Christian AndersenHans Christian Andersen, one of the best-known personalities in literature, is best known for merging conventional folk tales with his own brilliant fantasy to build the fairy tales known to most children nowadays. The Danish author was born in the sums of real life. Despite living in poverty, he eventually attended Copenhagen University. Despite the fact that Andersen wrote plays, poems, and books, he is best known for his stories and other fairy tales, written between 1835 and 1872. This work encompasses such famous tales as The Emperor's New Clothes, The Tinderbox, The Ugly Duckling, The Snow Queen, The Little Mermaid, The Story of a Mother, and The Swineherd. His greatest work is still prestigious today, assisting some of the works of writers ranging from Charles Dickens to Oscar Wilde and encouraging many of the works of Disney and other motion picture companies. Hans Andersen, the one who traveled greatly during his life, died in his home in the bright sun on August 4, 1875. Being a fruitful writer of travelogs, novels, plays, and poems, he is best remembered for his fairy tales, which is an intellectual sort of area, so he mastered that himself and later became as mythical as the tales he wrote. Read More Read Less