Literary Library

Stanley Crouch

by Angela Beck
December 14, 1945 - September 16, 2020African-American poet, music and cultural critic, columnist, novelist and biographerAuthor of "The All-Americ...
African American Bio Biographer Biography Columnist Critic Culture Music Music Critic Novel Novelist Poem Poems Poet Poetry W.E.B. Dubois

Heinrich Heine

by Angela Beck
December 13, 1797 -  February 13, 1856German poet, writer and literary criticAuthor of "Travel Pictures", "Germany: A Winter's Tale" and "Romanzer...
Critic German Germany Literary Critic Poem Poems Poet Poetry Writer

Carolyn M. Rodgers

by Angela Beck
December 14, 1940 - April 2, 2010African-American poet, essayist, critic and publisherAuthor of "Blackbird in a Cage", "Songs of a Blackbird" and "...
African American Book Publisher Critic Essayist Essays Poem Poems Poet Poetry Publisher Third World Press

Pare Lorentz

by Angela Beck
December 11, 1905 - March 4, 1992American filmmaker, critic, magazine columnist and screenwriterAuthor of "The Plow That Broke the Plains", "The R...
Columnist Critic Film Filmmaker Films Magazine Movie Movies Nuremberg Screenplay Screenwriter

Mary Gordon

by Angela Beck
December 8, 1949 - American novelist, memoirist, literary critic and professorAuthor of "Final Payments", "The Company of Women" and "The Shadow M...
Critic Literary Critic Memoir Memoirist Novel Novelist Professor Teach Teacher University

William Stanley Braithwaite

by Angela Beck
December 6, 1878 - June 8, 1962African-American writer, poet, literary critic, anthologist and publisherAuthor of "The Book of Elizabeth Verse", T...
African American Anthologist Anthology Critic Literary Critic NAACP Poem Poems Poet Poetry Publisher Writer

Joyce Kilmer

by Angela Beck
December 6, 1886 - July 30, 1918American writer, poet, journalist, literary critic, lecturer and editorAuthor of "Trees, and Other Poems", "The Ci...
Critic Editor Lecturer Literary Critic Poem Poems Poet Poetry University Writer

Sir Herbert Edward Read

by Angela Beck
December 4, 1893 - June 12, 1968English art historian, poet, literary critic and philosopherAuthor of "The Meaning of Art", "To Hell With Culture, ...
Art Art Historian Artist Arts British Critic England English English History English Poetry Great Britain Literary Critic Philosopher Philosophy Poem Poems Poet Poetry

Samuel Butler

by Angela Beck
December 4, 1835 - June 18, 1902 English novelist and criticAuthor of "Erewhon", "The Fair Haven"  and "The Way of the Flesh"
British Critic England English Great Britain Literary Critic Novel Novelist

Dame Edith Sitwell

by Angela Beck
September 7, 1887 - December 9, 1964British poet and criticAuthor of "Facade ", "Victoria of England" and "The Queens and the Hive"
British Critic England English Great Britain Literary Critic Poem Poems Poet Poetry Queen

Austin Wright

by Angela Beck
September 6, 1922 - April 23, 2003American novelist, critic and professorAuthor of "First Persons", "Tony and Susan" and "Disciples"
Author Critic Literary Critic Novel Novelist Professor School Teach Teacher University

Nikolai Nekrasov

by Angela Beck
November 28, 1821 - December 27, 1877 (Russian Old Style)Russian poet, writer, critic and publisherAuthor of "The Railway", "Russian Women" and "W...
Critic Poet Poetry Publisher Russia Russian Russian History