Literary Library

Jack D. Forbes

by Angela Beck
January 7, 1934 - February 23, 2011American writer, scholar and political activistAuthor of "Native Americans of California and Nevada", "Africans ...
Academic Activist Africa African Africans American Book Award California Christopher Columbus College Columbus Cultural Historian Culture Deganawidah-Quetzalcoatl University Native Native American Native Culture Nevada Political Political Activist Politics Scholar Slavery Slaves University Writer

Richard A. Muller

by Angela Beck
January 6, 1944 - American physicist, professor and authorAuthor of "Nemesis: The Death Star", "Ice Ages and Astronomical Causes: Data, Spectral A...
Academic Author College Educate Education Educator Environment Environmental Environmentalist Physicist Physics Professor School Science Scientist Teach Teacher University

Elizabeth Strout

by Angela Beck
January 6, 1956 -American novelist, short story writer and academicAuthor of "Amy and Isabelle" (for which she was a nominee for the Orange Prize ...
Academic College Educate Education Educator National Book Critics Circle Award Novel Novelist O. Henry Prize Oprah Oprah's Book Club Orange Prize PEN/Faulkner Award Pulitzer Prize School Short Stories Short Story Teach Teacher Teaching University

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

by Angela Beck
January 5, 1938 - May 28, 2025Kenyan novelist, playwright, short story writer, essayist and academicAuthor of "Weep Not Child" (for which he won t...
Academic Africa African Booker Prize East Africa Novel Prize Essayist Essays Hurston/Wright Legacy Award International Booker Prize Kenya Kenyan Man Booker Prize National Book Critics Circle Award Nonino International Prize Novel Novelist Short Stories Short Story UNESCO Prize Zora Neale Hurston-Paul Robeson Award

Idella Purnell

by Angela Beck
April 1, 1901 - December 1, 1982Mexican-born American academic, librarian, teacher and children's book authorAuthor of "The Talking Bird: An Aztec ...
Academic Children's Book Children's Book Author Children's Books Librarian Library Mexican Mexican-American Mexico Poetry Riveter Teacher

Gaetano Mosca

by Angela Beck
April 1, 1858 - November 8, 1941Italian political scientist, journalist, public servant and academicAuthor of "Theory of  Governments and Parliame...
Academic Govern Government Government Official Italian Italy Journalism Journalist Political Political Scientist Politics Public Servant

Aileen Ward

by Angela Beck
April 1, 1919 - May 31, 2016American professor of English literature and authorAuthor of "John Keats: The Making of a Poet" (for which she won the ...
Academic English Guggenheim Keats National Book Award Professor Teacher University

Elizabeth Ann Tallent

by Angela Beck
August 8, 1954 - American novelist, short-story writer, essayist and academicAuthor of "Museum Pieces", "Honey" and "Mendocino Fire" #literarycalen...
Academic Essayist Essays Novel Novelist Short Story University

Robert Morss Lovett

by Angela Beck
December 25, 1870 - February 8, 1956American academic, writer, editor, political activist and government officialAuthor of "The History of English...
Academic Communism Communist Editor Government Government Official Political Political Activist Politics Writer

Josephine Humphries

by Angela Beck
February 2, 1945 -  American novelist and teacher Author of "Dreams of Sleep" (for which she won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award in 1984), "Rich...
Academic Film Guggenheim Novel Novelist PEN/Hemingway Award South Southern Southern Book Award Teach Teacher

John Edwin Canaday

by Angela Beck
February 1, 1907 - July 19, 1985American academic, art historian and critic, journalist and novelistAuthor of art books including "Mainstreams of M...
Academic Art Art Critic Art Historian Arts Athenaeum Literary Award Crime Journalism Journalist Novel Novelist Picasso

Austin Abbott

by Angela Beck
December 18, 1931 - April 19, 1896American lawyer, academic and writerAuthor of "Reports of Practice Cases Determined in the Courts of the State o...
Academic Henry Ward Beecher James Garfield Law Lawyer President Garfield Writer