Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

female, 70 years old
Canadian, Feminist, Governor General's Award winning fiction writer, Governor General's Award winning poet, Authors selected for Canada Reads, literary criticism…novelist, Women novelist
Many commend Margaret Atwood for her ability of depicting individual and worldly troubles of universal concern (Study Guide). Over thirty years,...
William Faulkner

William Faulkner

male, deceased (1962)
novelist, Nobel laureate in Literature, Mississippi writer, American, Stream of consciousness writing, non-linear
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American novelist and poet whose works feature his native state of Mississippi. He is regarded as one of the most...
George Eliot

George Eliot

female, deceased (1880)
Mary Ann Evans, buried at Highgate Cemetery, English women writer, zionist, Women novelist, Mary Anne Evans…novelist
Mary Ann Evans, better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her...
John Updike

John Updike

male, 77 years old
Pennsylvania writer, Massachusetts writer, Literary critic, poet, Pulitzer Prize winner, rabbit…novelist
John Hoyer Updike (born March 18 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania) is an American writer. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series ("Rabbit,...
Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand

female, deceased (1982)
atlas shrugged, objectivist, philosopher, novelist, the fountainhead, writer
Ayn Rand (March 6 1982), born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum, was a Russian-born American novelist and philosopher, best known for creating a...
Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal

male, 84 years old (West Point, New York, United States)
conspiracy theorist, gay, American historical novelist, military brat, writer, The City and the Pillar…novelist, Historical novelist
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born October 3 1925) (pronounced, occasionally, , etc) is an American author of novels, stage plays, screenplays, and...
Jean Paul

Jean Paul

male, deceased (1825)
novelist, writer, German, Short story writer, From Bavaria, Johann Paul Friedrich Richter
Jean Paul (21 March 1763 - 14 November 1825), born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, was a German writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories.
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…novelist
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18 1931), is a Nobel Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are...
Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon

male, 46 years old
novelist, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Short story writer, 2005 Eisner Award for Best Anthology, the new yorker
Michael Chabon (born May 24, 1963) is an American author best known for his novel "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay", which won the...
Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy

male, 76 years old
the road, post-apocalyptic, New Mexico writer, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, writer, Irish-American…American novelist, novelist
Cormac McCarthy, born Charles McCarthy (born July 20, 1933) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist who has authored ten novels in the...