Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

female, 78 years old (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
nobel prize in literature, Nobel Prize, From Houston, English, From Lorain, Ohio, Princeton University…Westerncanon, canon
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18 1931), is a Nobel Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are...
Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

male, deceased (1894)
Scottish historical novelist, British non-fiction outdoors writer, from Napa County, California, islomaniac, death by cerebral hemorrhage, From Edinburgh…Westerncanon, the canon
Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson, was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English...

David Denby

male
Columbia University, George Bush, Jr., Westerncanon, Core Curriculum, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Great Books
David Denby is an American film critic who writes for "The New Yorker". At present (2007) he shares this role with Anthony Lane. Denby previously...
Ishmael Reed

Ishmael Reed

male, 71 years old
African American, left-wing, From Buffalo, New York, From Oakland, California, East Village Other, The Last Days of Louisiana Red…Westerncanon, canon
Ishmael Scott Reed (February 22, 1938) is an American poet, essayist and novelist. Reed is one of the best-known African American writers of his...

Ethelbert Of York

male, deceased (780)
bishop, king of Northumbria, Archbishop of York, canon, library, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle…Westerncanon
Ethelbert, Archbishop of York (according to the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" or 781), was the teacher and intimate friend of Alcuin, whose poem on the...
Norayr Mnatsakanyan

Norayr Mnatsakanyan

male
singer, gousans, Merited Artist, Bariton, Westerncanon, Armenian literature…canon
Norayr Mnatsakanyan (Russian:Норайр Мнацаканян)(January 7, 1923 – March 25, 1986) was a Merited Artist of Armenia. As a renowned vocal performer of...