in 1894. It was inspired by a Journalist Imperialism in India. Kipling was a Journalist who wrote many short stories, but not a lot were famous. One of his other stories was The Man Who Would be King(1888).
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote short stories about the optimism, aspirations, and excesses of the jazz age. His most famous stories are This Side of Paradise, The beautiful and the Damned, and most famous The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby was about a millionaire named Jay Gatsby who began an affair with daisy. She was driving his car and hit a women, which Gatsby took the blame for. It is considered one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, and sold over 25 million copies in North America alone! Some of Fitzgerald's own life even found their way into his writing.
W.e.B Du Bois was one of the most important African American Activist during the first war of the 20th century. He Identified himself as “mulatto” but freely attended schools with whites. He earned his bachelor's degree at Fisk After which he attended Harvard University. He was the the first black to earn a P.H.D from Harvard in 1895. After he was selected for a study abroad a progam at the University of Berlin. He wrote The souls of Black Folk(1903), The Negro and The Philadelphia Negro(1899), and many more. He won a National book Award finalist for
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He wrote History of New York under the pen name Diedrich Knickerbocker, this was his first popular work. He also wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. He is known to have began a new folklore tradition in the young nation. He spent his last years promoting stricter copyright protection.
Emily Dickinson is one of the nation's most prolific poets, she wrote nearly 1,800 poems, some were about art, gardens, joy, love, death, or grief. She lived a reclusive life at her family home. Most of her poems were discovered in her bedroom after her death. Some of her poems are “I Taste Liquor Never Brewed, Success is counted Sweetest, Wild night Wild nights, and I Felt a Funeral in My Brain.
Even though some of WIlliam Faulkner’s work was poetry, she became famous for his novels set in the American South. Faulkner received the 1949 Nobel Prize for literature. Hr also received a Nobel prize winning Novelist short story writer. He depicted the people, history, and settings of his native in his novel, Fury Native. Hr also wrote Absalom, Absalom!, and Go Down Moses. His work was know for capturing the raw beauty of the Rural South in 1914, and its dark complexity, one of his famous quotes is “Never Be Afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people, all over the world would do this, it would change
William Edward Burghardt “W. E. B.” Du Bois (1868-1963) was a Civil Rights activist, an African-American sociologist, Pan-Africanist, author, historian and editor. He was a co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Du Bois went to Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate. Du Bois rose to national prominence as the leader of the Niagara Movement, a group of African-American activists who wanted equal rights for blacks and opposed Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta compromise. Du Bois insisted on full civil rights as well as an increase in political representation, brought about by the African-American intellectual elite.
Du Bois interviewed thousands of residents in Philadelphia about their living conditions, from this study he concluded that the things that the black people endured was an inequality based on their race. “The Souls of Black Folk” in 1803 is considered his greatest work, it focused on how racism effected the African American community. In this book he also talked about Book T. Washington, he believed that Washington didn’t fight for equality for all as the 14th amendment stated should happened. This led to formation of the Niagara Movement, a group of African American leaders and scholars that oppose Booker T. Washington conservative platform. Although the Niagara Movement didn’t last long it lead to the formation of the NACCP (National association for the Advancement of Colored
F. Scott Fitzgerald has written countless books throughout his career and after many years of hard work, he later became a very well known and memorable author. F. Scott Fitzgerald conveys a tragic, yet romantic style through point of view, repetition, and figurative language in books such as The Great Gatsby and Love in the Night so he can emphasize different messages to his readers. There were many ways and people that influenced F. Scott Fitzgerald, such as, his middle class background, his professor, and his wife, Zelda (Kannon). Fitzgerald was also enrolled in a prestigious Catholic school in New Jersey. He met Father Sigourney Fay, who encouraged him to pursue writing after seeing some of his works (Biography.com).
He became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Harvard in 1895. Du Bois published his landmark of study, it was the first case of an African American community called The Philadelphia Negro, a social study made in 1899.
F . Scott Fitzgerald was one of the most influential writers of the roaring 20’s . He work was recognized by many especially his most well talked about and best seller book The Great Gatsby which many consider his best work he done ever created during this time period . Scott was a short story writer and novelist and considered one of the greatest writers in american literature history (1) . He got famous off the Great Gatsby and married Zelda Sayre during all his success (1) .
William Faulkner was also the winner of a Nobel Prize and two Pulitzer Prizes. Throughout all of Faulkner’s stories, he is best known for addressing serious topics in the South such as war, racism, mental illnesses, and a slew of other things. Barn Burning is
The novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald was published in 1925, it i The Great Gatsby is a story about a very wealthy man named Gatsby. For Gatsby, his life began at age seventeen when he met Dan Cody. As Gatsby became fixed on winning Daisy back, his whole life became ordered around that goal.
Many writers get their inspiration for their book from life events. F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the greatest American authors, many of his novels are considered are as classics and will be further discussed for many years to come. One of the books Scott Fitzgerald wrote was called The Great Gatsby. People can safely say that Fitzgerald had based his book off his life.
Gerard Way once said, “ Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary “. This quote says that heroes are those people who struggle in their lives, work hard and make themselves extraordinary. Published in 1925, The Great Gatsby is a classic piece of American fiction. It is a novel of luxury and tragedy, noted for the way Fitzgerald captured a cross-section of American society. F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel,The Great Gatsby, follows Jay Gatsby, a man who just wants one desire in his life: to be reunited with Daisy Buchanan, the love he lost five years earlier.
The year is 1898 a baby boy born into the world in St. Paul Minnesota. That baby’s name was Francis Scott Fitzgerald also know as, F.Scott Fitzgerald. The creator of the novels The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and the Damned, This side of Paradise, Tender is the Night and his unfinished novel The Love of the Last Tycoon. Many know him as the creator of The Great Gatsby, many don’t realize he has four other novels along with some short stories. “The twenties were starting to roar, bathtub gin and flaming youth were on everyone’s lips, and the handsome, witty Fitzgerald seemed to be the ideal spokesman for the decade”(“F. Scott Fitzgerald.”
W.E.B Du Bois and His Impact on Black America W.E.B Dubois was a man who believed and fought for a cause that changed and revolutionized how some people see racism today. Before Du bois started his civil rights activism he was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts on February 23, 1868, and in 1884 Du Bois graduated as the valedictorian from his high school class. Soon after he graduated from high school he was accepted into Harvard University in 1888 as a junior and was the first African American to earn a PHD from Harvard University. Shortly after he received a bachelor of arts cum laude in 1890. Later in his life Du Bois began to fight vigorously for lesser status foundations and became an advocate for full and equal rights.
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald is known as one of the most famous American writers in the twentieth century. Although Fitzgerald has many other works of short-stories and novels, but his most well known novel is The Great Gatsby. He helped show how the world was during the Jazz Age which is more commonly known as the Roaring Twenties. Many journalists classified him as a cultural artifact and a symbol for the “lost generation”. Many have also said that he symbolized the extravagance and the decline of his generation.
The world is full of wonderful authors, from Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, J.K Rowling, and much more. According to some articles, it has been proven that F. Scott Fitzgerald has to be one of the amongst the most passionate authors in this century! Not only he is known as a passionate writer, but he is also known to be holding the throne to one of the most classic novels of the century, “The Great Gatsby.” To start off, F. Scott Fitzgerald was born as Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald; he was first introduced to the world on September 24th, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota. In his young years, he was known as a brilliant student with a bright mindset.
The Great Gatsby Quarter Paper F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of if not the greatest American writer of the 20th century. There are many reasons why F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the novel The Great Gatsby. His works were very influential in American society at the time. The Great Gatsby was a great insight to what was going on in the 1920’s, it displayed the morality of the people.
Novelist and American short-story writer F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his unstable personal life and his famous novel The Great Gatsby. F. Scott was the only son of an aristocratic father and a simple, working-class mother. He was Born on September 24, 1896. Like the vital character of The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald had a deeply romantic imagination; he once called it "a heightened sensitivity to the promises of life." The proceedings of Fitzgerald's own life can be seen as an effort to realize those promises.