WORLD AUTHORS By Erin Roan

YOUR MISSIONLocate each of these famous world author’s hometowns in Google EarthZoom in and examine the setting more closelyIdentify five things you find interesting or think are relevant about the author’s hometownoThis can include architecture, geography, city vs. country, etc.

YANN MARTELYann Martel is the author of many award-winning novels, most famously The Life of PiBorn June 25, 1963Salamanca, Spain Zoom in! Look at theSpanish architecture!

HERMAN MELVILLEMost famously authored Moby Dick, but he also wrote a few other books and some poetry later in lifeBorn August 1, 1819New York City, New York

THE BRONTE SISTERSCharlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte were sisters and all became authors of classic novelsCharlotte: Jane Eyre, Emily: Wuthering Heights, Anne: Agnes Grey, The Tenant of Wildfell HallBorn in Thornton, Yorkshire, but spent most of their lives in Haworth, Yorkshire

LEO TOLSTOYAuthor of major Russian workssuch as War and Peace and Anna KareninaBorn September 9, 1928 at his family’s estate – Yasnaya Polyana

GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZA champion of Latin American literature, Marquez’s most famous work is Love in the Time of CholeraBorn March 6, 1927Aracataca, Colombia