Literary Library

Michael Arlen

November 16, 1895 - June 23, 1956Armenian-British essayist, short story writer, novelist, playwright and scriptwriterAuthor of "The Romantic Lady"...

Chinua Achebe

November 16, 1930 - March 21, 2013Nigerian novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist and children's book authorAuthor of "Things Fall Apart", "...

Andrea Barrett

November 16, 1954 - American novelist and short story authorAuthor of "Ship Fever" (for which she won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1996),...

Tibor Fischer

November 15, 1959 - British novelist and short story writerAuthor of "The Thought Gang", "Under the Fog" and "Good to Be God"

Mary Gaitskill

November 11, 1954 - American novelist, essayist and short story writerAuthor of "Bad Behavior", "Because They Wanted To" and "Somebody with a Litt...

Kurt Vonnegut

November 11, 1922 - April 11, 2007American novelist, short story writer, playwright and nonfiction writerAuthor of "The Sirens of Titan", "Cat's C...

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoesky

November 11, 1821 - February 8, 1881Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopherAuthor of "Notes from the Undergroun...

Ivan Turgenev

November 9, 1818 - September 3, 1883Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright and translatorAuthor of "Mumu", "First Love" and "Fathe...

Sir Kazuo Ishiguro

November 8, 1954 - Japanese-born English novelist, screenwriter and short story writerAuthor of "The Remains of the Day", "When We Were Orphans" a...

Sam Shepard

November 5, 1943 - July 27, 2017American actor, playwright, author, screenwriter and directorAuthor of "Buried Child" (for which he won the Pulitz...

Alfred Henschke

November 4, 1890 - August 14, 1928German novelist, playwright and short story writerAuthor of "Marietta", "Peter the Great" and "The Chalk Circle"...

Michelle Cliff

November 2, 1946 - June 12, 2016Jamaican-American novelist, short story writer, poet and literary criticAuthor of "Abeng", "No Telephone to Heaven"...