Literary Library

Stanley Crouch

December 14, 1945 - September 16, 2020African-American poet, music and cultural critic, columnist, novelist and biographerAuthor of "The All-Americ...

Paul Eluard

December 14, 1895 - November 18, 1952French poet and one of the founders of the Surrealist movementAuthor of "Capitale de la Douleur", "Liberte" a...

Benito Pastoriza Iyodo

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...

Kenneth Patchen

December 13, 1911 - January 8, 1972American poet and novelistAuthor of "The Journal of Albion Moonlight", "The Teeth of the Lion" and "Memoirs of ...

James Wright

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

Heinrich Heine

December 13, 1797 -  February 13, 1856German poet, writer and literary criticAuthor of "Travel Pictures", "Germany: A Winter's Tale" and "Romanzer...

Carolyn M. Rodgers

December 14, 1940 - April 2, 2010African-American poet, essayist, critic and publisherAuthor of "Blackbird in a Cage", "Songs of a Blackbird" and "...

Helen Dunmore

December 12, 1952 - June 5, 2017British poet, novelist and short story & children's book writerAuthor of "A Spell of Winter" (for which she wa...

Anna Seward

December 12, 1742 - March 25, 1809English Romantic poetAuthor of "Louisa: A Poetical Novel, in Four Epistles", "Llangollen Vale, 1976" and "Memoir...

Subramania Bharati

December 11, 1882 - September 12, 1921Indian-born Tamil writer, poet, journalist, Indian-independance activist and social activistAuthor of "Panch...

Jim Harrison

December 11, 1937 - March 26, 2016American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter and nonfiction & children's book authorAuthor of "Returning ...

Jerome Rothenberg

December 11, 1931 - American poet, translator and anthologistAuthor of "Poland/1931", "That Dada Strain" and "A Cruel Nirvana"