Writer Penelope Fitzgerald was born before the founder of the Summer Shakespeare Festival.
Vclav Havel (] ; 5 October 193618 December 2011) was a Czech writer and former dissident, who served as the 1st President of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003. 
Penelope Fitzgerald (17 December 1916  28 April 2000) was an English Booker Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer. 
 The festival was originally initiated by Vclav Havel. 
