Ken Kesey

Ken Kesey

male, deceased (2001)
beatnik, author, Beat Generation, Beat writer, California writer, Essayist…Oregonwriter, Short story writer, University of Oregon alumni
Kenneth Elton Kesey (September 17, 1935 - November 10, 2001) was an American author, best known for his novel, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest",...
Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin

female, 80 years old
science fiction writer, science fiction, fantasy writer, feminism, Feminist, American women writer…Short story writer, Oregonwriter, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer of America, children's writer, From Portland, Oregon
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (born October 21, 1929) is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories,...
Barry Lopez

Barry Lopez

male, 64 years old
University of Oregon, Fiction writer, graduate degree, ecological, ecology, American…Oregonwriter
Barry Holstun Lopez is an American essayist, poet, fiction writer and prose stylist whose work is best known for its ecological concerns. He began...
William Stafford

William Stafford

male, deceased (1993)
University of Kansas alumni, American Poet Laureate, Essayist, poet, William Edgar Stafford, Pacifist…Oregonwriter, From Portland, Oregon, Oregon Message
William Edgar Stafford (January 17, 1914 - August 28, 1993) was an American poet and pacifist, and the father of poet and essayist Kim Stafford. He...
Chuck Palahniuk

Chuck Palahniuk

male, 47 years old (Kennewick, Washington, United States)
fight club, Minimalist writer, postmodernist, Postmodern literature, ukrainian, journalist…From Portland, Oregon, Oregonwriter, writer, LGBT writer, Fight Club writer
Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk (IPA: [EpE'lEnEk])[1] (born February 21, 1962) is an American satirical novelist and freelance journalist of...
Molly Gloss

Molly Gloss

female, 65 years old
PEN Center West Fiction Prize, American women writer, James Tiptree, Jr. Award, Whiting Award, American West, Western United States…From Portland, Oregon, Oregonwriter, science fiction writer
Molly Gloss (born 20 November, 1944) is an American writer currently best known for science fiction works. Her novel "Wild Life" won the James...
John Reed

John Reed

male, deceased (1920)
poet, death by influenza, October Revolution, industrial worker of the world, Marxist journalist, Harvard University alumni…From Portland, Oregon, writer, Oregonwriter
John "Jack" Silas Reed (October 22, 1887 - October 19, 1920) was an American journalist, poet, and communist activist, famous for his first-hand...

David James Duncan

male, 57 years old
Former Seventh-day Adventist, The River Why, The Brothers K, God Laughs and Plays, Date of birth February 3, My Story As Told By Water…Oregonwriter
David James Duncan is an American novelist, essayist, and fly-fisherman. He is the author of two bestselling novels, "The River Why" (1983) and...

Lauren Kessler

female
Oregonwriter, University of Oregon faculty, University of Oregon, Oregon Quarterly, Florence Pancho Barnes, Happy Bottom Riding Club
Lauren Kessler is an American author. Kessler's novel "Stubborn Twig" received the Frances Fuller Victor Award for the year's best work of literary...