Berres Frederick Skinner is the inventor of the camera of operant conditioning and one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century. Childhood and early years Berres Frederick was born in Pennsylvania, USA, in the family of the lawyer William Skinner and his wife Grace. The boy had a happy childhood, and from an … Read more
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov is a Russian writer and public figure, one of the greatest authors of Soviet “official” literature, a Nobel Prize winner. Endowed with an original epic talent, he acted as a continuer of Tolstoy’s realism traditions on new life material and in the conditions of a new historical era. World fame Sholokhov brought … Read more
(born 1938) Writer, editor-in-chief of the journal `Moscow`; was born in 1938 in Irkutsk; studied at the Irkutsk State University, from which he was expelled for organizing a student circle; graduated from the Pedagogical Institute in Ulan-Ude in 1962; worked on the construction of the Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station, at a mine in Norilsk; after … Read more
(1903 – 1965) Zlobin Stepan Pavlovich (1903 – 1965), the prose writer. Born November 11 (24 N. p.) In Moscow in the family of a medical student, participant in the revolutionary movement. He was brought up by his grandmother (parents were in prison, then in exile), having lived a difficult, often hungry childhood. At the … Read more
John Barth is an American writer, was born in Cambridge, Maryland. He studied at Johns Hopkins University. Since 1973, at the end of the university, the twenty following years of John Barth’s life have been devoted to the teaching of writing. His postmodern novels – experimental, comic, self-referential, and often prolonged – reflected his anger … Read more
(1889 – 1963) Aseev Nikolai Nikolaevich (1889 – 1963), the poet. He was born on June 28 (July 10, 2006) in the city of Lgov, Kursk region, to the family of an insurance agent. He spent his childhood in the house of his grandfather, Nikolai Pavlovich Pinsky, hunter and fisherman, lover of folk songs and … Read more
Tracy Austin – tennis player, was born on December 12, 1962 in the city of Palo Verdes, California. Biography Tracy Austin is known as the champion who defeated Evert and Navratilova. Teenydzherka won a place among the best tennis players of the era of Chris Evert and Mirtina Navratilova. Tracy was a young girl with … Read more
Polina Gagarina – singer, was born on March 27, 1987. After finishing the first class in Greece Polina moved to Saratov, where she went to music school. In the biography of Gagarina, from childhood, along with a passion for music, dancing talent was manifested. After not enrolling in a ballet school, after graduating from the … Read more
(1882-1938) Zhitkov Boris Stepanovich (1882 – 1938), the prose writer. He was born on August 30 (September 11, 2001) in Novgorod to a family of a teacher of mathematics. He received a wonderful home education. After graduation he entered the natural department of Novorossiysk University, graduated in 1906. In 1911 – -16 he studied at … Read more
(1889 – 1966) Poetess. After the family disbanded in 1905, the mother and children moved to Evpatoria, from there to Kiev. There, Akhmatova graduated from high school and in 1907 entered the law faculty of the Higher Women’s Courses in Kiev. In 1910 she married S. Gumilev. Together with him was in 1910 and 1911 … Read more