Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault

male, deceased (1984)
AIDS-related death, Sociologist, University of California, Berkeley faculty, University of California, Berkeley, Rhetoric theorist, structuralist…postmodernist
Michel Foucault (October 15, 1926 - June 25, 1984) was a French philosopher and historian. He held a chair at the Collège de France, giving it the t...
Jean Baudrillard

Jean Baudrillard

male, deceased (2007)
Seduction theorist, post-structuralism, Continental philosopher, cultural theorist, French, Culture theory…postmodernist
Jean Baudrillard (July 29, 1929 - March 6, 2007) was a French cultural theorist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer. His work is...
Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme

male, deceased (1989)
novelist, Mark Mirsky, University at Buffalo alumni, magazine, location, max…postmodernist
Donald Barthelme (April 7, 1931 - July 23, 1989) was an American author of short fiction and novels. He also worked as a newspaper reporter for the...
Richard Rorty

Richard Rorty

male, deceased (2007) (Stanford, California, United States)
Irony theorist, philosophy, Analytic philosopher, pragmatist, American, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature…postmodernist
Richard McKay Rorty was an American philosopher. Rorty's long and diverse career saw him working in Philosophy, Humanities, and Literature...
Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Pynchon

male, 72 years old
Cornell University, English, theme, Styles, English studies, from Nassau County, New York…postmodernist
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American writer based in New York City. He is noted for his dense and complex works of...
Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

male, deceased (1989)
waiting for godot, Happy Days, humour, Death from emphysema, optimism, Aosdána…postmodernist
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 - 22 December 1989) was an Irish dramatist, novelist and poet. Beckett's work is stark, fundamentally...
Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco

male, 77 years old
novelist, Semiotician, The Name of the Rose, medievalist, semiotics, Literary critic…postmodernist
Umberto Eco (born January 5, 1932) is an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher and novelist, best known for his novel "The Name of the...
Don Delillo

Don Delillo

male, 73 years old
novelist, Copywriters, 20th, postmodernist, Italian-American, from the Bronx
"I became a writer by living in New York and seeing and hearing and feeling all the great, amazing and dangerous things the city endlessly...
Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton

male, 66 years old
UK Socialist Workers Party member, British, Academic of the University of Manchester, cultural studies, Wadham College, Oxford, postmodernist
Terry Eagleton (born 22 February, 1943 in Salford, Lancashire (now Greater Manchester), England) is a British literary critic.
Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

male, deceased (1986)
writer, blind, El Aleph, H.G. Wells, Légion d'honneur recipient, Magic realism writer…postmodernist
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...