Anne Carroll Moore (July 12, 1871 January 20, 1961)[1] was an

American educator, writer and advocate for children's libraries. She was
named Annie after an aunt, and officially changed her name to Anne in
her fifties, to avoid confusion with Annie E. Moore, another woman who
was also publishing material about juvenile libraries at that time. [2] From
1906 to 1941 she headed children's library services for the New York
Public Library system. Moore wrote Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas
Story, one of two runners-up for the 1925 Newbery Medal.[3]

Rabindranath Tagore[a] FRAS ( i/rbindrnt tr/; Bengali: [robinddro natd akur]), also
written Ravndrantha Thkura[1] (7 May 1861 7 August 1941),[b] sobriquet Gurudev,[c] was
a Bengali polymath[3] who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with
Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of Gitanjali and its
"profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse",[4] he became the first non-European to win the
Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.[5] In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and
mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside
Bengal.[6] Sometimes referred to as "the Bard of Bengal",[7] Tagore introduced new prose and
verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from
traditional models based on classical Sanskrit. He was highly influential in introducing the best
of Indian culture to the West and vice versa, and he is generally regarded as the outstanding
creative artist of the modern Indian subcontinent.

Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 22 December 1880; alternatively "Mary
Anne" or "Marian"), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English
novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian
era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on
the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866),
Middlemarch (187172), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in
provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight.
She used a male pen name, she said, to ensure her works would be taken seriously.
Female authors were published under their own names during Eliot's life, but she
wanted to escape the stereotype of women only writing lighthearted romances. She
also wished to have her fiction judged separately from her already extensive and
widely known work as an editor and critic. An additional factor in her use of a pen
name may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny and to
prevent scandals attending her relationship with the married George Henry Lewes,
with whom she lived for over 20 years.[1]

William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 23 April 1850) was a major English

Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic
Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).
Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a
semiautobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a
number of times. It was posthumously titled and published, before which it was
generally known as "the poem to Coleridge". [1] Wordsworth was Britain's Poet
Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.[2]

Ruskin Bond (born 19 May 1934) is an Indian author of British descent. He lives
with his adopted family in Landour, in Mussoorie, India. The Indian Council for
Child Education has recognized his role in the growth of children's literature in
India. He got the Sahitya Academy Award in 1992 for Our Trees Still Grow in
Dehra, for his published work in English. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999
and Padma Bhushan in 2014.[1]