Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Pynchon

male, 72 years old
Cornell University, English, theme, Styles, English studies, from Nassau County, New York…american literature, Postmodernliterature, nobel prize in literature
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...
Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

male, deceased (1989)
waiting for godot, Happy Days, humour, Death from emphysema, optimism, Aosdána…nobel prize in literature, Postmodernliterature, Nobel laureate in Literature, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 - 22 December 1989) was an Irish dramatist, novelist and poet. Beckett's work is stark, fundamentally...
Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

male, deceased (1986)
writer, blind, El Aleph, H.G. Wells, Légion d'honneur recipient, Magic realism writer…Postmodernliterature
Jorge Luis Borges was an Argentine writer. Best-known in the English speaking world for his short stories and fictive essays, Borges was also a...
Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut

male, deceased (2007)
United States Army soldier, Slaughterhouse-Five, American military personnel of World War II, atheist, Short story writer, World War II prisoner of war…Postmodernliterature
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11 1922 - April 11 2007) (pronounced) was an American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy, and...
John Barth

John Barth

male, 79 years old
Juilliard School of Music alumni, Short story writer, Postmodernliterature, Maryland Eastern Shore native, Johns Hopkins University alumni, Penn State University
John Simmons Barth (born May 27, 1930) is an American novelist and short-story writer, known for the postmodernist and metafictive quality of his...
Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie

male, 62 years old
al qaeda target, the West, the east, Western world, magical realism, ayatollah…postcolonial literature, Post-colonial literature, Postmodernliterature, Royal Society of Literature, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. He first achieved fame with his second novel, "Midnight's Children" (1981),...
Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

male, deceased (1977)
Lepidopterist, novelist, translation, Synesthesia, Translator from English, English…Postmodernliterature
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a Russian-American author. Nabokov wrote his first literary works in Russian, but rose to international...
Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme

male, deceased (1989)
novelist, Mark Mirsky, University at Buffalo alumni, magazine, location, max…Postmodernliterature
Donald Barthelme (April 7, 1931 - July 23, 1989) was an American author of short fiction and novels. He also worked as a newspaper reporter for the...
Charles Olson

Charles Olson

male, deceased (1970)
Harvard University alumni, Wesleyan University alumni, American, Beat Generation, Beat writer, Postmodernism…Postmodernliterature, postmodern
Charles Olson (27 December 1910 - 10 January 1970) was an important 2nd generation American modernist poet who was a crucial link between earlier...
J. G. Ballard

J. G. Ballard

male, 79 years old
novelist, James Graham Ballard, Short story writer, crash, dystopian, dystopia…Postmodernliterature
James Graham Ballard (born November 15, 1930 in Shanghai) is a British writer. He was a prominent member of the New Wave in science fiction. His...