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Yasunari Kawabata Facts

Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成, Kawabata Yasunari, 11 June 1899 – 16 April 1972) was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese aut

Boris Vasilyev Facts

Boris Lvovich Vasilyev (Russian: Бори́с Льво́вич Васи́льев; 21 May 1924, Smolensk – 11 March 2013, Moscow) was a Soviet writer. He is considered the last representative of the so-called “lieutenant prose”, a group of former l

Gary DeVore Facts

Gary DeVore (September 17, 1941 – June 28, 1997) was a Hollywood screenwriter best known for Raw Deal and for his bizarre death in 1997.

Earl Hamner Jr. Facts

Earl Henry Hamner, Jr. (born July 10, 1923), is an American television writer and producer (sometimes credited as Earl Hamner), best known for his work in the 1970s and 1980s on the long-running CBS series The Waltons and Falcon Crest. As a novelist,

Jessica McHugh Facts

Jessica McHugh is an American author of speculative fiction, member of the Maryland Writers Association, and affiliate member of the Horror Writers Association. A prolific writer, she has had sixteen books published by small presses in six years. Her

Raphaël Enthoven Facts

Raphael Enthoven (born 9 November 1975) is a French philosopher.

Charlotte Hamblin Facts

Colm Toibin Facts

Colm Tóibín (born 30 May 1955) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic and poet.

Alex Drummond Facts

Hwee Hwee Tan Facts

Hwee Hwee Tan (or Tan Hwee Hwee in traditional order; Tan is the family name) is a Singaporean writer.

Bill Everett Facts

William Blake “Bill” Everett (May 18, 1917 – February 27, 1973) was a comic book writer-artist best known for creating Namor the Sub-Mariner and co-creating Daredevil for Marvel Comics. He was a descendant of the poet William Blake and of Richard E

Weedon Grossmith Facts

Walter Weedon Grossmith (9 June 1854 – 14 June 1919), better known as Weedon Grossmith, was an English writer, painter, actor and playwright best known as co-author of The Diary of a Nobody (1892) with his famous brother, music hall comedian and Gi