Klaus Baudelaire is the middle child as well as the only boy of the three. He often has his nose in a book and uses his reading skills to get his sisters out of danger, which is quite often. If anyone around Klaus needs the definition of a word, Klaus usually blurts it out as if it were a reflex.
Romain Rolland
Romain was born in 1866 and died in 1944. He was a French writer. Romain Rolland's most famous work is Jean Christophe, a partly autobiographical novel, which also won him the 1915 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Stevenson was born in 1850 and died in 1894. He was a Scottish writer. Robert Louis Stevenson is famous for Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He also wrote and published travel books like An Inland Voyage (1878) and Travels with a Donkey (1879).

Mark Twain
He was born in 1835 and died in 1910. Mark Twain, pseudonym for Samuel Langhorne Clemens, is considered one of the greatest American writers. He's famous for "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1885), and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876).

Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway was born in 1899 and died in 1961. He was an American writer. Ernest Hemingway is famous for "The Old Man and the Sea," the novel for which he received a Nobel Prize in Literature, but he also created other works, including: "In Our Time" (1925), and "The Sun Also Rises" (1926).

H.G. Wells
Wells was born in 1866 and died in 1946. Wells exploded into fame with his first majorfiction work: The Time Machine in 1895. Soon after the publicationof this book, Wells followed with The Island of Dr. Moreau (1895),The Invisible Man (1897), and perhaps his most famous popular work:The War of the Worlds (1898).