John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck

male, deceased (1968)
From Salinas, California, Cinema of the United States, Academy Award for Best Story, Dust Bowl, nomination for Best Story, Stanford University alumni…myth
John Ernst Steinbeck (February 27 1902 - December 20 1968) was one of the best-known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century. A...
Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott

male, 79 years old
Boston University, Nobel laureate in Literature, magic realism, Nobel Prize for Literature, Castries, Omeros…myth
Derek Alton Walcott (born January 23, 1930) is a West-Indian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who writes mainly in English. Born in...
Marina Warner

Marina Warner

female, 63 years old
mythography, mythographer, Italian, English, Sir Pelham Warner, University of Oxford…myth
Marina Warner (born 9 November 1946 London, England) is a British writer. She is a novelist, short story writer and mythographer, known for many...
Jason Jones

Jason Jones

male
Bungie Studios, myth, halo, Programmer, marathon, game programmer
The reclusive Jason Jones co-founded, with Alex Seropian, the computer game company Bungie Studios in 1991. He took part in the creation of games...

Slavoj Žižek

male, 60 years old
François Regnault, From Ljubljana, postmodern, university of ljubljana, atheist, University of Paris VIII…myth
Slavoj Žižek (born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian sociologist, postmodern philosopher, and cultural critic. He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (t...
Ronald Hutton

Ronald Hutton

male, 55 years old
Pembroke College, Cambridge, Old Parkonian, From Ilford, Ilford County High School, restoration, myth
Professor Ronald Hutton (born 1954) is Professor of History at the University of Bristol and is an occasional commentator on British television and...
William Irwin Thompson

William Irwin Thompson

male, 71 years old
New Age author, American, Social philosopher, Integral thought, from Chicago, myth
William Irwin Thompson (born July 16, 1938) is known primarily as a social philosopher and cultural critic, but has recently been writing mostly...
P. Craig Russell

P. Craig Russell

male
writer, Mythology, gay, elric, myth, The War of the Worlds
Philip Craig Russell, a.k.a. Craig Russell, is an American comic book writer, artist, and illustrator. His work has won multiple Harvey and Eisner...
Jean-Pierre Vernant

Jean-Pierre Vernant

male, deceased (2007)
structuralist, Anthropologist, myth, tragedy, structuralism, historian
Jean-Pierre Vernant was a French historian and anthropologist, specialist in ancient Greece. Influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Vernant developed a...
Jin Li

Jin Li

male
geneticist, Southeast Asian, Africans, Northern China, recent single-origin hypothesis, southern China…myth
Jin Li is a Chinese geneticist who led the research that concluded that all East Asians, including the Chinese, originated from Africa, adding...