Literary Library

Narendra Prasad

by Angela Beck
December 26, 1946 - November 3, 2003Indian actor, playwright, director, professor and literary criticAuthor of "Souparnika" (for which he won the K...
Acting Actor Director Film Director India Indian Keral Sahitya Akademi Award Literary Critic Play Plays Playwright Professor Theater Theatre University

William Demby

by Angela Beck
December 25, 1922 - May 23, 2013African-American novelist, actor, translator, professor and asst. directorAuthor of "Beetlecreek", "The Catacombs"...
Acting Actor African American Anisfield-Wolf Achievement Award Director Film Director Novel Novelist Professor Translator University

Matthew Arnold

by Angela Beck
December 24, 1822 - April 15, 1888English poet, cultural critic, school inspector and professorAuthor of "Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems", "Po...
British Critic Culture England English English Poetry Great Britain Poem Poems Poet Poetry Professor School Teach Teacher University

Megan Mayhew Bergman

by Angela Beck
December 23, 1979 - American short-story writer, columnist and professorAuthor of "Almost Famous Women: Stories" and "Birds of a Lesser Paradise: S...
Columnist Professor Short Story Teach Teacher University Writer

Carol Ann Duffy

by Angela Beck
December 23, 1955 - British poet, playwright and profesorAuthor of "Standing Female Nude", "Selling Manhattan" (for which she won the Somerset Mau...
British England English English Poetry Great Britain Play Plays Playwright Poem Poems Poet Poet Laureate Poetry Professor Somerset Maugham Award T. S. Eliot Prize Teach Teacher United Kingdom University

Suzanne L. Marchand

by Angela Beck
December 22, 1961 - American intellectual, cultural historian and professorAuthor of "Down from Olympus: Archaeology and Philhellenism in Germany, ...
Archaeology Cultural Historian Historian history Professor Teach Teacher University

James Dickey

by Angela Beck
February 2, 1923 - January 19, 1997American poet, novelist, critic, lecturer and professorAuthor of "Into the Stone and Other Poems", "Drowning wi...
Critic Guggenheim Lecturer National Book Award Novel Novelist Poem Poems Poet Poet Laureate Poetry Professor Teach Teacher University

Galway Kinnell

by Angela Beck
February 1, 1927 - October 28, 2014American poet and professorAuthor of "Body Rags", "The Book of Nightmares", "When One Has Lived a Long Time Al...
Frost Medal National Book Award Poem Poems Poet Poet Laureate Poetry Poetry Society of America Professor Pulitzer Prize Teach Teacher University Vermont

Tim Parks

by Angela Beck
December 19, 1954 - British novelist, translator, author and professorAuthor of "Tongues of Flame" (for which he won the Somerset Maugham Award in...
Author Booker Prize British England English Great Britain Novel Novelist Professor Somerset Maugham Award Teach Teacher Translator University

Sean O'Brien

by Angela Beck
December 19, 1952 - British poet, critic, playwright and professorAuthor of "Downriver" (for which he was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize in...
British Critic England English English Poetry Great Britain Griffin Poetry Prize Play Plays Playwright Professor T. S. Eliot Prize Teach Teacher Theater Theatre University

James Oakes

by Angela Beck
December 19, 1953 - American historian, professor and authorAuthor of "The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders", "The Radical and the R...
Abraham Lincoln American History Civil War Frederick Douglass Historian history Professor Slavery Slaves Teach Teacher University

A. M. Holmes

by Angela Beck
December 18, 1961 - American novelist, short story writer, memoirist and professorAuthor of "The End of Alice", "The Mistress' Daughter" and "May ...
Memoir Memoirist Novel Novelist Professor Short Story Teach Teacher University