T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

male, deceased (1965)
Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26 1888 – January 4 1965), was a poet, dramatist and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize for Li...
Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

female, deceased (1941)
Virginia Woolf (née Stephen was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth c...
Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

male, deceased (1961)
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Nicknamed "Papa", he was part...
F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald

male, deceased (1940)
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American Jazz Age author of novels and short stories. He is regarded as one of the greatest twentieth century...
Max Planck

Max Planck

male, deceased (1947)
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was a German physicist. He is considered to be the founder of quantum theory, and therefore one of the most important...
Upton Sinclair

Upton Sinclair

male, deceased (1968)
Upton Sinclair Jr., was a prolific American author who wrote over 90 books in many genres and was widely considered to be one of the best...
Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman

male, 91 years old
Ernst Ingmar Bergman (born July 14, 1918) is a Swedish stage and film director who is one of the key film auteurs of the 20th century.
Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin

male, deceased (1985)
Philip Arthur Larkin, CH, CBE, FRSL, (9 August 1922 - 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist and jazz critic. He spent his working life as...
Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope

male, deceased (1882)
Anthony Trollope became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of Trollope's best-loved...
Northrop Frye

Northrop Frye

male, deceased (1991)
Herman Northrop Frye, CC, MA (Oxon), DD, D.Litt., FRSC (July 14, 1912 - January 23, 1991), a Canadian, was one of the most distinguished literary...