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Barry Unsworth FRSL (10 August 1930 – 4 June 2012) was an English writer known for his historical fiction. He published 17 novels, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times, winning once for the 1992 novel Sacred Hunger.
Kanoko Okamoto (岡本 かの子, Okamoto Kanoko, 1 March 1889 – 18 February 1939) was the pen-name of a Japanese author, tanka poet, and Buddhist scholar active during the Taishō and early Shōwa periods of Japan.
Beverly Cleary (born April 12, 1916) is an American writer of fiction for children and young adults. One of America’s most successful writers of children’s literature, she has sold 91 million copies of her books worldwide. Some of her best-known char
Eduard (Édouard) Schuré (January 21, 1841 in Strasbourg – April 7, 1929 in Paris) was a French philosopher, poet, playwright, novelist, music critic, and publicist of esoteric literature.
William Manning Marable (May 13, 1950 – April 1, 2011) was an American professor of public affairs, history and African-American Studies at Columbia University. Marable founded and directed the Institute for Research in African-American Studies. Ma
Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He is known for the best-selling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and for his subsequent work as a novelist and screenwriter. He is also the founder of Mc
Lewis Henry Lapham (/ˈluːɪs ˈlæpəm/; born January 8, 1935) is an American writer. He was the editor of the American monthly Harper’s Magazine from 1976 until 1981, and from 1983 until 2006. He is the founder of Lapham’s Quarterly, a quarterly p
Medbh McGuckian (born as Maeve McCaughan on 12 August 1950) is a poet from Northern Ireland.
Robert Ardrey (October 16, 1908 – January 14, 1980) was a prolific American playwright, screenwriter and science writer. After a long Broadway and Hollywood career he returned to his academic training in anthropology and the behavioral sciences in
Princess Vera Ignatievna Gedroitz (Russian: Ве́ра Игна́тьевна Гедро́йц; Ukrainian: Віра Ігнатіївна Гедройць; 1870–1932) was a Russian doctor of medicine, a professor, the first female surgeon in Russia,