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Samuel Butler Facts

Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was an iconoclastic Victorian-era English author who published a variety of works. Two of his most famous pieces are the Utopian satire Erewhon and a semi-autobiographical novel published posthumously,

Jean Genet Facts

Jean Genet (19 December 1910 – 15 April 1986) was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing. His major works include the novels Querelle

Peter Hedges Facts

Peter Simpson Hedges (born July 6, 1962) is an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director.

Alberto Moravia Facts

Alberto Moravia (November 28, 1907 – September 26, 1990), born Alberto Pincherle, was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation and existentialism. Moravia is best known for his debut nov

Marie de Régnier Facts

Marie de Régnier (20 December 1875 – 6 February 1963), also known by her maiden name Marie de Heredia or her pen-name Gérard d’Houville was a French novelist and poet, and closely involved in the artistic circles of early twentieth-century Paris.

Ismail Kadare Facts

Ismail Kadare (also spelled Kadaré; born 28 January 1936) is an Albanian novelist and poet. He has been a leading literary figure in Albania since the 1960s. He focused on short stories until the publication of his first novel, The General of the De

Halide Edip Adıvar Facts

Halide Edib Adıvar (Ottoman Turkish: خالده اديب‎ sometimes spelled Halidé Edib in English) (1884 – 9 January 1964) was a Turkish novelist, nationalist, and political leader for women’s rights. She was best known for her novels criticiz

Kathy Acker Facts

Kathy Acker (née Karen Lehmann; April 18, 1947 – November 30, 1997) was an American experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer. She was strongly influenced by the Black Mountain School, W

John le Carré Facts

David John Moore Cornwell (born 19 October 1931), pen name John le Carré /lə ˈkɑrˌeɪ/, is a British author of espionage novels. During the 1950s and the 1960s, Cornwell worked for the Security Service and the Secret Intelligence Service, and be

Jonah Keri Facts

Jonah Keri (born September 20, 1974, in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian journalist, sportswriter and an editor. He is also a New York Times bestselling author.

Frank Schätzing Facts

Frank Schätzing ( listen ; born May 28, 1957), is a German writer, mostly known for his best-selling science fiction novel The Swarm (2004).

Willa Cather Facts

Willa Sibert Cather (/ˈkæðər/; December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1