Literary Library

Warren Felt Evans

December 23, 1817 - September 4, 1889American philosopher, writer and ministerAuthor of "The Mental Cure (Illustrating the Influence of the Mind i...

Sidney Shapiro

December 23, 1915 - October 18, 2014American-born Chinese lawyer, translator, actor and writerAuthor of "An American in China: Thirty Years in the...

Samuel Smiles

December 23, 1812 - April 16, 1904Scottish author, biographer, government reformer and newspaper editorAuthor of "Self-Help", "Lives of the Engine...

Robert Bly

December 23, 1926 - November 21, 2021American poet, essayist and activistAuthor of more than 30 books of poetry including"Talking Into the Ear of ...

Raymond E. Feist

December 23, 1945 - American fantasy fiction novelist and short-story writerAuthor of "Silverthorn", "Daughter of the Empire" and "Talon of the Sil...

Norman Maclean

December 23, 1902 - August 2, 1990American author and scholarBest known for his novel "A River Runs Through It" as well as "Young Men and Fire" an...

Megan Mayhew Bergman

December 23, 1979 - American short-story writer, columnist and professorAuthor of "Almost Famous Women: Stories" and "Birds of a Lesser Paradise: S...

Martin Opitz

December 23, 1597 - August 20, 1639German poet and novelistAuthor of "Acht Bucher deutscher Poematum", "Geistliche Poemata" and "The Idyll of the...

Juan Ramon Jimenez

December 23, 1881 - May 29, 1958Spanish poetAuthor of "Water Lilies", "Pure Elegies" and "Ballads of Spring"Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature ...

Harriet Monroe

December 23, 1860 - September 26, 1936American editor, scholar, literary critic, poet, publisher, editor and art patronAuthor of "John Wellborn Ro...

Giuseppi Tomasi di Lampedusa

December 23, 1896 - July 23, 1957Italian writer, novelist and PrinceAuthor of "The Leopard", "The Professor" and "Places of My Infancy: A Memory"W...

Donna Tartt

December 23, 1963 - American novelist and short-story & non-fiction writerAuthor of "The Secret History", "The Little Friend" (for which she w...