Literary Library

Lisa Morton

by Angela Beck
December 11, 1958 - American horror writer and screenwriterAuthor of "The Halloween Encyclopedia", "The Lucid Dreaming" and "Netherworld"
Halloween Horror scre Screenplay Screenwriter Writer

Joe Masteroff

by Angela Beck
December 11, 1919 - September 28, 2018American playwrightAuthor of "The Warm Peninsula", "She Loves Me" (for which he was nominated for a Tony Awar...
Caberet Play Plays Playwright Theater Theatre Tony Award

Jim Harrison

by Angela Beck
December 11, 1937 - March 26, 2016American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter and nonfiction & children's book authorAuthor of "Returning ...
Author Children's Book Author Essayist Essays Film Filmmaker Films Movie Movies Nonfiction Novel Novelist Poem Poems Poet Poetry Screenplay Screenwriter

Jerome Rothenberg

by Angela Beck
December 11, 1931 - American poet, translator and anthologistAuthor of "Poland/1931", "That Dada Strain" and "A Cruel Nirvana"
Anthologist Poem Poems Poet Poetry Translator

Harriet Stratemeyer Adams

by Angela Beck
December 11, 1892 - March 27, 1982American juvenile book publisher and children's book authorWas responsible for the publication and plotlines of h...
Author Book Publisher Children's Book Author Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Publisher Young Adult

Grace Paley

by Angela Beck
December 11, 1922 - August 22, 2007American short story writer, poet, teacher and political activistAuthor of "The Little Disturbances of Man", "En...
National Book Award Poem Poems Poet Poet Laureate Poetry Political Activist Pulitzer Prize School Short Story Teach Teacher

Ayelet Waldman

by Angela Beck
December 11, 1964 - Israeli-American novelist, essayist and lawyerAuthor of the "Mommy-Track" mystery series as well as "Love and Other Impossible...
Essayist Essays Israel Israeli Israeli-American Law Lawyer Mystery Mystery Writer Novel Novelist

Alfred De Musset

by Angela Beck
December 11, 1810 - May 2, 1857French dramatist, poet and novelistAuthor of the plays "The Moods of Marianne", "Lorenzaccio" and "The Story of a W...
Drama Dramatist France French Novel Novelist Play Plays Playwright Poem Poems Poet Poetry Theater Theatre

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

by Angela Beck
December 11, 1918 - August 3, 2008Russian novelist, philosopher, historian, short story writer and political prisonerAuthor of "One Day in the Li...
Historian Historical Fiction history Imperial Russia Nobel Prize Novel Novelist Philosopher Philosophy Political Political Prisoner Russia Russian Russian History Short Story

William Plomer

by Angela Beck
December 10, 1903 - September 21, 1973South African novelist, poet, literary editor and librettistAuthor of "I Speak of Africa", "In a Bombed House...
Librettist Libretto Literary Editor Novel Novelist Poem Poems Poet Poetry South Africa South African

Theos Casimir Bernard

by Angela Beck
December 10, 1908 - September 1947American explorer and authorAuthor of "Penthouse of the Gods: A Pilgrimage into the Heart of Tibet and the Sacred...
Author Explorer Hindu Llasa Tibet Yoga

Rumer Goddard

by Angela Beck
December 10, 1907 - November 8, 1998English author of fiction and nonfictionAuthor of more than 60 books including "Black Narcissus", "The Greenga...
British England English Fiction Film Films Great Britain Movie Movies Nonfiction