Literary Library

Barbey d'Aurevilly

November 2, 1808 - April 23, 1889French novelist and short story writerAuthor of "Une Vieille Maitresse", "Les Chevalier des Touches" and "Les Dia...

Ally Condie

November 2, 1978 - American young adult fiction writerAuthor of "Matched", "Crossed" and "Reached"

Zenna Henderson

November 1, 1917 - May 11, 1983American science fiction and fantasy writer and teacherAuthor of "Pilgrimage: The Book of the People", "The Anything...

Ernest Tidyman

January 1, 1928 - July 14, 1984American author and screenwriterAuthor of the books "Shaft", "Dummy" and "Big Bucks'Author of the screenplays "Shaf...

E. M. Forster

January 1, 1879 - June 7, 1970English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettistAuthor of "Where Angels Fear to Tread", "Room With a Vi...

J. D. Salinger

January 1, 1919 - January 27, 2010American novelist and short story writerAuthor of "A Perfect Day for Bananafish", "Catcher in the Rye" and Frann...

Ismail al-Faruqi

January 1, 1921 - May 27, 1986Palestinian-American philosopher, professor and writerAuthor of "Christian Ethics" and "Cultural Atlas of Islam"

Catherine Drinker Bowen

January 1, 1897 - November 1, 1973American biographerAuthor of "Yankee From Olympus" and Miracle at Philadelphia"

Arthur Hugh Clough

January 1, 1819 - November 13, 1861English poet, educator and assistant to Florence NightingaleAuthor of "Dipsychus" and "Amours De Voyage"

Sholem Asch

November 1, 1880 - July 10, 1957Polish-Jewish American novelist, dramatist and essayistAuthor of "The Nazarene", "The Apostle" and "East River"Als...

R. W. B. Lewis

November 1, 1917 - June 13, 2002American literary scholar and criticAuthor of "The Poetry of Hart Crane: A Critical Study", "Edith Wharton: A Biogr...

Nicolasa Mohr

November 1, 1938 - American author of young adult and adult books, screenplays and playsAuthor of "El Bronx Remembered", "Nilda" and "Felita" (for ...