Why do you think it is important to know and be familiar with the authors and their literary works?
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cuz then you won't know who Shakespeare is
his works consists of old English like in the story "the tempest" or the popular story Romeo and Juliet.
leave Shakespeare, we won't even know the literary works of our country.
we won't know who lord Ram was or who was Sita or why did Ravan capture Sita or what happens next. Valmiki's Ramayan would never existed if nobody ever read it, same goes with mahbharat. in Bengals we have many authors like rabindranath tagore, satyajit ray etc. if one reads there works then it would make him more aware or intelligent or curious about a particular thing. for example if u read Feluda by Mr. ray then one might someday become a detective, but that depends how observant the person is.
anyways if one is not familiar with the authors and their literary works then that person would miss out many morals and more.
"READ BOOKS WHEN YOU ARE FREE
READ MINDS WHEN YOU ARE'NT........
BUT DO READ "
- Rabidranath Tagore