Great Lives Series

Nobel Laureate and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner William Faulkner (1897–...

Rene Descartes was born in La Haye en Touraine, France, on March 31, 1596. He attend...

Born in a small town near Warsaw, Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) was a musical pro...

Though he was born in St. Louis, Missouri and attended Harvard University, at the age of ...

Born and raised in a small town in Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1...

Born to a poor Lutheran pastor in what is today the Federal Republic of Germany, Ber...

Born in Stuttgart, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) attended the Gymna...

Born and raised in St. Petersburg, Russia, Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) divided ...

Born in Bonn, Germany, Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) showed musical talent f...

Born in Dublin on Good Friday, Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) attended Trinity Coll...

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was born in Paris during a time of great social and politi...

Born in the port city of Taganrog in southern Russia, Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)...

Avram Noam Chomsky was born in Philadelphia in 1928 to Jewish immigrant parents who ...

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was born in Ulm in the German Empire and received his ac...

Born in Vienna, Austria, Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961) was the only child of a ...

Born in Cambridge, England, to an upper-middle-class family, John Maynard Keynes&nbs...