Ferdowsi

Abu al-Qasim Mansur bin Hasan Tosi, better known by his pen name Ferdowsi, was a Persian poet who lived from 940 to 1025 and is notable as the author of the Shahnameh, the Book of Kings, one of the world's longest epic poems created by a single poet and the greatest epic of the Persian-speaking countries. He came from a family of landed gentry and spent the beginning of his life in the Samanid era, when the Samanid kings supported the Persian language. Researchers believe that he began composing the Shahnameh, based on the Abu-Mansuri Shahnameh, at the age of 30. He is celebrated as one of the most influential figures of Persian literature and one of the greatest in the history of literature. He was buried in his own garden, because burial in the cemetery of Tus had been forbidden by a local cleric who considered him a heretic.