Alexandre Dumas was born in France of 1802 and also the writer of some legendary books. The Three Musketeers and one of my favorites…The Count of Monte Cristo, to name just a couple. There is not much to be found of his childhood, but his father came from quite an interesting background. Alexandre’s father, Thomas,…
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John Keats was born in London, on October 29th, 1795. John was the oldest of four children. His father was an ostler (which leaves me jealous with envy) and the family was raised quite humbly. His family couldn’t afford to send John away to the nearest prestigious schools. Consequently, off John and his brother George…
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Arthur O’Shaughnessy was born in London, England during 1844. He was a poet and a herpetologist. His fascination with reptiles and amphibians was indeed quite fierce! During his life, he discovered six new species of reptiles. Despite his great interest with reptiles, his heart was most in debt to literature. And can we blame him?…
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Albert Einstein. Everyone I personally know has heard of him…but how much do we really know about him aside from the fact he developed the theory of relativity and was you know, an overall genius? Born in 1879, Albert was born in Ulm, a city in the German state of Baden-Wurttemberg to his parents (Ashkenazi…
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox was born on a small farm in Wisconsin. Her family prided themselves on being “intellectuals” and strived to master the various distinctions of the English language. Ella was often found reading books, newspapers and really, anything she could get her eager hands on. Her mother was a musician and her father, a…
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Joseph Rudyard Kipling was a poet, short-story writer, created the well-loved story of Mowgli, and was presented with the Nobel Prize for Literature. Joseph was born in Bombay during 1865. His parents met and married in England but soon after, Joseph’s father, (John) was offered a position in India as a Professor. At only five…
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Upton Sinclair was born in 1878. His work as a writer, political activist and muckraker deemed him worthy of winning a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. Upton was an honest, hard-working man that pushed his way through distasteful territory, bringing both the working man’s and the industrialist’s perspective to the forefront. He was described…
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Robert Schumann was one of the greatest composers during the Romantic era. Robert was born in Central Germany during 1810. It seemed he came out of the womb having an immediate draw towards music. He began soaking in literature and music as early as possible! His father made this quite easy for little Robert, being…
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A happy, cheerful man, a lover of practical jokes, soaked with topnotch humor, Joseph Haydn offered much more than just a poetic talent of composition and musicality. Joseph’s early life of poverty made him skilled in business deals and quite the shark of negotiations. He was short and said to not be the most attractive…
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Erik Satie was a composer, a pianist, and an author. Born in May of 1866 in Honfleur, Normandy to a French father and British mother, Alfred and Jane. A year after little Erik was born, along came Olga and then a second son, Conrad. Alfred was a shipping broker and after the Franco-Prussian War, he…
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