There were not a lot of successful authors in the late 1800’s. Most authors didn’t even want to write because there weren’t laws protecting their work from being stolen. Most authors who did write work weren't popular or remembered. But, there are some that are still popular today, such as Conan Doyle.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is most famous for his Sherlock Holmes series which has a worldwide fanbase. They were about a private detective known for his proficiency with observation, forensic science, and logical reasoning. This character died off around the time Doyle’s alcoholic father died in an asylum. Doyle went to the University of Edinburgh to pursue a medical degree, and his professor, Dr Joseph Bell, inspired him to write Sherlock Holmes.
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The original story was written by Rudyard Kipling in 1894. It was inspired by a Journalist Imperialism in India. Kipling was a Journalist who wrote many short stories, but not a lot were famous. One of his other stories was The Man Who Would be King(1888).
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote short stories about the optimism, aspirations, and excesses of the jazz age. His most famous stories are This Side of Paradise, The beautiful and the Damned, and most famous The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby was about a millionaire named Jay Gatsby who began an affair with daisy. She was driving his car and hit a women, which Gatsby took the blame for. It is considered one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, and sold over 25 million copies in North America alone! Some of Fitzgerald's own life even found their way into his writing.
W.e.B Du Bois was one of the most important African American Activist during the first war of the 20th century. He Identified himself as “mulatto” but freely attended schools with whites. He earned his bachelor's degree at Fisk After which he attended Harvard University. He was the the first black to earn a P.H.D from Harvard in 1895. After he was selected for a study abroad a progam at the University of Berlin. He wrote The souls of Black Folk(1903), The Negro and The Philadelphia Negro(1899), and many more. He won a National book Award finalist for
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He wrote History of New York under the pen name Diedrich Knickerbocker, this was his first popular work. He also wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. He is known to have began a new folklore tradition in the young nation. He spent his last years promoting stricter copyright protection.
Emily Dickinson is one of the nation's most prolific poets, she wrote nearly 1,800 poems, some were about art, gardens, joy, love, death, or grief. She lived a reclusive life at her family home. Most of her poems were discovered in her bedroom after her death. Some of her poems are “I Taste Liquor Never Brewed, Success is counted Sweetest, Wild night Wild nights, and I Felt a Funeral in My Brain.
Even though some of WIlliam Faulkner’s work was poetry, she became famous for his novels set in the American South. Faulkner received the 1949 Nobel Prize for literature. Hr also received a Nobel prize winning Novelist short story writer. He depicted the people, history, and settings of his native in his novel, Fury Native. Hr also wrote Absalom, Absalom!, and Go Down Moses. His work was know for capturing the raw beauty of the Rural South in 1914, and its dark complexity, one of his famous quotes is “Never Be Afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people, all over the world would do this, it would change