William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's…
Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts …
Emily Dickinson was an American poet who, despite the fact that less than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime, is widely considered one of the most original…
Flinty, moody, plainspoken and deep, Robert Frost was one of America's most popular 20th-century poets. Frost was farming in Derry, New Hampshire when, at the age of 38, he sold the farm, uprooted his…
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE, was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 40 years after his death. D…
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford — also known as Horace Walpole — was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician. He is now largely remembered for Strawberry Hill, th…
Shirley Jackson was an influential American author. A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years. She has influenced such writers as S…
Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Am…
Father of Italian Popular Culture, Grandfather of the Spaghetti Western, Father of Heroes are but three of the titles bestowed upon Italian adventure writer Emilio Salga…
Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, often referred to as A.K. Tolstoy (Russian: Алексей Константинович Толстой), was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright, considered to be the most important nin…
Karel Čapek is one of the the most influential Czech writers of the 20th century. He wrote with intelligence and humour on a wide variety of subjects. His works are known for their interesting and pre…
Karel Jaromír Erben was a Czech historian, poet and writer of the mid-19th century, best known for his collection "Kytice", which contains poems based on traditional and folkloric themes.
Irvin David Yalom, M.D., is an author of fiction and nonfiction, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, an existentialist, and accomplished psychotherapist.
Viktor Dyk was a nationalist Czech poet, prose writer, playwright, politician and political writer. He was sent to jail during the First World War for opposing the Austro-Hungarian empire. He was one …
O M. Kαραγάτσης (πραγματικό όνομα Δημήτρης Pοδόπουλος) γεννήθηκε το 1908 στην Aθήνα. Tο αινιγματικό αρχικό M. λέγεται πώς προέρχεται από το όνομα Mίτια, έκφραση της αγάπης του …
Ο Πέτρος Χατζόπουλος, όπως είναι το πραγματικό όνομα του Αύγουστου Κορτώ (English: Auguste Corteau), γεννήθηκε το 1979 στη Θεσσαλονίκη. Έχει εκδώσει διηγήματα, μυθιστορήματα, ποιήματα, νουβέλες, κριτι…
5 Şubat 1975'te Manisa'da doğan Saygın Ersin öğretmen bir anne babanın çocuğu olarak dünyaya gelmiştir. Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Sosyoloji bölümünden mezun olan yazar, kısa bir gazetecilik deneyi…
M. Karagatsis (Greek: Μ. Καραγάτσης) is the pen name of the Greek novelist, journalist, critic and playwright Dimitris Rodopoulos. He was born in Athens, lived in Larissa and studied law in France. Th…
Samuel Guy Endore (4 July 1900 - 12 February 1970), born Samuel Goldstein and also known as Harry Relis, was a novelist and screenwriter. During his career he produced a wide array of novels, screenpl…
Minos Efstathiadis (Greek: Μίνως Ευσταθιάδης) studied Law in Athens and in Hannover. He gave up (probably not soon enough) being a lawyer for windsurfing and writing.
