Literary Library

Carl Sandburg

by Angela Beck
January 6, 1878 - July 22, 1967American poet, biographer, journalist, editor and children's book authorAuthor of "Corn Huskers" (for which he won ...
Biographer Biography Children's Book Children's Book Author Children's Books Editor Journalism Journalist News Poem Poems Poet Poetry Pulitzer Prize Robert Frost Medal

Robert Kinloch Massie, III

by Angela Beck
January 5, 1929 - December 2, 2019 American journalist, historian and biographerAuthor of "Peter the Great: His Life and World" (for which he won t...
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence Biographer Biography British History Catherine the Great German German History Germany Great Britain Historian history Journalism Journalist News Newspapers Peter the Great Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize for Biography Russian History War History World History

Charles Williford

by Angela Beck
January 2, 1919 - March 27, 1988American poet, fiction writer and autobiographerAuthor of "Miami Blues", "Wild Wives" and "Sideswipe"
Autobiographer Autobiography Biographer Biography Fiction Poem Poems Poet Poetry

Catherine Drinker Bowen

by Angela Beck
January 1, 1897 - November 1, 1973American biographerAuthor of "Yankee From Olympus" and Miracle at Philadelphia"
Bio Biographer Biography

Rene de Ceccatty

by Angela Beck
January 1, 1952 - French translator, editor, novelist, biographer and screenwriterAuthor of 30 novels and biographies including "To Love", "Retent...
Bio Biographer Biography Editor Film Films France French Novel Novelist Screenwriter Translator

Leslie Gourse

by Angela Beck
January 1, 1939 - December 23, 2004American music writer, biographer, novelist and children's book writerAuthor of "Pocahontas: Young Peacemaker", ...
Bio Biographer Biography Children's Book Children's Book Author Children's Books Music Music Writer Musician Novel Novelist

Holbrook Jackson

by Angela Beck
December 31, 1874 - June 16, 1948British journalist, writer, editor and publisherAuthor of dozens of books including "Edward Fitzgerald and Omar K...
Bio Biography British Editor England English Flying Fame Press Great Britain Journalism Journalist Publisher Writer

Julia Briggs

by Angela Beck
December 30, 1943 - August 16, 2007English professor, literary critic and biographerAuthor of "Night Visitors: The Rise and Fall of the English Gho...
Bio Biographer Biography British Critic Edith Nesbit England English Ghost Ghost Story Great Britain Literary Critic Professor Teach Teacher University Virginia Woolf

Dave Pelzer

by Angela Beck
December 29, 1960 - American writer of autobiographical and self-help booksAuthor of "A Child Called It", "The Lost Boy" and "Help Yourself"
Autobiography Bio Biographer Biography Self-Help Writer

Pio Baroja y Nessi

by Angela Beck
December 28, 1872 - October 30, 1956Spanish novelist, biographer and physicianAuthor of "The Lord of Labraz", "The Tree of Knowledge" and "Zalacai...
Bio Biographer Biography Doctor Medical Medicine Novel Novelist Spain Spanish

Dick Sudhalter

by Angela Beck
December 28, 1938 - September 19, 2008American jazz trumpeter and writerAuthor of "Bix: Man and Legend" (co-written with Richard R. Evans and for w...
Bio Biographer Biography Jazz Jazz Music Music Musician National Book Award Trumpet Trumpeter Writer

Wilfred Sheed

by Angela Beck
December 27, 1930 - January 19, 2011English-born American novelist, essayist and biographerAuthor of "Office Politics" (for which he was a finalist...
Bio Biographer Biography British England English Essayist Essays Great Britain Muhammad Ali National Book Award Novel Novelist