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Simone de Beauvoir  was a novelist, feminist and a writer. She thought the human struggle to be free. Women are not women by birth but society later makes a female a  woman. She  did not consider herself a philosopher but she had a significant role in feminism and existentialism.            Her  The  Second Sex  is a book , in which Beauvoir  discusses the treatment of women throughout history. Like many of her associates, she believed that socialist development and class struggle were needed to solve society's problems, not a women's movement.            De Beauvoir's prominent open relationships overshadowed her substantial academic reputation. Beginning in 1929, de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre were partners and remained so for fifty-one years, until his death in 1980. De Beauvoir chose never to marry or set up a joint household and she never had children. This gave her the time to advance her education and engage in political causes, to write and teach, and t

     George Ade was an American writer, syndicated newspaper columnist, and playwright who, gained national notoriety at the turn of the twentieth century with his "Stories of the Streets and of the Town," a column that used street language and slang to describe daily life in Chicago, and a column of his fables in slang, which were humorous stories that featured vernacular speech and the liberal use of capitalization in his characters' dialog. Ade's fables in slang gained him wealth and fame as an American humorist, as well as earning him the nickname of the "Aesop of Indiana."          Born in February 9 1866 in Indiana as  the a second  youngest child of Adaline and John Ade. George was the second youngest of the family's seven children. George's father served as the Newton County, Indiana, recorder, and was also a banker in Kentland; his mother was a homemaker. George enjoyed reading from an early age, but he disliked manual labor and was n

       Langston Hughes  was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin,  Missouri.  He moved to New York City as a young man, where he made his career  .          Langston Hughes was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance, the flowering of black intellectual, literary, and artistic life that took place in the 1920s in a number of American cities, particularly Harlem. A major poet, Hughes also wrote novels, short stories, essays, and plays. He sought to honestly portray the joys and hardships of working-class black lives, avoiding both sentimental idealization and negative stereotypes. As he wrote in his essay  “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,”  “We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn’t matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.” In fact, the title Fine Clothes to the Jew, which w

Toni Morrison   was an America novelist, essayist, book editor and college professor, won Pulitzer prize in 1988.she was born and raised in Ohio .She was the second of four children in a working class African American family. Her mother was from Alabama and her father was from  Georgia.               As mention in wikipediya/Morrison Her first novel  The Bluest Eye  was published in 1970 and she won National Book critics Awards with “song of Solomon "which was published in 1977 that brought her in the national level  writer . She  was widely known after her “ Beloved ” published ,she won a Pulitzer prize for that.                  Morrison was graduated from Howard University. she later taught English in the same university. She became the first black female editor in fiction in New York City .She had two children with his spouse Harold Morison .               Morrison was baldly shocked when she knew the two black business man were lynched near the his (her father)

          George Bernard Shaw an Irish playwright, critics, polemicist and political activist was born in 26 July 1856and was died in 2 November 1950.he wrote more than 6o play including “ Man and Superman”, “ Pygmalion”,and  “ Sanint   joan ”. His influence on western culture ,politics and Theatre started from the 1880s to death and later. He was born in Dublin and moved to London in 1876             Shaw was born in a lower  middle-class  family as a youngest child and only one son of George  Carr  Shaw and Lucinda Elizabeth. His father George  Carr  Shaw was only an unsuccessful member in hi family all other cousins were highly successful member in  Ireland .Shaw married  Bassie   Gurly  in 1852 . She came to despise her ineffectual and often drunken husband, with whom she shared what their son later described as a life of "shabby-genteel poverty".           By the time of Shaw’s birth his mother was in affair with George John Lee, his biological  father.