Literary Library

Carol Ann Duffy

by Angela Beck
December 23, 1955 - British poet, playwright and profesorAuthor of "Standing Female Nude", "Selling Manhattan" (for which she won the Somerset Mau...
British England English English Poetry Great Britain Play Plays Playwright Poem Poems Poet Poet Laureate Poetry Professor Somerset Maugham Award T. S. Eliot Prize Teach Teacher United Kingdom University

Kenneth Rexroth

by Angela Beck
December 22, 1905 - June 6, 1982American poet, translator and critical essayistAuthor of "One Hundred Poems from the Japanese", "Classics Revisited...
Poem Poems Poet Poetry

Edwin Arlington Robinson

by Angela Beck
December 22, 1869 - April 6, 1935American poetAuthor of "The Children of the Night", "The Torrent" and " The Night Before"Nominated for the Pulitz...
Nobel Prize Poem Poems Poet Poetry Pulitzer Prize

Eduard Uspensky

by Angela Beck
December 22, 1937 - August 14, 2018Russian children's book writer, poet, playwright, screenwriter and television presenterAuthor of over 70 books ...
Author Children's Book Author Play Plays Playwright Poem Poems Poet Poetry Russia Russian Screenplay Screenwriter Television Theater Theatre

Charles Stuart Calverly

by Angela Beck
December 22, 1831 - February 17, 1884English poetAuthor of "Verses and Translations", "Translations Into English and Latin" and "Fly Leaves"Also pu...
British England English English Poetry Great Britain Poem Poems Poet Poetry

Charles de Lint

by Angela Beck
December 22, 1951 - Canadian writer of novels, novellas, essays, short stories, poetry and lyricsAuthor of "Moonheart", "Dreams Underfoot" and "Tha...
Canada Canadian Essayist Essays Lyricist Lyrics Novel Novelist Poem Poems Poet Poetry Short Story

Thomas M. Disch

by Angela Beck
February 2, 1940 - July 4, 2008American science fiction writer, poet, critic and children's book authorAuthor of the science fiction stories "The ...
Children's Book Author Critic Hugo Award Literary Critic National Book Critics Circle Award Poem Poems Poet Poetry Sci-Fi Science Fiction

Judith Viorst

by Angela Beck
  February 2, 1931 - American adult and children's book author, poet, newspaper journalist and psychoanalysis researcherAuthor of "Alexander and t...
Author Children's Book Author Children's Poem Children's Poet Journalism Journalist Newspaper Newspaper Columnist Newspapers Poem Poems Poet Poetry Psychoanalyst

Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr.

by Angela Beck
February 2, 1861 - March 14, 1949African-American poet, writer, playwright, community leader and educatorAuthor of "A Rhyming", "A White Song and...
African American African American History Community Leader Education Educator Play Plays Playwright Poem Poems Poet Poetry Principal School Teach Teacher Writer

James Joyce

by Angela Beck
February 2, 1882 - January 13, 1941Irish novelist, poet and literary criticAuthor of "Portrait of An Artist as a Young Man", "Ulysses" and "Finneg...
Ireland Irish Literary Critic Novel Novelist Poem Poems Poet Poetry

James Dickey

by Angela Beck
February 2, 1923 - January 19, 1997American poet, novelist, critic, lecturer and professorAuthor of "Into the Stone and Other Poems", "Drowning wi...
Critic Guggenheim Lecturer National Book Award Novel Novelist Poem Poems Poet Poet Laureate Poetry Professor Teach Teacher University

Hannah More

by Angela Beck
February 2, 1745 - September 7, 1833English religious writer, poet and playwrightAuthor of "The Inflexible Captive", "Fatal Falsehood" and "Coeleb...
British England English English Poetry Great Britain Play Plays Playwright Poem Poems Poet Poetry Religion Religious Theater Theatre