William Faulkner

William Faulkner

male, deceased (1962)
novelist, Nobel laureate in Literature, Mississippi writer, American, Stream of consciousness writing, non-linear…poet
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...
Petrarch

Petrarch

male, deceased (1374)
Italian Renaissance writer, Italian Renaissance humanist, Sonneteers, Renaissance Latin author, Renaissance humanist, Latin writer…poet
Francesco Petrarca (Petrarcha) (July 20, 1304 - July 19, 1374) was an Italian scholar, poet, and early Renaissance humanist. Petrarch is often...
Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley

female, deceased (1851)
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley, English women writer, Romantic poet, romantic poetry, Romanticism, Science Fiction Hall of Fame…poet
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley was an English romantic/gothic novelist and the author of "Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus". She was...
Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

male, deceased (1745)
cleric, satirist, Anglo-irish, Christian, Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford, pamphleteer…poet
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish cleric, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for Tories), and poet, famous for works...
Charles Simic

Charles Simic

male, 71 years old
alma mater, Oak Park and River Forest High School, philosophy, MacArthur Fellowship, serb, Oak Park High School…poet, Poet Laureate of the United States, US Poet
Charles Simic (born May 9, 1938) is a Serbian-American poet. Having emigrated in his youth from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Simic...
Saul Williams

Saul Williams

male, 37 years old
film actor, musician, from Newburgh, New York, Integral art, slam, Morehouse College alumni…Slam poet, poet
Saul Stacey Williams (born February 29, 1972) is most known for his blend of spoken word poetry and hip-hop. Williams is also known for his leading...
Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

male, deceased (1986)
writer, blind, El Aleph, H.G. Wells, Légion d'honneur recipient, Magic realism writer…poet
Jorge Luis Borges was an Argentine writer. Best-known in the English speaking world for his short stories and fictive essays, Borges was also a...
Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks

female, deceased (2000)
American Poet Laureate, From Topeka, Kansas, writer, Illinois writer, Chicago writer, from Chicago…poet, woman poet
Gwendolyn Brooks was an award-winning African American woman poet.
Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka

male, deceased (1924) (New York, United States)
prag, From Prague, Das Schloß, Die Verwandlung, German-language, czech…poet
What will be my fate as a writer is very simple. My talent for portraying my dreamlike inner life has thrust all matters into the background; my...