Literary Library

Umberto Eco

by Angela Beck
January 5, 1932 - February 19, 2016Italian professor, critc and writer of novels and non-fictionAuthor of "The Name of the Rose", "Foucault's Pend...
College Critic Educate Education Educator Italian Italy Nonfiction Novel Novelist Professor School Strega Prize Teach Teacher Teaching University

W. D. Snodgrass

by Angela Beck
January 5, 1926 - January 13, 2009American poet and professorAuthor of "Heart's Needle" (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1960),  ...
College Educate Education Educator Poem Poems Poet Poetry Professor Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize for Poetry School University

Tananarive Due

by Angela Beck
January 5, 1966 - African-American teacher, film historian and novelistAuthor of "The Between" (for which she was nominated for the Bram Stoker Aw...
African American African American History American Book Award Bram Stoker Award Educate Education Educator Film Film Historian Films Novel Novelist School Teach Teacher Teaching

Stella Gibbons

by Angela Beck
January 5, 1902 - December 19, 1989English author, journalist and poetAuthor of "The Mountain Beast", "Cold Comfort Farms" and "Nightengale Wood"
Author British England English English Poetry Great Britain Journalism Journalist News Poem Poems Poet Poetry

Robert Kinloch Massie, III

by Angela Beck
January 5, 1929 - December 2, 2019 American journalist, historian and biographerAuthor of "Peter the Great: His Life and World" (for which he won t...
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence Biographer Biography British History Catherine the Great German German History Germany Great Britain Historian history Journalism Journalist News Newspapers Peter the Great Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize for Biography Russian History War History World History

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

by Angela Beck
January 5, 1938 - May 28, 2025Kenyan novelist, playwright, short story writer, essayist and academicAuthor of "Weep Not Child" (for which he won t...
Academic Africa African Booker Prize East Africa Novel Prize Essayist Essays Hurston/Wright Legacy Award International Booker Prize Kenya Kenyan Man Booker Prize National Book Critics Circle Award Nonino International Prize Novel Novelist Short Stories Short Story UNESCO Prize Zora Neale Hurston-Paul Robeson Award

Michael O'Donoghue

by Angela Beck
January 5, 1940 - November 8, 1994American writer and performerAuthor of "The National Lampoon Encyclopedia of Humor" and "Socks Goes to Washington...
National Lampoon Performer Saturday Night Live Writer

Hayao Miyazaki

by Angela Beck
January 5, 1941 - Japanese animator, director, producer, screenwriter, author and manga artistAuthor of "Shuna's Journey", "Hayao Miyazaki's Daydr...
Academy Award Animation Animator Author Director Film Film Director Film Producer Filmmaker Films Japan Japanese Manga Manga Artist Screenplay Screenwriter Studio Ghibli

Friedrich Durrenmatt

by Angela Beck
January 5, 1921 - December 14, 1990Swiss author, dramatist and artistAuthor of the plays "The Visit", "Romulus the Great" and "The Physician"Autho...
Art Artist Arts Author Drama Dramatist Play Plays Playwright Swiss Switzerland Theater Theatre

Drew Daywalt

by Angela Beck
January 5, 1970 - American children's book author, filmmaker and scriptwriterAuthor of "The Day the Crayons Quit", "The Day the Crayons Came Home"...
Children's Book Children's Book Author Children's Books Film Filmmaker Films Movie Movies Script Scripts Scriptwrier

Count Miklos Zrinyi

by Angela Beck
January 5, 1620 - November 18, 1664Hungarian statesman, military leader and poetBest known for his epic poem "The Peril of Sziget"Became the Vicer...
Croatia Govern Government Government Official Hungarian Hungary Military Military Officer Poem Poems Poet Poetry Politician Politics Statesman

Jakob Ludwig Carl Grimm

by Angela Beck
January 4, 1785 - September 20, 1863German philologist, jurist and mythologistAlong with his brother Wilhelm edited "Grimm's Fairy Tales" Click He...
Fairy Tale Fairy Tales Folk Lore Folklorist Folktales German Germany Grimm's Fairy Tales Jurist Myth Mythologist Mythology Myths Philologist Philology