Author
Hans Christian Andersen
2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875
Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark, to a father who claimed to be related to nobility. After school, he worked as a weaver's apprentice and as a tailor's assistant. At 14, he moved to Copenhagen to be an actor, and was accepted into the Royal Danish Theatre. His career ended when his voice changed, and he decided to become a writer. He published his first story, The Ghost at Palnatoke's Grave, in 1822. An acquaintance paid all expenses to send him to grammar school in Slagelse. He also attended school at Elsinore until 1827. He later admitted that his school years were the darkest and bitterest of his life. After school, Andersen resumed writing. In 1829, he started to see his first successes, publishing a short story, "A Journey on Foot from Holmen's Canal to the East Point of Amager", and a collection of poems. In 1833 he received a traveling grant from the King and set out to travel through Europe. He published his first novel, The Improvisatore, in 1835. He also published the first set of Fairy Tales, following up with more stories in 1836 and 1837. Although they were not initially successful, they have become his best-known works. He wrote a well-received poem, Jeg er en Skandinav, which celebrated Scandinavism, in 1839. In 1857, following a visit to Charles Dickens in England, Andersen met Danish actor Lauritz Eckardt and Danish ballet dancer Harald Scharff in Paris. In 1860, he met them again in Bavaria, and the three of them spent a week in Munich together. Anderson fell in love with Scharff, and started corresponding with him when Scharff and Eckardt left Munich. They were united when Andersen returned to Copenhagen in 1862. Their affair lasted for over a year before it was ended by Scharff, and Andersen did not have another serious relationship. In 1872, Andersen was injured in a fall, and he died of his injuries in 1875.
Bibliography
Books
30 books
Thumbelina
1911
Hans Christian Andersen, Elsa Beskow, Michael Foreman, Michael Morpurgo, Kimberley Reynolds, Catherine Babok, Susannah Mary Paull
La Petite Sirene (French Well Loved Tales)
1935
Hans Christian Andersen, Yayoi Kusama, Bernadette Watts
Kate Greenaway's Original Drawings for The Snow Queen
1960
Hans Christian Andersen, T. Pym, Laura Barrett, Geraldine McCaughrean, Julia Whelan, Bagram Ibatoulline, Natacha Godeau, Sanna Annukka, Chris Baker, Daniela Terrazzini, Armada Press, Emilie Majarian, Anna Award, Patricia MacCarthy, Yevgeniya Yeretskaya
The emperor's new clothes
1945
Hans Christian Andersen, Ève Tharlet, Jeffrey Stewart Timmins, Stephanie True Peters
Hans Christian Andersen's The Fir Tree
1960
Hans Christian Andersen, Sanna Annukka, Sanna Annukka Ltd Staff, Nancy E. Burkert
Wild Swans (6016)
1863
Hans Christian Andersen, Yvonne Gilbert, Naomi Lewis, Ulrich Renz, Marc Robitzky, Dana Milena Enss, Anit Salgotra, Christa Kleimaker
Fabulandia
1964
Anthology, Li Cao-huei, W. Hauffs, Lewis Carroll, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Hans Christian Andersen, Sophie, comtesse de Ségur, Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]
Folk and fairy tales
1935
Veronica S. Hutchinson, Joseph Jacobs, Wilhelm Grimm, Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm], Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, George Webbe Dasent, Gudrun Thorne-Thomsen, Beatrix Potter, May Hill, Hans Christian Andersen, E. C. Babbitt, Harold Courlander, George Herzog, Simone Chamoud, Ruth Sawyer, Arthur Michell Ransome, Wanda Gág, Katharine Gibson, Aesop, Eleanor Troxell, Alice Day Pratt, Frances Van Peenen, Edith M. Patch, Marian Bullard, Berta Hader, Elmer Hader, Kurt Wiese, Rhea Wells, Peggy Bacon, Violet Maxwell, Helen Hill
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A Treasury of Christmas Classics
1994
William Shakespeare, George MacDonald, Charles Wesley, John Milton, Saint Ephraem Syrus, Henry van Dyke, John Donne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Madeleine L'Engle, St Matthew the Apostle, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Henry Hopkins, O. Henry, Charles Dickens, Charles Jennens, Christina Georgina Rosetti, Hans Christian Andersen, Alfred Lord Tennyson
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