7 Iconic Authors and Their Extraordinary Tales That Are Worth Knowing

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Khushi Arora
Jan 10, 2025

Mary Shelly

Mary Shelly is an iconic writer who kept her deceased husband’s heart on her desk until she died which also influenced her novel 'Frankenstein'.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel was a famous poet, his one of the most famous works are ‘Kubla Khan’ in which he used vivid imagery, it is said that he used to write his poetries after the consumption of opium.

Franz Kafka

Kafka has given amazing works to literature like ‘Metamorphosis’ and he requested to destroy all his manuscripts while he was dying which was ignored.

Virginia Woolf

Woolf wrote in her diary about surviving the bombs as her home was once attacked by a bomb during World War I.

Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson never used to leave her room so many of her amazing works were found in her room after her death.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth was very poor her entire life and often given opium for pain relief and her secret courtship with Robert Browning added a romantic dimension in her life.

J.R.R. Tolkien

His timeless classic ‘Lord Of The Rings’ was written during the time of World War I while serving in the trenches.

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