Authors

 Many people read books, novels for knowledge, entertainment but

where does these books come from? Who writes these books?

The sole answer is Authors

Authors are the one who wrote these books, who work day and night to
provide us good story, history and many other stuff

So let us find about some authors in this presentation

 Introduction
Hello everyone
My name is Ankur Nag
From Grade 9
Edify School Patna

And in this presentation we are going to

talk about 5 Authors
 Ruskin Bond
Ruskin Bond was born in 19 May 1934 to Edith Clarke and Aubrey Alexander Bond,
in Kasauli, Panjab, India. His father taught English to the princesses of Jamnagar
palace and Ruskin and his sister Ellen lived there till he was six. Later, Ruskin's
father joined the Royal Air Force in 1939 and Ruskin along with his mother and
sister went to live at his maternal home at Dehradun. Shortly after that, he was
sent to a boarding school in Missouri. When Ruskin was eight years old, his mother
separated from his father and married a Punjabi Hindu, Hari. His father arranged
for Ruskin to be brought to New Delhi where he was posted. He did his schooling
from Bishop Cotton School in Shimla, from where he graduated in 1951. He won
several writing competitions in the school including the Irwin Divinity Prize and the
Hailey Literature Prize. He wrote one of his first short stories, "Untouchable", at the
age of sixteen in 1951.After his Father’s death He worked for a few years
freelancing from Delhi and Dehradun. He sustained himself financially by writing
short stories and poems for newspapers and magazines
 In 1963, he went to live in Mussoorie because besides liking the place, it was close to the editors
and publishers in Delhi. He edited a magazine for four years. In the 1980s, Penguin set up in India
and approached him to write some books. He had written Vagrants in the Valley in 1956, as a sequel
to The Room on the Roof. These two novels were published in one volume by Penguin India in 1993.
The following year a collection of his non-fiction writings, The Best of Ruskin Bond was published by
Penguin India. His interest in supernatural fiction led him to write popular titles such as Ghost Stories
from the Raj, A Season of Ghosts, and A Face in the Dark and other Hauntings. Since then he has
written over five hundred short stories, essays and novels, including The Blue Umbrella, Funny Side
Up, A Flight of Pigeons and more than 50 books for children.
Most of his works are influenced by life in the hill stations at the foothills of
the Himalayas, where he spent his childhood. His first novel, The Room on the Roof, was
written when he was 16 and published when he was 21.
Few of his Famous books are The Blue Umbrella, Cherry Tree, The night train at Deoli
For his first novel, The Room on the Roof, he received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in
1957
He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra.
He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and Padma Bhushan in 2014
 R.K Narayan
R. K. Narayan was born in a Tamil Brahmin family on 10 October 1906 in Madras (now Chennai,
Tamil Nadu), British India into a Hindu family. He was one of eight children; six sons and two
daughters. His father was a school headmaster, and Narayan did some of his studies at his
father's school. As his father's job entailed frequent transfers, Narayan spent a part of his
childhood under the care of his maternal grandmother, Parvati. During this time, his best friends
and playmates were a peacock and a mischievous monkey. While living with his grandmother,
Narayan studied at a succession of schools in Madras, including the Lutheran Mission School
in Purasawalkam, C.R.C. High School, and the Christian College High School. Narayan was an
avid reader, and his early literary diet included Dickens, Wodehouse, Arthur Conan
Doyle and Thomas Hardy. When he was twelve years old, Narayan participated in a pro-
independence march, for which he was reprimanded by his uncle. In 1930, Narayan wrote his
first novel, Swami and Friends,] an effort ridiculed by his uncle and rejected by a string of
publishers. With this book, Narayan created Malgudi, a town that creatively reproduced the
social sphere of the country; while it ignored the limits imposed by colonial rule, it also grew with
the various socio-political changes of British and post-independence India. Narayan had sent the
manuscript of Swami and Friends to a friend at Oxford, and about this time, the friend showed
the manuscript to Graham Greene. Greene recommended the book to his publisher, and it was
finally published in 1935. Greene also counselled Narayan on shortening his name to become
more familiar to the English-speaking audience. [The book was semi-autobiographical and built
upon many incidents from his own childhood. Reviews were favorable but sales were few.
Narayan's next novel The Bachelor of Arts (1937), was inspired in part by his experiences at
college.
During his career he was a leading author of early Indian literature in English along
with Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao. And his book The Financial Expert was hailed as one
of the most original works of 1951 and Sahitya Academy Award winner The Guide
was adapted for the film (winning a Filmfare Award for Best Film) and for Broadway.
Narayan highlights the social context and everyday life of his characters. He has been
compared to William Faulkner who created a similar fictional town and likewise explored
with humor and compassion the energy of ordinary life. Narayan's short stories have
been compared with those of Guy de Maupassant because of his ability to compress a
narrative.
In a career that spanned over sixty years Narayan received many awards and honors
including the AC Benson Medal from the Royal Society of Literature, the Padma
Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan, India's second and third highest civilian awards,
[
and in 1994 the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, the highest honor of India's national
academy of letters. He was also nominated to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of
the Indian Parliament.
 Mulk Raj Anand
Mulk Raj Anand (12 December 1905 – 28 September 2004) was an Indian writer in
English, recognized for his depiction of the lives of the poorer castes in traditional Indian
society. One of the pioneers of Indo-Anglian fiction, he, together with R. K.
Narayan, Ahmad Ali and Raja Rao, was one of the first India-based writers in English to
gain an International readership. Born in Peshawar, Anand studied at Khalsa College,
Amritsar, graduating with honors in 1924 before moving to England. While working in a
restaurant to support himself, he attended University College London as an
undergraduate and later studied at Cambridge University, earning a Ph.D. in Philosophy
in 1929 with a dissertation on Bertrand Russell and the English empiricists. During this
time he forged friendships with members of the Bloomsbury Group. He also spent time
in Geneva, lecturing at the League of Nations' International Committee on Intellectual
Cooperation
Mulk Raj Anand's literary career was launched by a family tragedy arising from the
rigidity of India's caste system. His first prose essay was a response to the suicide of an
aunt excommunicated by her family for sharing a meal with a Muslim woman. His first
novel, Untouchable, published in 1935, is a chilling exposé of the lives of
India's untouchable caste which were neglected at that time.
. His work includes poetry and essays on a wide range of subjects, as well as autobiographies,
novels and short stories. Prominent among his novels are The Village(1939), Across the Black
Waters (1939), The Sword and the Sickle(1942), all written in England; Coolie (1936) and The
Private Life of an Indian Prince(1953) are perhaps the most important of his works written in India.
He also founded a literary magazine, Marg, and taught in various universities. His 1953
novel The Private Life of an Indian Prince is autobiographical in the manner of the rest
of his subsequent oeuvre. In 1950 Anand embarked on a project to write a seven-part
autobiography titled "seven ages of man", of which he was only able to complete four
parts beginning in 1951 with Seven Summers, followed by Morning Face, "Confession
of a Lover" and "Bubble". Like much of his later work, it contains elements of his
spiritual journey as he struggles to attain a higher degree of self-awareness.
He is also noted for being among the first writers to
incorporate Punjabi and Hindustani idioms into English, and was a recipient of the
civilian honor of the Padma Bhushan
 Isaac Asimov
 Isaac Asimov was born in 2 January 1920, was a Russian-born American
writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. During his lifetime,
Asimov was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along
with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. A prolific writer, he wrote or
edited more than 500 books. He also wrote an estimated 90,000 letters
and postcards. Best known for his hard science fiction, Asimov also
wrote mysteries and fantasy, as well as much nonfiction. Asimov's family
travelled to the United States via Liverpool on the RMS Baltic, arriving on
February 3, 1923 when he was three years old. His parents spoke Yiddish and
English with him, and he remained fluent in those; he never
learned Russian. Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, Asimov taught himself to
read at the age of five (and later taught his sister to read as well, enabling
her to enter school in the second grade). Asimov attended New York City
public schools from age five, including Boys High
School in Brooklyn. Graduating at 15, he attended the City College of New
York for several days before accepting a scholarship at Seth Low Junior
College.
 His early career, dominated by science fiction, began with short stories in 1939 and
novels in 1950. This lasted until about 1958, all but ending after publication of The
Naked Sun (1957). He began publishing nonfiction as co-author of a college-level
textbook called Biochemistry and Human Metabolism. Following the brief orbit of the
first man-made satellite Sputnik I by the USSR in 1957, he wrote more nonfiction,
particularly popular science books, and less science fiction. Over the next quarter-
century, he wrote only four science fiction novels, and 120 nonfiction books. Asimov's
most famous work is the Foundation series, the first three books of which won the one-
time Hugo Award for "Best All-Time Series" in 1966.His other major series are
the Galactic Empire series and the Robot series. The Galactic Empire novels are set in
the much earlier history of the same fictional universe as the Foundation series. Later,
with Foundation and Earth(1986), he linked this distant future to the Robot stories,
creating a unified "future history" for his stories. He also wrote over 380 short stories,
including the social science fiction novelette "Nightfall", which in 1964 was voted the
best short science fiction story of all time by the Science Fiction Writers of America.
Asimov wrote the Lucky Starr series of juvenile science-fiction novels using the pen
name Paul French.
He was president of the American Humanist Association. Several entities have been
named in his honor, including the asteroid (5020) Asimov, a crater on Mars. Asimov
won more than a dozen annual awards for particular works of science fiction and a
half-dozen lifetime awards. He also received 14 honorary doctorate degrees from
universities
 Katherine Mansfield
 Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January
1923) was a New Zealand writer, essayist and journalist, widely considered one
of the most influential and important authors of the modernist movement. Her
works are celebrated across the world, and have been published in 25
languages. Born and raised in a house on Tinakori Road in
the Wellington suburb of Thorndon, Mansfield was the third child in the
Beauchamp family. After being raised by her parents and her beloved
grandmother, she began school in Karori with her sisters before
attending Wellington Girls' College. The Beauchamp girls later switched to the
elite Fitzherbert Terrace School, where Mansfield became friends with Maata
Mahapuku. Mansfield wrote short stories and poetry under a variation of her
own name, Katherine Mansfield, which
explored anxiety, and existentialism alongside a developing New Zealand
identity. When she was 19, she left New Zealand and settled in England, A
street in Menton, France, where she lived and wrote, is named after her. An
award, the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship is offered annually to enable
a New Zealand writer to work at her former home, the Villa Isola Bella. New
Zealand's pre-eminent short story competition is named in her honor
Some of her famous books are Garden Party, Miss Brill , Bliss
Many Award are named after Katherine like Katherine Mansfield Memorial Award
Mansfield was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis in 1917, and she died in
France aged 34.
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