| NAME |
OCCUPATION |
SUMMARY |
BORN |
DIED |
|
Edward Abbey
|
Author |
Desert Solitaire |
29-Jan-1927 |
14-Mar-1989 |
DEAD
|
| Lynn Abbey
|
Author |
Thieves World |
1948 |
TBD |
|
Edwin A. Abbott
|
Author |
Flatland |
20-Dec-1838 |
12-Oct-1926 |
DEAD
|
Jacob Abbott
|
Author |
Franconia Stories |
14-Nov-1803 |
31-Oct-1879 |
DEAD
|
| Walter Abish
|
Author |
Alphabetical Africa |
24-Dec-1931 |
TBD |
|
| M. H. Abrams
|
Author |
The Mirror and the Lamp |
23-Jul-1912 |
TBD |
|
| André Aciman
|
Author |
Out of Egypt |
02-Jan-1951 |
TBD |
|
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 |
|
Forrest J. Ackerman
|
Author |
Mr. Science Fiction |
24-Nov-1916 |
04-Dec-2008 |
DEAD
|
| Peter Ackroyd
|
Author |
The Great Fire of London |
05-Oct-1949 |
TBD |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
| Fouad Ajami
|
Author |
Director of Middle East Studies, SAIS |
09-Sep-1945 |
TBD |
|
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 |
|
Sholem Aleichem
|
Author |
Fiddler on the Roof |
02-Mar-1859 |
13-May-1916 |
DEAD
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
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-1923 |
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 |
|
| Max Apple
|
Author |
I Love Gootie |
22-Oct-1941 |
TBD |
|
Apuleius
|
Author |
The Golden Ass |
? |
TBD |
DEAD
|
Pietro Aretino
|
Author |
Sonetti lussuriosi |
20-Apr-1492 |
21-Oct-1556 |
DEAD
|
Richard Armour
|
Author |
It All Started with Columbus |
15-Jul-1906 |
28-Feb-1989 |
DEAD
|
| Karen Armstrong
|
Author |
A History of God |
14-Nov-1944 |
TBD |
|
Sholem Asch
|
Author |
Yiddish novelist |
01-Nov-1880 |
01-Aug-1957 |
DEAD
|
| Kate Ascher
|
Author |
The Works: Anatomy of a City |
1958 |
TBD |
|
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 |
|
Louis Auchincloss
|
Author |
Portrait in Brownstone |
27-Sep-1917 |
26-Jan-2010 |
DEAD
|
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
|
Isaac Babel
|
Author |
Soviet master of short stories |
01-Jul-1894 |
27-Jan-1940 |
DEAD
|
| Richard Bach
|
Author |
Jonathan Livingston Seagull |
23-Jun-1936 |
TBD |
|
Delia Bacon
|
Author |
Shakespeare-Bacon conspiracist |
02-Feb-1811 |
02-Sep-1859 |
DEAD
|
| Russell Baker
|
Author |
Growing Up |
14-Aug-1925 |
TBD |
|
| Letitia Baldrige
|
Author |
Etiquette columnist |
1925 |
TBD |
|
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 |
19-Apr-2009 |
DEAD
|
| James Bamford
|
Author |
The Puzzle Palace |
1946 |
TBD |
|
| Iain Banks
|
Author |
Consider Phlebas |
16-Feb-1954 |
TBD |
|
| Russell Banks
|
Author |
The Sweet Hereafter |
28-Mar-1940 |
TBD |
|
| Amiri Baraka
|
Author |
Hates Whitey |
07-Oct-1934 |
TBD |
|
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 |
|
| Greg Bear
|
Author |
Eon |
20-Aug-1951 |
TBD |
|
| Ann Beattie
|
Author |
Chilly Scenes of Winter |
08-Sep-1947 |
TBD |
|
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
|
Edward Bellamy
|
Author |
Looking Backward |
26-Mar-1850 |
22-May-1898 |
DEAD
|
| Donald P. Bellisario
|
Author |
Wrote Battlestar Galactica, created Airwolf |
08-Aug-1935 |
TBD |
|
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
|
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 |
|
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
|
Charles Berlitz
|
Author |
Language lessons and specultive non-fiction |
20-Nov-1914 |
18-Dec-2003 |
DEAD
|
| Daniel Berrigan
|
Author |
The Trial of the Catonsville Nine |
09-May-1921 |
TBD |
|
| Wendell Berry
|
Author |
A Place on Earth |
05-Aug-1934 |
TBD |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
| William Peter Blatty
|
Author |
The Exorcist |
07-Jan-1928 |
TBD |
|
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
|
Karen Blixen
|
Author |
Babette's Feast and Out of Africa |
17-Apr-1885 |
07-Sep-1962 |
DEAD
|
| Roy Blount, Jr.
|
Author |
Humorist |
05-Oct-1941 |
TBD |
|
| Judy Blume
|
Author |
Author of children's books |
12-Feb-1938 |
TBD |
|
| Myrna Blyth
|
Author |
Editor-in-Chief, Ladies' Home Journal |
1939 |
TBD |
|
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 |
|
| James Bovard
|
Author |
Lost Rights |
1956 |
TBD |
|
| John Bowe
|
Author |
Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor |
1964 |
TBD |
|
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 |
|
Henry de Bracton
|
Author |
De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae |
? |
1268 |
DEAD
|
| Ray Bradbury
|
Author |
The Martian Chronicles |
22-Aug-1920 |
TBD |
|
Marion Zimmer Bradley
|
Author |
The Mists of Avalon |
03-Jun-1930 |
25-Sep-1999 |
DEAD
|
| Gloria Brame
|
Author |
Clinical sexologist |
20-Aug-1955 |
TBD |
|
Sebastian Brant
|
Author |
Ship of Fools |
1457 |
10-May-1521 |
DEAD
|
| Sasthi Brata
|
Author |
Confessions of an Indian Woman Eater |
1939 |
TBD |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
Vera Brittain
|
Author |
Testament of Youth |
29-Dec-1893 |
29-Mar-1970 |
DEAD
|
Louis Bromfield
|
Author |
Early Autumn |
27-Dec-1896 |
18-Mar-1956 |
DEAD
|
| Arthur C. Brooks
|
Author |
Gross National Happiness |
21-May-1964 |
TBD |
|
| Fred Brooks
|
Author |
The Mythical Man-Month |
19-Apr-1931 |
TBD |
|
| Terry Brooks
|
Author |
The Shannara series |
08-Jan-1944 |
TBD |
|
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
|
| Helen Gurley Brown
|
Author |
Editor of Cosmopolitan, 1965-97 |
18-Feb-1922 |
TBD |
|
| Rita Mae Brown
|
Author |
Rubyfruit Jungle |
28-Nov-1944 |
TBD |
|
| Rosellen Brown
|
Author |
Before and After |
12-May-1939 |
TBD |
|
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
|
| Edna Buchanan
|
Author |
The Corpse Had a Familiar Face |
1939 |
TBD |
|
Pearl S. Buck
|
Author |
The Good Earth |
26-Jun-1892 |
06-Mar-1973 |
DEAD
|
Algis Budrys
|
Author |
Rogue Moon |
09-Jan-1931 |
09-Jun-2008 |
DEAD
|
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 |
23-Oct-1965 |
TBD |
|
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 |
|
Samuel Butler
|
Author |
Erewheon |
04-Dec-1835 |
18-Jun-1902 |
DEAD
|
| Michel Butor
|
Author |
L'emploi du temps |
14-Sep-1926 |
TBD |
|
| Rhonda Byrne
|
Author |
The Secret |
1945 |
TBD |
|
George W. Cable
|
Author |
Old Creole Days |
12-Oct-1844 |
31-Jan-1925 |
DEAD
|
| Meg Cabot
|
Author |
The Princess Diaries |
01-Feb-1967 |
TBD |
|
| Thomas Cahill
|
Author |
How the Irish Saved Civilization |
1940 |
TBD |
|
Erskine Caldwell
|
Author |
Tobacco Road |
17-Dec-1903 |
11-Apr-1987 |
DEAD
|
| Pat Califia
|
Author |
FTM transgendered sex writer |
08-Mar-1954 |
TBD |
|
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 |
|
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
|
Author |
Cheaper by the Dozen |
04-Apr-1908 |
04-Nov-2006 |
DEAD
|
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 |
|
Jim Carroll
|
Author |
The Basketball Diaries |
01-Aug-1950 |
11-Sep-2009 |
DEAD
|
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 |
|
Barbara Cartland
|
Author |
Wrote way too many romance novels |
09-Jul-1901 |
21-May-2000 |
DEAD
|
| Lisa Carver
|
Author |
Rollerderby, Suckdog |
1968 |
TBD |
|
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
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| Jack Cashill
|
Author |
What's The Matter With California? |
15-Dec-1947 |
TBD |
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| Carolyn Cassady
|
Author |
Wife of Neal Cassady |
28-Apr-1923 |
TBD |
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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
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Dionysius Cato
|
Author |
Dionysii Catonis Disticha |
? |
TBD |
DEAD
|
| David Caute
|
Author |
Comrade Jacob |
16-Dec-1936 |
TBD |
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Jacques Cazotte
|
Author |
Diable Amoureux |
17-Oct-1719 |
25-Sep-1792 |
DEAD
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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
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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
|
Eileen Chang
|
Author |
Lust, Caution |
30-Sep-1920 |
08-Sep-1995 |
DEAD
|
Iris Chang
|
Author |
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 |
|
| C. J. Cherryh
|
Author |
Cyteen and Downbelow Station |
01-Sep-1942 |
TBD |
|
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 |
|
Cicero
|
Author |
Roman orator and rhetorician |
? |
TBD |
DEAD
|
| Sandra Cisneros
|
Author |
The House on Mango Street |
20-Dec-1954 |
TBD |
|
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 |
|
| Rachel Cline
|
Author |
What to Keep |
? |
TBD |
|
Irvin S. Cobb
|
Author |
Old Judge Priest |
23-Jun-1876 |
10-Mar-1944 |
DEAD
|
| Andrei Codrescu
|
Author |
Exquisite Corpse |
20-Dec-1946 |
TBD |
|
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 |
|
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
|
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 |
|
Norman Cousins
|
Author |
Editor of The Saturday Review |
24-Jun-1912 |
30-Nov-1990 |
DEAD
|
Malcolm Cowley
|
Author |
Exile's Return |
24-Aug-1898 |
27-Mar-1989 |
DEAD
|
Herbert Croly
|
Author |
The Promise of American Life |
23-Jan-1869 |
17-May-1930 |
DEAD
|
| John Crowley
|
Author |
Little, Big |
01-Dec-1942 |
TBD |
|
| Clive Cussler
|
Author |
Raising the Titanic |
15-Jul-1931 |
TBD |
|
| Dinesh D'Souza
|
Author |
Conservative author |
25-Apr-1961 |
TBD |
|
| Amy Dacyczyn
|
Author |
The Tightwad Gazette |
1956 |
TBD |
|
Roald Dahl
|
Author |
James and the Giant Peach |
13-Sep-1916 |
23-Nov-1990 |
DEAD
|
Richard Henry Dana
|
Author |
Two Years Before the Mast |
01-Aug-1815 |
06-Jan-1882 |
DEAD
|
Gabriele D'Annunzio
|
Author |
Anarchist Dictator of Fiume, 1919-20 |
12-Mar-1863 |
01-Mar-1938 |
DEAD
|
| Edwidge Danticat
|
Author |
The Dew Breaker |
19-Jan-1969 |
TBD |
|
Guy Davenport
|
Author |
Thasos and Ohio |
23-Nov-1927 |
04-Jan-2005 |
DEAD
|
Robertson Davies
|
Author |
Fifth Business |
28-Aug-1913 |
03-Dec-1995 |
DEAD
|
Richard Harding Davis
|
Author |
Yellow-era journalist |
18-Apr-1864 |
11-Apr-1916 |
DEAD
|
Clarence Day
|
Author |
Life with Father |
18-Nov-1874 |
28-Dec-1935 |
DEAD
|
Thomas De Quincey
|
Author |
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater |
15-Aug-1785 |
08-Dec-1859 |
DEAD
|
Marquis de Sade
|
Author |
120 Days of Sodom |
02-Jun-1740 |
02-Dec-1814 |
DEAD
|
Daniel Defoe
|
Author |
Robinson Crusoe |
00-Sep-1660 |
24-Apr-1731 |
DEAD
|
Lester del Rey
|
Author |
Founder of Del Rey Books |
02-Jun-1915 |
10-May-1993 |
DEAD
|
Margaret Deland
|
Author |
Old Chester Tales |
23-Feb-1857 |
13-Jan-1945 |
DEAD
|
| Samuel R. Delany
|
Author |
Triton |
01-Apr-1942 |
TBD |
|
Grazia Deledda
|
Author |
Novels of Sardinia |
27-Sep-1871 |
15-Aug-1936 |
DEAD
|
Ovid Demaris
|
Author |
The Last Mafioso |
06-Sep-1919 |
12-Mar-1998 |
DEAD
|
Demosthenes
|
Author |
Attic orator and statesman |
? |
TBD |
DEAD
|
| John Derbyshire
|
Author |
Conservative pundit |
03-Jun-1945 |
TBD |
|
| Mark Dery
|
Author |
Culture Jamming |
1959 |
TBD |
|
Camille Desmoulins
|
Author |
Touched off the French Revolution |
02-Mar-1760 |
05-Apr-1794 |
DEAD
|
| Diablo Cody
|
Author |
Candy Girl |
14-Jun-1978 |
TBD |
|
Thomas Frognall Dibdin
|
Author |
English bibliographer |
1776 |
18-Nov-1847 |
DEAD
|
| Kate DiCamillo
|
Author |
The Tale of Despereaux |
25-Mar-1964 |
TBD |
|
| Joan Didion
|
Author |
Slouching Toward Bethlehem |
05-Dec-1934 |
TBD |
|
| Annie Dillard
|
Author |
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek |
30-Oct-1945 |
TBD |
|
Thomas Dixon
|
Author |
The Clansman |
11-Jan-1864 |
03-Apr-1946 |
DEAD
|
| Assia Djebar
|
Author |
So Vast the Prison |
04-Aug-1936 |
TBD |
|
| E. L. Doctorow
|
Author |
The Book of Daniel |
06-Jan-1931 |
TBD |
|
| Betty Dodson
|
Author |
Sex for One |
24-Aug-1929 |
TBD |
|
| Anthony Doerr
|
Author |
The Shell Collector |
1973 |
TBD |
|
| Stephen R. Donaldson
|
Author |
Author of the Thomas Covenant series |
13-May-1947 |
TBD |
|
Ignatius Donnelly
|
Author |
Atlantis, the Antediluvian World |
03-Nov-1831 |
01-Jan-1901 |
DEAD
|
| Ducky DooLittle
|
Author |
Crackpot sexologist |
03-Jun-1970 |
TBD |
|
| Ann Druyan
|
Author |
Co-wrote Cosmos with husband Carl Sagan |
13-Jun-1949 |
TBD |
|
Daphne Du Maurier
|
Author |
Rebecca |
13-May-1907 |
19-May-1989 |
DEAD
|
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
|
Author |
Harlem Renaissance influence |
19-Jul-1875 |
18-Sep-1935 |
DEAD
|
| Lois Duncan
|
Author |
I Know What You Did Last Summer |
28-Apr-1934 |
TBD |
|
Finley Peter Dunne
|
Author |
Creator of Mr. Dooley |
10-Jul-1867 |
24-Apr-1936 |
DEAD
|
Henry van Dyke
|
Author |
The Unknown Quantity |
10-Nov-1852 |
10-Apr-1933 |
DEAD
|
Max Eastman
|
Author |
Socialist writer, later embraced McCarthyism |
12-Jan-1883 |
25-Mar-1969 |
DEAD
|
Isabelle Eberhardt
|
Author |
Transvestite Muslim author |
17-Feb-1877 |
21-Oct-1904 |
DEAD
|
| Umberto Eco
|
Author |
Foucault's Pendulum, The Name of the Rose |
05-Jan-1932 |
TBD |
|
David Eddings
|
Author |
The Belgariad |
07-Jul-1931 |
02-Jun-2009 |
DEAD
|
Leon Edel
|
Author |
Biographer of Henry James |
09-Sep-1907 |
05-Sep-1997 |
DEAD
|
Maria Edgeworth
|
Author |
Castle Rackrent |
01-Jan-1767 |
22-May-1849 |
DEAD
|
| Dave Eggers
|
Author |
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius |
12-Mar-1970 |
TBD |
|
| Barbara Ehrenreich
|
Author |
Nickel and Dimed |
26-Aug-1941 |
TBD |
|
Einhard
|
Author |
Biographer, friend of Charlemagne |
? |
TBD |
DEAD
|
| David Eisenhower
|
Author |
Camp David namesake |
31-Mar-1948 |
TBD |
|
| Warren Ellis
|
Author |
Transmetropolitan |
16-Feb-1968 |
TBD |
|
| Harlan Ellison
|
Author |
I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream |
27-May-1934 |
TBD |
|
| Garth Ennis
|
Author |
Creator of Preacher comic book |
16-Jan-1970 |
TBD |
|
| Nora Ephron
|
Author |
When Harry Met Sally |
19-May-1941 |
TBD |
|
| Péter Esterházy
|
Author |
Celestial Harmonies |
14-Apr-1950 |
TBD |
|
| Jeffrey Eugenides
|
Author |
The Virgin Suicides |
08-Mar-1960 |
TBD |
|
John Evelyn
|
Author |
English diarist |
31-Oct-1620 |
27-Feb-1706 |
DEAD
|
Judith Exner
|
Author |
JFK mistress |
11-Jan-1934 |
25-Sep-1999 |
DEAD
|
John Fante
|
Author |
Bukowski's idol |
08-Apr-1909 |
08-May-1983 |
DEAD
|
| Nuruddin Farah
|
Author |
From a Crooked Rib |
1945 |
TBD |
|
Oliver La Farge
|
Author |
Laughing Boy |
19-Dec-1901 |
02-Aug-1963 |
DEAD
|
Philip Jose Farmer
|
Author |
Riverworld saga |
26-Jan-1918 |
25-Feb-2009 |
DEAD
|
William Faulkner
|
Author |
The Sound and the Fury |
25-Sep-1897 |
06-Jul-1962 |
DEAD
|
François Fénelon
|
Author |
Télémaque |
06-Aug-1651 |
07-Jan-1715 |
DEAD
|
Rachel Field
|
Author |
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years |
19-Sep-1894 |
15-Mar-1942 |
DEAD
|
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
|
Author |
Understood Betsy |
17-Feb-1879 |
09-Nov-1958 |
DEAD
|
F. Scott Fitzgerald
|
Author |
The Great Gatsby |
24-Sep-1896 |
21-Dec-1940 |
DEAD
|
| Caitlin Flanagan
|
Author |
Antifeminist |
? |
TBD |
|
Theodor Fontane
|
Author |
Before the Storm |
30-Dec-1819 |
20-Sep-1898 |
DEAD
|
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
|
Author |
Nouveaux Dialogues des Morts |
11-Feb-1657 |
09-Jan-1757 |
DEAD
|
Shelby Foote
|
Author |
Shiloh |
17-Nov-1916 |
27-Jun-2005 |
DEAD
|
Kathryn Forbes
|
Author |
Mama's Bank Account |
20-Mar-1908 |
15-May-1966 |
DEAD
|
John M. Ford
|
Author |
Growing Up Weightless |
10-Apr-1957 |
24-Sep-2006 |
DEAD
|
E. M. Forster
|
Author |
Howards End |
01-Jan-1879 |
07-Jun-1970 |
DEAD
|
John Forster
|
Author |
Life of Charles Dickens |
02-Apr-1812 |
02-Feb-1876 |
DEAD
|
| Justin Fox
|
Author |
The Myth of the Rational Market |
28-Jan-1964 |
TBD |
|
Janet Frame
|
Author |
Kiwi author, subject of An Angel at My Table |
28-Aug-1924 |
29-Jan-2004 |
DEAD
|
| Thomas Frank
|
Author |
Founding editor, The Baffler |
1965 |
TBD |
|
Waldo Frank
|
Author |
American cultural critic and social historian |
25-Aug-1889 |
09-Jan-1967 |
DEAD
|
| Jonathan Franzen
|
Author |
The Corrections |
17-Aug-1959 |
TBD |
|
Marilyn French
|
Author |
The Women's Room |
21-Nov-1929 |
02-May-2009 |
DEAD
|
| James Frey
|
Author |
Addiction memoirist, A Million Little Pieces |
12-Sep-1969 |
TBD |
|
Northrop Frye
|
Author |
Fearful Symmetry |
14-Jul-1912 |
23-Jan-1991 |
DEAD
|
| Francis Fukuyama
|
Author |
The End of History and the Last Man |
27-Oct-1952 |
TBD |
|
Margaret Fuller
|
Author |
Woman in the Nineteenth Century |
23-May-1810 |
19-Jul-1850 |
DEAD
|
| Michael Fumento
|
Author |
Conservative science writer |
04-Jan-1960 |
TBD |
|
| Mavis Gallant
|
Author |
Prolific Canadian short story author |
11-Aug-1922 |
TBD |
|
Paul Gallico
|
Author |
The Snow Goose |
26-Jul-1897 |
15-Jul-1975 |
DEAD
|
| Gabriel García Márquez
|
Author |
One Hundred Years of Solitude |
06-Mar-1928 |
TBD |
|
Roger Martin du Gard
|
Author |
Les Thibault |
23-Mar-1881 |
22-Aug-1958 |
DEAD
|
| Chris Gardner
|
Author |
The Pursuit of Happyness |
09-Feb-1954 |
TBD |
|
Hamlin Garland
|
Author |
A Son of the Middle Border |
14-Sep-1860 |
04-Mar-1940 |
DEAD
|
| Helen Garner
|
Author |
The First Stone |
07-Nov-1942 |
TBD |
|
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
|
Author |
Cranford |
29-Sep-1810 |
12-Nov-1865 |
DEAD
|
| Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
|
Author |
The Signifying Monkey |
16-Sep-1950 |
TBD |
|
| Tom Gegax
|
Author |
Tires Plus, later self-help guru |
1947 |
TBD |
|
Antonio Genovesi
|
Author |
Lezioni di Commercio |
01-Nov-1712 |
22-Sep-1769 |
DEAD
|
| Phyllis George
|
Author |
Miss America 1971 |
25-Jun-1949 |
TBD |
|
Hugo Gernsback
|
Author |
Founded Amazing Stories in 1926 |
16-Aug-1884 |
19-Aug-1967 |
DEAD
|
| William Gibson
|
Author |
Pioneer of Cyberpunk science fiction |
17-Mar-1948 |
TBD |
|
André Gide
|
Author |
Le Voyage d'Urien |
22-Nov-1869 |
19-Feb-1951 |
DEAD
|
| Barry Gifford
|
Author |
Wild at Heart |
18-Oct-1946 |
TBD |
|
| Elizabeth Gilbert
|
Author |
Eat, Pray, Love |
18-Jul-1969 |
TBD |
|
| Ellen Gilchrist
|
Author |
In the Land of Dreamy Dreams |
20-Feb-1935 |
TBD |
|
Karl Gjellerup
|
Author |
The Pilgrim Kamanita |
02-Jun-1857 |
11-Oct-1919 |
DEAD
|
| Louise Glück
|
Author |
The Wild Iris |
22-Apr-1943 |
TBD |
|
| Jim Goad
|
Author |
ANSWER Me! |
12-Jun-1961 |
TBD |
|
Goethe
|
Author |
Most influential German writer |
28-Aug-1749 |
22-Mar-1832 |
DEAD
|
Nikolai Gogol
|
Author |
Dead Souls, The Overcoat |
19-Mar-1809 |
21-Feb-1852 |
DEAD
|
| Jake Goldenflame
|
Author |
Overcoming Sexual Terrorism |
? |
TBD |
|
Oliver Goldsmith
|
Author |
The Vicar of Wakefield |
10-Nov-1730 |
04-Apr-1774 |
DEAD
|
| Nadine Gordimer
|
Author |
South African novelist |
20-Nov-1923 |
TBD |
|
Edward Gorey
|
Author |
Amphigorey |
22-Feb-1925 |
15-Apr-2000 |
DEAD
|
| Sue Grafton
|
Author |
A Is for Alibi, B Is for ... |
24-Apr-1940 |
TBD |
|
| Stedman Graham
|
Author |
Oprah's boyfriend, self-help author |
06-Mar-1951 |
TBD |
|
| Günter Grass
|
Author |
German novelist, The Tin Drum |
16-Oct-1927 |
TBD |
|
C. Hartley Grattan
|
Author |
The Southwest Pacific |
19-Oct-1902 |
25-Jun-1980 |
DEAD
|
| James Grauerholz
|
Author |
William S. Burrough's assistant |
14-Dec-1953 |
TBD |
|
| Mike Gray
|
Author |
The China Syndrome |
1936 |
TBD |
|
Horace Greeley
|
Author |
The Tribune |
03-Feb-1811 |
29-Nov-1872 |
DEAD
|
| Brian Greene
|
Author |
The Elegant Universe |
09-Feb-1963 |
TBD |
|
John Howard Griffin
|
Author |
Black Like Me |
16-Jul-1920 |
09-Sep-1980 |
DEAD
|
| Andy Griffiths
|
Author |
The Day My Bum Went Psycho |
03-Sep-1961 |
TBD |
|
| David Grossman
|
Author |
The Smile of the Lamb |
25-Jan-1954 |
TBD |
|
| Margaret Peterson Haddix
|
Author |
Juvenile novelist, Among the... series |
09-Apr-1964 |
TBD |
|
| Mark Haddon
|
Author |
The Curious Incident |
1962 |
TBD |
|
| Jessica Hagedorn
|
Author |
Dogeaters |
1949 |
TBD |
|
Richard Hakluyt
|
Author |
Voiages and Discoveries of the English nation |
1552 |
23-Nov-1616 |
DEAD
|
Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane
|
Author |
Descartes: His Life and Times |
27-May-1862 |
24-Dec-1937 |
DEAD
|
Edward Everett Hale
|
Author |
The Man Without a Country |
03-Apr-1822 |
10-Jun-1909 |
DEAD
|
Lucretia Peabody Hale
|
Author |
The Peterkin Papers |
02-Sep-1820 |
12-Jun-1900 |
DEAD
|
Sarah Josepha Hale
|
Author |
Editor, Godey's Lady's Book |
24-Oct-1788 |
30-Apr-1879 |
DEAD
|
Ludovic Halévy
|
Author |
French vaudevillain author |
01-Jan-1834 |
08-May-1908 |
DEAD
|
Joseph Hall
|
Author |
Virgidemiarum |
01-Jul-1574 |
08-Sep-1656 |
DEAD
|
Dashiell Hammett
|
Author |
The Maltese Falcon |
27-May-1894 |
10-Jan-1961 |
DEAD
|
Helene Hanff
|
Author |
84, Charing Cross Road |
15-Apr-1916 |
09-Apr-1997 |
DEAD
|
Barry Hannah
|
Author |
High Lonesome |
23-Apr-1942 |
01-Mar-2010 |
DEAD
|
Joseph Hansen
|
Author |
Dave Brandstetter detective series |
19-Jul-1923 |
24-Nov-2004 |
DEAD
|
Roger Hargreaves
|
Author |
Creator of Mr. Men juvenile books |
09-May-1935 |
12-Sep-1988 |
DEAD
|
Sir John Harington
|
Author |
The Metamorphosis of Ajax |
1561 |
20-Nov-1612 |
DEAD
|
Heinrich Harrer
|
Author |
Subject of biopic Seven Years in Tibet |
06-Jul-1912 |
07-Jan-2006 |
DEAD
|
Frank Harris
|
Author |
My Life and Loves |
14-Feb-1856 |
26-Aug-1931 |
DEAD
|
George Washington Harris
|
Author |
Sut Lovingood |
20-Mar-1814 |
11-Dec-1869 |
DEAD
|
| Sam Harris
|
Author |
The End of Faith |
1967 |
TBD |
|
| Melissa Harris-Lacewell
|
Author |
Barbershops, Bibles, and BET |
1972 |
TBD |
|
| Josephine Hart
|
Author |
Damage |
? |
TBD |
|
Bret Harte
|
Author |
Master of the western short story |
25-Aug-1836 |
05-May-1902 |
DEAD
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Gabriel Harvey
|
Author |
Literary opponent of Robert Greene |
1545 |
1630 |
DEAD
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Jaroslav Hasek
|
Author |
The Good Soldier Svejk |
30-Apr-1883 |
03-Jan-1923 |
DEAD
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Gayelord Hauser
|
Author |
Look Younger, Live Longer |
1895 |
26-Dec-1984 |
DEAD
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John Hawkesworth
|
Author |
Voyages in the Southern Hemisphere |
1715 |
16-Nov-1773 |
DEAD
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Sir John Hawkins
|
Author |
History of Music |
30-Mar-1719 |
21-May-1789 |
DEAD
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
|
Author |
The House of the Seven Gables |
04-Jul-1804 |
19-May-1864 |
DEAD
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Lafcadio Hearn
|
Author |
Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation |
27-Jun-1850 |
26-Sep-1904 |
DEAD
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| William Least Heat-Moon
|
Author |
Blue Highways |
27-Aug-1939 |
TBD |
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Sadeq Hedayat
|
Author |
The Blind Owl |
17-Feb-1903 |
09-Apr-1951 |
DEAD
|
Verner von Heidenstam
|
Author |
The Charles Men |
06-Jul-1859 |
20-May-1940 |
DEAD
|
Robert A. Heinlein
|
Author |
Starship Troopers |
07-Jul-1907 |
08-May-1988 |
DEAD
|
Heliodorus
|
Author |
Aethiopica |
? |
TBD |
DEAD
|
Joseph Heller
|
Author |
Catch-22 |
01-May-1923 |
12-Dec-1999 |
DEAD
|
| Mark Helprin
|
Author |
Winter's Tale |
28-Jun-1947 |
TBD |
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Ernest Hemingway
|
Author |
The Old Man And The Sea |
21-Jul-1899 |
02-Jul-1961 |
DEAD
|
O. Henry
|
Author |
The Gift of the Magi |
11-Sep-1862 |
05-Jun-1910 |
DEAD
|
Frank Herbert
|
Author |
Dune |
08-Oct-1920 |
11-Feb-1986 |
DEAD
|
Felisberto Hernández
|
Author |
Nadie encendía las lámparas |
20-Oct-1902 |
13-Jan-1964 |
DEAD
|
Hermann Hesse
|
Author |
Siddhartha |
02-Jul-1877 |
09-Aug-1962 |
DEAD
|
Paul von Heyse
|
Author |
L'Arrabbiata |
15-Mar-1830 |
02-Apr-1914 |
DEAD
|
| Carl Hiaasen
|
Author |
Team Rodent: How Disneyland Devours the World |
12-Mar-1953 |
TBD |
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| Laura Hillenbrand
|
Author |
Seabiscuit |
1967 |
TBD |
|
Chester Himes
|
Author |
Lonely Crusade |
19-Jul-1909 |
12-Nov-1984 |
DEAD
|
| S. E. Hinton
|
Author |
The Outsiders |
22-Jul-1948 |
TBD |
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| Jane Stanton Hitchcock
|
Author |
Trick of the Eye |
? |
TBD |
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| Shere Hite
|
Author |
The Hite Report on sexuality |
02-Nov-1942 |
TBD |
|
| John Hodgman
|
Author |
The Areas of My Expertise |
03-Jun-1971 |
TBD |
|
Syd Hoff
|
Author |
Danny and the Dinosaur |
04-Sep-1912 |
12-May-2004 |
DEAD
|
Eric Hoffer
|
Author |
The True Believer |
25-Jul-1902 |
21-May-1983 |
DEAD
|
E. T. A. Hoffmann
|
Author |
Das Fräulein van Scuderi |
24-Jan-1776 |
25-Jun-1822 |
DEAD
|
| Douglas Hofstadter
|
Author |
Godel, Escher, Bach |
15-Feb-1945 |
TBD |
|
Ludvig Holberg
|
Author |
Founder of Danish literature |
03-Dec-1684 |
28-Jan-1754 |
DEAD
|
| Xaviera Hollander
|
Author |
The Happy Hooker |
15-Jun-1943 |
TBD |
|
Oliver Wendell Holmes
|
Author |
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table |
29-Aug-1809 |
07-Oct-1894 |
DEAD
|
William Hone
|
Author |
The Every-Day Book |
03-Jun-1780 |
06-Nov-1842 |
DEAD
|
Francis Hopkinson
|
Author |
The Ballad of the Kegs |
02-Oct-1737 |
09-May-1791 |
DEAD
|
Horapollon
|
Author |
Hieroglyphics |
? |
TBD |
DEAD
|
Paul Horgan
|
Author |
Great River: The Rio Grande |
01-Aug-1903 |
08-Mar-1995 |
DEAD
|
| Nick Hornby
|
Author |
High Fidelity |
17-Apr-1957 |
TBD |
|
Robert E. Howard
|
Author |
Original Conan series |
24-Jan-1906 |
11-Jun-1936 |
DEAD
|
William Dean Howells
|
Author |
The Rise of Silas Lapham |
01-Mar-1837 |
11-May-1920 |
DEAD
|
William Howitt
|
Author |
The Book of the Seasons |
18-Dec-1792 |
03-Mar-1879 |
DEAD
|
Edmond Hoyle
|
Author |
According to Hoyle |
1672 |
29-Aug-1769 |
DEAD
|
Bohumil Hrabal
|
Author |
Closely Watched Trains |
28-Mar-1914 |
03-Feb-1997 |
DEAD
|
Elbert Hubbard
|
Author |
Founder of Roycroft Press |
19-Jun-1856 |
07-May-1915 |
DEAD
|
W. H. Hudson
|
Author |
Green Mansions |
04-Aug-1841 |
18-Aug-1922 |
DEAD
|
Richard Hughes
|
Author |
A High Wind in Jamaica |
19-Apr-1900 |
28-Aug-1976 |
DEAD
|
| Shirley Hughes
|
Author |
Alfie's Feet |
16-Jul-1927 |
TBD |
|
Thomas Hughes
|
Author |
Tom Brown's School Days |
20-Oct-1822 |
22-Mar-1896 |
DEAD
|
Victor Hugo
|
Author |
Les Miserables |
26-Feb-1802 |
23-May-1885 |
DEAD
|
| Josephine Humphreys
|
Author |
Rich in Love |
02-Feb-1945 |
TBD |
|
Samuel P. Huntington
|
Author |
The Clash of Civilizations |
18-Apr-1927 |
24-Dec-2008 |
DEAD
|
Aldous Huxley
|
Author |
Brave New World |
26-Jul-1894 |
22-Nov-1963 |
DEAD
|
Joris-Karl Huysmans
|
Author |
Decadent author, À Rebours |
05-Feb-1848 |
12-May-1907 |
DEAD
|
| David Icke
|
Author |
Uncovered global cabal of reptilian ET's |
29-Apr-1952 |
TBD |
|
| Michael Ignatieff
|
Author |
Blood and Belonging |
12-May-1947 |
TBD |
|
Robert G. Ingersoll
|
Author |
Orator, politician, agnostic |
11-Aug-1833 |
21-Jul-1899 |
DEAD
|
Washington Irving
|
Author |
Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
03-Apr-1783 |
28-Nov-1859 |
DEAD
|
| Walter Isaacson
|
Author |
Former Managing Editor for Time |
20-May-1952 |
TBD |
|
Christopher Isherwood
|
Author |
The Berlin Stories |
26-Aug-1904 |
04-Jan-1986 |
DEAD
|
Harriet Ann Jacobs
|
Author |
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl |
1813 |
07-Mar-1897 |
DEAD
|
Jane Jacobs
|
Author |
The Death and Life of Great American Cities |
04-May-1916 |
25-Apr-2006 |
DEAD
|
W. W. Jacobs
|
Author |
The Monkey's Paw |
08-Sep-1863 |
01-Sep-1943 |
DEAD
|
| Susan Jacoby
|
Author |
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism |
04-Jun-1945 |
TBD |
|
Rona Jaffe
|
Author |
Mazes & Monsters |
12-Jun-1932 |
30-Dec-2005 |
DEAD
|
Henry James
|
Author |
Portrait of a Lady |
15-Apr-1843 |
28-Feb-1916 |
DEAD
|
M. R. James
|
Author |
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary |
01-Aug-1862 |
12-Jun-1936 |
DEAD
|
| Fredric Jameson
|
Author |
The Political Unconscious |
14-Apr-1934 |
TBD |
|
Johannes V. Jensen
|
Author |
The Long Journey |
20-Jan-1873 |
25-Nov-1950 |
DEAD
|
Jerome K. Jerome
|
Author |
Three Men in a Boat |
02-May-1859 |
14-Jun-1927 |
DEAD
|
Sarah Orne Jewett
|
Author |
The Country of the Pointed Firs |
03-Sep-1849 |
24-Jun-1909 |
DEAD
|
John of Salisbury
|
Author |
Policraticus and Metalogicon |
1120 |
25-Oct-1180 |
DEAD
|
Eyvind Johnson
|
Author |
Rain at Dawn |
29-Jul-1900 |
25-Aug-1976 |
DEAD
|
James Weldon Johnson
|
Author |
God's Trombones |
17-Jun-1871 |
26-Jun-1938 |
DEAD
|
| Phillip Johnson
|
Author |
Intelligent Design theorist |
1940 |
TBD |
|
James Jones
|
Author |
From Here to Eternity |
06-Nov-1921 |
09-May-1977 |
DEAD
|
| Erica Jong
|
Author |
Fear of Flying |
26-Mar-1942 |
TBD |
|
Robert Jordan
|
Author |
Wheel of Time series |
17-Oct-1948 |
16-Sep-2007 |
DEAD
|
James Joyce
|
Author |
Ulysses |
02-Feb-1882 |
13-Jan-1941 |
DEAD
|
| Heidi Julavits
|
Author |
The Mineral Palace |
1968 |
TBD |
|
| Sebastian Junger
|
Author |
The Perfect Storm |
17-Jan-1962 |
TBD |
|
| Norton Juster
|
Author |
The Phantom Tollbooth |
02-Jun-1929 |
TBD |
|
Younghill Kang
|
Author |
The Grass Roof |
10-May-1903 |
11-Dec-1972 |
DEAD
|
MacKinlay Kantor
|
Author |
Andersonville |
04-Feb-1904 |
11-Oct-1977 |
DEAD
|
| Justin Kaplan
|
Author |
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain |
05-Sep-1925 |
TBD |
|
| Mary Karr
|
Author |
The Liars' Club |
16-Jan-1955 |
TBD |
|
| Steven T. Katz
|
Author |
Professor of Religion |
1944 |
TBD |
|
Yasunari Kawabata
|
Author |
The Masters of Go |
11-Jun-1899 |
16-Apr-1972 |
DEAD
|
| Guy Gavriel Kay
|
Author |
Silmarillion |
07-Nov-1954 |
TBD |
|
| Kitty Kelley
|
Author |
Controversial biogratrix |
04-Apr-1942 |
TBD |
|
| Yasar Kemal
|
Author |
Mehmet, My Hawk |
06-Oct-1923 |
TBD |
|
Amos Kenan
|
Author |
The Road to Ein Harod |
02-May-1927 |
04-Aug-2009 |
DEAD
|
| Thomas Keneally
|
Author |
Schindler's Ark |
07-Oct-1935 |
TBD |
|
Jean Kerr
|
Author |
Please Don't Eat the Daisies |
10-Jul-1922 |
05-Jan-2003 |
DEAD
|
| Imre Kertész
|
Author |
Holocaust survivor, literature Nobel |
09-Nov-1929 |
TBD |
|
| Rashid Khalidi
|
Author |
Resurrecting Empire |
1950 |
TBD |
|
| Tracy Kidder
|
Author |
The Soul of a New Machine |
12-Nov-1945 |
TBD |
|
| Cassandra King
|
Author |
The Sunday Wife |
? |
TBD |
|
| Barbara Kingsolver
|
Author |
Prodigal Summer |
08-Apr-1955 |
TBD |
|
| Maxine Hong Kingston
|
Author |
The Woman Warrior |
27-Oct-1940 |
TBD |
|
| Sophie Kinsella
|
Author |
Shopaholic series |
12-Dec-1969 |
TBD |
|
Rudyard Kipling
|
Author |
The Jungle Book |
30-Dec-1865 |
18-Jan-1936 |
DEAD
|
Russell Kirk
|
Author |
The Conservative Mind |
19-Oct-1918 |
29-Apr-1994 |
DEAD
|
Lincoln Kirstein
|
Author |
Co-Founder, New York City Ballet |
04-May-1907 |
05-Jan-1996 |
DEAD
|
| Robert Kiyosaki
|
Author |
Rich Dad, Poor Dad |
08-Apr-1947 |
TBD |
|
| Andrew Klavan
|
Author |
True Crime |
1954 |
TBD |
|
| Naomi Klein
|
Author |
The Shock Doctrine |
1970 |
TBD |
|
Sarah Kemble Knight
|
Author |
The Journal of Mme. Knight |
19-Apr-1666 |
25-Sep-1727 |
DEAD
|
Arthur Koestler
|
Author |
Darkness at Noon |
03-Sep-1905 |
03-Mar-1983 |
DEAD
|
| Lawrence J. Korb
|
Author |
The Joint Chiefs of Staff |
09-Jul-1939 |
TBD |
|
Jerzy Kosinski
|
Author |
Being There |
14-Jun-1933 |
03-May-1991 |
DEAD
|
| Jon Krakauer
|
Author |
Into Thin Air |
12-Apr-1954 |
TBD |
|
| Paul Krassner
|
Author |
Editor, The Realist |
09-Apr-1932 |
TBD |
|
Alfred Kreymborg
|
Author |
Founder of The Glebe |
10-Dec-1883 |
00-Aug-1966 |
DEAD
|
| Patrick Kroupa
|
Author |
Lord Digital of LOD, Mindvox |
20-Jan-1968 |
TBD |
|
Thomas Kuhn
|
Author |
Structure of Scientific Revolutions |
18-Jul-1922 |
17-Jun-1996 |
DEAD
|
| Milan Kundera
|
Author |
The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
01-Apr-1929 |
TBD |
|
Madeleine L'Engle
|
Author |
A Wrinkle In Time |
29-Nov-1918 |
06-Sep-2007 |
DEAD
|
| Lynda La Plante
|
Author |
Prime Suspect |
15-Mar-1943 |
TBD |
|
Pär Lagerkvist
|
Author |
Barabbas |
23-May-1891 |
11-Jul-1974 |
DEAD
|
Selma Lagerlöf
|
Author |
First female Nobel Prize for Literature |
20-Nov-1858 |
16-Mar-1940 |
DEAD
|
| Jhumpa Lahiri
|
Author |
Interpreter of Maladies |
11-Jul-1967 |
TBD |
|
Charles Lamb
|
Author |
Essays of Elia |
10-Feb-1775 |
27-Dec-1834 |
DEAD
|
| Anne Lamott
|
Author |
Operating Instructions |
10-Apr-1954 |
TBD |
|
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
|
Author |
Il gattopardo |
23-Dec-1896 |
23-Jul-1957 |
DEAD
|
Rose Wilder Lane
|
Author |
The Discovery of Freedom |
05-Dec-1886 |
30-Oct-1968 |
DEAD
|
Andrew Lang
|
Author |
Scottish man of letters, historian, author |
31-Mar-1844 |
20-Jul-1912 |
DEAD
|
Valery Larbaud
|
Author |
Poèmes par un riche amateur |
29-Aug-1881 |
02-Feb-1957 |
DEAD
|
Christopher Lasch
|
Author |
The Culture of Narcissism |
01-Jun-1932 |
14-Feb-1994 |
DEAD
|
| J. D. Lasica
|
Author |
Darknet |
? |
TBD |
|
Owen Lattimore
|
Author |
Scholar of Mongolia |
29-Jul-1900 |
31-May-1989 |
DEAD
|
T. E. Lawrence
|
Author |
Lawrence of Arabia |
16-Aug-1888 |
19-May-1935 |
DEAD
|
Halldór Laxness
|
Author |
Iceland's Bell |
23-Apr-1902 |
08-Feb-1998 |
DEAD
|
Stephen Leacock
|
Author |
Literary Lapses |
30-Dec-1869 |
28-Mar-1944 |
DEAD
|
Munro Leaf
|
Author |
The Story of Ferdinand |
04-Dec-1905 |
21-Dec-1976 |
DEAD
|
| Fran Lebowitz
|
Author |
Social satirist, Metropolitan Life |
27-Oct-1950 |
TBD |
|
Fritz Leiber
|
Author |
Ship of Shadows |
24-Dec-1910 |
05-Sep-1992 |
DEAD
|
Michel Leiris
|
Author |
Surrealist, ethnographer, autobiographer |
20-Apr-1901 |
30-Sep-1990 |
DEAD
|
Stanislaw Lem
|
Author |
Solaris |
12-Sep-1921 |
27-Mar-2006 |
DEAD
|
| Siegfried Lenz
|
Author |
Deutschstunde |
17-Mar-1926 |
TBD |
|
| Andrew Leonard
|
Author |
Wired, Slate contributor |
? |
TBD |
|
| Jonathan Lethem
|
Author |
Gun with Occasional Music |
19-Feb-1964 |
TBD |
|
Primo Levi
|
Author |
Survival in Auschwitz |
31-Jul-1919 |
11-Apr-1987 |
DEAD
|
| Bernard-Henri Lévy
|
Author |
Who Killed Daniel Pearl? |
05-Nov-1948 |
TBD |
|
| Shawn Levy
|
Author |
Rat Pack Confidential |
1961 |
TBD |
|
| Steven Levy
|
Author |
Hackers |
? |
TBD |
|
| Michael Lewis
|
Author |
Liar's Poker |
15-Oct-1960 |
TBD |
|
Willy Ley
|
Author |
The Conquest of Space |
02-Oct-1906 |
24-May-1969 |
DEAD
|
| Mark Leyner
|
Author |
The Tetherballs of Bougainville |
1956 |
TBD |
|
| Hilary Liftin
|
Author |
Candy and Me: A Love Story |
1969 |
TBD |
|
Astrid Lindgren
|
Author |
Pippi Longstocking |
14-Nov-1907 |
28-Jan-2002 |
DEAD
|
| Brink Lindsey
|
Author |
The Age of Abundance |
1962 |
TBD |
|
| Richard Lingeman
|
Author |
Biographer of Theodore Dreiser |
1931 |
TBD |
|
| Charles de Lint
|
Author |
The Onion Girl |
22-Dec-1951 |
TBD |
|
Alain Locke
|
Author |
Leader in the Harlem Renaissance |
13-Sep-1886 |
09-Jun-1954 |
DEAD
|
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
|
Author |
Georgia Scenes |
09-Jul-1790 |
09-Jul-1870 |
DEAD
|
| Barry Lopez
|
Author |
Of Wolves and Men |
06-Jan-1945 |
TBD |
|
James Lord
|
Author |
Giacometti: A Biography |
27-Nov-1922 |
23-Aug-2009 |
DEAD
|
Audre Lorde
|
Author |
A Burst of Light |
18-Feb-1934 |
17-Nov-1992 |
DEAD
|
Jean-Baptiste Louvet
|
Author |
Mémoires de Louvet de Couvrai |
12-Jun-1760 |
25-Aug-1797 |
DEAD
|
H. P. Lovecraft
|
Author |
The Call of Cthulhu |
20-Aug-1890 |
15-Mar-1937 |
DEAD
|
James Russell Lowell
|
Author |
The Biglow Papers |
22-Feb-1819 |
12-Aug-1891 |
DEAD
|
| Lois Lowry
|
Author |
The Giver |
19-Feb-1937 |
TBD |
|
Lucian
|
Author |
Dialogues of the Dead |
? |
TBD |
DEAD
|
Gaius Lucilius
|
Author |
Earliest Roman satirist |
? |
TBD |
DEAD
|
Emil Ludwig
|
Author |
German biographer |
25-Jan-1881 |
17-Sep-1948 |
DEAD
|
Mabel Dodge Luhan
|
Author |
Movers and Shakers |
26-Feb-1879 |
13-Aug-1962 |
DEAD
|
Eugene Lyons
|
Author |
Anti-Communist Editor of American Mercury |
01-Jul-1898 |
1985 |
DEAD
|
Peter Maas
|
Author |
Serpico |
27-Jun-1929 |
23-Aug-2001 |
DEAD
|
George MacDonald
|
Author |
At the Back of the North Wind |
10-Dec-1824 |
18-Sep-1905 |
DEAD
|
Arthur Machen
|
Author |
Welsh horror novelist, The Great God Pan |
03-Mar-1863 |
30-Mar-1947 |
DEAD
|
Niccolò Machiavelli
|
Author |
The Prince |
03-May-1469 |
22-Jun-1527 |
DEAD
|
Seumas MacManus
|
Author |
A Lad of the O'Friels |
1869 |
1960 |
DEAD
|
Salvador de Madariaga
|
Author |
Englishmen, Frenchmen, Spaniards |
23-Jul-1886 |
14-Dec-1978 |
DEAD
|
| Haki R. Madhubuti
|
Author |
Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous? |
23-Feb-1942 |
TBD |
|
Alfred Thayer Mahan
|
Author |
The Influence of Sea Power upon History |
27-Sep-1840 |
01-Dec-1914 |
DEAD
|
Naguib Mahfouz
|
Author |
The Cairo Trilogy |
11-Dec-1911 |
30-Aug-2006 |
DEAD
|
Norman Mailer
|
Author |
Armies of the Night |
31-Jan-1923 |
10-Nov-2007 |
DEAD
|
Bernard Malamud
|
Author |
The Fixer |
26-Apr-1914 |
18-Mar-1986 |
DEAD
|
| Carl Malamud
|
Author |
Founder of Internet Multicasting Service |
1959 |
TBD |
|
Sir Thomas Malory
|
Author |
Le Morte d'Arthur |
1410 |
14-Mar-1471 |
DEAD
|
| Mahmood Mamdani
|
Author |
When Victims Become Killers |
? |
TBD |
|
| David Mamet
|
Author |
Glengarry Glen Ross |
30-Nov-1947 |
TBD |
|
William Manchester
|
Author |
The Arms of Krupp |
01-Apr-1922 |
01-Jun-2004 |
DEAD
|
Bernard de Mandeville
|
Author |
The Fable of the Bees |
00-Nov-1670 |
21-Jan-1733 |
DEAD
|
| Charles C. Mann
|
Author |
1491: New Revelations |
? |
TBD |
|
Katherine Mansfield
|
Author |
Bliss |
14-Oct-1888 |
09-Jan-1923 |
DEAD
|
George Perkins Marsh
|
Author |
Ecologist and camel enthusiast |
15-Mar-1801 |
23-Jul-1882 |
DEAD
|
Catherine Marshall
|
Author |
Christy |
27-Sep-1914 |
18-Mar-1983 |
DEAD
|
Harriet Martineau
|
Author |
Maid of All Work |
12-Jun-1802 |
27-Jun-1876 |
DEAD
|
José Martínez Ruiz
|
Author |
Generation of '98 |
08-Jun-1873 |
04-Mar-1967 |
DEAD
|
| Richard Matheson
|
Author |
I Am Legend |
20-Feb-1926 |
TBD |
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| Harry Mathews
|
Author |
My Life in CIA |
14-Feb-1930 |
TBD |
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Guy de Maupassant
|
Author |
French short story writer |
05-Aug-1850 |
06-Jul-1893 |
DEAD
|
| Armistead Maupin
|
Author |
Tales of the City series |
13-May-1944 |
TBD |
|
André Maurois
|
Author |
French biographer |
26-Jul-1885 |
09-Oct-1967 |
DEAD
|
Karl May
|
Author |
Bestselling German novelist |
25-May-1842 |
30-Mar-1912 |
DEAD
|
Robert McAlmon
|
Author |
Village: As It Happened |
09-Mar-1896 |
02-Feb-1956 |
DEAD
|
| Anne McCaffrey
|
Author |
Pern series |
01-Apr-1926 |
TBD |
|
Mary McCarthy
|
Author |
The Group |
21-Jun-1912 |
25-Oct-1989 |
DEAD
|
| Robert W. McChesney
|
Author |
Rich Media, Poor Democracy |
1955 |
TBD |
|
Frank McCourt
|
Author |
Angela's Ashes |
19-Aug-1930 |
19-Jul-2009 |
DEAD
|
Carson McCullers
|
Author |
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter |
19-Feb-1917 |
29-Sep-1967 |
DEAD
|
| Harold McGee
|
Author |
On Food and Cooking |
1951 |
TBD |
|
Terence McKenna
|
Author |
Mushrooms, UFOs, end of fractal time |
16-Nov-1946 |
03-Apr-2000 |
DEAD
|
Ruth McKenney
|
Author |
My Sister Eileen |
18-Nov-1911 |
25-Jul-1972 |
DEAD
|
| Robin McKinley
|
Author |
The Hero and the Crown |
16-Nov-1952 |
TBD |
|
Marshall McLuhan
|
Author |
The medium is the message |
21-Jul-1911 |
31-Dec-1980 |
DEAD
|
| John McPhee
|
Author |
Annals of the Former World |
08-Mar-1931 |
TBD |
|
| James Alan McPherson
|
Author |
Elbow Room |
16-Sep-1943 |
TBD |
|
Norris McWhirter
|
Author |
Co-founder, Guinness Book of World Records |
12-Aug-1925 |
19-Apr-2004 |
DEAD
|
Ross McWhirter
|
Author |
Co-founder, Guinness Book of World Records |
12-Aug-1925 |
27-Nov-1975 |
DEAD
|
| Walter Russell Mead
|
Author |
Special Providence |
12-Jun-1952 |
TBD |
|
| Ved Mehta
|
Author |
Face to Face |
21-Mar-1934 |
TBD |
|
| Carolyn Meinel
|
Author |
Walking scr1pt k1dd13 factory |
1946 |
TBD |
|
Herman Melville
|
Author |
Moby Dick |
01-Aug-1819 |
28-Sep-1891 |
DEAD
|
Prosper Mérimée
|
Author |
Carmen |
28-Sep-1803 |
23-Sep-1870 |
DEAD
|
Thomas Merton
|
Author |
The Seven Storey Mountain |
31-Jan-1915 |
10-Dec-1968 |
DEAD
|
Diane Middlebrook
|
Author |
Biographer of Anne Sexton |
16-Apr-1939 |
15-Dec-2007 |
DEAD
|
| Frank Miller
|
Author |
The Dark Knight Returns |
27-Jan-1957 |
TBD |
|
| Steven Millhauser
|
Author |
Martin Dressler |
03-Aug-1943 |
TBD |
|
A. A. Milne
|
Author |
Winnie the Pooh |
18-Jan-1882 |
31-Jan-1956 |
DEAD
|
Yukio Mishima
|
Author |
The Sea of Fertility |
14-Jan-1925 |
25-Nov-1970 |
DEAD
|
Donald Grant Mitchell
|
Author |
Reveries of a Bachelor |
12-Apr-1822 |
15-Dec-1908 |
DEAD
|
Joseph Mitchell
|
Author |
The New Yorker |
27-Jul-1908 |
24-May-1996 |
DEAD
|
Jessica Mitford
|
Author |
The American Way of Death |
11-Sep-1917 |
23-Jul-1996 |
DEAD
|
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
|
Author |
Letters |
26-May-1689 |
21-Aug-1762 |
DEAD
|
| Rick Moody
|
Author |
Purple America |
18-Oct-1961 |
TBD |
|
| Michael Moorcock
|
Author |
Wrote the Elric series |
18-Dec-1939 |
TBD |
|
| Alan Moore
|
Author |
Created The Watchmen |
18-Nov-1953 |
TBD |
|
Robin Moore
|
Author |
The Green Berets |
31-Oct-1925 |
21-Feb-2008 |
DEAD
|
| Edmund Morris
|
Author |
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt |
27-May-1940 |
TBD |
|
Willie Morris
|
Author |
North Toward Home |
29-Nov-1934 |
02-Aug-1999 |
DEAD
|
| Toni Morrison
|
Author |
Beloved |
18-Feb-1931 |
TBD |
|
Thomas Morton
|
Author |
New English Canaan |
1590 |
1647 |
DEAD
|
| Walter Mosley
|
Author |
Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins mysteries |
12-Jan-1952 |
TBD |
|
Willard Motley
|
Author |
The original Bud Billiken |
14-Jul-1909 |
04-Mar-1965 |
DEAD
|
| Farley Mowat
|
Author |
Never Cry Wolf |
12-May-1921 |
TBD |
|
Malcolm Muggeridge
|
Author |
Highly iconoclastic English wit |
24-Mar-1903 |
14-Nov-1990 |
DEAD
|
| Herta Müller
|
Author |
German writer |
17-Aug-1953 |
TBD |
|
| Nina Munk
|
Author |
Fools Rush In |
1968 |
TBD |
|
| Alice Munro
|
Author |
Dance of the Happy Shades |
10-Jul-1931 |
TBD |
|
| Dervla Murphy
|
Author |
Irish cyclist, travel writer |
28-Nov-1931 |
TBD |
|
| Albert L. Murray
|
Author |
Stomping the Blues |
12-May-1916 |
TBD |
|
| Charles Murray
|
Author |
The Bell Curve |
1943 |
TBD |
|
| V. S. Naipaul
|
Author |
A House for Mr. Biswas |
17-Aug-1932 |
TBD |
|
| John Naisbitt
|
Author |
Megatrends |
15-Jan-1929 |
TBD |
|
R. K. Narayan
|
Author |
Swami and Friends |
10-Oct-1906 |
13-May-2001 |
DEAD
|
Petroleum V. Nasby
|
Author |
The Nasby Papers |
20-Sep-1833 |
15-Feb-1888 |
DEAD
|
Thomas Nashe
|
Author |
The Unfortunate Traveller |
1567 |
1601 |
DEAD
|
George Jean Nathan
|
Author |
American Mercury |
14-Feb-1882 |
08-Apr-1958 |
DEAD
|
A. Edward Newton
|
Author |
A Magnificent Farce |
1863 |
29-Sep-1940 |
DEAD
|
| John Nichols
|
Author |
Dick: The Man Who Is President |
? |
TBD |
|
| Joe Nickell
|
Author |
Professional skeptic |
01-Dec-1944 |
TBD |
|
Anaïs Nin
|
Author |
Diary of Anaïs Nin |
21-Feb-1903 |
14-Jan-1977 |
DEAD
|
| Larry Niven
|
Author |
Ringworld and Known Space series |
30-Apr-1938 |
TBD |
|
Albert Jay Nock
|
Author |
Memoirs of a Superfluous Man |
13-Oct-1870 |
19-Aug-1945 |
DEAD
|
| John Norman
|
Author |
Chronicles of Gor |
03-Jun-1931 |
TBD |
|
Andre Norton
|
Author |
Witch World series |
17-Feb-1912 |
17-Mar-2005 |
DEAD
|
Richard Nugent
|
Author |
Harlem Renaissance writer |
02-Jul-1906 |
27-May-1987 |
DEAD
|
Conor Cruise O'Brien
|
Author |
Irish Parliamentarian and Scholar |
03-Nov-1917 |
18-Dec-2008 |
DEAD
|
Fitz-James O'Brien
|
Author |
The Diamond Lens |
31-Dec-1828 |
06-Apr-1862 |
DEAD
|
Flann O'Brien
|
Author |
At Swim-Two-Birds |
05-Oct-1911 |
01-Apr-1966 |
DEAD
|
Flannery O'Connor
|
Author |
A Good Man Is Hard To Find |
25-Mar-1925 |
03-Aug-1964 |
DEAD
|
Frank O'Connor
|
Author |
Guests of the Nation |
17-Sep-1903 |
10-Mar-1966 |
DEAD
|
John O'Hara
|
Author |
Appointment in Samarra |
31-Jan-1905 |
11-Apr-1970 |
DEAD
|
| P. J. O'Rourke
|
Author |
Political satirist |
14-Nov-1947 |
TBD |
|
| Joyce Carol Oates
|
Author |
Author of over 40 novels |
16-Jun-1938 |
TBD |
|
| Kenzaburo Oé
|
Author |
A Personal Matter |
31-Jan-1935 |
TBD |
|
| Daniel Okrent
|
Author |
Former public editor, New York Times |
02-Apr-1948 |
TBD |
|
| Ben Okri
|
Author |
The Famished Road |
15-Mar-1959 |
TBD |
|
Laurence Oliphant
|
Author |
Scientific Religion |
1829 |
23-Dec-1888 |
DEAD
|
Tillie Olsen
|
Author |
Tell Me a Riddle |
14-Jan-1913 |
01-Jan-2007 |
DEAD
|
| Lynne Olson
|
Author |
Freedom's Daughters |
1949 |
TBD |
|
| Robert Orben
|
Author |
Prolific jokewriter |
04-Mar-1927 |
TBD |
|
Orm
|
Author |
Ormulum |
? |
TBD |
DEAD
|
| Suze Orman
|
Author |
The Road to Wealth |
05-Jun-1951 |
TBD |
|
| Norman Ornstein
|
Author |
American Enterprise Institute |
1948 |
TBD |
|
George Orwell
|
Author |
1984 and Animal Farm |
25-Jun-1903 |
21-Jan-1950 |
DEAD
|
| Cynthia Ozick
|
Author |
The Puttermesser Papers |
17-Apr-1928 |
TBD |
|
| George Packer
|
Author |
The Assassins' Gate |
1960 |
TBD |
|
Thomas Nelson Page
|
Author |
In Ole Virginia |
23-Apr-1853 |
01-Nov-1922 |
DEAD
|
| Camille Paglia
|
Author |
Self-described feminist |
02-Apr-1947 |
TBD |
|
| Chuck Palahniuk
|
Author |
Fight Club |
21-Feb-1962 |
TBD |
|
Grace Paley
|
Author |
The Little Disturbances of Man |
11-Dec-1922 |
22-Aug-2007 |
DEAD
|
| Jay Parini
|
Author |
The Last Station |
02-Apr-1948 |
TBD |
|
| Barbara Park
|
Author |
Junie B. Jones series |
21-Apr-1947 |
TBD |
|
Dorothy Parker
|
Author |
Constant Reader known for acerbic quips |
22-Aug-1893 |
07-Jun-1967 |
DEAD
|
James Parton
|
Author |
American biographer |
09-Feb-1822 |
17-Oct-1891 |
DEAD
|
Étienne Pasquier
|
Author |
Recherches de la France |
07-Jun-1529 |
30-Aug-1615 |
DEAD
|
John Dos Passos
|
Author |
U.S.A. Trilogy |
14-Jan-1896 |
28-Sep-1970 |
DEAD
|
Boris Pasternak
|
Author |
Doctor Zhivago |
10-Feb-1890 |
30-May-1960 |
DEAD
|
Isabel Paterson
|
Author |
The God of the Machine |
22-Jan-1886 |
10-Jan-1961 |
DEAD
|
Alan Paton
|
Author |
Cry, the Beloved Country |
11-Jan-1903 |
12-Apr-1988 |
DEAD
|
| James Patterson
|
Author |
Along Came a Spider |
22-Mar-1947 |
TBD |
|
M. Scott Peck
|
Author |
The Road Less Traveled |
22-May-1936 |
25-Sep-2005 |
DEAD
|
Harvey Pekar
|
Author |
American Splendor |
08-Oct-1939 |
12-Jul-2010 |
DEAD
|
Samuel Pepys
|
Author |
London diarist |
23-Feb-1633 |
26-May-1703 |
DEAD
|
Thomas Percy
|
Author |
Percy Reliques |
13-Apr-1729 |
30-Sep-1811 |
DEAD
|
Walker Percy
|
Author |
The Moviegoer |
28-May-1916 |
10-May-1990 |
DEAD
|
S. J. Perelman
|
Author |
New Yorker humorist |
01-Feb-1904 |
17-Oct-1979 |
DEAD
|
| Cristina Peri Rossi
|
Author |
Los Museos Abandonados |
12-Nov-1941 |
TBD |
|
| George R. Perkovich
|
Author |
India's Nuclear Bomb |
1959 |
TBD |
|
Charles Perrault
|
Author |
Tales of Mother Goose |
12-Jan-1628 |
16-May-1703 |
DEAD
|
Persius
|
Author |
Satires |
? |
TBD |
DEAD
|
Fernando Pessoa
|
Author |
Heteronymous author, The Book of Disquiet |
13-Jun-1888 |
30-Nov-1935 |
DEAD
|
| Tom Peters
|
Author |
In Search of Excellence |
07-Nov-1942 |
TBD |
|
| Michael Peterson
|
Author |
The Staircase |
23-Oct-1943 |
TBD |
|
Petronius Arbiter
|
Author |
Satyricon |
? |
TBD |
DEAD
|
Phaedrus
|
Author |
Roman fabulist |
? |
TBD |
DEAD
|
William Pierce
|
Author |
The Turner Diaries |
11-Sep-1933 |
23-Jul-2002 |
DEAD
|
| Ricardo Piglia
|
Author |
The Absent City |
24-Nov-1941 |
TBD |
|
| Christopher Pike
|
Author |
Last Vampire, Spooksville, series |
00-Nov-1954 |
TBD |
|
| Nicholas Pileggi
|
Author |
Goodfellas screenwriter |
22-Feb-1933 |
TBD |
|
| Dan Pink
|
Author |
A Whole New Mind |
1964 |
TBD |
|
| Daniel Pinkwater
|
Author |
The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death |
15-Nov-1941 |
TBD |
|
| Robert Pirsig
|
Author |
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |
06-Sep-1928 |
TBD |
|
| Charles Platt
|
Author |
Science fiction novelist |
1945 |
TBD |
|
George Plimpton
|
Author |
Paper Lion |
18-Mar-1927 |
25-Sep-2003 |
DEAD
|
Pliny the Elder
|
Author |
Naturalis Historia |
? |
TBD |
DEAD
|
Pliny the Younger
|
Author |
Epistulae |
? |
TBD |
DEAD
|
Plutarch
|
Author |
Lives |
? |
TBD |
DEAD
|
| Norman Podhoretz
|
Author |
Prominent neocon author |
16-Jan-1930 |
TBD |
|
Frank Podmore
|
Author |
Fabian Society |
05-Feb-1856 |
14-Aug-1910 |
DEAD
|
Edgar Allan Poe
|
Author |
The Raven |
19-Jan-1809 |
07-Oct-1849 |
DEAD
|
| Frederik Pohl
|
Author |
Futurian science fiction writer |
26-Nov-1919 |
TBD |
|
| Michael Pollan
|
Author |
The Omnivore's Dilemma |
06-Feb-1955 |
TBD |
|
Henrik Pontoppidan
|
Author |
Lucky Peter |
24-Jul-1857 |
21-Aug-1943 |
DEAD
|
Hal Porter
|
Author |
A Handful of Pennies |
16-Feb-1911 |
29-Sep-1984 |
DEAD
|
Katherine Anne Porter
|
Author |
Ship of Fools |
15-May-1890 |
18-Sep-1980 |
DEAD
|
| Charles Portis
|
Author |
True Grit |
28-Dec-1933 |
TBD |
|
| William Poundstone
|
Author |
Big Secrets |
? |
TBD |
|
| Jerry Pournelle
|
Author |
Sci-Fi collaborator with Larry Niven |
07-Aug-1933 |
TBD |
|
| Samantha Power
|
Author |
A Problem From Hell |
1970 |
TBD |
|
| Richard Preston
|
Author |
The Hot Zone |
05-Aug-1954 |
TBD |
|
| Reynolds Price
|
Author |
A Long and Happy Life |
01-Feb-1933 |
TBD |
|
V. S. Pritchett
|
Author |
Midnight Oil |
16-Dec-1900 |
20-Mar-1997 |
DEAD
|
| E. Annie Proulx
|
Author |
The Shipping News |
22-Aug-1935 |
TBD |
|
Marcel Proust
|
Author |
In Search of Lost Time |
10-Jul-1871 |
18-Nov-1922 |
DEAD
|
James Purdy
|
Author |
Eustance Chisholm and the Works |
17-Jul-1914 |
13-Mar-2009 |
DEAD
|
George Puttenham
|
Author |
The Arte of English Poesie |
1529 |
1590 |
DEAD
|
| Carol Queen
|
Author |
Prolific sexologist |
1957 |
TBD |
|
| Joe Queenan
|
Author |
Closing Time |
03-Nov-1950 |
TBD |
|
Rabanus Maurus
|
Author |
Carolingian religious scholar |
? |
TBD |
DEAD
|
François Rabelais
|
Author |
Gargantua and Pantagruel |
1494 |
09-Apr-1553 |
DEAD
|
| Dotson Rader
|
Author |
I Ain't Marchin' Anymore! |
25-Jul-1942 |
TBD |
|
Yordan Radichkov
|
Author |
Bulgarian writer |
24-Oct-1929 |
21-Jan-2004 |
DEAD
|
| David Rakoff
|
Author |
Don't Get Too Comfortable |
27-Nov-1964 |
TBD |
|
Ayn Rand
|
Author |
Atlas Shrugged |
02-Feb-1905 |
06-Mar-1982 |
DEAD
|
R. E. Raspe
|
Author |
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen |
1737 |
1794 |
DEAD
|
Opie Read
|
Author |
Jucklins |
22-Dec-1852 |
02-Nov-1939 |
DEAD
|
Pauline Réage
|
Author |
Histoire d'O |
23-Sep-1907 |
27-Apr-1998 |
DEAD
|
| John Rechy
|
Author |
City of Night |
10-Mar-1934 |
TBD |
|
| Judith Reisman
|
Author |
Hates Kinsey |
11-Apr-1935 |
TBD |
|
Marc Reisner
|
Author |
Cadillac Desert |
14-Sep-1948 |
21-Jul-2000 |
DEAD
|
| Robert K. Ressler
|
Author |
Whoever Fights Monsters |
15-Feb-1937 |
TBD |
|
| James Reston, Jr.
|
Author |
The Conviction of Richard Nixon |
1941 |
TBD |
|
Alfonso Reyes
|
Author |
Visión de Anáhuac |
17-May-1889 |
27-Dec-1959 |
DEAD
|
Wladyslaw Reymont
|
Author |
The Peasants |
07-May-1867 |
05-Dec-1925 |
DEAD
|
| Howard Rheingold
|
Author |
The Virtual Community |
07-Jul-1947 |
TBD |
|
James Ford Rhodes
|
Author |
History of the Civil War |
01-May-1848 |
22-Jan-1927 |
DEAD
|
Bernardim Ribeiro
|
Author |
Menina e Moça |
1482 |
00-Oct-1552 |
DEAD
|
| Boyd Rice
|
Author |
Satanist |
1955 |
TBD |
|
Alexandra Ripley
|
Author |
Wrote Scarlett |
08-Jan-1934 |
10-Jan-2004 |
DEAD
|
| John Robbins
|
Author |
Celebrity vegan |
26-Oct-1947 |
TBD |
|
| Tony Robbins
|
Author |
Toothy motivational speaker |
29-Feb-1960 |
TBD |
|
Elizabeth Madox Roberts
|
Author |
The Great Meadow |
30-Oct-1881 |
13-Mar-1941 |
DEAD
|
François de la Rochefoucauld
|
Author |
Maxims |
15-Sep-1613 |
16-Mar-1680 |
DEAD
|
| Thomas Rockwell
|
Author |
How to Eat Fried Worms |
13-Mar-1933 |
TBD |
|
Peter Mark Roget
|
Author |
Roget's Thesaurus |
18-Jan-1779 |
12-Sep-1869 |
DEAD
|
| Anne Roiphe
|
Author |
Up the Sandbox! |
25-Dec-1935 |
TBD |
|
Frederick Rolfe
|
Author |
Baron Corvo |
22-Jul-1860 |
25-Oct-1913 |
DEAD
|
| Wayne Allyn Root
|
Author |
The Zen of Gambling |
1963 |
TBD |
|
João Guimarães Rosa
|
Author |
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands |
27-Jun-1908 |
19-Nov-1967 |
DEAD
|
Leo Rosten
|
Author |
The Joys of Yiddish |
11-Apr-1908 |
19-Feb-1997 |
DEAD
|
Henry Roth
|
Author |
Call It Sleep |
08-Feb-1906 |
13-Oct-1995 |
DEAD
|
Mary Rowlandson
|
Author |
Narrative of the Captivity |
1635 |
05-Jan-1711 |
DEAD
|
| J. K. Rowling
|
Author |
Author of Harry Potter series |
31-Jul-1965 |
TBD |
|
Susanna Rowson
|
Author |
Charlotte, a Tale of Truth |
1762 |
02-Mar-1824 |
DEAD
|
| Arundhati Roy
|
Author |
The God of Small Things |
24-Nov-1961 |
TBD |
|
| Ann Rule
|
Author |
Prolific true crime paperback writer |
22-Oct-1937 |
TBD |
|
Jane Rule
|
Author |
Desert of the Heart |
28-Mar-1931 |
27-Nov-2007 |
DEAD
|
| Michael Rumaker
|
Author |
Beat author, The Butterfly |
05-Mar-1932 |
TBD |
|
| Kristine Kathryn Rusch
|
Author |
Science fiction and fantasy author, editor |
1960 |
TBD |
|
| Douglas Rushkoff
|
Author |
Cyberculture analyst |
18-Feb-1961 |
TBD |
|
| Joanna Russ
|
Author |
The Female Man |
22-Feb-1937 |
TBD |
|
Charles Edward Russell
|
Author |
The Greatest Trust in the World |
25-Sep-1860 |
23-Apr-1941 |
DEAD
|
Luigi Russolo
|
Author |
Authored the manifesto The Art of Noises |
30-Apr-1885 |
06-Feb-1947 |
DEAD
|
Vita Sackville-West
|
Author |
The Land |
09-Mar-1892 |
02-Jun-1962 |
DEAD
|
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
|
Author |
The Little Prince |
29-Jun-1900 |
31-Jul-1944 |
DEAD
|
Henri de Saint-Simon
|
Author |
Nouveau Christianisme |
17-Oct-1760 |
19-May-1825 |
DEAD
|
| R. A. Salvatore
|
Author |
Created the dark elf Drizzt |
20-Jan-1959 |
TBD |
|
George Sand
|
Author |
Lélia |
01-Jul-1804 |
08-Jun-1876 |
DEAD
|
Carl Sandburg
|
Author |
Illinois poet, Lincoln biographer |
06-Jan-1878 |
22-Jul-1967 |
DEAD
|
Mari Sandoz
|
Author |
Crazy Horse |
11-May-1896 |
10-Mar-1966 |
DEAD
|
José Saramago
|
Author |
Brilliant Portuguese novelist |
16-Nov-1922 |
18-Jun-2010 |
DEAD
|
Severo Sarduy
|
Author |
De donde son los Cantantes |
25-Feb-1937 |
08-Jun-1993 |
DEAD
|
William Saroyan
|
Author |
The Time of Your Life |
31-Aug-1908 |
18-May-1981 |
DEAD
|
| George Saunders
|
Author |
In Persuasion Nation |
02-Dec-1958 |
TBD |
|
Richard Scarry
|
Author |
Delightful children's book author and artist |
05-Jun-1919 |
30-Apr-1994 |
DEAD
|
| Orville Schell
|
Author |
Prominent sinologist |
20-May-1940 |
TBD |
|
Herbert I. Schiller
|
Author |
Mass Communications and American Empire |
05-Nov-1919 |
29-Jan-2000 |
DEAD
|
| Eric Schlosser
|
Author |
Fast Food Nation |
17-Aug-1959 |
TBD |
|
Sir Walter Scott
|
Author |
Ivanhoe |
15-Aug-1771 |
21-Sep-1832 |
DEAD
|
William Seabrook
|
Author |
Thoroughly sodden traveling author |
22-Feb-1886 |
20-Sep-1945 |
DEAD
|
| David Sedaris
|
Author |
Contributor to This American Life |
26-Dec-1956 |
TBD |
|
Hubert Selby
|
Author |
Requiem for a Dream |
23-Jul-1928 |
26-Apr-2004 |
DEAD
|
| Maurice Sendak
|
Author |
Where The Wild Things Are |
10-Jun-1928 |
TBD |
|
Seneca
|
Author |
Epistulae Morales |
? |
TBD |
DEAD
|
Rod Serling
|
Author |
Creator of The Twilight Zone |
25-Dec-1924 |
28-Jun-1975 |
DEAD
|
Anya Seton
|
Author |
Dragonwyck |
23-Jan-1906 |
08-Nov-1990 |
DEAD
|
Dr. Seuss
|
Author |
The Cat in the Hat |
02-Mar-1904 |
24-Sep-1991 |
DEAD
|
Madame de Sévigné
|
Author |
Eminent French letter writer |
05-Feb-1626 |
17-Apr-1696 |
DEAD
|
Michael Shaara
|
Author |
The Killer Angels |
23-Jun-1929 |
05-May-1988 |
DEAD
|
Alan Shalleck
|
Author |
Curious George writer |
14-Nov-1929 |
06-Feb-2006 |
DEAD
|
Robert Shea
|
Author |
Illuminatus Trilogy |
14-Feb-1933 |
10-Mar-1994 |
DEAD
|
Robert Sheckley
|
Author |
Science fiction genius |
16-Jul-1928 |
09-Dec-2005 |
DEAD
|
| Wilfrid Sheed
|
Author |
Office Politics |
27-Dec-1930 |
TBD |
|
Sidney Sheldon
|
Author |
Annie Get Your Gun |
11-Feb-1917 |
30-Jan-2007 |
DEAD
|
| Ann Allen Shockley
|
Author |
Loving Her |
21-Jun-1927 |
TBD |
|
Mikhail Sholokhov
|
Author |
The Silent Don |
24-May-1905 |
21-Feb-1984 |
DEAD
|
Irving Shulman
|
Author |
The Amboy Dukes |
21-May-1913 |
23-Mar-1995 |
DEAD
|
| Brian Sibley
|
Author |
Penned dramatizations for LOTR |
14-Jul-1949 |
TBD |
|
Sir Philip Sidney
|
Author |
The Defence of Poesie |
30-Nov-1554 |
17-Oct-1586 |
DEAD
|
Jerry Siegel
|
Author |
Creator of Superman |
17-Oct-1914 |
28-Jan-1996 |
DEAD
|
Henryk Sienkiewicz
|
Author |
Quo Vadis? |
05-May-1846 |
15-Nov-1916 |
DEAD
|
Frans Eemil Sillanpää
|
Author |
The Loveliness and Wretchedness of Human Life |
16-Sep-1888 |
03-Jun-1964 |
DEAD
|
Josias Simmler
|
Author |
De Alpibus Commentarius |
1550 |
1576 |
DEAD
|
| Dan Simmons
|
Author |
Hyperion |
04-Apr-1948 |
TBD |
|
| David Simon
|
Author |
The Wire |
1960 |
TBD |
|
| Iain Sinclair
|
Author |
Downriver |
11-Jun-1943 |
TBD |
|
Isaac Bashevis Singer
|
Author |
Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy |
14-Jul-1904 |
24-Jul-1991 |
DEAD
|
| Simon Singh
|
Author |
Fermat's Last Theorem |
19-Sep-1964 |
TBD |
|
Clark Ashton Smith
|
Author |
Horror/fantasy author |
13-Jan-1893 |
14-Aug-1961 |
DEAD
|
Cordwainer Smith
|
Author |
The Rediscovery of Man |
11-Jul-1913 |
06-Aug-1966 |
DEAD
|
H. Allen Smith
|
Author |
Low Man on a Totem Pole |
19-Dec-1907 |
24-Feb-1976 |
DEAD
|
| Lemony Snicket
|
Author |
A Series of Unfortunate Events |
28-Feb-1970 |
TBD |
|
C. P. Snow
|
Author |
The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution |
15-Oct-1905 |
01-Jul-1980 |
DEAD
|
| Stephen D. Solomon
|
Author |
Ellery's Protest |
1949 |
TBD |
|
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
|
Author |
The Gulag Archipelago |
11-Dec-1918 |
03-Aug-2008 |
DEAD
|
| Christina Hoff Sommers
|
Author |
Who Stole Feminism? |
1950 |
TBD |
|
Susan Sontag
|
Author |
Novelist, critic, intellectual |
16-Jan-1933 |
28-Dec-2004 |
DEAD
|
| Aaron Sorkin
|
Author |
The West Wing, Sports Night |
09-Jun-1961 |
TBD |
|
| Vladimir Sorokin
|
Author |
Wrote Goluboe Salo (Blue Lard) |
07-Aug-1955 |
TBD |
|
| Peter Sotos
|
Author |
Transgressive author, Pure |
1960 |
TBD |
|
Jared Sparks
|
Author |
Life and Writings of George Washington |
10-May-1789 |
14-Mar-1866 |
DEAD
|
Mickey Spillane
|
Author |
Mike Hammer novels |
09-Mar-1918 |
17-Jul-2006 |
DEAD
|
| Norman Spinrad
|
Author |
SF author, Little Heroes |
15-Sep-1940 |
TBD |
|
Madame de Staël
|
Author |
Important French romanticist |
22-Apr-1766 |
14-Jul-1817 |
DEAD
|
| Jerry Stahl
|
Author |
Permanent Midnight |
1953 |
TBD |
|
Francis Steegmuller
|
Author |
Cocteau: A Biography |
03-Jul-1906 |
20-Oct-1994 |
DEAD
|
Richard Steele
|
Author |
The Spectator |
1672 |
01-Sep-1729 |
DEAD
|
Wallace Stegner
|
Author |
The Angle of Repose |
18-Feb-1909 |
13-Apr-1993 |
DEAD
|
Charlotte von Stein
|
Author |
Friend of Goethe and Schiller |
25-Dec-1742 |
06-Jan-1827 |
DEAD
|
Gertrude Stein
|
Author |
Avant-garde writer, salon |
03-Feb-1874 |
27-Jul-1946 |
DEAD
|
Stendhal
|
Author |
Le Rouge et le Noir |
23-Jan-1793 |
23-Mar-1842 |
DEAD
|
| Bruce Sterling
|
Author |
Schismatrix |
14-Apr-1954 |
TBD |
|
Philip Van Doren Stern
|
Author |
It's A Wonderful Life |
10-Sep-1900 |
31-Jul-1984 |
DEAD
|
W. Richard Stevens
|
Author |
UNIX Network Programming |
1951 |
01-Sep-1999 |
DEAD
|
Robert Louis Stevenson
|
Author |
Treasure Island |
13-Nov-1850 |
03-Dec-1894 |
DEAD
|
| Rick Steves
|
Author |
Europe Through the Back Door |
1955 |
TBD |
|
Donald Ogden Stewart
|
Author |
The Philadelphia Story |
30-Nov-1894 |
02-Aug-1980 |
DEAD
|
George R. Stewart
|
Author |
Earth Abides |
31-May-1895 |
22-Aug-1980 |
DEAD
|
Adalbert Stifter
|
Author |
Studien |
23-Oct-1805 |
28-Jan-1868 |
DEAD
|
| R. L. Stine
|
Author |
Goosebumps series |
08-Oct-1943 |
TBD |
|
Stobaeus
|
Author |
Compiler of classic Greek authors |
? |
TBD |
DEAD
|
Bram Stoker
|
Author |
Dracula |
08-Nov-1847 |
20-Apr-1912 |
DEAD
|
| Cliff Stoll
|
Author |
The Cuckoo's Egg |
? |
TBD |
|
| Debbie Stoller
|
Author |
Knitterati, Stitch 'n Bitch |
? |
TBD |
|
John Stow
|
Author |
Antiquary, Survey of London |
1525 |
06-Apr-1605 |
DEAD
|
Lytton Strachey
|
Author |
Eminent Victorians |
01-Mar-1880 |
21-Jan-1932 |
DEAD
|
William Strunk
|
Author |
Elements of Style |
01-Jul-1869 |
26-Sep-1946 |
DEAD
|
Theodore Sturgeon
|
Author |
More Than Human |
26-Feb-1918 |
08-May-1985 |
DEAD
|
Danny Sugerman
|
Author |
Manager/Biographer for The Doors |
11-Oct-1954 |
05-Jan-2005 |
DEAD
|
| Patrick Süskind
|
Author |
Perfume, The Story of a Murderer |
26-Mar-1949 |
TBD |
|
Jonathan Swift
|
Author |
Gulliver's Travels |
30-Nov-1667 |
19-Oct-1745 |
DEAD
|
| Anthony Swofford
|
Author |
Jarhead |
12-Aug-1970 |
TBD |
|
| Plum Sykes
|
Author |
Bergdorf Blondes |
04-Dec-1969 |
TBD |
|
| Antonio Tabucchi
|
Author |
The Last Three Days of Fernando Pessoa |
23-Sep-1943 |
TBD |
|
| Gay Talese
|
Author |
Honor Thy Father |
07-Feb-1932 |
TBD |
|
Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux
|
Author |
Historiettes |
02-Oct-1619 |
10-Nov-1692 |
DEAD
|
| Amy Tan
|
Author |
The Joy Luck Club |
19-Feb-1952 |
TBD |
|
| Sam Tanenhaus
|
Author |
Editor, New York Times Book Review |
31-Oct-1955 |
TBD |
|
Bayard Taylor
|
Author |
Europe seen with Knapsack |
11-Jan-1825 |
19-Dec-1878 |
DEAD
|
Peter Taylor
|
Author |
A Summons to Memphis |
08-Jan-1917 |
02-Nov-1994 |
DEAD
|
Esaias Tegnér
|
Author |
Frithjofs Saga |
13-Nov-1782 |
02-Nov-1846 |
DEAD
|
| Ruy Teixeira
|
Author |
The Emerging Democratic Majority |
1955 |
TBD |
|
| Sheri S. Tepper
|
Author |
The Gate to Women's Country |
1929 |
TBD |
|
Studs Terkel
|
Author |
Working |
16-May-1912 |
31-Oct-2008 |
DEAD
|
| Abigail Thernstrom
|
Author |
Opponent of Affirmative Action |
1936 |
TBD |
|
Henry David Thoreau
|
Author |
Walden |
12-Jul-1817 |
06-May-1862 |
DEAD
|
James Thurber
|
Author |
Short story writer and cartoonist |
08-Dec-1894 |
02-Nov-1961 |
DEAD
|
Wallace Thurman
|
Author |
The Blacker the Berry |
16-Aug-1902 |
22-Dec-1934 |
DEAD
|
Henrik Tikkanen
|
Author |
A Winter's Day |
1924 |
1984 |
DEAD
|
| Alvin Toffler
|
Author |
Future Shock |
04-Oct-1928 |
TBD |
|
J. R. R. Tolkien
|
Author |
Lord of the Rings |
03-Jan-1892 |
02-Sep-1973 |
DEAD
|
Leo Tolstoy
|
Author |
Russian novelist |
28-Aug-1828 |
20-Nov-1910 |
DEAD
|
Jean Toomer
|
Author |
Cane |
26-Dec-1894 |
30-Mar-1967 |
DEAD
|
| Kevin Trudeau
|
Author |
Natural Cures, fraudster |
06-Feb-1963 |
TBD |
|
Dalton Trumbo
|
Author |
Johnny Got His Gun |
09-Dec-1905 |
10-Sep-1976 |
DEAD
|
| Robert W. Tucker
|
Author |
The Inequality of Nations |
1925 |
TBD |
|
| Edward Tufte
|
Author |
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information |
14-Mar-1942 |
TBD |
|
Ivan Turgenev
|
Author |
Fathers and Sons |
09-Nov-1818 |
03-Sep-1883 |
DEAD
|
Mark Twain
|
Author |
Huckleberry Finn |
30-Nov-1835 |
21-Apr-1910 |
DEAD
|
| Anne Tyler
|
Author |
The Accidental Tourist |
25-Oct-1941 |
TBD |
|
Sun Tzu
|
Author |
The Art of War |
? |
TBD |
DEAD
|
Francis Henry Underwood
|
Author |
Quabbin: The Story of a Small Town |
12-Jan-1825 |
07-Aug-1894 |
DEAD
|
Sigrid Undset
|
Author |
Kristin Lavransdåtter |
20-May-1882 |
10-Jun-1949 |
DEAD
|
Thomas Urquhart
|
Author |
Translator of Rabelais |
1611 |
1660 |
DEAD
|
| Andrew Vachss
|
Author |
Burke, attorney for children |
19-Oct-1942 |
TBD |
|
Laurens van der Post
|
Author |
The Lost World of the Kalahari |
13-Dec-1906 |
15-Dec-1996 |
DEAD
|
Carl Van Doren
|
Author |
The American Novel |
10-Sep-1885 |
18-Jul-1950 |
DEAD
|
| Jennifer Vanderbes
|
Author |
Easter Island |
1974 |
TBD |
|
| Jeff Vandermeer
|
Author |
The Book of Lost Places |
1968 |
TBD |
|
Immanuel Velikovsky
|
Author |
Worlds in Collision |
10-Jun-1895 |
17-Nov-1979 |
DEAD
|
Jules Verne
|
Author |