J. R. R. Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien

male, deceased (1973)
The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, author, writer, the silmarillion, middle-earth…english literature, Old English language, English language and literature, Old English, English
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English philologist, writer and university professor, best known as the au...
Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Pynchon

male, 72 years old
Cornell University, English, theme, Styles, Englishstudies, from Nassau County, New York
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...
Susan Stewart

Susan Stewart

female, 57 years old
Johns Hopkins University alumni, Pew Charitable Trusts, Guggenheim Foundation, philosophy of literature, The American Poetry Review, National Book Critics Circle…Englishstudies, English
Susan Stewart is an American poet, university professor and literary critic born in 1952. She teaches the history of poetry, aesthetics, and the...

Peter Robinson

male
Oxford University, Research Fellow, kappa kappa kappa, united states department of state, Englishstudies, West Berlin…English
Peter M. Robinson (born 1957) is an American author, a research fellow, a television host and a former speechwriter for George Bush and Ronald...
Ben Brantley

Ben Brantley

male, 55 years old
gay, writer, Swarthmore College alumni, English, journalism, Publisher…Englishstudies
Ben Brantley (born October 26, 1954) is the chief theatre critic of the "New York Times". Born Benjamin D. Brantley in Durham, North Carolina,...
N. Katherine Hayles

N. Katherine Hayles

female, 65 years old (Chicago, Illinois, United States)
English, Media Arts, Englishstudies, University of California, Los Angeles, design, University of California, Los Angeles faculty
N. Katherine Hayles (16 December, 1943 -) is a noted postmodern literary critic and theorist as well as the author of "How We Became Posthuman:...

Keith Gilyard

male, 57 years old
Englishstudies, Raymond Keith Gilyard, basic writing, English, Voices of the Self A Study of Language Competence, American…Distinguished Professor of English, Department Of English, Professor of English, Writer and Professor of English
Raymond Keith Gilyard (born 1952 in New York City) is a prominent American professor of English who studies basic writing. His book "Voices of the...
John Bayley

John Bayley

male, 84 years old
From lahore, FBA, Order of the British Empire, British Academy, British India, Order of British Empire…Englishstudies, English
Professor John Bayley CBE, FBA, FRSL (born 1925, Lahore, Pakistan — then known as Lahore, British India) is a British literary critic and writer. Fr...
D. M. Thomas

D. M. Thomas

male, 74 years old
American University, English, From Redruth, Continental Europe, National Service, Russian literature…Englishstudies
Donald Michael Thomas, known as D. M. Thomas (born 27 January 1935, Redruth, Cornwall, UK) is a Cornish novelist, poet, and translator. He...
Balachandra Rajan

Balachandra Rajan

male, 89 years old
intention, context, english poetry, paradise lost, poetics, Literary critic…English, Englishstudies
Balachandra Rajan (b. 1920), a scholar of poetry and poetics, focusing particularly on the poetry of John Milton, is Professor Emeritus of English...