Literary Library

Ben Travers

by Angela Beck
November 12, 1886 - December 18, 1980English playwright, novelist and memoiristAuthor of "A Cuckoo in the Nest", "Rookery Nook" and "A Night Like T...
Drama Dramatist England English Memoir Memoirist Novel Novelist Plays Playwright Theater Theatre

Mary Gaitskill

by Angela Beck
November 11, 1954 - American novelist, essayist and short story writerAuthor of "Bad Behavior", "Because They Wanted To" and "Somebody with a Lit...
Essayist Essays Novel Novelist Short Story

Kurt Vonnegut

by Angela Beck
November 11, 1922 - April 11, 2007American novelist, short story writer, playwright and nonfiction writerAuthor of "The Sirens of Titan", "Cat's ...
Novel Novelist Plays Playwright Short Story

Howard Fast

by Angela Beck
November 11, 1914 - March 12, 2003American novelist and television writerAuthor of "Spartacus", "The Immigrants" and "Second Generation"Also wrote ...
Novel Novelist Television

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

by Angela Beck
November 11, 1821 - February 8, 1881Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopherAuthor of "Notes from the Undergroun...
Drama Dramatist Essayist Essays News Novel Novelist Philosopher Philosophy Russia Russian Russian History Short Story

F. Van Wyck Mason

by Angela Beck
November 11, 1901 - August 28, 1978American historian and novelistPublished 78 novels including "Captain Renegade", "Murder in the Senate" (with H...
Historian History Novel Novelist

Winston Churchill

by Angela Beck
November 10, 1871 - March 12, 1947American novelist and playwrightAuthor of "Richard Carvel", "The Dwelling Place of Light" and "A Traveller in W...
Drama Dramatist Novel Novelist Plays Playwright Theater Theatre

Robert Arthur

by Angela Beck
November 10, 1909 - May 2, 1969American fiction writer for adults and young adultsAuthor of "The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrots", "The Secret o...
Novel Novelist Young Adult

Oliver Goldsmith

by Angela Beck
November 10, 1728 - April 4, 1774Irish novelist, playwright and poetAuthor of "The Vicar of Wakefield", "The Good Natur'd Man" and "The Deserted ...
Drama Dramatist Ireland Irish Novel Novelist Plays Playwright Poem Poet Poetry Theater Theatre

James Chapman

by Angela Beck
November 10, 1955 - American novelist and publisherAuthor of "The Walls Collide as You Expand, Dwarf Maple", "Stet" and "How is This Going to Conti...
Novel Novelist

J. P. Marquand

by Angela Beck
November 10, 1893 - July 16, 1960American novelistAuthor of "The Late George Apley" (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1938), "Poi...
Novel Novelist Pulitzer Prize

Janet Fitch

by Angela Beck
November 9, 1955 - American novelistAuthor of "White Oleander", "Paint It Black" and "The Revolution of Marina M."
Novel Novelist