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Tolkien did not like biographies or, more properly, did not like that they are used as a form of literary criticism. and in more than one occasion expressed such a biography was saying the worst way to see the work of an author. However, he had no doubt aware that the remarkable popularity of his stories became very likely that a dead time to write his biography.
Aware of this, however, we dare to present a short summary of his life with the sole purpose of providing information to those just getting closer to the author.

Young Tolkien:

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa 3 January 1892 and his brother, Hilary Arthur, born in 1894. They were taken by her mother, Mabel Tolkien, to England after the death of his father, Arthur Tolkien, in 1896. His mother changes the Anglican to the Catholic religion and his two sons follow. In 1904 his mother dies from diabetes when he was only 34 years old. The brothers go to live with an aunt in Birmingham, but Mabel’s confessor, Father Francis Morgan, who is entrusted with the care and education for them. Since then John Ronald more fervently embraced Catholicism.
He studied at King Edward School in Birmingham, in the Saint Philip Grammar School and the University of Oxford. In 1915 he graduated with honors degree in English language and literature.

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Nicholas Sparks
Other Names: Nicholas Charles Sparks
Country: United States
Born: Omaha, December 31, 1965
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He studied at Bella Vista High School, graduating in Business Administration at the University of Notre Dame. He wrote three novels that failed to post and tried to study law without getting admitted. From there, he worked at various jobs writing in 1993 his first published novel, which won a major success, launching a series of bestsellers.

Its genre is romance, still mostly women readers. His characters are realistic, everyday. Some of his novels have been made into films.
Nicholas Sparks
Other Names: Nicholas Charles Sparks
Country: United States
Born: Omaha, December 31, 1965

He studied at Bella Vista High School, graduating in Business Administration at the University of Notre Dame. He wrote three novels that failed to post and tried to study law without getting admitted. From there, he worked at various jobs writing in 1993 his first published novel, which won a major success, launching a series of bestsellers.

Its genre is romance, still mostly women readers. His characters are realistic, everyday. Some of his novels have been made into films.

Published works

* The Notebook (October 1996)
* Message in a Bottle (April 1998)
* A Walk to Remember (October 1999)
* The Rescue (September 2000)
* A Bend in the Road (September 2001)
* Nights in Rodanthe (September 2002)
* The Guardian (April 2003)
* The Wedding (September 2003)
* Three Weeks With My Brother (April 2004) – A non-fiction account of traveling with his brother after the men lost both parents and their sister in quick succession.
* True Believer (April 2005)
* At First Sight (October 2006)
* Dear John (October 2007)
* The Choice (September 2007)
* The Lucky One (October 2008)
* The Last Song (September 2009)
* Safe Haven (September 2010)

Film adaptations

* Message in a Bottle (February 12, 1999)
* A Walk to Remember (January 25, 2002)
* The Notebook (June 25, 2004)
* Nights in Rodanthe (September 26, 2008)
* Dear John (February 5, 2010)
* The Last Song (March 31, 2010)

Cormac McCarthy
Other Name: Charles McCarthy
Country: United States
Birth: Providence, July 20, 1933
Official Website: www.cormacmccarthy.com/

McCarthy named Charles, he moved to Knoxville four years, and studied humanities at the University of Tennessee, inconclusive studies as he entered the Air Force where he was four years. After that, tried again, unsuccessfully, to complete their studies. He went to Chicago began publishing in 1965. Traveled twice to Europe thanks to two grants, and married three times. After his last marriage he moved to New Mexico, not knowing many details of him by the jealous subject to their privacy. Also works as a screenwriter, and several d his works have been adapted to film. He has won several awards, highlighting the novel Pulitzer in 2007.

Novels

* The Orchard Keeper (1965)
* Outer Dark (1968)
* Child of God (1974)
* Suttree (1979)
* Blood Meridian Or the Evening Redness in the West (1985)
* All the Pretty Horses (1992)
* The Crossing (1994)
* Cities of the Plain (1998)
* No Country for Old Men (2005)
* The Road (2006)
* The Passenger (working title, TBA)

Screenplays

* The Gardener’s Son (1976)

Plays

* The Stonemason (1995)
* The Sunset Limited (2006)

Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Other names: Kate DiCamillo
Country: United States
Birth: Philadelphia, March 25, 1964

Known as Kate DiCamillo, a BA in English Literature from the University of Florida, he worked various jobs until 1994 when she began to write. Her stories have been made into movies in animated films.

Author of books for children, their stories are classic, fairies and fantasy, with a great sense of humor, moralizing. For his lack of production at the moment, has won numerous awards.

Novels
* Because of Winn-Dixie (2000)
* The Tiger Rising (2001)
* The Tale of Despereaux (2003)
* The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (2006)
* The Magician’s Elephant (2009)
* Bink and Gollie (2010)

Early chapter books
* Mercy Watson to the Rescue (2005)
* Mercy Watson Fights Crime (2006)
* Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride (2006)
* Mercy Watson: Princess in Disguise (2007)
* Mercy Watson Thinks Like a Pig (2008)
* Mercy Watson: Something Wonky This Way Comes (2009)

Picture books
* Louise, the Adventures of a Chicken (2008)
* Great Joy (2007)

Country: Colombia
Birth: Aracataca, 6 March 1927

Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez is one of the great novelists of the twentieth century reformer of Spanish literature and a key figure in the rise of so-called magic realism. Its importance as a storyteller was known worldwide in 1982, the year in which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Raised in the village of Aracataca, Garcia Marquez had a childhood marked by the influence of his maternal grandfather, an army colonel and strong liberal convictions, until in 1936 he settled with his parents in Sincelejo although shortly after beginning his studies in Barranquilla.

Although he had published some texts, it is not until law school begins in Bogota who begins his true passion for literature. Following the closure of the university by the great riots of 1948, García Márquez moved to Cartagena and abandoned his studies to work as a journalist in several media, such as El Universal and El Heraldo.

Married in 1958 with Mercedes Bacha, García Márquez travel begins a journey that will lead correspondent of Barranquilla to New York and finally to Mexico. The affinity of the writer with the Cuban Revolution and his friendship with Fidel Castro hindered their stay in the United States and other countries in Latin America. From this period are his Colonel no one writes or the wrong time.

It was in 1967 when Gabriel García Márquez published one of her best known novels, One Hundred Years of Solitude, a work that has sold millions of copies worldwide and been translated into dozens of languages. The awards will be followed in subsequent years, Rómulo Gallegos, the Neustdat, and received critical acclaim internationally.

From One Hundred Years of Solitude, García Márquez’s literary career developed important works such as The Story of a wreck or The Autumn of the Patriarch, at the same time he published numerous essays, imbued with his politics.

In 1981 he established themselves with Chronicle of a Death Foretold, a novel tilting the balance in its favor the 1982 Nobel Prize. Come after other masterpieces like the smell of guava or Love in the Time of Cholera.

In his last works say that Memories of My Melancholy Whores big controversy raised by the treatment of prostitution and in 2010 published a comprehensive anthology of his lectures more interesting, under the title I am not here to make a speech.

Several of the works of Garcia Marquez have been made into films, although none as successfully as their literary equivalents. Maybe we should highlight the adjustments to the Colonel one writes or Love in the Time of Cholera.

The work of Gabriel García Márquez is considered essential to understanding Spanish literature in the twentieth century and its influence has spread to several generations of writers themselves breaking the language barriers.

List of Works
Novels

* In Evil Hour (1962)
* One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
* The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975)
* Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)
* The General in His Labyrinth (1989)

Novellas

* Leaf Storm (1955)
* No One Writes to the Colonel (1961)
* Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981)
* Of Love and Other Demons (1994)
* Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2004)

Short story collections

* Ojos de Perro Azul (Eyes of a Blue Dog) (1974)
* Innocent Eréndira, and Other Stories (1978)
* Collected Stories (1984)
* Strange Pilgrims (1993)

Non Fiction

* The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor (1970)
* The Solitude of Latin America (1982)
* The Fragrance of Guava (1982, with Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza)
* Clandestine in Chile (1986)
* News of a Kidnapping (1996)
* A Country for Children (1998)
* Living to Tell the Tale (2002)