Literary Library

Lisa Morton

December 11, 1958 - American horror writer and screenwriterAuthor of "The Halloween Encyclopedia", "The Lucid Dreaming" and "Netherworld"

Susanna Moore

December 9, 1945 - American writer, teacher and modelAuthor of "My Old Sweetheart" (for which she was a finalist for the First Novel National Book...

Sarah E. Wright

December 9, 1928 - September 13, 2009African-American writer, poet and social activistAuthor of "Give Me a Child", Black Art History: A Curriculum ...

Samuel W. Allen

December 9, 1917 - June 27, 2015African-American writer, literary scholar, lawyer and professorAuthor of "Ivory Tusks", "Negritude and Its Relevanc...

George Bass

December 9, 1932 - March 2, 2021American archaeologist and writerAuthor of "Archaeology Beneath the Sea", "Yassi Ada" and "Great Moments in Greek A...

Edoardo Sanguineti

December 9, 1930 - May 18, 2010Genovese poet, writer, academic, translator and member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian ParliamentAuthor o...

Anthony Santasiere

December 9, 1904 - January 13, 1977American chess master, writer and teacherAuthor of "The Vienna Game and Gambit", "The Futuristic Chess Opening: ...

Mary Catherine Bateson

December 8, 1939 - January 2, 2021American writer and cultural anthropologistAuthor of "With a Daughter's Eye", "Peripheral Visions" and "Composin...

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

December 8, 1832 - April 26, 2010Norwegian writerAuthor of "A Happy Boy", Sigurd the Bad" and "The Bankrupt"Won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1...

Mark Kurlansky

December 7, 1948 - American journalist and writerAuthor of "Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World", "Salt: A World History" and "Sal...

Leigh Brackett

December 7, 1915 - March 17, 1978American science fiction writer and screenwriterAuthor of the books "The Long Tomorrow", "The Hounds of Skaith" a...

William Stanley Braithwaite

December 6, 1878 - June 8, 1962African-American writer, poet, literary critic, anthologist and publisherAuthor of "The Book of Elizabeth Verse", T...