Literary Library

Muriel Spark

by Angela Beck
February 1, 1918 - April 13, 2006Scottish novelist, essayist, short story writer and poetAuthor of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie", "The Mandelba...
Booker Prize Essayist Essays Golden PEN Award James Tate Black Prize Novel Novelist Poem Poems Poet Poetry Scotland Scottish Short Story

Meg Cabot

by Angela Beck
February 1, 1967 - American author and young adult novelistHas written over 50 books including "The Princess Diaries" (for which she was included...
Author Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award Novel Novelist Young Adult

Langston Hughes

by Angela Beck
February 1, 1902 - May 22, 1967African-American poet, playwright, novelist, columnist and social activistAuthor of "The Weary Blues", "Not Withou...
Activist African American African American History Columnist Guggenheim Harlem Renaissance NAACP Newspaper Columnist Play Plays Playwright Poem Poems Poet Poetry Social Reform Spingarn Medal Theater Theatre

John Edwin Canaday

by Angela Beck
February 1, 1907 - July 19, 1985American academic, art historian and critic, journalist and novelistAuthor of art books including "Mainstreams of M...
Academic Art Art Critic Art Historian Arts Athenaeum Literary Award Crime Journalism Journalist Novel Novelist Picasso

Jerry Spinelli

by Angela Beck
February 1, 1941 - American author of young adult and children's booksAuthor of "Maniac Magee" (for which he won the Newbery Medal in 1991), "Wrin...
Author Children's Book Author Newbery Newbery Honor Newbery Medal Young Adult

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

by Angela Beck
February 1, 1874 - July 15, 1929Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator and essayistAuthor of "Death and the Fool", "The Woman Wi...
Austria Austrian Drama Dramatist Essayist Essays Librettist Libretto Music Musical Musician Narrator Novel Novelist Poem Poems Poet Poetry

H. Richard Hornberger

by Angela Beck
February 1, 1924 - November 4, 1997American writer and surgeonBest known for "M.A.S.H: A Novel About Three Army Doctors" which was turned into a ...
Doctor Korea Korean War Medical Medicine Movie Movies Physician Surgeon Television TV Show Writer

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

Fritjof Capra

by Angela Beck
February 1, 1939 - Austrian-born American physicist, author, systems theorist, deep ecologist and professorAuthor of "The Tao of Physics: An Explo...
Austria Austrian Austrian-American Ecologist Leonardo Da Vinci Mysticism Physicist Renaissance Systems Theorist

Vaino Linna

by Angela Beck
December 20, 1920 - April 21, 1992Finnish novelistAuthor of "The Unknown Soldier", "Under the North Star" and "Murroskia"
Finland Finnish Novel Novelist

T. F. Powys

by Angela Beck
December 20, 1875 - November 27, 1953British novelist and short story writerAuthor of "Mr. Tasker's Gods", "Unclay" and "Mr. Weston's Good Wine"Bo...
British England English Great Britain Novel Novelist Short Story

Stephen Morehouse Avery

by Angela Beck
December 20, 1893 - February 10, 1948American screenwriterAuthor of the screenplays for "The Gay Deception", "Our Little Girl" and "Deep Valley"
Film Filmmaker Films Screenplay Screenwriter