Literary Library

Mary Gordon

December 8, 1949 - American novelist, memoirist, literary critic and professorAuthor of "Final Payments", "The Company of Women" and "The Shadow M...

J. D. McClatchy

December 8, 1945 - April 10, 2018American poet, opera librettist, literary critic and editorAuthor of "Scenes From Another Life", "Hazmat" (for whi...

William Stanley Braithwaite

December 6, 1878 - June 8, 1962African-American writer, poet, literary critic, anthologist and publisherAuthor of "The Book of Elizabeth Verse", T...

Joyce Kilmer

December 6, 1886 - July 30, 1918American writer, poet, journalist, literary critic, lecturer and editorAuthor of "Trees, and Other Poems", "The Ci...

Sir Herbert Edward Read

December 4, 1893 - June 12, 1968English art historian, poet, literary critic and philosopherAuthor of "The Meaning of Art", "To Hell With Culture, ...

Samuel Butler

December 4, 1835 - June 18, 1902 English novelist and criticAuthor of "Erewhon", "The Fair Haven"  and "The Way of the Flesh"

Dame Edith Sitwell

September 7, 1887 - December 9, 1964British poet and criticAuthor of "Facade ", "Victoria of England" and "The Queens and the Hive"

Austin Wright

September 6, 1922 - April 23, 2003American novelist, critic and professorAuthor of "First Persons", "Tony and Susan" and "Disciples"

Alexander Alexandrovich Blok

November 28, 1880 - August 7, 1921Russian poet, publicist, playwright, translator and literary criticAuthor of "The City", "Faina" and "Mask of Snow"

Ron Rosenbaum

November 27, 1946 - American literary journalist, literary critic, novelist and newspaper editorAuthor of "Explaining Hitler", "The Shakespeare War...

Margaret Atwood

November 18, 1939 - Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist and teacherAuthor of "The Handmaid's Tale", "The Blind Assassin" and "The T...