Ralph Ellison (1 March, 1914 – 16 April, 1994) was an award winning novelist, critic and scholar known for his novel Invisible Man.
Bernard DeVoto was an American writer, historian, editor, and teacher. Mr. DeVoto is remembered as a champion of public land conversation and civil liberties.
Rebecca West (21 December, 1892 – 15 March, 1983) was a British journalist, author and travel writer, called “indisputably the world’s number one woman writer”.
American author Shirley Jackson (14 December, 1916 -8 August, 1965) born on this day. She is best known for her excellent short story The Lottery.
Pulitzer prize winning American author Willa Cather (7 December, 1873 – 24, April, 1947) s associated with the pioneer spirit, she lived most of her life in NYC
Jonathan Swift was an English satirist, essayist, poet, and pamphleteer. Mr. Swift is remembered for his prose and satire in works like Gulliver’s Travels.
Shaun Herron (23 November, 1912 – 1989) is an Irish novelist, a finalist of the Edgar Award. He was born in Carrickfergus in County Antrim, Ireland.
George S. Kaufman (16 November, 1889 – 2 June, 1961) was a was a professional journalist writing humor columns, playwright, humorist and critic
Odysseas Elytis (2 November, 1911 – 18 March, 1996) was a Greek poet, Program Director of the Greek National Radio Foundation, and a 1979 Nobel Prize laureate.
Charles Sprague as an American poet often known as the “Banker Poet of Boston”. He won the best prologue prize at the 1811 opening of the Park Theater, NYC
