Literary Library

Emily Dickinson

December 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886.English Poet Most of her poems were published posthumously by her sister including "Because I Could Not Stop ...

Sarah E. Wright

December 9, 1928 - September 13, 2009African-American writer, poet and social activistAuthor of "Give Me a Child", Black Art History: A Curriculum ...

John Milton

December 9, 1608 - November 8, 1674English poet and civil servantAuthor of "Areopagitica", "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained"

Eileen Myles

December 9, 1949 - American poet and writer of fiction, nonfiction, libretti and playsAuthor of "Chelsea Girls", "The Importance of Being Iceland"...

Edoardo Sanguineti

December 9, 1930 - May 18, 2010Genovese poet, writer, academic, translator and member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian ParliamentAuthor o...

Padraic Colum

December 8, 1881 - January 11, 1972Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer, playwright, children's book author and folklore collectorAuthor of...

James Tate

December 8, 1943 - July 8, 2015American poet and professorAuthor of "Worshipful Company of Fletchers: Poems" (for which he won the National Book Aw...

J. D. McClatchy

December 8, 1945 - April 10, 2018American poet, opera librettist, literary critic and editorAuthor of "Scenes From Another Life", "Hazmat" (for whi...

Horace

December 8, 65 BC - November 27, 8 BCRoman lyric poetHe was known for his Odes, Epistles and SatiresBorn Quintus Horatius Flaccus#literarycalendar...

Hervey Allen

December 8, 1889 - December 28, 1949American educator, poet and novelistAuthor of "Toward the Flame", "Anthony Adverse" and "The Forest and the For...

Henry Timrod

December 8, 1828 - October 7, 1867American poet, lawyer, teacher, editor and correspondentHis poems include "Katie", "Ethnogenesis", "A Call to Ar...

Delmore Schwartz

December 8, 1913 - July 11, 1966American poet and short story writerAuthor of "I Am Cherry Alive", "The Little Girl Sang", "Selected Poems" and "Su...