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Famous Authors and Their Pen names/Pseudonyms

  • Charlotte Brontë -Currer Bell • Louisa May Alcott - A.M.Barnard • J.K.Rowling - Robert Galbraith • Samuel Langhorne Clemens - Mark Twain • Charles Dickens - Boz • Clive Hamilton - C.S.Lewis • Benjamin Franklin - Mrs. Silence Dogood • Mary Ann Evans - George Eliot • Charles Lutwidge Dodgson - Lewis Carroll •  Agatha Christie - Mary Westmacott  • Stephen King - Richard Bachman • Isaac Asimov - Paul French • Michael Crichton - John Lange/ Jeffrey Hudson/Michael Douglas • Washington Irving - Jonathan Old Style/ Diedrich Knickerbocker/Geoffrey Crayon • Theodor Seuss Geisel - Dr.Seuss • Howard Allen Frances O' Brien - Anne Rice

Some Famous Short Story Writers from Around the World

 Some Famous Short Story Writers from around the world  U.S.A.     Herman Melville, John Steinbeck, F.Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Philip Roth,Stephan King, John Updike  United Kingdom  Charles Dickens, Sir Walter Scott, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, H.G.Wells W.Somerset Maugham, Virginia Woolf, Graham Greene, Daphne du Maurier, Roald Dahl, Flannery O'Connor, John Cheeves, Raymond Carver  Germany   Heinrich Von Kleist, E.T.A.Hoffmann Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka Russia  Anton Chekhov, Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Maxim Gorky, France    Prosper Merimee, Guy de Maupassant  Ireland:    James Joyce Italy     Italo Calvino From Argentina   Jorge Luis Borges(Spanish)

An Article on English Poetry in India

Poetry , a form of literature which uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language to communicate, is beyond just that. In my opinion, poetry is an art form just like dance or music or sculpting or drama or cinema or painting.   A writer uses the canvas of words to communicate his ideas. One page of beautiful poetry can contain greater wisdom than a thousand pages of prose. This is because of the unique propensity of poetry to lend itself to multiple interpretations unlike prose, where from, only one or a few meanings can be deciphered. The second propensity of poetry is that unlike in prose, thought and language cannot be separated.   In my opinion , a poem springs forth from deeply felt intense emotions. It may be intense joy or intense sorrow or even intense anger or even a combination of different intense emotions. English Poetry :         The history of ‘ English Poetry’ is long and glorious. Today, the English language has spread far and wide and every country has writ