Jk Rowling Research Paper

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Joanne Rowling, more commonly known as J. K. Rowling is a British novelist who is best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series; the best-selling book series in history. Rowling has lived a "rags to riches" life story, in which she progressed from living on state benefits to being the world's first billionaire author. Rowling has given her fans social, moral, and political inspiration through her writing and her lifestyle. She has supported charities including Comic Relief, One Parent Families, Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and then launched her own charity: Lumos. In 2010, Rowling was named the "Most Influential Woman in Britain" by leading magazine editors.

Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen name George Orwell was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and …show more content…

He served in World War I as an ambulance driver in the Italian Army. Hemingway was noted both for the intense masculinity of his writing and for his adventurous and widely publicized life. His succinct and lucid prose style exerted a powerful influence on American and British fiction in the 20th century. He was renowned for novels like The Sun Also Rises where the main characters plainly embodied his own values and views of life. They talked of the young men whose strength and self-confidence nevertheless coexist with a sensitivity that leaves them deeply scarred by their wartime experiences. War was for Hemingway a potent symbol of the world, which he viewed as complex, filled with moral ambiguities, and offering almost unavoidable pain, hurt, and destruction. He battled with deteriorating mental and physical health and committed suicide in 1961. Hemingway left behind an impressive body of work and an iconic style that still influences writers

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