Task:

• Sometimes the lives of authors and artists are as engaging as the stories they write, as colorful as the pictures they paint. Select 12 people from the pool of contributors to the textbook (novelists, poets, playwrights, artists) and prepare a biographical page for each one.
• If possible, find a picture or sketch of the person.
• Some questions intended to help, but not limit, your research are:
• Years of birth and death?
• Describe family life. Any childhood stories?
• Identify his/ her notable accomplishments.
• What contributions has this person made to the literary or art world of the 19th and 20th centuries?

Resources:

• The Incompetech's British Authors Series offers both traditional and "unusual" information about British authors. This is a great site to find information in order to add a creative edge to your biographies.
• Off-line Resources available at the University of Richmond:
• British Short Fiction Writers, 1880-1914, Ed. by William B. Thesing
• British Women Writers 1700-1850, Ed. by Barbara Homitz
• Acts of Union: Scotland and the Literary Negotiation of the British nation, by Leith Davis
• Memories of Men and Women, American and British, Ed. by A.L.Rowse
• For information on artists' biographies, see "Resources for The Artist."