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Famous Authors

Famous Authors

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This series offers historical documentaries featuring famous authors. Each episode offers a concise look at each author's life, their inspirations, and accomplishments. Narrated by renowned director Malcolm Hossick.

Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Jane Austen
Famous Authors
Episode 1
35 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of William Blake
Famous Authors
Episode 2
38 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Famous Authors
Episode 3
36 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of the Brontë Sisters
Famous Authors
Episode 4
32 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Charles Dickens
Famous Authors
Episode 5
37 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Edgar Allan Poe
Famous Authors
Episode 6
42 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of George Eliot
Famous Authors
Episode 7
35 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of William Faulkner
Famous Authors
Episode 8
34 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Famous Authors
Episode 9
32 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy
Famous Authors
Episode 10
35 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Ernest Hemingway
Famous Authors
Episode 11
29 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Henry James
Famous Authors
Episode 12
36 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Henrik Ibsen
Famous Authors
Episode 13
38 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of James Joyce
Famous Authors
Episode 14
36 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of John Keats
Famous Authors
Episode 15
33 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Famous Authors
Episode 16
32 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of George Orwell
Famous Authors
Episode 17
34 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Walter Scott
Famous Authors
Episode 18
39 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of William Shakespeare
Famous Authors
Episode 19
43 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Famous Authors
Episode 20
36 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of John Steinbeck
Famous Authors
Episode 21
39 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Jonathan Swift
Famous Authors
Episode 22
35 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Mark Twain
Famous Authors
Episode 23
33 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Walt Whitman
Famous Authors
Episode 24
29 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Virginia Woolf
Famous Authors
Episode 25
35 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of William Butler Yeats
Famous Authors
Episode 26
33 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Émile Zola
Famous Authors
Episode 27
36 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Robert Louis Stevenson
Famous Authors
Episode 28
33 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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