George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

male, deceased (1950)
vegetarian, Playwright, teetotaller, Literary critic, oscar, literary criticism…Autodidact
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856-2 November 1950) was an Irish dramatist, literary critic, and socialist. During his career Shaw wrote more than...
H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft

male, deceased (1937) (Rhode Island, United States)
pessimism, horror, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Cthulhu Mythos writer, Horror fiction, necronomicon…Autodidact
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 - March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He is notable for...
Robert Frost

Robert Frost

male, deceased (1963)
rural life, Robert Lee Frost, University of University of Cambridge, American Poet Laureate, Sonneteers, Alumni of the University of Oxford…Autodidact
Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 - January 29, 1963) was an American poet. His work frequently drew inspiration from rural life in New England,...
John Milton

John Milton

male, deceased (1674)
blind, Christian heresy, from the City of London, Sonneteers, Old Pauline, New Latin author…Autodidact
John Milton (December 9, 1608 - November 8, 1674) was an English poet, prose polemicist, and civil servant for the English Commonwealth. Most famed...
Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison

male, deceased (1931)
inventor, electricity, light bulb, phonograph, Businessman, incandescent light bulb…Autodidact
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11 1847 - October 18 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly...
Carl Friedrich Gauss

Carl Friedrich Gauss

male, deceased (1855)
magnetism, electricity, Electrostatics, Gauß, Lutheran, From Braunschweig…Autodidact
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss or Gauß (30 April 1777 - 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician and scientist of profound genius who c...
Jack London

Jack London

male, deceased (1916)
from Sonoma County, California, islomaniac, from Piedmont, California, Sailor, Short story writer, Travel writer…Autodidact
Jack London, was an American author who wrote "The Call of the Wild" and other books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine...
Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton

female, deceased (1937) (New York, New York, United States)
design, American, Short story writer, expatriate, Autodidact, novelist
Edith Wharton (January 24 1862 - August 11 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer.
Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer

male, deceased (1903)
buried at Highgate Cemetery, From Derby, functionalism, evolutionism, The Origin of Species, agnostic…Autodidact
Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher and prominent classic-liberal political theorist. Spencer developed an all-embracing conception of...
Henry Miller

Henry Miller

male, deceased (1980)
painter, novelist, Autodidact, German-American, writer, tax resister
Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 - June 7, 1980) was an American writer and painter. He is known for breaking with existing literary forms...