Literary Library

Joseph P. Lash

by Angela Beck
December 2, 1909 - August 22, 1987American radical political activist, journalist and authorAuthor of "Eleanor and Franklin" (for which he won the...
Author Biographer Biography Churchill Eleanor Roosevelt Franklin Roosevelt Journalism Journalist National Book Award News Political Political Activist Politics President Roosevelt Pulitzer Prize Roosevelt Winston Churchill

John Ajvide Lindquest

by Angela Beck
December 2, 1968 - Swedish writer of horror novels and short storiesAuthor of "Handling the Undead", "Let the Old Dreams Die" and "I Am Behind You"...
Horror Novel Novelist Short Story Swedan Swedish

Joel Fuhrman

by Angela Beck
December 2, 1953 - American physician and writerAuthor of "Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss", "Th...
Author Diabetes Doctor Heart Disease Hospital Medical Medicine Nutrician Physician Weight Loss

Jerry Sohl

by Angela Beck
December 2, 1913 - November 4, 2002American television scriptwriter and science fiction novelistAuthor of "Costigan's Needle", "The Altered Ego" an...
Alfred Hitchcock Novel Novelist Science Fiction Screenplay Screenwriter Script Writer Star Trek Television Television Show The Outer Limits TV TV Show Twilight Zone

Helen Adam

by Angela Beck
December 2, 1909 - September 19, 1993Scottish poet, collagist and photographerAuthor of "Turn Again to Me and Other Poems" (for which she won the A...
American Book Award Art Artist Arts Collage Photo Photographer Photography Photos Poem Poems Poet Poetry Scotland Scottish

George Saunders

by Angela Beck
December 2, 1958 - American writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books and novels and journalist and professorAuthor of "Lincoln...
Abraham Lincoln American History American South Booker Prize Children's Book Children's Book Author Children's Books Civil War Essayist Essays Journalism Journalist Lincoln Novel Novelist Novella PEN/Hemingway Award Professor Short Story Teach Teacher University

Gail Collins

by Angela Beck
November 25, 1945 - American journalist, op-ed columnist, editor and authorAuthor of "Scorpion Tongues: Gossip, Celebrity and American Politics",...
Author Celebrity Journalism Journalist News Newspaper Newspaper Columnist Newspapers Op-Ed Opinion Political Politician Politics Texas Woman Women

Frederic Tuten

by Angela Beck
December 2, 1936 - American novelist, short story writer and essayistAuthor of "The Adventures of Mao on the Long March", "Tintin in the New Worl...
Essayist Essays Novel Novelist Short Story

Elizabeth Berg

by Angela Beck
December 2, 1948 - American novelistAuthor of "Talk Before Sleep", "Pull of the Moon" and "I'll Be Seeing You: A Memoir"
Memoir Memoirist Novel Novelist

David Macauley

by Angela Beck
December 2, 1946 - British-born American illustrator and author of children's booksAuthor and illustrator of "Cathedral: The Story of It's Construc...
Author British Caldecott Caldecott Honor Children's Book Author England English Great Britain Illustrator

David Hackett Fischer

by Angela Beck
December 2, 1935 - American professor and writerAuthor of "Paul Revere's Ride", "Washington's Crossing" (for which he was a finalist for the Nation...
Academic Author Historian history National Book Award Professor Pulitzer Prize Teach Teacher

Dan Jenkins

by Angela Beck
December 2, 1928 - March 7, 2019American author and sportswriterAuthor of "Semi-tough", "You Gotta Play Hurt" and "Jenkins at the Majors: Sixty Yea...
Athlete Athletes Athletics Author ESPN Golf PEN/ESPN Sports Sportswriter