Literary Library

Elizabeth Strout

January 6, 1956 -American novelist, short story writer and academicAuthor of "Amy and Isabelle" (for which she was a nominee for the Orange Prize ...

Carl Sandburg

January 6, 1878 - July 22, 1967American poet, biographer, journalist, editor and children's book authorAuthor of "Corn Huskers" (for which he won ...

W. D. Snodgrass

January 5, 1926 - January 13, 2009American poet and professorAuthor of "Heart's Needle" (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1960),  ...

Sara Teasdale

August 8, 1884 - January 29, 1933American poetAuthor of "Love Songs" (for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1918), "Rivers to the Sea...

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

August 8, 1896 - December 14, 1953American novelist and short-story writerAuthor of "The Yearling" (for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Ficti...

Conrad Aiken

August 5, 1899 - August 17, 1973American poet, novelist and short-story writerAuthor of "The House of Dust", "Preludes for Memnon" and "Ushant"Won...

Ernie Pyle

August 3, 1900 - April 18, 1945American journalistAuthor of "Home Country", "Here Is Your War" and "Brave Men"Won a Pulitzer Prize for journalism ...

Walter Griffin

August 1, 1937 - November 30, 2020American poetAuthor of ten collections of poetry including "Night Music" (for which he was the winner of the Inte...

Junot Diaz

December 31, 1968 - Dominican-American writer, professor and fiction editorAuthor of "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" (for which he won the ...

Louis Bromfield

December 27, 1896 - March 18, 1956American novelist, farmer and conservationistAuthor of "The Green Bay Tree", "Possession" and "Early Autumn" (fo...

Adam Haslett

December 24, 1970 -American fiction writer, journalist and short-story writerAuthor of "You Are Not a Stranger Here" (for which he was a finalist ...