Pablo Neruda - Biography and Works
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) Chilean poet and diplomat, was educated at the University of Chile. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.
Navarre Scott Momaday - Biography and Works
Navarre Scott Momaday is an American novelist, memoirist, and poet, who work in broad fields of Navy American history and cultural narrative. The range of Momaday’s works is underscored by his ability to fuse the experiences of opposing cultures in his writings, which convey a Native American world view founded on the principle of harmony in the universe. Born in Lawton, Oklahoma, Momaday is a member of the Kiowa tribe. He was educated at Stanford University.
Michael Ondaatje - Biography and Works
Michael Ondaatje is a Canadian writer and filmmaker whose novel The English Patient (1992) was co-winner of the 1992 Booker Prize, the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary award. Ondaatje was the first Canadian to receive the prize. Ondaatje was born in Colombo, Sri Lank, the fourth child of a privileged family of Dutch, Tamil, and Sinhalese origin.
May Swenson - Biography and Works
May Swenson is an American lyric poet noted for her clearly defined imagery. Swenson was born in Logan, Utah. After graduating from Utah State University in Logan, she worked as an editor and was writer-in-residence at Purdue University in Indiana from 1966 to 1967.
Margaret Atwood - Biography and Works
Margaret Atwood is a Canadian poet, novelist, and critic, whose works often feature women examining their relationships and society. Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa, Ontario. She received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Toronto in 1961 and a master’s degree from Radcliffe College in 1962.
Louis Simpson - Biography and Works
Louis Simpson (1923-2012) immigrated to the United States from Jamaica at the age of seventeen. He joined the US Army during the Second World War, after which he earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University. He then taught in California and also in Long Island, where he has lived since 1967. Although his early books are written in traditional metrical forms, he started writing in free-verse in the early sixties.
Louise Bogan - Biography and Works
Bogan (1897-1970) an American writer was educated at Boston University. She was the regular poetry reviewer for The New Yorker from 1931 to 1968, and in 1951 published the highly regarded Achievement in American Poetry 1900-1951.
Lord Byron - Biography and Works
George Gordon Noel, Sixth Baron Byron is known as Lord Byron. Byron was born in London on January 22, 1788, and educated at Harrow School and the University of Cambridge. One of the most important and versatile writers of the romantic Movement, Byron is also taken as an embodiment of the romantic spirit, in his own quixotic lifestyle; he is now mostly remembered for the contribution of his romantic hero Don Juan as a model of romantic to world literature.
Linda Pastan - Biography and Works
Linda Pastan was born in 1932 to a Jewish family in Bronx. Patsan was graduated from Radcliff College and received her M.A. from Brandeis University. Patsan won the Mademoiselle Poetry Prize when she was in her senior class at Radcliff College.
Langston Hughes - Biography and Works
James Langston Hughes born in Missouri is a major figure of the Harlem Renaissance. He led a nomadic life in the U.S. and Europe until he began his prolific literary career with The Weary Blues published in 1926, poems on black themes in jazz rhythms and idiom, whose success made possible his college career at Lincoln University, Pennsylvania.