Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

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

Bob Dylan

male, 68 years old
folk music, singer-songwriter, guitarist, blowing in the wind, poet, Robert Allen Zimmerman…Literary
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, musician, and poet who has been a major figure in...
Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie

male, 62 years old
al qaeda target, the West, the east, Western world, magical realism, ayatollah…Literary
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. He first achieved fame with his second novel, "Midnight's Children" (1981),...
Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

male, 89 years old
novelist, The Twilight Zone writer, The Martian Chronicles, science fiction, fahrenheit 451, Hugo Award winning author…Literary
Ray Douglas Bradbury (born August 22 1920) is an American literary, fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer best known for "The...
Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom

male, 79 years old
professor, Cornell University alumni, Shakespeare academia, from New York City, Berg Professor, Literary critic…literary criticism, Literary, Literary critic of English, Marxist literary criticism, feminist literary criticism
Harold Bloom (b. July 11 1930) is an American professor and prominent literary and cultural critic. Bloom defended 19th-century Romantic poets at a...
Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes

male, deceased (1980)
French road accident victim, LGBT writer, From France, Pedestrian road accident victim, Literary theorist, gay…Literary critic, Literary theory, Literary
Roland Barthes (November 12, 1915 - March 25, 1980) (pronounced) was a French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and...
Julian Barnes

Julian Barnes

male, 63 years old
novelist, Man Booker Prize, postmodernist, short stories, Julian Patrick Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot…Literary
Julian Barnes was born in Leicester, England on January 19, 1946. He was educated at the City of London School from 1957 to 1964 and at Magdalen...
Michael Collins

Michael Collins

male, deceased (2005)
American military personnel of World War II, Pulp fiction writer, From st. louis, missouri, Literary, author, From St. Louis
Michael Collins is the most well-known pseudonym of Dennis Lynds (January 15, 1924 - August 19, 2005), an American author who primarily wrote...
Rohinton Mistry

Rohinton Mistry

male, 57 years old
Governor General's Award winning fiction writer, Bombay University, Indo-Canadian, Commonwealth Writers Prize, Books in Canada First Novel Award, short stories…Literary
Rohinton Mistry was born in Bombay, India in 1952 and immigrated to Canada in 1975 where he took employment working for a Toronto bank. After...

John Leonard

male, 70 years old
columnist, cultural critic, from Washington, D.C., From Queen, Literary, From Long Beach, California…Literary critic
John Leonard (born February 25, 1939) is an American literary, TV, film and cultural critic.