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J.R.R. Tolkien is an internationally renowned fantasy writer. He is best known for authoring 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy.
Who Was J.R.R. Tolkien?
Born on January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa, J.R.R. Tolkien settled in England as a child, going on to study at Exeter College. While teaching at Oxford University, he published the popular fantasy novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The works have had a devoted international fan base and been adapted into award-winning blockbuster films. Tolkien died in 1973 at 81.Early Life & Family
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, on January 3, 1892, to Arthur Tolkien and Mabel Suffield Tolkien. After Arthur Tolkien died from complications of rheumatic fever, Mabel settled with four-year-old J.R.R. (then called Ronald) and his younger brother, Hilary, in the country hamlet of Sarehole, in Birmingham, England.

Mabel Tolkien died in 1904, and the Tolkien brothers were sent to live with a relative and in boarding homes, with a Catholic priest assuming guardianship in Birmingham. J.R.R. went on to get his first-class degree at Exeter College, specializing in Anglo-Saxon and Germanic languages and classic literature. Books
The award-winning fantasy novel The Hobbit — about the small, furry-footed Bilbo Baggins and his adventures — was published in 1937 and was regarded as a children’s book, though Tolkien would state the book wasn’t originally intended for children. He also created more than 100 drawings to support the narrative.

Over the years, while working on scholarly publications, Tolkien developed the work that would come to be regarded as his masterpiece — The Lord of the Rings series, partially inspired by ancient European myths, with its own sets of maps, lore and languages.

Tolkien released part one of the series, The Fellowship of the Ring, in 1954; The Two Towers and The Return of the King followed in 1955, finishing up the trilogy. The books gave readers a rich literary trove populated by elves, goblins, talking trees and all manner of fantastic creatures, including characters like the wizard Gandalf and the dwarf Gimli.
While Rings had its share of critics, many reviewers and waves upon waves of general readers took to Tolkien’s world, causing the books to become global best sellers, with fans forming Tolkien clubs and learning his fictional languages.
Death
Tolkien retired from professorial duties in 1959, going on to publish an essay and poetry collection, Tree and Leaf, and the fantasy tale Smith of Wootton Major. His wife Edith died in 1971, and Tolkien died on September 2, 1973, at the age of 81. He was survived by four children.

#Martin_Amis #Writers
Martin Amis was born on August 25, 1949 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. He is a writer and actor, known for London Fields (2018), Saturn 3 (198 and A High Wind in Jamaica (1965). He has been married to Isabel Fonseca since June 29, 1998. They have two children. He was previously married to Antonia Phillips.

#Annie_Rice_Writers
Anne Rice
Anne Rice, née Howard Allen O’Brien, (born October 4, 1941, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.), American author who was best known for her novels about vampires and other supernatural creatures.

Rice was christened Howard Allen O’Brien but hated her first name so much that she changed it to Anne in the first grade. The city of New Orleans, with its elaborate cemeteries and Vodou heritage, was an ideal place to grow up amid a family of imaginative storytelling Irish Catholics. In 1956 her mother died of complications from alcoholism, and before long the teenage Anne disavowed her faith in God. She finished high school in Texas, attended Texas Woman’s University, married poet Stan Rice when she was 20, and received a B.A. and an M.A. from San Francisco State College. Her daughter Michelle was just five years old when she died of leukemia, a loss that devastated Rice.

Rice wrote her first novel in just five weeks: Interview with the Vampire (1976), which included a Michelle-like child who gains eternal life when she becomes a vampire. Interview was the first of Rice’s best-selling Vampire Chronicles; other books in the series included The Vampire Lestat (1985), The Queen of the Damned (1988), The Tale of the Body Thief (1992), Memnoch the Devil (1995), The Vampire Armand (1998), Merrick (200, Blood and Gold (2001), Blackwood Farm (2002), Blood Canticle (2003), Prince Lestat (2014), and Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis (2016). The novels focus largely on the ageless vampire Lestat and a fictitious history of vampires that begins in ancient Egypt. Rice maintained that vampires are “the perfect metaphor…for the outsider who is in the midst of everything, yet completely cut off.” One of her singular innovations in fantasy fiction was a sympathetic treatment of dysfunctional supernatural characters—flamboyant yet sensitive beings who debated the meaning of life, endured love and loneliness, and underwent moral conflicts (some vampires abhorred killing humans, though they were compelled to drink human blood). Interview with the Vampire was adapted for the big screen in 1994, and the film Queen of the Damned (2002) was based on the series.

Rice also wrote about real-life outsiders in two historical novels, The Feast of All Saints (1979; TV movie 2001), about New Orleans’s 19th-century Creoles of colour, and Cry to Heaven (1982), about an 18th-century Venetian castrato. Eroticism distinguished The Sleeping Beauty series—four stories (1983–85 and 2015) published under the pseudonym A.N. Roquelaure, which some critics classified as “pornography”—and two novels she published as Anne Rampling, Exit to Eden (1985; film 1994) and Belinda (1986). In 1988 Rice moved back to New Orleans to live in a Victorian mansion that became the setting for three novels about the Mayfair witches—The Witching Hour (199, Lasher (1993), and Taltos (1994). She subsequently began a second vampire series that featured Pandora (1998) and Vittorio the Vampire (1999), the latter of which Rice described as her vampire answer to Romeo and Juliet.

In the late 1990s Rice returned to Catholicism after spending most of her life as an atheist, and she later began writing books that detailed the life of Jesus Christ. Among these works are Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt (2005) and Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana (2008). The memoir Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession was published in 2008. The novels Angel Time (2009) and Of Love and Evil: The Songs of the Seraphim, a Novel (201 were thrillers about angels. Rice left New Orleans for California in 2005. In 2010 she publicly disavowed Christianity but reiterated her faith in Christ. Rice was active on social media and often engaged her fans in online discussions.

Rice’s other works included the stand-alone novels Servant of the Bones (1996), about a genie named Azriel, and Violin (1997), a ghost story in which music figures prominently. The Wolf Gift Chronicles, which began with The Wolf Gift (2012) and The Wolves of Midwinter (2013), represented a return to her Gothic roots. The novels follow a young werewolf as he becomes accustomed to his newly acquired supernatural abilities and metes out vigilante justice in contemporary northern California.7

#William_Shakespear_Writers
William Shakespeare's birthdate is assumed from his baptism on April 25. His father John was the son of a farmer who became a successful tradesman; his mother Mary Arden was gentry. He studied Latin works at Stratford Grammar School, leaving at about age 15. About this time his father suffered an unknown financial setback, though the family home remained in his possession. An affair with Anne Hathaway, eight years his senior and a nearby farmer's daughter, led to pregnancy and a hasty marriage late in 1582. Susanna was born in May of 1583, twins Hamnet and Judith in January of 1585. By 1592 he was an established actor and playwright in London though his "career path" afterward (fugitive? butcher? soldier? actor?) is highly debated. When plague closed the London theatres for two years he apparently toured; he also wrote two long poems, "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece". He may have spent this time at the estate of the Earl of Southampton. By December 1594 he was back in London as a member of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, the company he stayed with the rest of his life. In 1596 he seems to have purchased a coat of arms for his father; the same year Hamnet died at age 11. The following year he purchased the grand Stratford mansion New Place. A 1598 edition of "Love's Labors" was the first to bear his name, though he was already recognized as England's greatest playwright. He is believed to have written his "Sonnets" during the 1590s. In 1599 he became a partner in the new Globe Theatre, the company of which joined the royal household on the accession of James in 1603. That is the last year in which he appeared in a cast list. He seems to have retired to Stratford in 1612, where he continued to be active in real estate investment. The cause of his death is unknown.

#George R R Martin_Writers
Born September 20, 1948 in Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
Birth Name George Raymond Martin
Height 5' 6" (1.68 m)
George R.R. Martin is an American novelist and short-story writer in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres, a screenwriter, and television producer. He is best known for his international bestselling series of epic fantasy novels, A Song of Ice and Fire, which was later adapted into the HBO dramatic series Game of Thrones (2011).

Martin serves as the series' co-executive producer, and also scripted four episodes of the series. In 2005, Lev Grossman of Time called Martin "the American Tolkien".