Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) var en britisk journalist og forfatter. Kipling skrev både til børn og voksne og har en række berømte titler bag sig, heriblandt klassikeren Junglebogen. Kipling vandt som 42-årig Nobelprisen i litteratur i 1907 ─ som den yngste nogensinde.
Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 - 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction.
Born to bourgeois parents in the seaport of Nantes, Verne was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage.
Mark Twain
MARK TWAIN (1835 - 1910)
Mark Twain's real name was Samuel Langhorn Clemens. The name Mark Twain originates from his time as a pilot on the Mississippi. Twain means 'two', and the second mark - mark twain - on the leadline showed the pilot that the river was two fathoms, or 3.6 metres, deep. He also worked as a printer, a gold digger and a journalist, and he stayed for some time in Europe. From 1867 he was a full time writer.
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