James Joyce

James Joyce

male, deceased (1941)
writer, agnostic, modernist novel, Stephen Dedalus, James Augustine Aloysius Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man…modernistliterature, modernist
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish expatriate writer, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He...
Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

female, deceased (1941)
death by drowning, Mrs. Dalloway, suicide by drowning, Women novelist, stephen, English women writer…modernist, modernistliterature, Modernist writer
Virginia Woolf (née Stephen was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth c...
Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein

female, deceased (1946)
buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery, Radcliffe College alumni, LGBT, Stomach cancer death, Jewish person, American…modernistliterature, Modernist writer
Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 - July 27, 1946) was an American writer and is considered to have acted as a catalyst in the development of modern...
Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

male, deceased (1924)
modernistliterature, immigrant to the United Kingdom, islomaniac, Polish Briton, from Stanford le Hope, self-deception
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-born novelist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. Some of his works have been labelled romantic: Conrad's...
Robert Musil

Robert Musil

male, deceased (1942)
Roman Catholic, novelist, writer, World War I, Austrian, modernist…modernistliterature
Robert Musil (November 6, 1880, Klagenfurt, Austria - April 15, 1942, Geneva, Switzerland) was an Austrian writer. His unfinished long novel "The...
Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov

male, deceased (1904) (New York, United States)
Stream of consciousness writing, Badenweiler, modernistliterature, Tuberculosis, shakespeare, modernist
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian short story writer and playwright. He was born in Taganrog, southern Russia, on, and died of tuberculosis at...
May Sinclair

May Sinclair

female, deceased (1946)
Stream of consciousness writing, Women poet, English women writer, Mary Amelia St. Clair, From birkenhead, English…modernistliterature, modernist poetry
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...
Walter Benn Michaels

Walter Benn Michaels

male
Modernism, modernistliterature, our america, American, cultural construction, The Shape of the Signifier
Walter Benn Michaels is a literary theorist, known as the author of "Our America: Nativism, Modernism and Pluralism" (1995) and "The Shape of the...
Mervyn Peake

Mervyn Peake

male, deceased (1968)
literary nonsense, Parkinson's disease, British in China, Writer-illustrator, War artist, God…modernistliterature, Modernist writer
Mervyn Laurence Peake was an English modernist writer, artist, poet and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the...
David Markson

David Markson

male, 82 years old
Columbia University, West Village, Epitaph for a Dead Beat, Wittgenstein's Mistress, Epitaph for a Tramp, Springer's Progress…modernist tradition, Postmodern literature, modernistliterature
David Markson is an American author, born in Albany, New York in 1927. He is the author of several postmodern novels, including "This is Not a...