William Faulkner

William Faulkner

male, deceased (1962)
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American novelist and poet whose works feature his native state of Mississippi. He is regarded as one of the most...
Van Morrison

Van Morrison

male, 64 years old
Van Morrison was born in Belfast in 1945, the son of a shipyard worker who collected American blues and jazz records. Van grew up listening to the...
Dorothy Richardson

Dorothy Richardson

female, deceased (1957)
Dorothy Miller Richardson (17 May 1873 - 17 June 1957) was the first writer to publish an English-language novel using what was to become known as...
May Sinclair

May Sinclair

female, deceased (1946)
May Sinclair was the pseudonym of Mary Amelia St. Clair (1862 - 1946), a popular British writer. She was known for two dozen novels, short stories...
Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov

male, deceased (1904) (New York, United States)
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian short story writer and playwright. He was born in Taganrog, southern Russia, on, and died of tuberculosis at...

Édouard Dujardin

male, deceased (1949)
Édouard Dujardin was a French writer, one of the early pioneers of the literary technique stream of consciousness, exemplified in his 1888 novel "...
Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker

male, 52 years old
Nicholson Baker (born January 7, 1957) is a contemporary American novelist, whose writings focus on minute inspection of the narrator's stream of...
Elvis Mitchell

Elvis Mitchell

male, 51 years old
Elvis Mitchell (born 1958 in Detroit, Michigan) is an African-American public intellectual and a former film critic for "The New York Times"....
Das Efx

Das Efx

Das EFX is an American hip-hop group. It consists of rappers Skoob (also known as Books, born Willie Hines on January 2, 1971) and Dre (also known...
Sigrid Undset

Sigrid Undset

female, deceased (1949)
Sigrid Undset was a Norwegian novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1928. Undset was born in Kalundborg, Denmark, but her family moved...