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AUTHORS BIOGRAPHIES
Reading the biographies of my favorite authors has helped me to understand who they are and why they write/wrote the way they did. Sylvia Plath was the most difficult poet I had trouble understanding until I read her life story. Jack Kerouac was another author I understood when I read his bio.
William Shakespeare is the only person when I read his biography I ended up knowing less about. I'm sure there are others. I believe that biographies help me understand the era the author lived in.
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OBSCURE POET
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN (1799-1837)
Russia's most famous poet
Poet, playwright, novelist
From a family of nobility
Exiled (1820-1823) for outspoken political views
Evgeny Onegin (Eugene Onegin) his masterpiece published in 1833
Invented iambic tetrameter with alternating feminine and masculine rhymes
Life marked by political and romantic scandals
Died in 1837 two days after losing a duel
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