August Strindberg

August Strindberg

male, deceased (1912)
Johan August Strindberg (January 22, 1849 - May 14, 1912) was a Swedish writer, playwright, and painter. Along with Henrik Ibsen he is arguably the...
Clifford Odets

Clifford Odets

male, deceased (1963)
Clifford Odets (July 18, 1906 - August 18, 1963) was an American playwright, screenwriter, socialist, and social protester.
William Inge

William Inge

male, deceased (1973)
William Motter Inge (–) was an American playwright and novelist, whose works feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual re...
Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry

male, 52 years old
Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, writer, actor, novelist, filmmaker and television personality. The former comedy...
Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing

female, 90 years old
Doris Lessing CH (born Doris May Tayler in Kermanshah, Persia on October 22, 1919) is a British writer.
Jean Genet

Jean Genet

male, deceased (1986)
Jean Genet (–), was a prominent, controversial French writer and later political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty cr...
Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau

male, deceased (1963)
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker. His versatile, unconventional ap...
A. R. Gurney

A. R. Gurney

male, 79 years old
A.R. Gurney (b. November 1, 1930) is an American playwright and novelist. The playwright is known for works including Love Letters, The Cocktail...
Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

male, deceased (1977)
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a Russian-American author. Nabokov wrote his first literary works in Russian, but rose to international...
Sarah Kane

Sarah Kane

female, deceased (1999)
Sarah Kane (February 3, 1971 - February 20, 1999) was an English playwright.