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NAME OCCUPATION SUMMARY BORN DIED  
Edward Abbey Author Desert Solitaire 29-Jan-1927 14-Mar-1989 DEAD
Lynn Abbey Author Thieves World 1948 TBD ADD
Jacob Abbott Author Franconia Stories 14-Nov-1803 31-Oct-1879 DEAD
Walter Abish Author Alphabetical Africa 24-Dec-1931 TBD ADD
M. H. Abrams Author The Mirror and the Lamp 23-Jul-1912 TBD ADD
André Aciman Author Out of Egypt 02-Jan-1951 TBD ADD
Kathy Acker Author Blood and Guts in High School 18-Apr-1947 30-Nov-1997 DEAD
Diane Ackerman Author A Natural History of the Senses 07-Oct-1948 TBD ADD
Forrest J. Ackerman Author Mr. Science Fiction 24-Nov-1916 TBD ADD
Peter Ackroyd Author The Great Fire of London 05-Oct-1949 TBD ADD
Louis Adamic Author Laughing in the Jungle 23-Mar-1899 04-Sep-1951 DEAD
Douglas Adams Author Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 11-Mar-1952 11-May-2001 DEAD
James Truslow Adams Author The Epic of America 18-Oct-1878 18-May-1949 DEAD
Richard Adams Author Watership Down 09-May-1920 TBD ADD
William Taylor Adams Author Oliver Optic's Magazine 30-Jul-1822 27-Mar-1897 DEAD
Joseph Addison Author The Spectator 01-May-1672 17-Jun-1719 DEAD
George Ade Author Fables in Slang 09-Feb-1866 16-May-1944 DEAD
Aesop Author Purported author of Fables ? TBD DEAD
Shmuel Agnon Author 'Tmol Shilshom 17-Jul-1888 17-Feb-1970 DEAD
Allan Ahlberg Author Juvenile author, The Jolly Postman 1938 TBD ADD
Fouad Ajami Author Director of Middle East Studies, SAIS 09-Sep-1945 TBD ADD
Louisa May Alcott Author Little Women 29-Nov-1832 06-Mar-1888 DEAD
Brian Aldiss Author Supertoys Last All Summer Long 18-Aug-1925 TBD ADD
Horatio Alger Author Ragged Dick 13-Jan-1832 18-Jul-1899 DEAD
Nelson Algren Author The Man with the Golden Arm 28-Mar-1909 09-May-1981 DEAD
David Allen Author Getting Things Done 28-Dec-1945 TBD ADD
Stephen E. Ambrose Author Band of Brothers 10-Jan-1936 13-Oct-2002 DEAD
Nicholas Amhurst Author The Craftsman 16-Oct-1697 12-Apr-1742 DEAD
Martin Amis Author The Rachel Papers 25-Aug-1949 TBD ADD
Cleveland Amory Author The Cat Who Came for Christmas 02-Sep-1917 14-Oct-1998 DEAD
Rudolfo Anaya Author Bless Me, Ultima 30-Oct-1937 TBD ADD
Hans Christian Andersen Author Danish master of the fairy tale 02-Apr-1805 04-Aug-1875 DEAD
Margaret Anderson Author Founder of the Little Review 24-Nov-1886 18-Oct-1973 DEAD
Poul Anderson Author Tau Zero 25-Nov-1926 31-Jul-2001 DEAD
Sherwood Anderson Author The Triumph of the Egg 13-Sep-1876 08-Mar-1941 DEAD
V. C. Andrews Author Flowers in the Attic 06-Jun-1918 19-Dec-1986 DEAD
Ivo Andric Author The Bridge on the Drina 09-Oct-1892 13-Mar-1975 DEAD
Katharine Anthony Author Biographer, The Lambs 27-Nov-1877 20-Nov-1965 DEAD
Mary Antin Author The Promised Land 1881 15-May-1949 DEAD
William Apess Author A Son of the Forest 31-Jan-1798 00-Apr-1839 DEAD
Aharon Appelfeld Author In the Wilderness 16-Feb-1932 TBD ADD
Max Apple Author I Love Gootie 22-Oct-1941 TBD ADD
Apuleius Author The Golden Ass ? TBD DEAD
Pietro Aretino Author Sonetti lussuriosi 20-Apr-1492 21-Oct-1556 DEAD
Karen Armstrong Author A History of God 14-Nov-1944 TBD ADD
Sholem Asch Author Yiddish novelist 01-Nov-1880 01-Aug-1957 DEAD
Kate Ascher Author The Works: Anatomy of a City 1958 TBD ADD
Isaac Asimov Author Foundation 02-Jan-1920 06-Apr-1992 DEAD
Robert Asprin Author Thieves World 28-Jun-1946 22-May-2008 DEAD
Miguel Ángel Asturias Author Hombres de maíz 19-Oct-1899 09-Jun-1974 DEAD
Gertrude Franklin Atherton Author Black Oxen 30-Oct-1857 14-Jun-1948 DEAD
Margaret Atwood Author The Handmaid's Tale 18-Nov-1939 TBD ADD
Louis Auchincloss Author Portrait in Brownstone 27-Sep-1917 TBD ADD
Jane Austen Author Pride and Prejudice 16-Dec-1775 18-Jul-1817 DEAD
Mary Austin Author Land of Little Rain 09-Sep-1868 13-Aug-1934 DEAD
Sergei Averintsev Author Myth of the Peoples of the World 10-Dec-1937 21-Feb-2004 DEAD
Richard Bach Author Jonathan Livingston Seagull 23-Jun-1936 TBD ADD
Delia Bacon Author Shakespeare-Bacon conspiracist 02-Feb-1811 02-Sep-1859 DEAD
Beryl Bainbridge Author English novelist 21-Nov-1934 TBD ADD
Russell Baker Author Growing Up 14-Aug-1925 TBD ADD
Joseph G. Baldwin Author Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi 00-Jan-1815 30-Sep-1864 DEAD
J. G. Ballard Author Empire of the Sun, Crash 18-Nov-1930 TBD ADD
James Bamford Author The Puzzle Palace 1946 TBD ADD
Iain Banks Author Consider Phlebas 16-Feb-1954 TBD ADD
Russell Banks Author The Sweet Hereafter 28-Mar-1940 TBD ADD
Amiri Baraka Author Hates Whitey 07-Oct-1934 TBD ADD
R. H. Barlow Author Literary executor of H. P. Lovecraft 18-May-1918 02-Jan-1951 DEAD
J. M. Barrie Author Peter Pan 09-May-1860 19-Jun-1937 DEAD
Donald Barthelme Author Come Back, Dr. Caligari 07-Apr-1931 23-Jul-1989 DEAD
John Bartlett Author Bartlett's Familiar Quotations 14-Jun-1820 03-Dec-1905 DEAD
Nicholas Basbanes Author A Gentle Madness 1943 TBD ADD
Greg Bear Author Eon 20-Aug-1951 TBD ADD
Ann Beattie Author Chilly Scenes of Winter 08-Sep-1947 TBD ADD
Pierre Beaumarchais Author The Barber of Seville 24-Jan-1732 18-May-1799 DEAD
William Thomas Beckford Author History of the Caliph Vatheck 01-Oct-1760 02-May-1844 DEAD
Donald P. Bellisario Author Wrote Battlestar Galactica, created Airwolf 08-Aug-1935 TBD ADD
Hilaire Belloc Author The Bad Child's Book of Beasts 27-Jul-1870 16-Jul-1953 DEAD
Andrei Bely Author Petersburg 26-Oct-1880 08-Jan-1934 DEAD
Peter Benchley Author Jaws 08-May-1940 11-Feb-2006 DEAD
Robert Benchley Author Humorist and screenwriter 15-Sep-1889 21-Nov-1945 DEAD
Brian Michael Bendis Author Ultimate Spider-Man, Daredevil 18-Aug-1967 TBD ADD
Stephen Vincent Benét Author John Brown's Body 22-Jul-1898 13-Mar-1943 DEAD
Gwendolyn Bennett Author Harlem Renaissance writer 08-Jul-1902 30-May-1981 DEAD
Mildred Wirt Benson Author Ghostwriter of the Nancy Drew mystery series 10-Jul-1905 28-May-2002 DEAD
Daniel Berrigan Author The Trial of the Catonsville Nine 09-May-1921 TBD ADD
Wendell Berry Author A Place on Earth 05-Aug-1934 TBD ADD
Pierre Berton Author Canadian writer and TV personality 12-Jul-1920 30-Nov-2004 DEAD
Sir Walter Besant Author All Sorts and Conditions of Men 14-Aug-1836 09-Jun-1901 DEAD
Hakim Bey Author Temporary Autonomous Zone 1945 TBD ADD
Ambrose Bierce Author The Devil's Dictionary 24-Jun-1842 1914 DEAD
John Bigelow Author Ambassador to France, memoirist 25-Nov-1817 19-Dec-1911 DEAD
Poultney Bigelow Author The German Struggle for Liberty 10-Sep-1855 28-May-1954 DEAD
Green Bar Bill Author Prominent Scouter 06-Aug-1900 09-Nov-1992 DEAD
Josh Billings Author 19th century American humorist 21-Apr-1818 14-Oct-1885 DEAD
Susan Blackmore Author The Meme Machine 29-Jul-1951 TBD ADD
William Peter Blatty Author The Exorcist 07-Jan-1928 TBD ADD
H. P. Blavatsky Author Founded Theosophy; The Secret Doctrine 12-Aug-1831 08-May-1891 DEAD
Steen Steensen Blicher Author Fragments from the Diary of a Parish Clerk 11-Oct-1782 26-Mar-1848 DEAD
James Blish Author Cities in Flight 23-May-1921 30-Jul-1975 DEAD
Roy Blount, Jr. Author Humorist 05-Oct-1941 TBD ADD
Judy Blume Author Author of children's books 12-Feb-1938 TBD ADD
Myrna Blyth Author Editor-in-Chief, Ladies' Home Journal 1939 TBD ADD
Giovanni Boccaccio Author Decameron 1313 21-Dec-1375 DEAD
Trajano Boccalini Author Ragguagli di Parnaso 1556 16-Nov-1613 DEAD
Johann Jakob Bodmer Author Von dem Wunderbaren in der Poesie 19-Jul-1698 02-Jan-1783 DEAD
Edward Bok Author Editor of Ladies' Home Journal 09-Oct-1863 09-Jan-1930 DEAD
Jorge Luis Borges Author The Garden of Forking Paths 24-Aug-1899 14-Jun-1986 DEAD
Tadeusz Borowski Author This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen 12-Nov-1922 01-Jul-1951 DEAD
James Boswell Author The Life of Samuel Johnson 29-Oct-1740 19-May-1795 DEAD
Ben Bova Author Science fiction writer 28-Nov-1932 TBD ADD
James Bovard Author Lost Rights 1956 TBD ADD
John Bowe Author Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor 1964 TBD ADD
Elizabeth Bowen Author The Heat of the Day 07-Jun-1899 22-Feb-1973 DEAD
Paul Bowles Author The Sheltering Sky 30-Dec-1910 18-Nov-1999 DEAD
Sir John Bowring Author 4th Governor of Hong Kong 17-Oct-1792 23-Nov-1872 DEAD
Kay Boyle Author The Underground Woman 19-Feb-1902 27-Dec-1992 DEAD
T. C. Boyle Author The Tortilla Curtain 07-Dec-1948 TBD ADD
Henry de Bracton Author De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae ? 1268 DEAD
Ray Bradbury Author The Martian Chronicles 22-Aug-1920 TBD ADD
Marion Zimmer Bradley Author The Mists of Avalon 03-Jun-1930 25-Sep-1999 DEAD
Gloria Brame Author Clinical sexologist 20-Aug-1955 TBD ADD
Sebastian Brant Author Ship of Fools 1457 10-May-1521 DEAD
Sasthi Brata Author Confessions of an Indian Woman Eater 1939 TBD ADD
Richard Brautigan Author So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away 30-Jan-1935 14-Oct-1984 DEAD
Donna Brazile Author Al Gore's 2000 campaign manager 15-Dec-1959 TBD ADD
André Breton Author Manifeste du Surréalisme 18-Feb-1896 28-Sep-1966 DEAD
Bertrand R. Brinley Author The Mad Scientists' Club 19-Jun-1917 20-Oct-1994 DEAD
Poppy Z. Brite Author Are You Loathsome Tonight? 25-May-1967 TBD ADD
Vera Brittain Author Testament of Youth 1893 29-Mar-1970 DEAD
Fred Brooks Author The Mythical Man-Month 19-Apr-1931 TBD ADD
Terry Brooks Author The Shannara series 08-Jan-1944 TBD ADD
Brigid Brophy Author Black Ship to Hell 12-Jun-1929 07-Aug-1995 DEAD
Claude Brown Author Manchild in the Promised Land 23-Feb-1937 02-Feb-2002 DEAD
Dan Brown Author The Da Vinci Code 22-Jun-1964 TBD ADD
Helen Gurley Brown Author Former editor, Cosmopolitan magazine 18-Feb-1922 TBD ADD
Rita Mae Brown Author Rubyfruit Jungle 28-Nov-1944 TBD ADD
Rosellen Brown Author Before and After 12-May-1939 TBD ADD
Sir Thomas Browne Author Pseudodoxia Epidemica 19-Oct-1605 19-Oct-1682 DEAD
John Brunner Author The Shockwave Rider 24-Sep-1934 25-Aug-1995 DEAD
Jean de La Bruyère Author Les Caractères de Théophraste 16-Aug-1645 10-May-1696 DEAD
John Buchan Author The Thirty-Nine Steps 26-Aug-1875 11-Feb-1940 DEAD
Pearl S. Buck Author The Good Earth 26-Jun-1892 06-Mar-1973 DEAD
Algis Budrys Author Rogue Moon 09-Jan-1931 TBD ADD
Charles Bukowski Author Love is a Dog from Hell 16-Aug-1920 09-Mar-1994 DEAD
Thomas Bulfinch Author Bullfinch's Mythology 15-Jul-1796 27-May-1867 DEAD
Mikhail Bulgakov Author The Master and Margarita 03-May-1891 10-Mar-1940 DEAD
Ivan Bunin Author Russian short story writer, Light Breathing 10-Oct-1870 08-Oct-1953 DEAD
Edward Bunker Author Animal Factory 31-Dec-1933 19-Jul-2005 DEAD
John Bunyan Author Pilgrim's Progress 00-Nov-1628 31-Aug-1688 DEAD
Augusten Burroughs Author Running With Scissors 1965 TBD ADD
Edgar Rice Burroughs Author Tarzan 01-Sep-1875 19-Mar-1950 DEAD
William S. Burroughs Author Naked Lunch 05-Feb-1914 02-Aug-1997 DEAD
Robert Burton Author The Anatomy of Melancholy 08-Feb-1577 25-Jan-1640 DEAD
Richard de Bury Author Philobiblon 24-Jan-1286 24-Apr-1345 DEAD
Leo Buscaglia Author Dr. Hug 31-Mar-1924 11-Jun-1998 DEAD
Alban Butler Author Lives of the Saints 24-Oct-1710 15-May-1773 DEAD
Robert Olen Butler Author A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain 20-Jan-1945 TBD ADD
Samuel Butler Author Erewheon 04-Dec-1835 18-Jun-1902 DEAD
Rhonda Byrne Author The Secret 1945 TBD ADD
George W. Cable Author Old Creole Days 12-Oct-1844 31-Jan-1925 DEAD
Meg Cabot Author The Princess Diaries 01-Feb-1967 TBD ADD
Thomas Cahill Author How the Irish Saved Civilization 1940 TBD ADD
Erskine Caldwell Author Tobacco Road 17-Dec-1903 11-Apr-1987 DEAD
Pat Califia Author FTM transgendered sex writer 08-Mar-1954 TBD ADD
Italo Calvino Author Se una notte d'inverno un viaggatore 15-Oct-1923 18-Sep-1985 DEAD
L. Sprague de Camp Author Lest Darkness Fall 27-Nov-1907 06-Nov-2000 DEAD
Joseph Campbell Author The Power of Myth 26-Mar-1904 31-Oct-1987 DEAD
Elias Canetti Author Crowds and Power 25-Jul-1905 14-Aug-1994 DEAD
Karel Capek Author R.U.R. 09-Jan-1890 25-Dec-1938 DEAD
Philip Caputo Author A Rumor of War 10-Jun-1941 TBD ADD
Dale Carnegie Author How to Win Friends and Influence People 24-Nov-1888 01-Nov-1955 DEAD
Nicholas G. Carr Author Does IT Matter? 1959 TBD ADD
Lewis Carroll Author Alice in Wonderland 27-Jan-1832 14-Jan-1898 DEAD
Angela Carter Author Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman 07-May-1940 16-Feb-1992 DEAD
Emily Carter Author Glory Goes and Gets Some 1960 TBD ADD
Barbara Cartland Author Wrote way too many romance novels 09-Jul-1901 21-May-2000 DEAD
Lisa Carver Author Rollerderby, Suckdog 1968 TBD ADD
Raymond Carver Author Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? 25-May-1938 02-Aug-1988 DEAD
Giacomo Casanova Author World-renowned paramour 02-Apr-1725 04-Jun-1798 DEAD
Adolfo Bioy Casares Author La invención de Morel 15-Sep-1914 18-Mar-1999 DEAD
Jack Cashill Author What's The Matter With California? 15-Dec-1947 TBD ADD
Carolyn Cassady Author Wife of Neal Cassady 28-Apr-1923 TBD ADD
Neal Cassady Author The Holy Goof 08-Feb-1926 04-Feb-1968 DEAD
Carlos Castaneda Author The Teachings of Don Juan 25-Dec-1925 27-Apr-1998 DEAD
Baldassare Castiglione Author Il Cortegiano 06-Dec-1478 07-Feb-1529 DEAD
Dionysius Cato Author Dionysii Catonis Disticha ? TBD DEAD
David Caute Author Comrade Jacob 16-Dec-1936 TBD ADD
Jacques Cazotte Author Diable Amoureux 17-Oct-1719 25-Sep-1792 DEAD
Lord David Cecil Author Melbourne 09-Apr-1902 01-Jan-1986 DEAD
Camilo José Cela Author La familia de Pascual Duarte 11-May-1916 17-Jan-2002 DEAD
Censorinus Author De Die Natali ? TBD DEAD
Jack L. Chalker Author SF author, wrote Well World series 17-Dec-1944 11-Feb-2005 DEAD
Robert Chambers Author Chambers's Book of Days 10-Jul-1802 17-Mar-1871 DEAD
Whittaker Chambers Author Accuser of Alger Hiss 01-Apr-1901 09-Jul-1961 DEAD
Raymond Chandler Author Invented hard-boiled detective novel 23-Jul-1888 26-Mar-1959 DEAD
Iris Chang Author Author of The Rape of Nanking 28-Mar-1968 09-Nov-2004 DEAD
François-René de Chateaubriand Author Génie du christianisme 04-Sep-1768 04-Jul-1848 DEAD
Bruce Chatwin Author In Patagonia 13-May-1940 18-Jan-1989 DEAD
Geoffrey Chaucer Author Canterbury Tales 1343 25-Oct-1400 DEAD
John Cheever Author The Enormous Radio 27-May-1912 18-Jun-1982 DEAD
Ron Chernow Author The Warburgs and Alexander Hamilton 1949 TBD ADD
C. J. Cherryh Author Cyteen and Downbelow Station 01-Sep-1942 TBD ADD
G. K. Chesterton Author The Man Who Was Thursday 29-May-1874 14-Jun-1936 DEAD
Deepak Chopra Author Ageless Body, Timeless Mind 22-Oct-1946 TBD ADD
Cicero Author Roman orator and rhetorician ? TBD DEAD
Sandra Cisneros Author The House on Mango Street 20-Dec-1954 TBD ADD
Hugo Claus Author The Sorrow of Belgium 05-Apr-1929 19-Mar-2008 DEAD
Beverly Cleary Author Children's author, Ramona Quimby series 12-Apr-1916 TBD ADD
Rachel Cline Author What to Keep ? TBD ADD
Irvin S. Cobb Author Old Judge Priest 23-Jun-1876 10-Mar-1944 DEAD
Andrei Codrescu Author Exquisite Corpse 20-Dec-1946 TBD ADD
Jackie Collins Author Trashy paperbacks for bored housewives 04-Oct-1937 TBD ADD
Larry Collins Author Is Paris Burning? 14-Sep-1929 20-Jun-2005 DEAD
Francesco Colonna Author Hypnerotomachia Poliphili 1433 02-Oct-1527 DEAD
Aaron Cometbus Author Zine author, Cometbus 1968 TBD ADD
Ralph Connor Author Canadian pulp author, Black Rock 13-Sep-1860 31-Oct-1937 DEAD
Joseph Conrad Author Heart of Darkness 03-Dec-1857 03-Aug-1924 DEAD
Pat Conroy Author The Prince of Tides 26-Oct-1945 TBD ADD
Robert Cormier Author I am the Cheese 17-Jan-1925 02-Nov-2000 DEAD
Julio Cortázar Author Argentine fantasy short story writer 26-Aug-1914 12-Feb-1984 DEAD
John Costello Author The Pacific War ? TBD ADD
Norman Cousins