Fyodor Dostoevsky: A Life as Dark as His Novels
A firing squad, exile in Siberia, epilepsy, and gambling debts — the life that shaped Fyodor Dostoevsky's vision of good and evil in human nature.
Literary Biography
George Orwell and the Guilt That Shaped His Writing
Before writing 1984, George Orwell shot an elephant he didn't want to kill just to look strong. How that guilt shaped his…