Roger Zelazny

Roger Zelazny

male, deceased (1995)
This Immortal, The Chronicles of Amber, writer, science fiction writer, Hugo Award, Hugo Award winning author…fantasy writer, American, Ohio writer
Roger Joseph Zelazny was an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels. He won the Nebula award three times and the...
Cordwainer Bird

Cordwainer Bird

male, 75 years old (California)
Hugo Award, Star Trek The Original Series, copyright infringement, Anthology television series, Anthology series, Science Fiction Writer of America…American, Star Trek script writer, writer, Horror writer, science fiction writer
Harlan Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is a prolific American writer of short stories, novellas, essays, and criticism. His literary and television...
Employment: American writer
Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer

male, 32 years old (Washington, District of Columbia, United States)
novelist, writer, American, author, Benjamin kunkel, From Brooklyn…Washington, D.C. writer, New York writer, Short story writer, Jewish American, Everything Is Illuminated writer
Writer Jonathan Safran Foer grew up in Washington, D.C., and attended Princeton University. After graduation he worked at a number of jobs...
Alfred Kazin

Alfred Kazin

male, deceased (1998)
writer, socialist, Columbia University alumni, socialism, Literary critic, The New York Intellectuals…American
Alfred Kazin (June 5 1915 - June 5 1998) was an American writer and literary critic, many of whose writings depicted the immigrant experience in...
Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Pynchon

male, 72 years old
Cornell University, English, theme, Styles, English studies, from Nassau County, New York…Americanwriter, american literature, American
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American writer based in New York City. He is noted for his dense and complex works of...
John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck

male, deceased (1968)
From Salinas, California, Cinema of the United States, Academy Award for Best Story, Dust Bowl, nomination for Best Story, Stanford University alumni…Americanwriter, Scots-Irish American, California writer, american literature, American
John Ernst Steinbeck (February 27 1902 - December 20 1968) was one of the best-known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century. A...
Ellen Kushner

Ellen Kushner

female
Bryn Mawr College alumni, The Borderland Series, Capital City, urban fantasy, Small Beer Press, Mannerpunk…Choose Your Own Adventure writer, Americanwriter, fantasy writer, american literature, American
Ellen Kushner is an American writer of fantasy novels, who was born in Washington, DC and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. Her first novel,...
Nick Flynn

Nick Flynn

male, 49 years old
divorced, memoirist, from Plymouth County, Massachusetts, The Paris Review, The University of Houston Creative Writing Program, Poetry of the United States…Americanwriter, Massachusetts writer, American
Nick Flynn (born 1960) is an American writer and poet. He was born and grew up in Scituate, Massachusetts, south of Boston. His parents divorced...
Douglas Terman

Douglas Terman

male, 76 years old
Americanwriter, american literature, cuban missile crisis, choose your own adventure, Choose Your Own Adventure writer, military novels
Douglas Terman (born 1933) is an American writer of military novels. Terman was one of the first authors who originated the Choose Your Own...
John Cournos

John Cournos

male, deceased (1966)
poet, imagist, The Devil Is an English Gentleman, Grandmother Martin Is Murdered, London Under the Bolsheviks, O’Flaherty the Great…Americanwriter, Short story writer, American
John Cournos (1881 - 1966) was an American writer from a Russian-Jewish background; his family emigrated when he was aged 10. He was one of the...