Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison

male, deceased (1971)
The Doors, rock music, singer, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery, Obscenity controversies…poet
James Douglas Morrison was an American singer, songwriter, writer, film director, and poet. He was best known as the lead singer and lyricist of...
Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell

male, deceased (1977)
Life Studies, American Poet Laureate, confessional poetry, American Poets Laureate, Robert Traill Spence Lowell, IV, poet
Robert Lowell (March 1, 1917-September 12, 1977), born Robert Traill Spence Lowell, IV, was an influential American poet of the mid-20th century,...
Robert Pinsky

Robert Pinsky

male, 69 years old
The Inferno of Dante, The Colbert Report, dante, American Poet Laureate, Czeslaw Milosz, Little Girl in the Big Ten…Poet Laureate of the United States, poet
Robert Pinsky is the author of six books of poetry including The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-1996 , which won the Lenore Marshall...
Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

male, deceased (1744)
from Binfield, Works of Alexander Pope, from the City of London, satirical, tennyson, shakespeare…poet
Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 - 30 May 1744) is generally regarded as the greatest English poet of the early eighteenth century, best known for his...
Herman Melville

Herman Melville

male, deceased (1891) (bronx, New York, United States)
American, Travel writer, poet, novelist, Essayist, moby-dick
Herman Melville (August 1 1819 - September 28 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. His earliest novels were...
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…poet
Many commend Margaret Atwood for her ability of depicting individual and worldly troubles of universal concern (Study Guide). Over thirty years,...
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay

female, deceased (1950)
Sonneteers, LGBT writer, from Maine, bohemian, Maine writer, American…lyrical poet, poet
Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 - October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright and the first woman to receive the...
Alice Walker

Alice Walker

female, 65 years old
author, poet, Feminist, African American, African-American, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner
Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American author and feminist. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983 for her...
William Morris

William Morris

male, deceased (1896)
Victorian poetry, Mythopoeic writer, Communalism, socialist, graphic designer, Marxist…poet
William Morris was an English artist, writer, socialist and activist. He was one of the principal founders of the British arts and crafts movement,...
Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

male, deceased (1963) (Kamuela, Hawaii, United States)
Humanist, Throat cancer death, poet, American, parapsychology, philosophical
Aldous Leonard Huxley (July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family....