Beverly Cleary (Beverly Atlee Bunn)Born on April 12th, 1916.
She is an American author who worked as a librarian before writing children's books (30+) Her best-known characters are Henry Huggins, Ribsy, Beatrice ("Beezus") Quimby, her sister Ramona, and Ralph S. Mouse. Winner of many literary awards: The National Book Award in category Children's Fiction (paperback) for Ramona and Her Mother (1981) and The Newbery Medal for Dear Mr. Henshaw in 1984.
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Abraham "Bram" Stoker Born on November 8th, 1847 and passed away on April 20th, 1912
He was an Irish novelist and writer of short stories. He is well known for his gothic novel Dracula (1897). He was a personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and a business manager of the Lyceum Theatre, in London, owned by Irving.
Cecil Scott "C.S." Forester (Cecil Louis Troughton Smith)
Born on August 27th, 1899 and passed away on April 2nd, 1966.
He was an English novelist who wrote tales of 'naval warfare'. He wrote the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series, about a Royal Navy officer in the Napoleonic era. One of his stories became a film in 1951 The African Queen (1935). He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his fiction novels A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours (1938).
C.S Lewis (Clive Staples Lewis) Born on November 29th,1898 and passed away November 22nd, 1963.
He known to his friends and family as "Jack" and was from Belfast, Ireland.
Lewis was a novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, and lay theologian.
His fictional work includes The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy. Also his nonfiction: Mere Christianity, Miracles and The Problem of Pain.
Lewis served on the English faculty at Oxford University with fellow novelist, and close friend, J. R. R. Tolkien. They both were in the informal Oxford literary group known as the "Inklings". Lewis' memoir is called: Surprised by Joy.
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