Author: Thomas Hardy
Alternate names: HARDY, THOMAS, 1840-1928.; Thomas HARDY; Hardy, Thomas; Hardy, Defendant, Thomas; Thomas, Hardy,; Thomas Thomas Hardy; Thomas hardy; Hardy T; THOMAS HARDY; Ha dai; hardy-thomas; Thomas Hardy Hardy; Hadai; T Hardy; H Hardy; Томас Гарди; Т.Гарди; Thomas HArdy; Thomas Hardy and Richard Purdy; Albert J. Guerard Thomas Hardy; THomas Hardy; thomas hardy; Hardy, Thomas, Thomas; Thomas ( Edited by Cyril Aldred with an Introduction by Sylvia Lynd ) Hardy; Thomas 1840-1928 Hardy; Thomas s Hardy; HARDY THOMAS; Thomas Hardy; Kenneth S. Lynn and Arno Jewett (editors); Hardy Thomas; Hardy, Thomas Cunliffe, John William,; Thomas Hardy;G.M. Young (editor); Thomas, Hardy; Thomas. Hardy; Thomas (1840-1928) Hardy; Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928; Thomas; Preface by Eugenio Montale Hardy; Hardy, Thomas (editor); Skilton, David (editor); Thomas Hardy OM; HARDY,Thomas; Thomas Hardy John Paterson; Hardy, Thomas; Brewster, William T., introduction; Thomas (edit Cyril Aldred) Hardy; Hardy. Thomas. 1840-1928.; HARDY,THOMAS; Thomas Frank Hardy; Thomas Hardy.
Born: 2 June 1840
Died: 11 January 1928
Bio: Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural.

While he regarded himself primarily as a poet who composed novels mainly for financial gain, during his lifetime he was much better known for his novels, such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, which earned him a reputation as a great novelist. The bulk of his fictional works, initially published as serials in magazines, were set in the semi-fictional land of Wessex (based on the Dorchester region where he grew up) and explored tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances.