Literary Library

Thomas Chatterton

November 20, 1752 - August 24, 1770English poetPoems included "O Synge Untoe Mie Roundelaire" and "Excelente Balade of Charitie"

Sharon Olds

November 19, 1942 - American poet and professorAuthor of "The Dead and the Living" (for which she won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1983),...

Allen Tate

November 19, 1899 - February 9, 1979American poet, essayist and social commentatorAuthor of "The Fathers", "Essays of Four Decades" and "Collected...

Margaret Atwood

November 18, 1939 - Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist and teacherAuthor of "The Handmaid's Tale", "The Blind Assassin" and "The T...

Wilfred Owen

March 18, 1893 - November 4, 1918English poet and scholarAuthor of "Anthem for Doomed Youth" and "Dulce et Decorum est" Born Wilfred Edward Salter...

Joost van den Vondel

November 17, 1587 - February 5, 1679Dutch poet and playwrightAuthor of "Jerusalem Destroyed", "Lucifer" and "David in Exile"

Chinua Achebe

November 16, 1930 - March 21, 2013Nigerian novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist and children's book authorAuthor of "Things Fall Apart", "...

Marianne Moore

November 15, 1887 - February 5, 1972American poet, critic, translator, editor and librarianAuthor of "Poems", "Observations" and "Collected Poems"...

Norman Alexander MacCaig

November 14, 1910 - January 23, 1996Scottish poet and teacherAuthor of "Rings on a Tree", "A Man In My Position" and "Tree of Strings"

Adam G. Oehlenschager

November 14, 1779 - January 20, 1850Danish poet and playwrightAuthor of "Baldur hin Gode", "Palnatoke" and "Axel og Valborg"

Mircea Dinescu

November 11, 1950 - Romanian poet, journalist and editorAuthor of "Death is Reading the Newspaper", "The Barbarians' Return: Selected Poems" and "E...

Vachel Lindsay

November 10, 1879 - December 5, 1931American poetAuthor of "The Congo and Other Poems", "Art of the Moving Picture" and "The Chinese Nightingale"B...