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Christopher Marlowe
The son of a shoemaker, Marlowe was born two months before Shakespeare. A great wit and a precocious..
William Matthews
William Matthews, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 11, 1942, was educated at Yale University an..
John Masefield
Poet laureate of Great Britain from 1930 until his death in 1967. Masefield himself did not think he..
A. A. Milne
Alan Alexander Milne was born in 1882 in Scotland. He soon moved to England, where his father used t..
Antonio Machado
Antonio Machado was born in Seville and moved to Madrid at the age of eight. He studied in Paris whe..
Spike Milligan
"Spike" Milligan was born in Ahmednagar, India, on 16 April 1918 to an Irish-born officer in the Bri..
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Born in 1893 in the Georgian village of Bagdadi (which was renamed Mayakovsky after his death), Vlad..
Edwin Markham
Edwin Markham was born in Oregon City, Oregon, April 23, 1852; [died, 1940]. Removed at an early age..
William Vaughn Moody
William Vaughn Moody was born July 8, 1869, in Spenser, Indiana. His parents died when he was young,..
Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley (5 May 1890–28 March 1957) was an American journalist, novelist, and poet.
He..
Heather McHugh
Heather McHugh was born in California in 1948 and raised in rural Virginia. She entered Harvard Univ..
Lucy Maud Montgomery
One of Canada’s most cherished authors, Lucy Maud Montgomery was born on November 30, 1874 in Clifto..
Edwin Morgan
Edwin George Morgan was born 27 April 1920 in Glasgow’s West End. Soon after his birth his parents d..
Les Murray
Leslie Allan Murray was born in 1938 in Nabiac, a village on the north coast of New South Wales, Aus..
William Morris
William Morris was born in Walthamstow, Essex, on 24 March 1834. The son of a wealthy businessman, h..
Archibald MacLeish
He was born in Glencoe, Illinois, the son of Andrew MacLeish, a prosperous dry-goods merchant, and M..
Edwin Muir
Edwin Muir (15 May 1887 - 3 January, 1959) was a Scottish poet and novelist.
He was was born on a..
Louis MacNeice
Louis MacNeice was born on September 12, 1907, in Belfast, Ireland. He attended Oxford, where he maj..
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine on 22nd February, 1892. Cora St Vincent Millay ra..
Marianne Moore
Born near St. Louis, Missouri, on November 15, 1887, Marianne Moore was raised in the home of her gr..
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