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...

Evan Osnos

December 24, 1976 - American journalist and author Author of "Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China" (for which he wo...

Adam Haslett

December 24, 1970 -American fiction writer, journalist and short-story writerAuthor of "You Are Not a Stranger Here" (for which he was a finalist ...

Laini Taylor

December 22, 1971 - American young adult fantasy authorAuthor of "Lips Touch Three Times" (for which she was a finalist for the National Book Awar...

James Dickey

February 2, 1923 - January 19, 1997American poet, novelist, critic, lecturer and professorAuthor of "Into the Stone and Other Poems", "Drowning wi...

Galway Kinnell

February 1, 1927 - October 28, 2014American poet and professorAuthor of "Body Rags", "The Book of Nightmares", "When One Has Lived a Long Time Al...

Hortense Calisher

December 20, 1911 - January 13, 2009American fiction and biography writerAuthor of "False Entry" (for which she was a finalist for the National Boo...

Marilyn Sachs

December 18, 1927 - December 28, 2016American children's book authorAuthor of "Veronica Ganz" (for which she won the American Library Association N...

Theodore Rosengarten

December 17, 1944 - American historian and writerAuthor of "All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw" (for which he won the National Book Award for...

Shirley Jackson

December 14, 1916 - August 8, 1965American novelist, short story writer and memoiristAuthor of "The Lottery" (for which she won the O. Henry Prize...

Thomas McGuane

December 11, 1939 - American novelist, short fiction writer, screenwriter and essayist"Ninety-two in the Shade" (for which he was nominated for th...

Grace Paley

December 11, 1922 - August 22, 2007American short story writer, poet, teacher and political activistAuthor of "The Little Disturbances of Man", "En...