Literary Library

James Tate

by Angela Beck
December 8, 1943 - July 8, 2015American poet and professorAuthor of "Worshipful Company of Fletchers: Poems" (for which he won the National Book Aw...
National Book Award Poem Poems Poet Poetry Professor Pulitzer Prize Teach Teacher University

J. D. McClatchy

by Angela Beck
December 8, 1945 - April 10, 2018American poet, opera librettist, literary critic and editorAuthor of "Scenes From Another Life", "Hazmat" (for whi...
Editor Librettist Libretto Literary Critic Opera Poem Poems Poet Poetry Pulitzer Prize Yale

Willa Cather

by Angela Beck
December 7, 1873 - April 24, 1947American novelist, magazine editor and teacherAuthor of "O Pioneers!", "The Song of the Lark", "My Antonia" and ...
Editor Magazine Magazine Editor Novel Novelist Pulitzer Prize Teach Teacher

J. R. Moehringer

by Angela Beck
December 7, 1964 - American novelist and journalistAuthor of "The Tender Bar: A Memoir" and "Sutton"Won the Pulitzer Prize for newspaper feature wr...
Journalism Journalist News Newspaper Newspapers Novel Novelist Pulitzer Prize

Doug Marlette

by Angela Beck
December 6, 1949 - July 10, 2007American editorial cartoonist and novelistAuthor of "Kudzu": A Southern Musical", "The Bridge" and "Magic Time"Won ...
Cartoonist Cartoons Editorial Cartoonist Kudzu Novel Novelist Pulitzer Prize

Lydia Millet

by Angela Beck
December 5, 1968 - Canadian-American novelistAuthor of "My Happy Life" (for which she won the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction in 2003), "Love in...
Canada Canadian Canadian-American National Book Critics Circle Award Novel Novelist Pulitzer Prize

John Berendt

by Angela Beck
Born December 5, 1939 -  American writer, editor and columnistAuthor of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" (for which he was finalist for t...
Columnist Editor Georgia Pulitzer Prize Savannah South Southern Writer

David K. Shipler

by Angela Beck
December 3, 1942 - American author, journalist and professorAuthor of "Solemn Dreams" (for which he won the Overseas Press Club Award in 1983), "Ar...
Arabs Author Jews Journalism Journalist News Professor Pulitzer Prize Teach Teacher University

Joseph P. Lash

by Angela Beck
December 2, 1909 - August 22, 1987American radical political activist, journalist and authorAuthor of "Eleanor and Franklin" (for which he won th...
Author Biographer Biography Churchill Eleanor Roosevelt Franklin Roosevelt Journalism Journalist National Book Award News Political Political Activist Politics President Roosevelt Pulitzer Prize Roosevelt Winston Churchill

David Hackett Fischer

by Angela Beck
December 2, 1935 - American professor and writerAuthor of "Paul Revere's Ride", "Washington's Crossing" (for which he was a finalist for the Nation...
Academic Author Historian history National Book Award Professor Pulitzer Prize Teach Teacher

Ann Patchett

by Angela Beck
December 2, 1963 - American novelistAuthor of "Bel Canto" (for which she was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in 2001 and won the PE...
National Book Critics Circle Award Novel Novelist PEN/Faulkner Award Pulitzer Prize

David Lindsay-Abaire

by Angela Beck
  November 14, 1969 - American playwright, lyricist and screenwriterAuthor of "Rabbit Hole" (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2007...
Lyricist Lyrics Music Play Plays Playwright Pulitzer Prize Screenplay Screenwriter Script Writer Tony Award