Literary Library

Mary Renault

by Angela Beck
September 4, 1905 - December 13, 1983English and South African writer of historical novelsAuthor of "The Charioteer", "Fire From Heaven" and "The P...
Author British England English Great Britain Historical Fiction history Novel Novelist South Africa South African

Sarah Orne Jewett

by Angela Beck
September 3, 1849 - June 24, 1909American novelist, short story writer and poetAuthor of "A Country Doctor", "A White Heron" and "Betty Leicester"
Author Novel Novelist Poem Poems Poet Poetry Short Story

Kiran Desai

by Angela Beck
September 3, 1971 - Indian novelistAuthor of "Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard", "The Inheritance of Loss" and "Emblems of Transformation"
Author India Indian Novel Novelist

Joseph Roth

by Angela Beck
September 2, 1894 - May 27, 1939Austrian-Jewish journalist and novelistAuthor of "Hotel Savoy", "Job" and "Radetzky March"
Austria Austrian Author Hotel Jewish Jews Novel Novelist

Stefan Zweig

by Angela Beck
November 28, 1881 - February 22, 1942Austrian-Jewish novelist, playwright, journalist and biographerAuthor of "Letter from an Unknown Woman", "Bew...
Austria Austrian Biographer Biography Jewish Journalist News Novel Novelist Playwright

Owen Dodson

by Angela Beck
November 28, 1914 - June 21, 1983African-American poet, novelist, playwright and professorAuthor of "Boy at the Window", "The Confession Stone: Son...
African American Drama Novel Novelist Playwright Poet Poetry Professor Theater Theatre Yale

Lance Jeffers

by Angela Beck
November 28, 1919 - African-American poet, short fiction writer and novelistAuthor of "My Blackness is the Beauty of This Land", "O Africa, Where I...
African American Novel Novelist Poet Poetry

Carol Gilligan

by Angela Beck
November 28, 1936 - American feminist, ethicist, psychologist and novelistAuthor of "In a Different Voice", "The Birth of Pleasure: A New Map of L...
Ethicist Feminism Feminist Novel Novelist Psychologist Psychology

Alberto Moravia

by Angela Beck
November 28, 1907 - September 26, 1990Italian novelist and journalistAuthor of "The Time of Indifference", "The Woman of Rome" and "The Conformist...
Italian Italy Journalist News Novel Novelist

Ron Rosenbaum

by Angela Beck
November 27, 1946 - American literary journalist, literary critic, novelist and newspaper editorAuthor of "Explaining Hitler", "The Shakespeare War...
Editor Journalist Literary Critic News Newspaper Editor Newspapers Novel Novelist

James Agee

by Angela Beck
November 27, 1909 - May 16, 1955American novelist, poet, screenwriter and film criticAuthor of "Knoxville: Summer of 1915", "The African Queen" (Sc...
Film Film Critic Novel Novelist Poet Poetry Pulitzer Prize Screenwriter

Marilynne Robinson

by Angela Beck
November 26, 1943 - American novelist and essayistAuthor of "Housekeeping" (for which she was on the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction shortlist in 1982)...
Essayist Library of Congress Man Booker Prize National Book Award National Book Critics Circle Award National Humanities Medal Novel Novelist Pulitzer Prize