Bell 1 As one of history's most admirable women, Marie Curie took every challenge she encountered with poise and conquered it with vigor. She was quoted, "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood" (qtd. in Glance). She, undoubtedly, followed that ...

Octavio Paz: The Poet and his Revolution. Words, either written or spoken, have always been used by some intellectuals to awake in others, ideas and polemics to be discussed and forged into new currents of literature and ideologies; these in turn, will mold the historic events in which such th...

The Nobel Prize for Literature winner, Toni Morrison, is hailed as “the last classic American writer , a major figure of national literature , and simply the best writer in America.” “ Morrison is at her complex and commanding best in this mysterious tale, as she presents a...

Gabriela Mistral Gabriela Mistral: A Poet and a Teacher in Chile, the name Gabriela Mistral is a well-known one. It is the name of perhaps the country's greatest poet and education activist. Gabriela Mistral is the pen name for Lucila Godoy Alcayaga. She wrote many poems throughout her lifeti...

The beautiful and moving Israeli novel about homelessness; uprooted-ness; exile and transformation, Shira (1971) by the late Nobel laureate Shmuel [Samuel] Yosef Agnon (who is to this day the only Nobel Prize winner in Literature to ever emerge from Israel) is an enormously rich, complex, seaml...

The Day the Leader Was Killed Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo, Egypt. He graduated from University of Cairo in 1935, majoring in philosophy. Over the span of his life, he has written more than 30 novels and at least 14 collections of short stories (Naguib 1). After his academic pursuits, he had...

Hemingway's Great Work Ernest Hemingway, who is widely known as the most popular American author led an adventurous life and published many of his stories. During his career Hemingway wrote many notable books including the Old Man and the Sea, which received several prizes including the Pu...