Literary Library

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, ...

Rainer Maria Rilke

December 4, 1875 - December 29, 1926 Austrian poet and novelistAuthor of "Duino Elegies", "Sonnets to Orpheus", "The Notebooks of Malte Laurids B...

John Giorno

December 4, 1936 - October 12, 2019American poet and performance artistAuthor of "Grasping at Emptiness", "Subduing Demons in America, Selected Po...

Angelia Thurston Newman

December 4, 1837 - April 15, 1910American poet, author, editor and lecturerAuthor of "McKinley Carnations of Memory", "An Italian Winter" and "The...

Grace Andreacchi

December 3, 1954 -American novelist, poet and playwrightAuthor of "Give My Heart Ease", "Little Poems for Children" and "Berlin Elegies"

Juri Reinvere

December 2, 1971 - Estonian composer, poet and essayist Author of the Opera "Minona"; Compositions "Through a Lens Darkly" and "Inter Lacrimas et ...

Helen Adam

December 2, 1909 - September 19, 1993Scottish poet, collagist and photographerAuthor of "Turn Again to Me and Other Poems" (for which she won the A...

Boris A. Novak

December 3, 1953 - Slovene poet, dramatist and editorAuthor of "Vertigo: Poems", "Master of Insomnia" and "Zarenje" #literarycalendar#birthdays#au...

Alaida Foppa

December 3, 1914 - December 19, 1980 (questionable death date because she disappeared and was presumed murdered)Spain-born Guatemalan and Mexican p...

Mihaly Vorosmarty

December 1, 1800 - November 19, 1855Hungarian poet and dramatistKnown for his play "Csonger and Tunde" and "Blood Wedding"Also published several v...

George Stirling

December 1, 1869 - November 17, 1926American poet and playwrightAuthor of "The Testimony of the Suns and Other Poems", "A Wine of Wizardry and Othe...

Madeleine L' Engle

November 29, 1918 - September 6, 2007American writer of fiction, non-fiction and poetryAuthor of "A Wrinkle of Time" (for which she won the Newbery...