Category: Biographies

Lady Gaga – American pop icon, whose debut album included such hits as “Just Dance” and “Poker Face”. Her next mini-album “The Fame Monster” was nominated six times for the Grammy Award. Early years Stephanie Joanne Angelina Germanotta was born on March 28, 1986 in New York to the family of Cynthia and Joseph Germanotta.…

(1840 – 1895) He was a student of the Faculty of History and Philology at St. Petersburg University, but he did not finish the course. Literary activity began with poems (a separate edition, St. Petersburg., 1862). Widespread fame he delivered in a sensational manner a great novel “Petersburg Slums”, published in the “Notes of the…

(1789-1852) Zagoskin Mikhail Nikolayevich (1789 – 1852), prose writer, playwright. Born July 14 (25 N. s.) In the village of Ramzai, Penza province in an old noble family. Childhood years passed in the parents’ estate, where there was a large library. I read a lot, preferring historical literature, and early showed interest in literary creation.…

Pavel Petrovich Bazhov is a famous Soviet writer and folklorist. The author of the Uralian tales “The Malachite Box”, for which he was awarded the Stalin Prize of the 2nd degree. Childhood and youth Pavel was born on January 15, 1879 near Yekaterinburg in the family of a worker. Children’s years in the biography of…

Jane Goodall is an animal rights advocate from England, known as “the woman who gave a new meaning to the word man.” Childhood and youth Dame Valerie Jane Morris Goodall was born in London on April 3, 1934. Her parents were Mortimer Herbert Morris-Goodall – a businessman, and Margaret Mifane Joseph – a writer. Jane…

Herbert Spencer – the most famous philosopher of the Victorian era, deserved recognition for his characteristic political views. Childhood and early years Herbert Spencer was born April 27, 1820 in the English city of Derby. His father, William George Spencer, was a believer who rebelled against official religious dogmas and passed from the Methodist church…

Billie Jean King – tennis player, was born on November 22 in the city of Long Beach, California. Most known as tennis champion. At birth, in the biography of Billy Jean King, the name of Billy Jean Moffith was obtained. Almost two decades Billy Jean King was in the lead in women’s tennis. In 1984…

(1873-1954) Prishvin Mikhail Mikhailovich (1873 – 1954), a prose writer. He was born on January 23 (February 4 of the current year) in the Khrushchev estate of Yelets county, Orel province, in a merchant family whose fortune was squandered by his father, who left his family without means of subsistence. It took a lot of…

Penelope Cruz is a Spanish actress, winner of the Oscar. Born Penelope April 18, 1974 in Madrid. In the young Penelope, no one noticed the act of acting. But it was different in grace and plastic. So in the biography Penelope Cruz 10 years were devoted to modern and classical ballet. At the age of…

Pearl Saydensticker Buck, an American writer, was born in Hillsborough, Virginia. Pearl Buck graduated from the Randolph-Macon College of Women in 1914. Pearl Buck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. Until 1924, she lived mainly in China, where she, her parents and her first husband, John Lossing Buck, were missionaries. She is…