Short Author Biography

short bio for writers    Jerome klapka / Louis Pasteur / Leo Tolstoy / John Keats Jerome klapka The Author's life and his Work: Jerome k...

short bio for writers 

 Jerome klapka / Louis Pasteur / Leo Tolstoy / John Keats

Jerome klapka

The Author's life and his Work: Jerome klapka Jerome, a notable English novelist, and playwright, was born on May 2, 1859, in Walsall, Staffordshire. His father was a preacher. The middle name 'Klapka' has a strange history. An exiled Hungarian gentleman, George Klapka by name, was a close friend of the Jeromes. The author was a great admirer of this gentleman and came to adopt the name 'Klapka'. Jerome K. Jerome was educated at Marylebone Grammar school. He began his career, as a petty clerk at Euston station. Then he became a school master and actor until he settled down to journalism. His experience as a stage actor enabled him to write his famous book, On the stage and off. He earned his reputation as a humorist in 1889 with Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow and Three Men is a Boat. 

The latter was an instant success. A million copies were sold in the U.S.A alone. It was translated into many languages. Jerome k. Jerome was the co-editor of The Idler with Robert Barr and editor of Today his own weekly magazine. But, unfortunately, he had to discontinue this paper because of some personal problems. His first one-act play Barbara was produced at the Globe Theatre in 1886 and was followed by others. He achieved his greatest success with The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1900) with Forbes Robertson acting in the main role. Of his notable novel and plays. Idle thoughts of an Idle Fellow, Three Men in a Boat, Three men on a Bummel, and Diary of a Pilgrimage, are famous like his autobiographical novel 'Paul Kelver'. He die in June 1927 at Northampton.

Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur was born in 1822 in a village called Dole in France. His father was a poor tanner. He was a brilliant student. So, he was a doctorate in chemistry. He looked at early education at Ecole Normale
Superieure in Paris. His academic record was excellent. He became a Professor of Physics at Dijon and later, a Professor of Chemistry at Strasburg.

He became Director of Scientific studies at Ecolo Normale. In 1888 he was elected Director of Pasteur Institute. His discoveries are types of crystal and, another germ Theory (1857). It controls all kinds of diseases caused by germs (microbes). He was successful in controlling Anthrax. He was able to find a cure for Rabies (1882). He breathed his last in 1895. We are really proud of him. He dedicated his life to the service of the nation.

Leo Tolstoy

Life and Works of the Writer : Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, popularly known as Leo Tolstoy, was a great novelist of Russia. He was a master of realistic fiction. He was born in Yasnaya Polyana on 28 August 1828. Count Nikolai Ilyich was his father. Countess Mariya Tolstoy was his mother. Tolstoy was their fourth child. His parents died when he was young. He was brought up by his relatives. In 1844 he began studying law and oriental languages at Kazan University. He was not a good student. Tolstoy left University in the middle of his studies. He came to Moscow.

In 1851 he went to the Caucasus and joined the army. It was about this time he started writing. He gathered a lot of experience from his service in the army. He learned a lot from his tour to Europe. He grew a strong hatred against the state. He chanced to meet Victor Hugo. He was greatly influenced by him. He also met Prudhon. He wanted to reform the education system. He himself opened a school at Polyana. But his enthusiasm soon ebbed away. On September 23, 1862, Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs, 16 years junior to him. Tolstoy fathered 13 children. His early married life was happy. During this period he wrote his two masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina. His wife helped and supported him much.

But Tolstoy soon became radical in outlook. His wife did not approve of it. Meanwhile, Russian Revolution took place. The Tolstoy family left Russia. But Tolstoy left home forever. He shunned the aristocratic life. He became an ascetic. His health declined. He died in 1910 at the age of 82 of Pneumonia at Astapovo railway station. Thus ended the life of a highly talented writer of the world. His
works include War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Sevastapol Sketches, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, The Kreutzer Sonata, etc.

John Keats

Life and Works of the Writer : John Keats was born on October 31, 1795, in Moorfields, London. He came from a comfortable trade background. Keats lost his father Thomas Keats, manager of a livery stable, in his childhood. Keats' mother, Frances died in 1810 of Tuberculosis. Anyway, Keats got a huge amount of money from his grandmother. But unfortunately, he could not enjoy it fully. This proved that Keats was not from absolutely poor family background. Keats along with his brother George studied at Enfield Academy from 1803 to 1811. Keats was fairly tutored there. He was a very serious student. He had a life-long interest in classical mythology. He was an avid reader of Spenser and Milton. Anyway, Keats left school and worked as an apprentice to an apothecary (chemist). He pursued the career of a surgeon for some time.

But the poet in him did not like the career-long. It was really a mental dilemma for Keats. But Keats chose poetry and started writing poems one after another. Keats has been deeply influenced by some stalwarts of the age. Among them were Hazlitt, Coleridge, Charles Lamb, P. B. Shelley, and most notably Leigh Hunt. Keats had developed a passionate love for Fanny to it, was Browne. But the lady did not like her lover. It was a great shock to delicate nature. Added carping criticism of the Quarterly and The Reviews about his poetic power. All these dampened his spirit. But Keats went on singing his romantic songs through his lovely odes, sonnets, and other lyrical verses. Keats was a pure poet. To him, poetry was a world of imagination.

He sought beauty. He worshipped beauty with his five senses. An impassioned singer of beauty Keats created some finest poems in English literature. His 'Endymion', Hyperion', etc. have ineffable charm. His lyrical poems 'Ode to Nightingale', ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn', 'Ode to Autumn' are the remarkable achievements of his poetic career. But Keats' Letters is a work of infinite charm. It portrays anything and everything in his poetry, art, and philosophy. This great romantic poet died of tuberculosis, a family disease in Rome, his second home, on Feb. 23, 1822. To sum up, men may come, men may go, but the earthly poetry of Keats will never be dead.

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