Baquet's Guide to the World's Classics: GBWW (1990)

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George Orwell, English Writer
(1903-1950)

Just the Facts:

Name: Eric Arthur Blair
Known as: George Orwell
Birth: June 25, 1903, Motihari, India
Death: January 21, 1950, London, England, UK
Language: English
Who he was: English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic; Animal Farm; Nineteen Eighty-Four
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990) (+10YP); LRP; Bloom; GC

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Samuel Beckett, Irish Writer
(1906-1989)

Just the Facts:

Name: Samuel Beckett
Birth: April 13, 1906, Foxrock, Republic of Ireland
Death: December 22, 1989, Paris, France
Language: English
Who he was: Irish novelist, playwright, and poet; Murphy; a trilogy, Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable; Waiting for Godot; Watt; Endgame; Krapp's Last Tape; How It Is; Nobel Prize in Literature 1969
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990); LRP; Bloom; GC

Werner Heisenberg, German Physicist
(1901-1976)

Just the Facts:

Name: Werner Heisenberg
Birth: December 5, 1901, Würzburg, Germany
Death: February 1, 1976, Munich, Germany
Language: German
Who he was: German physicist; The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory; Nobel Prize in Physics (1932)
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990) (+10YP)

Karl Barth, Swiss Theologian
(1886-1968)

Just the Facts:

Name: Karl Barth
Birth: May 10, 1886, Basel, Switzerland
Death: December 10, 1968, Basel, Switzerland
Language: German
Who he was: Swiss theologian; The Epistle to the Romans; Church Dogmatics
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990) (+10YP)

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

John Maynard Keynes, English Economist
(1883-1946)

Just the Facts:

Name: John Maynard Keynes
Birth: June 5, 1883, Cambridge, England, UK
Death: April 21, 1946, Tilton, Sussex, England, UK
Language: English
Who he was: English economist; The Economic Consequences of the Peace; A Treatise on Probability; A Treatise on Money; The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990)

James Joyce, Irish Novelist and Poet
(1882-1941)

Just the Facts:

Name: James Joyce
Birth: February 2, 1882, Rathgar, Republic of Ireland
Death: January 13, 1941, Zürich, Switzerland
Language: English
Who he was: Irish novelist, short-story writer, and poet; Ulysses; Dubliners; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Finnegans Wake
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990) (+10YP); LRP; Bloom; GC

Franz Kafka, Austro-Hungarian Writer
(1883-1924)

Just the Facts:

Name: Franz Kafka
Birth: July 3, 1883, Prague, Czech Republic
Death: June 3, 1924, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Language: German
Who he was: German-speaking Austro-Hungarian novelist and short story writer; Der Process (The Trial); Das Schloss (The Castle); "Die Verwandlung" ("The Metamorphosis"); Ein Hungerkünstler (A Hunger Artist)
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990) (+10YP); LRP; Bloom; GC

G. H. Hardy, English Mathematician
(1877-1947)

Just the Facts:

Name: Godfrey Harold Hardy
Known as: G. H. Hardy
Birth: February 7, 1877, Cranleigh, England, UK
Death: December 1, 1947, Cambridge, England, UK
Language: English
Who he was: English mathematician; A Mathematician's Apology; A Course of Pure Mathematics
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990) (+10YP)

Thomas Mann, German Writer
(1875-1955)

Just the Facts:

Name: Paul Thomas Mann
Known as: Thomas Mann
Birth: June 6, 1875, Lübeck, Germany
Death: August 12, 1955, Zürich, Switzerland
Language: German
Who he was: German novelist, short story writer, essayist; Buddenbrooks; The Magic Mountain; Death in Venice; Joseph and His Brothers; Doctor Faustus; Nobel Prize in Literature (1929)
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990); GGB (+PGR 3); LRP; Bloom; GC

Albert Einstein, German-American Physicist
(1879-1955)

Just the Facts:

Name: Albert Einstein
Birth: March 14, 1879, Ulm, Germany
Death: April 18, 1955, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Language: German, English
Who he was: German-American physicist; Relativity: the Special and General Theory; The Meaning of Relativity; "The World As I See It"; "My Views"; Nobel Prize in Physics (1921)
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990); GGB (+PGR 3)

Johan Huizinga, Dutch Historian
(1872-1945)

Just the Facts:

Name: Johan Huizinga
Birth: December 7, 1872, Groningen, Netherlands
Death: February 1, 1945, De Steeg, Netherlands
Language: Dutch
Who he was: Dutch historian; The Autumn of the Middle Ages (a.k.a. The Waning of the Middle Ages); Erasmus; Homo Ludens
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990) (+10YP)

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher
and Mathematician (1872-1970)

Just the Facts:

Name: Bertrand Russell
Birth: May 18, 1872, Trellech, Wales, UK
Death: February 2, 1970, Penrhyndeudraeth, Wales, UK
Language: English
Who he was: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and activist; Principia Mathematica (with Alfred North Whitehead); "On Denoting"; The Problems of Philosophy; Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays; What I Believe; Why I Am Not a Christian; A History of Western Philosophy; Nobel Prize in Literature (1950)
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990); GGB (+PGR 3, 4)

Willa Cather, American Author
(1873-1947)

Just the Facts:

Name: Willa Cather
Birth: December 7, 1873, Gore, Virginia, USA
Death: April 24, 1947, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Language: English
Who she was: American author; O Pioneers!; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Song of the Lark; My Ántonia; Pulitzer Prize in Literature (1923)
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990) (+10YP); SW; Bloom

Luigi Pirandello, Italian Writer
(1867-1936)

Just the Facts:

Name: Luigi Pirandello
Birth: June 28, 1867, Agrigento, Italy
Death: December 10, 1936, Rome, Italy
Language: Italian
Who he was: Italian dramatist, novelist, poet and short story writer; The Late Mattia Pascal; Six Characters in Search of an Author; Henry IV; One, No One and One Hundred Thousand; Nobel Prize in Literature (1934)
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990); Bloom

Max Weber, German Sociologist and Philosopher
(1864-1920)

Just the Facts:

Name: Karl Emil Maximilian Weber
Known as: Max Weber
Birth: April 21, 1864, Erfurt, Germany
Death: June 14, 1920, Munich, Germany
Language: German
Who he was: German sociologist and philosopher; The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism; The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism; The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism; Ancient Judaism; Economy and Society
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990) (+10YP)

Joseph Conrad, Polish-British Novelist
(1857-1924)

Just the Facts:

Name: Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski
Known as: Joseph Conrad
Birth: December 3, 1857, Berdychiv, Ukraine
Death: August 3, 1924, Bishopsbourne, England, UK
Language: Polish, English
Who he was: Polish-British novelist; The Nigger of the "Narcissus"; Heart of Darkness; Lord Jim; Typhoon; Nostromo; The Secret Agent; Under Western Eyes; Victory
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990); GGB (+PGR 2); LRP; Bloom; GC

Anton Chekhov, Russian Playwright
and Short Story Writer (1860-1904)

Just the Facts:

Name: Anton Chekhov
Birth: January 29, 1860, Taganrog, Russia
Death: July 15, 1904, Badenweiler, Germany
Language: Russian
Who he was: Russian playwright and short story writer,; Uncle Vanya; The Cherry Orchard; Three Sisters; "The Darling"
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990); GGB (+PGR 2); LRP; Bloom; GC

Alfred North Whitehead, British Mathematician
and Philosopher (1861-1947)

Just the Facts:

Name: Alfred North Whitehead
Birth: February 15, 1861, Ramsgate, England, UK
Death: December 30, 1947, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Language: English
Who he was: British mathematician and philosopher; A Treatise on Universal Algebra; Principia Mathematica; An Introduction to Mathematics; Science and the Modern World; Process and Reality
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990) (+10YP); GGB (+PGR 2)

Thorstein Veblen, Norwegian-American
Economist and Sociologist (1857-1929)

Just the Facts:

Name: Torsten Bunde Veblen
Known as: Thorstein Veblen
Birth: July 30, 1857, Cato, Wisconsin, USA
Death: August 3, 1929, Sand Hill Road, California, USA
Language: Norwegian, English
Who he was: Norwegian-American economist and sociologist; The Theory of the Leisure Class
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990) (+10YP)

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