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 influential writers of the twentieth century and was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature. Faulkner's writing is often criticized as being dense, meandering and difficult to understand due to his heavy use of such literary techniques as symbolism, allegory, multiple narrators and points of view, non-linear narrative, …

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 music of Muddy Waters, Mahalia Jackson , Lightnin' Hopkins and John Lee Hooker . As a teenager he played guitar, sax and harmonica with a series of local Irish showbands, skiffle and rock'n'roll groups before forming an r&b band called Them in 1964.

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 the stream-of-consciousness technique. Her thirteen novel sequence "Pilgrimage" is one of the great 20th century works of modernist and feminist literature in English.

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 and poetry. She was an active suffragist, and member of the Woman Writers' Suffrage League. She was also a significant critic, in the area of modernist poetry and prose; the term stream of consciousness, in its literary sense, is attributed to her.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian short story writer and playwright. He was born in Taganrog, southern Russia, on, and died of tuberculosis at the health spa of Badenweiler, Germany, on. His brief playwriting career produced four classics, while his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov practiced as a doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife," he once said, "and literature is my mistress".

Édouard Dujardin was a French writer, one of the early pioneers of the literary technique stream of consciousness, exemplified in his 1888 novel "Les lauriers sont coupés" (which remains in print into the 21st century).

Nicholson Baker (born January 7, 1957) is a contemporary American novelist, whose writings focus on minute inspection of the narrator's stream of thought. His unconventional novels deal with topics like voyeurism and planned assassination, but generally de-emphasize traditional aspects of plot. Baker's enthusiasts appreciate his ability to candidly explore the human psyche, …

Elvis Mitchell (born 1958 in Detroit, Michigan) is an African-American public intellectual and a former film critic for "The New York Times". Previously, he was a film critic for the "Fort Worth Star-Telegram", the "Los Angeles Herald Examiner" and "The Detroit Free Press". He graduated from Wayne State University, where he majored in English. In his reviews, he takes on a freewheeling, some might say stream of consciousness style, …

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 as Krazy Drayzy, born Andre Weston on June 1, 1972). They rose to popularity in the early 1990s due to their affiliation with EPMD's Hit Squad and the group's stream of consciousness lyrical delivery, …

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 to Norway when she was two years old. In 1924, she converted to Catholicism. She fled Norway for the United States in 1940 because of her opposition to Nazi Germany and the German occupation, but returned after World War II ended in 1945.

Tomás Rivera was a Chicano author, poet, and educator. He was chancellor of the University of California, Riverside, the first Mexican American to hold the position at any university of the University of California. He is best remembered for his 1971 Faulknerian stream-of-consciousness novella "Y no se lo tragó la tierra", translated into English as "...and the earth did not devour him".

Bulee "Slim" Gaillard (January 4, 1916 - February 26, 1991) was a African-American jazz singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist, noted for his vocalese singing and word play. Along with Gaillard's date of birth, his family lineage and place of birth are disputed. One account is that he was born in Santa Clara, Cuba of a Greek father and an Afro-Cuban mother ; another is that he was born in Pensacola, Florida to a German father and an African-American mother.

Tom "T.D." Mischke (born September 19, 1962) is a radio talk show host at the St. Paul, Minnesota Hubbard Broadcasting station AM 1500 KSTP. He hosts "The Mischke Broadcast", a long-running nighttime program that as of 2006 began airing on the midday time slot. His show features quirky regular callers, stream-of-consciousness humor, and experts on any topic he finds interesting.

Iris Wildthyme is a fictional character best known from spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who", appearing mainly in short stories and novels. She is generally depicted as a renegade Time Lady and was created by writer Paul Magrs. As with other "Doctor Who" spin-offs, the canonicity of the character with relation to the television series is unclear.

Liu Yichang, in Cantonese Lau Yee Cheung, a notable writer and novelist in Hong Kong. One of his most notable stream of consciousness novellas "Tête-bêche" (《對倒》) inspires Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai's "In the Mood for Love".

Peter Scott Rushforth, a vast and dense novel, over 700 pages compressed into a single day, described the fantastic inner life of Alice Pinkerton, a brilliant spinster who is regarded as somewhat crazy by the turn-of-the-century New York society around her, but who lives in her own, richly-detailed world of literature, fertile with allusions to Shakespeare, Wilde, Poe, Whitman, Stevenson, Tennyson, Austen, and many many others. This book too was hailed by literary critics.

Ania Walwicz (born 1951) is a contemporary Australian poet and visual artist. Ania Walwicz spent her childhood in Poland, coming to Australia in 1963 where she attended the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in Melbourne. Her writing tends toward an impressionistic, stream of consciousness exploration of inner states. It also exploits 'appropriative' or 'sampling' techniques of production.

Wandering Scribe is the internet name of a blogger who claims to be a homeless woman. She came to the attention of the public in April 2006, when her blog was featured in an article in the New York Times and by the BBC in their online magazine. The blog's author described herself as a law graduate, who had come to be homeless after a mental breakdown following a bad relationship and debts. She claimed to be living in her car in some woods in central London, …

Berton "Bert" Schneider is an American movie producer, who was behind a number of important and topical films of the late-1960s and early-1970s. The son of Abraham Schneider, onetime president of Columbia Pictures, the younger Schneider tended toward the rebellious. He briefly attended Cornell University but was expelled. Because of his radical activities, the army rejected him. In the early Sixties, he went to work for Columbia's television division Screen Gems.

Wendy McGrath is a poet and novelist from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Her work exhibits elements of experimental fiction, including stream of consciousness techniques, and both narrative and chronological shifts. Her first book of poetry, "common place ecstasies", published by Vancouver's Beach Holme Publishing (2000), explores themes of place, home, and childhood. Her first novel, "Recurring Fictions" (University of Alberta Press, 2002), …