W. Shakespeare 

(1564-1616)

W. Shakespeare is a very famous English writer. He is well-known all over the world. And he was not only a writer, he also was the greatest poet and dramatist. This man was born in a small English town of Stratford-on-Avon. He grew up in a large family of eight brothers and four sisters, but many of them died very young. He wrote 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and 2 poems. And he had his own theatre. The name of that theatre was "The Globe".