Literary Library

Wilfred Sheed

December 27, 1930 - January 19, 2011English-born American novelist, essayist and biographerAuthor of "Office Politics" (for which he was a finalist...

Mina Loy

December 27, 1882 - September 25, 1966British artist, writer, poet, playwright, novelist, painter, designer and bohemianAuthor of "Lunar Baedeker"...

Aiden Chambers

December 27, 1934 - British author of children's and young adult novelsAuthor of "The Present Takers", "Dance on My Grave" and "Postcards from No M...

Thomas Gray

December 26, 1716 - July 30, 1771English poet, classical scholar and professorAuthor of only 13 poems including "Elegy Written in a Country Church...

William Collins

December 25, 1721 - June 12, 1759English poetAuthor of "Persian Eclogues" and "Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegorical Subjects"

Angelica Garnett

December 25, 1918 - May 4, 2012British writer, painter and artistAuthor of "Deceived With Kindness: A Bloomsbury Childhood" (for which she won the ...

Matthew Arnold

December 24, 1822 - April 15, 1888English poet, cultural critic, school inspector and professorAuthor of "Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems", "Po...

Gillian Cross

December 24, 1945 - British author of children's booksAuthor of "A Map of Nowhere", "Wolf" (for which she won the Carnegie Award in 1990) and "The ...

George Crabbe

December 24, 1754 - February 3, 1832English poet, surgeon and clergymanAuthor of "The Candidate", "The Village" and "The Burough"

Carol Ann Duffy

December 23, 1955 - British poet, playwright and profesorAuthor of "Standing Female Nude", "Selling Manhattan" (for which she won the Somerset Mau...

Elizabeth Noble

December 22, 1968 - English novelistAuthor of "The Reading Group", "Alphabet Weekends" and "The Girl Next Door"

Charles Stuart Calverly

December 22, 1831 - February 17, 1884English poetAuthor of "Verses and Translations", "Translations Into English and Latin" and "Fly Leaves"Also pu...