Literary Library
Andres Bello
by Angela Beck
November 29, 1781 - October 15, 1865Venezuelan-Chilean humanist, diplomat, poet, legislator, philosopher, educator and philologistAuthor of "Chile...
Martin Booth
by Angela Beck
September 7, 1944 - February 12, 2004British novelist, poet, screenwriter and teacherAuthor of "Hiroshima Joe", "The Industry of Souls" and "Gweilo...
Dame Edith Sitwell
by Angela Beck
September 7, 1887 - December 9, 1964British poet and criticAuthor of "Facade ", "Victoria of England" and "The Queens and the Hive"
Richard Wright
by Angela Beck
September 4, 1908 - November 28, 1960African-American author of poetry, short stories, novels and non-fictionAuthor of "Uncle Tom's Children...
Sarah Orne Jewett
by Angela Beck
September 3, 1849 - June 24, 1909American novelist, short story writer and poetAuthor of "A Country Doctor", "A White Heron" and "Betty Leicester"
Eugene Field
by Angela Beck
September 2, 1850 - November 4, 1895American children's poetry writer and journalistBest known for his poems "Wynken, Blynken and Nod" and "Little...
William Blake
by Angela Beck
November 28, 1757 - August 12, 1827English poet, painter and printmakerAuthor of "Songs of Innocence and of Experience", "The Marriage of Heaven a...
Owen Dodson
by Angela Beck
November 28, 1914 - June 21, 1983African-American poet, novelist, playwright and professorAuthor of "Boy at the Window", "The Confession Stone: Son...
Nikolai Nekrasov
by Angela Beck
November 28, 1821 - December 27, 1877 (Russian Old Style)Russian poet, writer, critic and publisherAuthor of "The Railway", "Russian Women" and "W...
Lance Jeffers
by Angela Beck
November 28, 1919 - African-American poet, short fiction writer and novelistAuthor of "My Blackness is the Beauty of This Land", "O Africa, Where I...