Baquet's Guide to the World's Classics: PGR 1

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Virginia Woolf, English Writer
(1882-1941)

Just the Facts:

Name: Adeline Virginia Woolf
Known as: Virginia Woolf
Birth: January 25, 1882, Kensington, London, England, UK
Death: March 28, 1941, River Ouse, Sussex, England, UK
Language: English
Who she was: English novelist, essayist, and critic; Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse; Orlando; A Room of One's Own; How to Read a Book
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990); GGB (+PGR 1, 2); LRP; Bloom; GC

Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
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Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!

Tobias Dantzig, Latvian-American Mathematician
(1884-1956)

I cannot find a photo of Dantzig;
here is one of his most famous books.

Just the Facts:

Name: Tobias Dantzig
Birth: February 19, 1884, Latvia
Death: August 9, 1956, Los Angeles, California, USA
Language: Latvian, French, English
Who he was: Latvian-American mathematician; Number: The Language of Science; Aspects of Science; Mathematics in Ancient Greece
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 1)

Rudyard Kipling, English Writer
(1865-1936)

Just the Facts:

Name: Joseph Rudyard Kipling
Known as: Rudyard Kipling
Birth: December 30, 1865, Mumbai, India
Death: January 18, 1936, London, England, UK
Language: English
Who he was: English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist; The Jungle Book; Just So Stories; Kim; Captains Courageous; "If—"; "Gunga Din"; "The White Man's Burden";; Nobel Prize in Literature (1907)
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 1); Bloom; GC

Guy de Maupassant, French Writer
(1850-1893)

Just the Facts:

Name: Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant
Known as: Guy de Maupassant
Birth: August 5, 1850, Tourville-sur-Arques, France
Death: July 6, 1893, Passy, Paris, France
Language: French
Who he was: French short story writer, novelist, and poet; "Boule de Suif"; "The Necklace"; "The Piece of String"; "Two Friends"
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 1); HCF; Bloom

John Tyndall, Anglo-Irish Scientist
(1820-1893)

Just the Facts:

Name: John Tyndall
Birth: August 2, 1820, Leighlinbridge, Republic of Ireland
Death: December 4, 1893, Haslemere, England, UK
Language: English
Who he was: Irish scientist; Heat: a Mode of Motion
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 1)

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist
(1821-1880)

Just the Facts:

Name: Gustave Flaubert
Birth: December 12, 1821, Rouen, France
Death: May 8, 1880, Canteleu, France
Language: French
Who he was: French novelist and short story writer; novels Madame Bovary and A Sentimental Education; stories "A Simple Heart," "Saint Julian the Hospitalier," and "Hérodias"
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 1); LRP; Bloom; GC

Walt Whitman, American Poet and Writer
(1819-1892)

Just the Facts:

Name: Walt Whitman
Birth: May 31, 1819, West Hills, New York, USA
Death: March 26, 1892, Camden, New Jersey, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American poet and writer; Leaves of Grass
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 1, 2); HC; LRP; Bloom; GC

Victor Hugo, French Writer
(1802-1885)

Just the Facts:

Name: Victor Hugo
Birth: February 26, 1802, Besançon, France
Death: May 22, 1885, Paris, France
Language: French
Who he was: French writer; The Hunchback of Notre-Dame; Les Misérables
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 1); HC; HCF; Bloom; GC

Abraham Lincoln, American Statesman
(1809-1865)

Just the Facts:

Name: Abraham Lincoln
Birth: February 12, 1809, Hodgenville, Kentucky, USA
Death: April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C., USA
Language: English
Who he was: American president; "House Divided" speech; "First Inaugural Address"; "The Gettysburg Address"; "Second Inaugural Address"
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 1, 2)

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Writer
(1804-1864)

Just the Facts:

Name: Nathaniel Hathorne
Known as: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Birth: July 4, 1804, Salem, Massachusetts, USA
Death: May 19, 1864, Plymouth, New Hampshire, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American writer; The Scarlet Letter; The House of the Seven Gables; short stories ("The Minister's Black Veil"; "Young Goodman Brown"; "Rappaccini's Daughter"; "My Kinsman, Major Molineux"; etc.)
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 1, 2); LRP; HCF; Bloom; GC

William H. Prescott, American Historian
(1796-1859)

Just the Facts:

Name: William H. Prescott
Birth: May 4, 1796, Salem, Massachusetts, USA
Death: January 28, 1859, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American historian; Conquest of Mexico; Conquest of Peru
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 1)

Charles Lamb, English Author
(1775-1834)

Just the Facts:

Name: Charles Lamb
Birth: February 10, 1775, London, England, UK
Death: December 27, 1834, Edmonton, Middlesex, England, UK
Language: English
Who he was: English author; Essays of Elia; Tales from Shakespeare; The Adventures of Ulysses
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 1, 2); HC; Bloom

Thomas Jefferson, American Statesman
(1743-1826)

Just the Facts:

Name: Thomas Jefferson
Birth: April 13, 1743, Shadwell, Virginia, USA
Death: July 4, 1826, Monticello, Virginia, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American statesman; The Declaration of Independence; Notes on the State of Virginia; The Jefferson Bible
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 1, 2); LRP

Thomas Paine, English-American Philosopher
(1737-1809)

Just the Facts:

Name: Thomas Paine
Birth: February 9, 1737, Thetford, England, UK
Death: June 8, 1809, Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA
Language: English
Who he was: English-American philosopher and activist; Common Sense; The American Crisis; Rights of Man; The Age of Reason
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 1)

Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher
(1724-1804)

Just the Facts:

Name: Immanuel Kant
Birth: April 22, 1724, Königsberg, Germany
Death: February 12, 1804, Königsberg, Germany
Language: German
Who he was: German philosopher; Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Critique of Pure Reason); Kritik der praktischen Vernunft (Critique of Practical Reason); Die Metaphysik der Sitten (The Metaphysics of Morals); Kritik der Urteilskraft (Critique of Judgment)
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (+10YP); GGB (+PGR 1, 4); HC

Daniel Defoe, English Writer
(c. 1660-1731)

Just the Facts:

Name: Daniel Foe
Known as: Daniel Defoe
Birth: September 13, 1660, London, England, UK
Death: April 24, 1731, London, England, UK
Language: English
Who he was: English writer; Robinson Crusoe; A Journal of the Plague Year; Moll Flanders
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 1); HC; LRP; Bloom

Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebook and Twitter. Follow along!

Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!

Moliere, French Playwright
(1622-1673)

Just the Facts:

Name: Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Known as: Moliere
Birth: January 15, 1622, Rue Saint-Honoré, Paris, France
Death: February 17, 1673, Rue de Richelieu, Paris, France
Language: French
Who he was: French playwright; Le Misanthrop (The Misanthrope); L'école des Femmes (The School for Wives); Tartuffe; L'Avare (The Miser); Le Malade Imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid); and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (The Bourgeois Gentleman)
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (+10YP); GGB (+PGR 1); LRP; HC; Bloom

Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebook and Twitter. Follow along!

Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!

Jean de Crèvecoeur, French-American Author
(1735-1813)

Just the Facts:

Name: Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur, later John Hector St. John
Known as: Jean de Crèvecoeur
Birth: December 31, 1735, Normandy, France
Death: November 12, 1813, Sarcelles, France
Language: French
Who he was: French-American author; Letters from an American Farmer
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 1)

Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebookand Twitter. Follow along!
Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer
(1850-1894)

Just the Facts:

Name: Robert Louis Stevenson
Birth: November 13, 1850, Edinburgh, UK
Death: December 3, 1894, Vailima, Samoa
Language: English
Who he was: Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer; Treasure Island; A Child's Garden of Verses; Kidnapped; Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 1); HC; CA; Bloom; GC

Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebookand Twitter. Follow along!

Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!

J. B. S. Haldane, British/Indian Scientist
(1892-1964)

Just the Facts:

Name: John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
Known as: J. B. S. Haldane
Birth: November 5, 1892, Oxford, UK
Death: December 1, 1964, Bhubaneswar, India
Language: English
Who he was: British-born Indian scientist; Daedalus; or, Science and the Future; My Friend Mr. Leakey
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 1)

Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebook and Twitter. Follow along!

Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!

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