Here is a summary of the notable figures and their works mentioned:
**Dick Gregory (Shame):**
- Richard Claxton Gregory was an American comedian, actor, writer, activist, and social critic.
- He became popular among African-American communities in the southern United States for his humor that addressed bigotry and racism.
- Gregory was arrested multiple times and went on hunger strikes. He died of heart failure in 2017.
**Mean Kandasamy (Apologies For Living On):**
- Ilavenil Meena Kandasamy is an Indian poet, fiction writer, translator, and activist from Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
- She developed an early interest in poetry and completed a Doctorate of Philosophy in Socio-linguistics.
- Kandasamy began writing poetry at 17 and translated books by Dalit writers and leaders into English.
**Alfred Noyes (The Highway Man):**
- Alfred Noyes was an English poet, short-story writer, and playwright.
- Born in Wolverhampton, England, he moved to Aberystwyth, Wales, where the Welsh coast and mountains inspired him.
- Noyes left Aberystwyth for Exeter College, Oxford, but failed to get his degree due to his literary pursuits.
**Catherine Mansfield (A Cup Of Tea):**
- Kathleen Mansfield Murry was a New Zealand writer and critic who was an important figure in the modernist movement.
- She left New Zealand at 19 and settled in England, becoming friends with figures like D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.
- Mansfield died of pulmonary tuberculosis in France at the age of 34.
**Earnest Hemingway (A Day’s Wait):**
- Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist.
- He served as an ambulance driver in World War I and was seriously wounded, experiences that informed his novel "A Farewell to Arms."
- Hemingway was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.
**Philip Larkin (Next Please):**
- Philip Arthur Larkin was an English poet, novelist, and librarian.
- His first book of poetry, "The North Ship," was published in 1945, followed by two novels.
- Larkin graduated from Oxford University and became a librarian. He died in 1985.
**Ruskin Bond (The Thief):**
- Ruskin Bond is an Indian author known for his novels, short stories, essays, and children's books.
- His first novel, "The Room on the Roof," was published in 1956.
- Bond was born in Kasauli, Punjab, and attended Bishop Cotton School in Shimla.
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