Literary Library

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...

Mark Salzman

December 3, 1959 - American writer and teacherAuthor of "Iron & Silk", "The Soloist" and "Lost in Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia" #litera...

Azar Nafisi

December 1, 1948 - Iranian-born American writer and professorAuthor of "Reading Lolita in Tehran", "Things I've Been Silent About" and "The Republ...

Tayari Jones

November 30, 1970 - African-American novelist and professorAuthor of "Leaving Atlanta", "The Untelling" and "Silver Sparrow"#literarycalendar#birt...

Martin Booth

September 7, 1944 - February 12, 2004British novelist, poet, screenwriter and teacherAuthor of "Hiroshima Joe", "The Industry of Souls" and "Gweilo...

Donna Haraway

September 6, 1944 - American professor and science writerAuthor of "A Cyborg Manifesto", "Prime Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of ...

Austin Wright

September 6, 1922 - April 23, 2003American novelist, critic and professorAuthor of "First Persons", "Tony and Susan" and "Disciples"

Jonathan Kozol

September 5, 1936 - American writer, academic and activistAuthor of "Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Child...