Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400) The Canterbury Tales (ca. 1378) Born: Upper Thames Street, City, London, England*****(6-24-99)***** Buried: Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England. Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent, England*****(6-28-99)*****
William Dunbar (ca. 1460-ca. 1520s) Born: (possibly) Biel, East Lothian, Scotland. College: St Andrew's.
Karl Marx (1818-1883) Capital (1859) Born: Museum-Karl-Marx-Haus, Johanistrasse 28, Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Buried: Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London, England. Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin, Germany. College: Humboldt (Berlin), Bonn
Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) Born: Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Buried: Ashes scattered off Beachy Head, nr Eastbourne, Sussex, England. Engels-House, Engelstrasse 10, Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. College: Humboldt (Berlin).
Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924) Born: Ulyanovsk, Ulyanovsk Obl, Russia.(Memorial Museum of V.I. Lenin. Buried: Red Square, Moscow, Russia. Lenin House-Museum, 3 Lenina Str, Pskov, Pskov Obl, Russia. V.I. Lenin House-Museum, Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia. House-Museum of V.I. Lenin, st. Dostoevsky 78, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia. Tampere Lenin Museum, Tampere, Finland. V.I. Lenin Museum, Gorki Leninskiye, Moscow obl, Russia. Memorial Museum of V.I. Lenin, Samara, Samara obl, Russia. Vladimir Lenin Statue, 3526 Fremont PI North, Seattle, Washington. College: St Petersburg (Russia).
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) Captains Courageous (1897), Kim (1901) Born: Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art, Bombay, India. Buried: Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England. Bateman's, Bateman's Lane, Burwash, Sussex, England.
Catherine II of Russia (1729-1796) Born: Ducal Castle, Szczecin, Poland. Buried: Peter & Paul Cathedral, St Petersburg, Russia. Catherine Palace, Tsarskoye Selo, St Petersburg, Russia.
Prosper Merimee (1803-1870) Carmen (1845) Born: Paris, France. Buried: Cimitiere du Grand Jas de Cannes, Cannes, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France. Arles Amphitheatre, Arles, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France.
Georges Bizet (1838-1875) Born: 26 Rue de la Tour d'Auvergne, 9eme, Paris, France. Buired: Cimitiere du Pere Lachaise, 20eme, Paris, France. College: Conservatoire de Paris
Jacques Casanova (1725-1798) The Memoirs of Casanova (1822) Born: 3082 or 3083 Calle Malipiero (plaque), Venice, Veneto, Italy. Buried: Duchcov Castle, Czech Republic (exact location unknown). College: Padua.
Arnold Zweig (1887-1968) The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1927) Born: Glogow, Poland. Buried: Dorotheen-Stadtisch Fredrichwerderscher Friedhof I, Berlin, Germany.
Eric Sutton: no information
James Thomson (1700-1748) The Castle of Indolence (1748) Born: Ednam (monument on Ferney Hill), Roxburghshire, Scotland. Buried: Richmond Parish Church, Richmond, London, England. College: Edinburgh.
James Thomson (weaver poet) (1763-1832) Born: Edinburgh, Scotland.
Horace Walpole (1717-1797) The Castle of Otranto (1764) Born: 22 Arlington Street, St James, London, England. Buried: St Martin Churchyard, Houghton, Norfolk, England. Strawberry Hill, 268 Waldegrave Road, Twickenham, England. Castle, Otranto, Puglia, Italy. College: King's (Cambridge)
Robert Walpole (1676-1745) Born: Houghton Hall, Houghton, Norfolk, England. Buried: St Martin Churchyard, Houghton, Norfolk, England. College: King's (Cambridge).
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Countess Cathleen (1892), Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902) Born: 5 Sandymount Avenue, Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland. Buried: Protestant Churchyard, Drumcliff, Sligo, Ireland. Kilalla, Mayo, Ireland. Abbey Theatre, 26 Abbey Street Lower, Dublin, Ireland. College: National College of Art & Design (Dublin).
Lady Augusta Gregory (1852-1932) Born: Roxborough, Galway, Ireland. Buried: New Cemetery, Bohermore, Galway, Ireland.Kiltartan Gregory Museum, Kiltartan Cross, Gort, Galway, Ireland. Woodville Gardens, Woodville, Kilchreest, Galway, Ireland. Coole Park & Gardens, Gort, Galway, Ireland. Lady Gregory Hotel, Ennis Road, Gort, Galway, Ireland.
Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571) Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (1559) Born: Florence, Tuscany, Italy. Buried: Basilica della Santissima Annunziata, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. Perseus with the Head of Medusa (statue), Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. Cellini Salt Cellar, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
Cecchino Cellini (1498?-1529) Buried: San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, Rome, Lazio, Italy (?).
Stendhal (1783-1842) The Red and the Black (1830), The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) Born: 14 Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Grenoble, Rhone-Alpes, France. Buried: Cimitiere du Montmartre, 18eme, Paris, France. Musee Stendhal, 20 Grande-Rue, Grenoble, Rhone-Alpes, France. Le Stendhal Hotel, 22 Rue Danielle Casanova, 2eme, Paris, France. Hotel Stendhal Rome, Via del Tritone 113, Rome, Lazio, Italy. Mercure Parma Stendhal, Via Bodoni 3, Parma, Emilio-Romagna, Italy. Certosa di Parma, 20 Via Certosa, Parma, Emilio-Romagna, Italy.
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) The Cherry Orchard (1904) Born: Ulitsa Chekhova 69, Taganrog, Rostov, Russia. Buried: Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow, Russia. Literary & Memorial Museum-Reserve, Melikhovo, Moscow Obl., Russia. White Dacha, 112 Kirova St, Yalta, Ukraine. Chekhov Library & Museum, Ulitsa Petrovskaya 96, Taganrog, Rostov, Russia. House-Museum, 6 Sadovo-Kudrinskaya Str., Moscow, Russia. Dacha, Gursuf, Ukraine. College: Moscow State University.
Joshua Logan (1908-1988) Born: Texarkana, Texas. Buried: Unknown (?). College: Princeton.
Helen Hayes (1900-1993) Born: Washington, D.C. Buried: Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack (Rockland), New York. Helen Hayes Theatre, 240 W 44th Street, New York, New York.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) Childe Harold (1812-18), Don Juan (1819-24) Born: 24 (or 16) Holles Street, Marylebone, London, England. Buried: Church of St Mary Magdalene, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, England *****(7-4-01)***** Heart in Cenotaph, Missolonghi, West Greece, Greece. Hotel Lord Byron, Via Giuseppe de Notaris 5, Rome, Lazio, Italy. Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire, England *****(7-3-01)***** Lord Byron Resort, 120 Jonson Street, Byron Bay, Australia. Bridge of Sighs, Venice, Veneto, Italy. College: Trinity (Cambridge).
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) Christabel (1797-1800) Born: Schoolhouse, Ottery St Mary, Devonshire, England. Buried: St Michael's Churchyard, Highgate, London, England. Coleridge Cottage, 45 Lime Street, Nether Stowey, Somerset, England. College: Jesus (Cambridge).
Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine (1853-1931) The Christian (1897) Born: Runcorn, Cheshire, England. Buried: Kirk Maughold Churchyard, Maughold, Isle of Man, England.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.) Cicero's Orations against Catiline (63 B.C) Born: Arpino, Lazio, Italy. Statue, Capitoline Museum, Rome, Lazio, Italy. The Forum, Rome, Lazio, Italy.
Catiline (108-62 B.C.) Born: Rome, Lazio, Italy.
Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) The Cid (1636) Born: Maison Natale de Pierre Corneille, 4 Rue de la Pie, Rouen, Upper Normandy, France. Buried: Eglise St Roch, 284 Rue St Honore, 1ere, Paris, France.
Robert Southey (1774-1843) Born: Wine Street (plaque where new buildings join Christ Church, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. Buried: Parish Church, Crosthwaite (nr Kewsick), Cumbria, England. College: Balliol (Oxford).
Don Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar ("The Cid") (1043-1099) Born: Vivar del Cid, Castile and Leon, Spain. Buried: Burgos Cathedral, Burgos, Casile and Leon, Spain. Tizona (El Cid's sword), Museum, Burgos, Castile and Leon, Spain.
King Alfonso the Good (The Wise, The Learned) (1221-1284) Born: Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. Buried: Seville Cathedral, Seville, Andalusia, Spain.
The IWE states that "The legend (of El Cid) accumulated in Spanish ballads of the 12th century, and in the 13th King Alfonso the Good had them assembled into a unified epic". I am unable to find anyone identified as King Alfonso the Good who reigned in the 13th century in my cursory searches on the internet, nor any King Alfonso of the period who was notable for collating and unifying the Cid. This guy seems to be the most likely candidate.
A. J. Cronin (1896-1981) The Citadel (1937), The Keys of the Kingdom (1941) Born: Rosebank Cottage, Cardross, Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Buried: La-Tour-de-Peilz, Montreux, Switzerland. College: Glasgow.
Thomas Dixon (1864-1946) The Clansman (1905) Born: McFee House, Shelby, North Carolina. Buried: Sunset Cemetery, Shelby, North Carolina. College: Wake Forest.
I'm not sure why this is included on the list, as the IWE states that "The novel as a novel is worth reading only for those who are interested in what kind of literature has occupied the reading attenion of the American people and extended itself notably into collateral media of public expression". It is also among the more notoriously racist books in American history that achieved the level of popularity than it did, and was the source material for the most notoriously racist movie in American history, "The Birth of a Nation". That acknowledged, it is on the list, and as the list and what it encapsulates on the whole that have possessed my imagination, I will probably read it when the time comes, assuming I stick to the list.
Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) Pamela (1741), Clarissa (1747-8) Born: Mackworth, Derbyshire, England. Buried: St Bride's Church, Fleet Street, City, London, England.
