John Milton

John Milton

male, deceased (1674)
John Milton (December 9, 1608 - November 8, 1674) was an English poet, prose polemicist, and civil servant for the English Commonwealth. Most famed...
Conrad Aiken

Conrad Aiken

male, deceased (1973)
Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5 1889 - August 17 1973) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, born in Savannah, Georgia, whose work includes...
Djuna Barnes

Djuna Barnes

female, deceased (1982)
Djuna Barnes (June 12, 1892 - June 18, 1982) was an American writer who played an important part in the development of 20th century English...
Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick

female, 81 years old
In a quiet and perhaps inscrutable way, Cynthia Ozick has achieved acclaim and adulation that most certainly places her in the front ranks of the...
Herbert Read

Herbert Read

male, deceased (1968)
Sir Herbert Edward Read, MC, DSO (1893-1968) was an English poet and critic of literature and art. He was born in Kirkbymoorside in North...
George Stanley

George Stanley

male
George Stanley is an award-winning American-Canadian poet associated with the San Francisco Renaissance in his early years and later a resident of...
Roy Campbell

Roy Campbell

male, deceased (1957)
Roy Campbell (2 October 1901 - 22 April1957) was a South African poet and satirist. He was considered by T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas and Edith Sitwell...
John Mitchell

John Mitchell

male, 68 years old
John Mitchell (born in Hollywood, California on April 26 1941) is an American classical composer. He is the son of John Stewart Mitchell, pianist...
Sinead Morrissey

Sinead Morrissey

female, 37 years old
Sinead Morrissey was born in Portadown, Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland, in 1972, grew up in Belfast, and holds a PhD from Trinity College, Dublin....

Michael North

male
Michael North is a professor in the department of English at University of California, Los Angeles and the editor of the "W.W. Norton Critical...