Literary Library

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

Marc Lamont Hill

by Angela Beck
December 17, 1978 - African-American academic, author, professor, activist, news commentary and television personalityAuthor of "The Classroom and...
Academic Activist African American Author News News Correspondent Professor Teach Teacher Television Television Commentator University

Edoardo Sanguineti

by Angela Beck
December 9, 1930 - May 18, 2010Genovese poet, writer, academic, translator and member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian ParliamentAuthor o...
Academic Genoa Genoese Government Government Official Italian Italy Parliament Poem Poems Poet Poetry Translator Writer

Bill McKibben

by Angela Beck
December 8, 1960 - American environment, author, journalist and academicAuthor of "The End of Nature", "Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlike...
Academic Author Environment Environmentalist Guggenheim Journalism Journalist Natural World Naturalist Nature Sierra Club

John A. Williams

by Angela Beck
December 5, 1925 - July 3, 2015 African-American author, journalist, academic and poetAuthor of "The Man Who Cried I Am", "!Click Song" (for which...
Academic African American Author Journalism Journalist Poem Poems Poet Poetry