Literary Library

Zora Neale Hurston

by Angela Beck
January 7, 1903 - January 28, 1960African-American novelist, anthropologist, filmmaker, short story writer, essayist and playwrightAuthor of "Barr...
African American Alabama Writers Hall of Fame American Library Association Anthropologist Anthropology Drama Dramatist Essayist Essays Film Filmmaker Films Harlem Renaissance Movie Movies National Women's Hall of Fame New York Writers Hall of Fame Novel Novelist Play Plays Playwright Short Stories Short Story Theater Theatre

Nicholson Baker

by Angela Beck
January 7, 1957 - American novelist and essayistAuthor of "John Updike and I: A True Story", "Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper" (fo...
American Newspaper Repository Essayist Essays National Book Critics Circle Award News Newspaper Newspapers Novel Novelist

Wright Morris

by Angela Beck
January 6, 1910 - April 25, 1998American novelist, photographer, essayist and teacherAuthor of "The Field of Vision" (for which he won the National...
American Book Award Educate Education Educator Essayist Essays National Book Award Novel Novelist Photo Photographer Photography Photos School Teach Teacher Teaching

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

Cicero

by Angela Beck
January 3, 106 BC - December 7, 43 BCRoman author, essayist and poetAuthor of "De Officiis" and "Catiline Orations"Born Marcus Tullius Cicero
Author Essayist Essays Poem Poems Poet Poetry Roman Rome

Miles J. Breuer

by Angela Beck
January 3, 1889 - October 14, 1945American physician, science fiction writer, novelist, poet and essayistAuthor of "The Gostak and the Doshes", "T...
Doctor Essayist Essays Medical Medicine Novel Novelist Physician Poem Poems Poet Poetry Sci-Fi Science Fiction SciFi

Charles Yu

by Angela Beck
January 3, 1976 - American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and essayistAuthor of "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe", ...
Essayist Essays Film Filmmaker Films National Book Award Novel Novelist Screenplay Screenwriter Short Stories Short Story

Leonard Michaels

by Angela Beck
January 2, 1933 - May 10, 2003American writer of short stories, novels and essaysAuthor of "The Men's Club", "Sylvia" and "A Girl With a Monkey"
Essayist Essays Novel Novelist Short Stories Short Story Writer

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

by Angela Beck
January 1, 1960 - Lebanese-American scholar, essayist and statisticianAuthor of "Fooled By Randomness", "The Black Swan" and "Antifragile"
Essayist Essays Lebanese Lebanese-American Lebanon Scholar Statistician Statistics

Milan Kundera

by Angela Beck
April 1, 1929 - Czech-French novelist, short story writer, poet, dramatist and essayistAuthor of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", "The Art of ...
Austrian State Prize Czech Czech State Literature Prize Czechoslavakia Drama Dramatist Essayist Essays France French Jerusalem Prize Ovid Prize Play Plays Playwright Poem Poems Poet Poetry Short Stories Short Story Theater Theatre

Lucinda Banister Chandler

by Angela Beck
American author, essayist and social reformerAuthor of "Motherhood, Its Power over Human Destiny", "A Mother's Aid" and "Divineness of Marraige"
Author Essayist Essays Reformer Social Reformer

Agnes Repplier

by Angela Beck
April 1, 1855 - December 15, 1950American essayistAuthor of essays include: "The Fireside Sphinx", "Germany and Democracy" (written with J. Willia...
Democracy Essayist Essays Germany