roald dahl,eoin colfer,rick riordan,william shakespeare and rabindranath tagore

1. By Azam Khan 7-B

2.  Roald Dahl was
born in
Llandaff, Wales
on September
13th 1916. His
parents were
Norwegian. His
father Harald
and his elder
sister died when
he was just
three.

3.  His Mother was left to take care of 2
stepchildren and 4 of her own. Roald was her
only son. Roald based the character of his
grandmother in his book THE WITCHES as a
tribute to his mother.

4.  At 18 rather than going to a university he
joined the public schools exploring societies'
expedition to newfoundland.He was 23 when
war broke out and he joined the Royal force in
naiobi.Dahl’s adventures in war are listed in
his book going solo.

5. In 1960 ,Roald and his family
settled in Great Missenden
in
Buckinghamshire, England
at gipsy house. It was here
in a small hut at the bottom
of the garden he began to
write . He actually wrote
for his small children.

6.  In 1990 Roald was diagnosed with a rare
blood disorder,Myloe-Displastic-Aneamia.
 Roald died on November 23rd 1990 at the age
of 74.He was working on The Vicar of
NIBBLESWICKE,My Year and The Roald Dahl
Cookbook.

7.  Eoin(pronounced Owen)Colfer
born 14th may is an Irish
writer. He was born in
Wexford,Ireland in
1965, where he and his four
brothers were brought up by
his father (an elementary
school teacher, historian and
artist of note) and mother (a
drama teacher).

8.  He first developed an interest in writing in
primary (elementary) school with
gripping Viking stories inspired by history
that he was learning in school at the time.
He has lived and worked all over the world
including Saudi Arabia.

9.  He received his degree from Dublin
University and began teaching primary school
in Wexford. After the publication of the
Artemis Fowl novels, Eoin retired from
teaching and now writes full time.

10.  To date the majority of his works have
reached the New York Times Bestseller list at
least once. Colfer currently resides in
Wexford, Ireland with his wife, Jackie, and
two children, Séan and Finn.

11.  "Rick" Riordan, Jr. (born June 5, 1964) is
an American author . Riordan was raised in
San Antonio, Texas. In middle school, Bernard
Evslin's ,The Greek Gods introduced him to
Greek mythology, and Tolkien's The
Fellowship of the Ring "opened up the world
of fantasy" for him.

12.  He is best known for writing the Percy
Jackson & the Olympians series. Percy
Jackson and the Olympians series features a
twelve-year-old who discovers he is the
modern-day son of the ancient
Greek god, Poseidon.

13.  Rabindranath Tagore May 1861 – 7 August
1941), was a Bengali polymath who reshaped
his region's literature and music. Author
of Gitanjali and its "profoundly
sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he
became the first non-European to win
the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.

14. Tagore wrote poetry as an eight-
year-old. He graduated to his first
short stories and dramas—and the
aegis of his birth name—by 1877.

15. William Shakespeare (26 April 1564
– 23 April 1616) was an English poet
and playwright, widely regarded as
the greatest writer in the English
language and the world's pre-
eminent dramatist.

16.  He is often called the father of
poetry. Venus and Adonis and The
Sonnets of Shakespeare are Some of
his famous poems.