J K Rowling was born on this day.
21st July 1965

J K Rowling was born on this day.
21st July 1965

Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880.
Famous American woman who, though deaf and blind, became a women’s suffragist and leftist political activist. She published twelve books and a number of articles over the course of her life and was a famous activist.

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950),
better known by his pen name George Orwell.

The first American novel to sell over a million copies. By calling attention to the issue of slavery, it has become a part of our country’s literary and historical heritage.
Stowe was an abolitionist and the author of the novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Upon meeting her, Abraham Lincoln allegedly remarked, “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.”

Harriet Beecher Stowe: (June 14, 1811- July 1, 1896)
W.B. Yeats (June 13, 1865- January 28, 1939)
Poet and playwright William Butler Yeats was the first Irishman to win the Nobel Prize in literature. A few of his more famous works include The Tower and Deirdre.


Walter “Walt” Whitman May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892.


J, DL was a Scottish writer and physician, most noted for creating the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and writing stories about him which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.

