Literary Library

Colley Cibber

by Angela Beck
November 6, 1671 - December 11, 1757English actor, playwright and Poet LaureateAuthor of "Love Makes a Man, Or The Fop's Fortune", "The Careless H...
Actor Drama Dramatist England English Plays Playwright Poem Poet Poet Laureate Poetry Theater Theatre

John Berger

by Angela Beck
November 5, 1926 - January 2, 2017English art critic, novelist, painter and poetAuthor of "A Painter of Our Time", Ways of Seeing" and "Here is Wh...
Art Art Critic Arts Critic Novel Novelist Paint Painter Painting Poem Poet Poetry

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

by Angela Beck
November 5, 1850 - October 30, 1919American author and poetAuthor of "Poems of Reflection", "The World and I" and "Poems of Affection"
Poem Poet Poetry

Edin Phillpotts

by Angela Beck
November 4, 1862 - December 29, 1960English author, poet and dramatistAuthor of "Children of the Night", "The Grey Room" and "The Red Redmaynes"
Drama Dramatist England English Plays Playwright Poem Poet Poetry Theater Theatre

C. K. Williams

by Angela Beck
November 4, 1936 - September 20, 2015American poet, critic and translatorAuthor of "Flesh and Blood" (for which he was a finalist for the Pulitzer...
Critic Poem Poet Poetry Pulitzer Prize Translator

William Cullen Bryant

by Angela Beck
November 3, 1794 - June 12, 1878American poet, journalist and newspaper editorAuthor of "Library of Poetry and Song", "Thanatopsis" and "A Forest ...
Editor Journalist News Newspapers Poem Poet Poetry

Oodgeroo Noonuccal

by Angela Beck
November 3, 1920 - September 16, 1993Aboriginal Australian poet, writer, political activist, artist and educatorAuthor of "We Are Going: Poems", "...
Aboriginal Activist Art Artist Arts Australia Australian Educator Native Poem Poet Poetry Political Politics Teacher

M. K. Asante, Jr.

by Angela Beck
November 3, 1982 - African-American author, filmmaker, recording artist and professorAuthor of "Like Water Running Off My Back: Poems", "Beautiful...
Academic African American Filmmaker Movie Movies Poem Poet Poetry Professor Recording Artist Singer Teacher

Lucan

by Angela Beck
November 3, 39 - April 30, 65Roman poetAuthor of "Pharsalia", "The Civil War" and "Orpheus"Born Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Poem Poet Poetry Roman Rome

Odysseus Elytis

by Angela Beck
November 2, 1911 - March 18, 1996Greek poet and prose writerAuthor of "Orientations", "The Light Tree and the Fourteenth Beauty" and "The True Fac...
Greece Greek Nobel Prize Poet Poetry

Michelle Cliff

by Angela Beck
November 2, 1946 - June 12, 2016Jamaican-American novelist, short story writer, poet and literary criticAuthor of "Abeng", "No Telephone to Heaven"...
Critic Jamaica Jamaican Novel Novelist Poem Poet Poetry Short Story

Daniil Leonidovic Andreyev

by Angela Beck
November 2, 1906 - March 30, 1959Russian writer, poet and Christian mysticAuthor of "Wanderers of Night" (destroyed by the Soviet Ministry for Sta...
Mystic Mysticism Poem Poet Poetry Russia Russian Russian History Soviet