Literary Library

Muriel Rukeyser

by Angela Beck
December 15, 1913 - February 12, 1980American poet and political activistAuthor of "The Book of the Dead", "The Life of Poetry" and "The Speed of D...
Poem Poems Poet Poetry Political Political Activist Politics

Edna O'Brien

by Angela Beck
December 15, 1930 - Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, professor, poet and short-story writerAuthor of "Lantern Slides" (for which she won the...
Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award Ireland Irish Los Angeles Book Prize Memoir Memoirist Novelist Play Plays Playwright Poem Poems Poet Poetry Professor Short Story Teach Teacher Theater Theatre University

Tove Ditlevsen

by Angela Beck
December 14, 1917 - March 7, 1976Danish poet, children's book author, novelist, short story writer and memoiristAuthor of "Annalise - Tretten Ar" ...
Author Children's Book Children's Book Author Children's Books Children's Poem Children's Poet Dane Danish Denmark Memoir Memoirist Novel Novelist Poem Poems Poet Poetry Short Story

Stanley Crouch

by Angela Beck
December 14, 1945 - September 16, 2020African-American poet, music and cultural critic, columnist, novelist and biographerAuthor of "The All-Americ...
African American Bio Biographer Biography Columnist Critic Culture Music Music Critic Novel Novelist Poem Poems Poet Poetry W.E.B. Dubois

Paul Eluard

by Angela Beck
December 14, 1895 - November 18, 1952French poet and one of the founders of the Surrealist movementAuthor of "Capitale de la Douleur", "Liberte" a...
France French Poem Poems Poet Poetry Surrealism Surrealist

Benito Pastoriza Iyodo

by Angela Beck
December 14, 1954 - August 8, 2022Puerto Rican poet and fiction writerAuthor of "The Color of the Colorless", "A Matter of Men" and "Cartas a la S...
Fiction Poem Poems Poet Poetry Puerto Rican Puerto Rico

Kenneth Patchen

by Angela Beck
December 13, 1911 - January 8, 1972American poet and novelistAuthor of "The Journal of Albion Moonlight", "The Teeth of the Lion" and "Memoirs of ...
Novel Novelist Poem Poems Poet Poetry

James Wright

by Angela Beck
December 13, 1927 - March 25, 1980American poetAuthor of "Collected Poems" (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1972), "Two Citizens"...
Poem Poems Poet Poetry Pulitzer Prize

Heinrich Heine

by Angela Beck
December 13, 1797 -  February 13, 1856German poet, writer and literary criticAuthor of "Travel Pictures", "Germany: A Winter's Tale" and "Romanzer...
Critic German Germany Literary Critic Poem Poems Poet Poetry Writer

Carolyn M. Rodgers

by Angela Beck
December 14, 1940 - April 2, 2010African-American poet, essayist, critic and publisherAuthor of "Blackbird in a Cage", "Songs of a Blackbird" and "...
African American Book Publisher Critic Essayist Essays Poem Poems Poet Poetry Publisher Third World Press

Helen Dunmore

by Angela Beck
December 12, 1952 - June 5, 2017British poet, novelist and short story & children's book writerAuthor of "A Spell of Winter" (for which she wa...
Author British Children's Book Author England English Great Britain Man Booker Prize Novel Novelist Orange Prize Poem Poems Poet Poetry T. S. Eliot Prize

Anna Seward

by Angela Beck
December 12, 1742 - March 25, 1809English Romantic poetAuthor of "Louisa: A Poetical Novel, in Four Epistles", "Llangollen Vale, 1976" and "Memoir...
British England English English Poetry Great Britain Poem Poems Poet Poetry Romantic