Tag: Biography
Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson (1830-86), US poet. The daughter of a lawyer, she spent most of her life in seclusion with her Calvinist family in Amherst, Massachusetts. She wrote …
Charles Dickens Charles Dickens (1812-70), British novelist. After his father was imprisoned for debt, the 12-year-Old Dickens worked for a time in a blacking factory. He worked tremendously hard …
Sergei Diaghilev Sergei Diaghilev (1872-1929), Russian ballet impresario and founder of the pallets Russes. His company, which introduced Russian ballet to Western Europe, was formed in Paris in 1909 …
James Dewar James Dewar (1842-1923), Scottish chemist and physicist. He became a professor at Cambridge University in 1875 and at the Royal Institution, London, in 1877. His researches into …
Jacques Derrida Jacques Derrida (1930), French philosopher and literary critic. Born in Algeria, he studied philosophy at the Ecole Normale Superieure and at Harvard. He is the originator of …
Thomas De Quincey Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859), British essayist. As a youth he ran away from his school in Manchester and lived in poverty in London for a time. …
Robert De Niro Robert De Niro (1943), US actor, best-known for playing sensitive but inarticulate tough-guys. He began to appear in films in the mid 1960s but first achieved …
Deng Xiaoping Deng Xiaoping (1904), Chinese politician. The son of wealthy parents, he became a full-time worker for the Chinese Communist Party in 1927. He subsequently served in the …
