The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people in Literature,
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Patricia Garfield
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Overall Influence
1934 - Present (92 years)
Patricia L. Garfield was an American academic specializing in the study of dreams, specifically the cognitive processes underpinning them. She was the author of 10 books covering a broad range of dream topics. These topics include: nightmares, children’s dreams, healing through dreams and dream-related art. Her best-known work is “Creative Dreaming.” Originally published in 1974 it was revised and reprinted again in 1995. She holds a Ph.D in psychology from Temple University.
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Jean Roudaut
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Overall Influence
1929 - Present (97 years)
Jean Roudaut is a French writer and professor of French literature who taught in the universities of Thessaloniki, Pisa, and Fribourg. He was born in Morlaix on 1 June 1929. Bibliography 1964: Michel Butor ou le livre futur, proposition, Éditions Gallimard1967: Trois villes orientées, passage, Gallimard1968: La Chambre, parenthèse, Gallimard1971: Poètes et grammairiens au XVIIIe, anthologie, Gallimard1974: Les Prisons, novel, Gallimard1978: Autre part, paysages d’accompagnement, Gallimard1978: Aître, Orange Exp.1980: Ce qui nous revient, relais critique, Gallimard, Prix Broquette-Gonin of the...
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Peter Turner
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Overall Influence
1947 - 2005 (58 years)
Peter Turner was a photographer, curator, and writer. He was the longest-serving editor of Creative Camera. Life and work Turner was born in London on 3 February 1947. He studied photography at Guildford School of Art between 1965 and 1968.
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Nora-Eugenie Gomringer
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Overall Influence
1980 - Present (46 years)
Nora-Eugenie Gomringer is a German and Swiss poet and writer. She has won a number of awards, including the 2013 Literaturpreis des Kulturkreises der deutschen Wirtschaft, the 2015 Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis and the Carl Zuckmayer Medal by Rhineland-Palatinate.
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Malcolm Ross
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Overall Influence
1911 - 2002 (91 years)
Malcolm Mackenzie Ross, was a notable Canadian literary critic. Education Born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, the son of Cora Elizabeth Hewitson and Charles Duff Ross, Ross attended Fredericton High School before receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Philosophy from the University of New Brunswick in 1933. He received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Toronto in 1934 and a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1941.
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Daniel Smith
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Overall Influence
1977 - Present (49 years)
Daniel Smith is an American journalist and author of the 2012 book Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety. He has written articles and essays for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Slate, n+1, Harper's Magazine, New York, and others.
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Pieter Steinz
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Overall Influence
1963 - 2016 (53 years)
Pieter Steinz was a Dutch journalist, literary critic and non-fiction author. From 2012 to 2015 he was director of the Nederlands Letterenfonds. Bibliography 1991 Meneer Van Dale Wacht Op Antwoord en andere schoolse rijtjes en ezelsbruggetjes2002 Reis om de wereld in 80 hits 2002 Drumeiland. Een bedevaart naar Bob Marley's geboorte-eiland Jamaica2003 Lezen &cetera. Gids voor de wereldliteratuur 2004 Lezen op locatie. Atlas van de wereldliteratuur2006 Klein cultureel woordenboek van de wereldliteratuur 2006 Elk boek wil muziek zijn. Lezen & luisteren in schema’s, thema’s en citaten 2007 Het web van de wereldliteratuur.
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Dorothy J. Thompson
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Overall Influence
1939 - Present (87 years)
Dorothy Joan Thompson, is an ancient historian and classicist who specialises in the culture and society of Hellenistic Egypt, the early Hellenistic world, and documentary papyrology. Career In her research and writing Thompson employs the evidence of papyri to look at social and economic questions; she is further concerned with relations between the different ethnic groups of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt. She has taught extensively at Cambridge with a visiting professorship in 1996 at Princeton University. She was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in 1982–1983 as well as a Fellow of the National Humanities Center, North Carolina in 1993–1994.
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Joop Klant
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Overall Influence
1915 - 1994 (79 years)
Jacobus Johannes Klant , was a Dutch economist, novelist and professor of political economy at the University of Amsterdam. Biography His parents were Pieter Klant en Geertje de Moor. He studied economics at the University of Amsterdam. In the late 1930s he broke off his studies to succeed his deceased father, who had been paymaster of the vegetable auction in Warmenhuizen. Later in 1954 he completed his studies in economics. Again twenty years later in 1973, he published his PhD thesis entitled "Spelregels voor Economen" . This methodological treatise attracted much attention and was honored...
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Margaret Scott
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Overall Influence
1934 - 2005 (71 years)
Margaret Daphne Scott was an Australian author, poet, comedian, educator and public intellectual. Background Margaret, her first husband, playwright Michael Boddy and her first son, Daniel, migrated to Tasmania from the United Kingdom in 1959. Two more children, Kate and Marcus, were born in Tasmania. From 1979, she lived with legal scholar Michael Scott and had her final child, Sarah, as well as becoming the step mother to Jane, Christian and Katharine Scott. In 1978, Margaret received her PhD from the University of Tasmania, and was head of the English department at the university until 1989.
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Peter Jones
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Overall Influence
1920 - 2000 (80 years)
Peter Geoffrey Francis Jones was an English actor, screenwriter and broadcaster. Early life and early career Peter Jones, born in Wem, Shropshire, was educated at Wem Grammar School and Ellesmere College, making his first appearance as an actor in Wolverhampton at the age of 16 and then appeared in repertory theatre in East Anglia. In 1942 he acted on the West End stage in The Doctor's Dilemma and in 1942 he made an uncredited film appearance in Fanny by Gaslight. An early film credit was as a Xenobian trade delegate in Chance of a Lifetime .
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K. K. Talwar
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Overall Influence
1946 - Present (80 years)
Kewal Kishan Talwar is an Indian cardiologist, medical academic and writer, and a former chairman of the Medical Council of India. He is a former director of the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research and is reported to have performed the first implantation of Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapy in South Asia. He is also credited with the introduction of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy in India. He is a recipient of several honours including B. C. Roy Award, the highest Indian award in the medical category. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 2006, for his contributions to medicine.
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Lucia Prauscello
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Lucia Prauscello is a Classicist who works on Greek Philology and Literature. She is a professor at the University of Oxford. Education Prauscello completed her undergraduate degree at Pisa University in 1999, followed by a postgraduate degree at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa in 2003.
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Samantha Harvey
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Overall Influence
1975 - Present (51 years)
Samantha Harvey is an English novelist. She is the author of several critically acclaimed novels and has been shortlisted for various literary prizes. Education Harvey completed the Bath Spa University Creative Writing MA course in 2005, and has also completed a postgraduate course in philosophy and a PhD in creative writing.
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Billy C. Clark
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Overall Influence
1928 - 2009 (81 years)
Billy Curtis Clark was an American author of 11 books and many poems and short stories, heavily influenced by his childhood growing up in poverty in Kentucky. Biography Clark was born December 29, 1928, and grew up in Catlettsburg in Eastern Kentucky during the Great Depression; He was a second cousin of writer Jesse Stuart. He had three brothers and four sisters, and was born to a mother who would wash clothes for extra income, while his father was a shoemaker who bragged of having made it to the second grade. He was living on his own by the time he was 11 years old, doing work to pay for high school, while living in a courthouse building.
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Lindon W. Barrett
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Overall Influence
1961 - 2008 (47 years)
Lindon W. Barrett Ph.D. was a literary and cultural theorist, professor and director of African studies at the University of California, Irvine. Biography Barrett was born in Guyana to Dorothy and Leslie Barrett, later moving to England at the age of one. Five years later, the family moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Studying at both the University of Manitoba and York University in Toronto, Barrett received his undergraduate B.A. in 1983. Working toward his graduate degree at the University of Denver, he received his master's degree in 1986. Moving forward with his education, Lindon began work at the University of Pennsylvania in order to achieve his Ph.D., which he was awarded in 1990.
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Obioma Nnaemeka
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Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Obioma Nnaemeka is a Nigerian-American academic. She is the Chancellor’s Professor of French at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis. Education Born in Agulu, Nigeria, Nnaemeka earned her BA from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where she studied African Studies, French and German. In 1989 she obtained her PhD in French and Francophone studies from the University of Minnesota.
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Andriy Valentynov
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Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Andriy Valentynov / Andrey Valentinov is the pen name of a Ukrainian Russian-speaking science/fantasy fiction writer Andriy Valentynovych Shmalko. Valentinov is a distinguished Ukrainian historian and archaeologist and works as an associate professor at Ukrainian studies department of Kharkiv National University. He resides in Kharkiv, Ukraine, and writes in Russian. Valentinov collaborates with other Russophone Ukrainian writers, such as H. L. Oldie and Marina and Sergey Dyachenko.
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Hwang Seon-mi
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Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
Hwang Seon-mi is a South Korean author and professor who is best known for her fable The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly, which has also been made into a successful animated film in South Korea, Leafie, A Hen into the Wild.
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Devon J. Moore
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Overall Influence
1982 - Present (44 years)
Devon Jean Moore is an American poet and author. Biography Moore a native of Buffalo, NY, USA. She currently lives in Syracuse, NY, USA where she teaches writing at Syracuse University and SUNY Oswego. A former Syracuse University Fellow, she has an MFA in creative writing from Syracuse University.
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Jennifer Natalya Fink
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Overall Influence
Jennifer Natalya Fink is an American author working in experimental feminist and queer fiction. She is best known for her novels Burn, V, and The Mikvah Queen, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2010. Her novel, Bhopal Dance , won the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize in 2017.
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James Graham
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Overall Influence
1982 - Present (44 years)
James Graham is a British playwright and screenwriter. His work has been staged throughout the UK and internationally, at theatres including the Bush, Soho Theatre, Clwyd Theatr Cymru and the National Theatre.
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Matthew Pateman
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Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
Matthew Pateman is Professor of Popular Aesthetics and has worked as Head of Department at Kingston and Sheffield Hallam universities, and is now at Edge Hill University. Pateman received his Ph.D. from the University of Leeds where he wrote a thesis on the fiction of Julian Barnes. During his time at the University he was an active member of the School of English's graduate community and had his own weekly column on the books pages of the student paper, Leeds Student. Having taught as a postgraduate tutor at Leeds, in 1994 he was appointed a lecturer at the Scarborough unit of the University of Hull.
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Doris Davenport
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Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
Doris Davenport, sometimes styled as doris davenport , is a writer, educator, and literary and performance poet. She wrote an essay featured in This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color entitled "The Pathology of Racism: A Conversation with Third World Wimmin." She also focuses her efforts on poetry and education.
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Cecilia Galante
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Overall Influence
1971 - Present (55 years)
Cecilia Galante is a twenty-first century American author. Background Galante has a BA from King's College in Pennsylvania, and an MFA in creative writing from Goddard College in Vermont. Prior to becoming a successful author, she taught high school English and wrote a monthly book column for the Times Leader newspaper. In 2011, at a fundraising event for St. Martin's Ministry , Ms. Galante revealed that she was "once a needy mother with an infant daughter in a battered women’s shelter.”
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Michael Anania
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Overall Influence
1939 - Present (87 years)
Michael Anania is an American poet, novelist, and essayist. His modernist poetry meticulously evokes Midwestern prairies and rivers. His autobiographical novel, Red Menace, captured mid-twentieth century cold war angst and the colloquial speech of Nebraska, while the voice in his volumes of poetry distinctively reflects rural and urban Midwestern life in a "mixture of personal voice, historical fact, journalistic observation and a haiku-like format that pares lines down to the bare bones and pushes language to its limit."
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Kim Deitch
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Overall Influence
1944 - Present (82 years)
Kim Deitch is an American cartoonist who was an important figure in the underground comix movement of the 1960s, remaining active in the decades that followed with a variety of books and comics, sometimes using the pseudonym Fowlton Means.
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Agnes Bushell
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Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
Agnes Bushell is an American fiction writer and teacher. She has published steadily since her work first appeared in print in the mid-1970s. She is the author of fourteen novels and innumerable essays and book reviews most of which have appeared in Maine newspapers and publications, including Down East Magazine. She has taught literature and writing at Maine College of Art, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the University of Southern Maine, and lives in Portland, Maine with her husband, James Bushell, a criminal defense lawyer.
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Caroline Aherne
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Overall Influence
1963 - 2016 (53 years)
Caroline Mary Aherne was an English actress, comedian, writer, producer and director. She was best known for performing as the acerbic chat show host Mrs Merton, in various roles in The Fast Show, and as Denise in The Royle Family , a series which she co-wrote. She won BAFTA awards for her work on The Mrs Merton Show and The Royle Family.
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Terry Locke
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Overall Influence
1946 - Present (80 years)
Terry James Locke is a New Zealand poet, anthologist, poetry reviewer and academic. Background Terry Locke was born in Auckland and grew up in the suburb of Sandringam, the youngest of three children. He attended St Peter's College where he was in the same class as Sam Hunt and was taught "for two important senior years" by K O Arvidson. He was dux of the college in 1964 and in 1965 was awarded a Junior National University Scholarship. In 1965 Locke attended Holy Name Seminary in Christchurch and then commenced a degree in English and Mathematics at Auckland University, eventually completing a PhD in English.
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Jen Hofer
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Overall Influence
1971 - Present (55 years)
Jen Hofer is an American poet, translator, and interpreter. Awards Hofer won the 2012 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, for the poem Negro Marfil/Ivory Black. The PEN Award judges refer to Hofer's translation of Negro Marfil/Ivory Black as a work that "articulates writing as a gesture hovering between binaries, bodies, languages, modes of perception, cultures...[and is] reflexively about translation.
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Jean-Charles Darmon
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Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
Jean-Charles Darmon is a French literary critic born in 1961. Biography After entering the École Normale Supérieure in 1982, his first teaching post was at Amherst College . While a fellow of the Fondation Thiers, he completed his thesis titled Philosophie épicurienne et littérature au xviie siècle en France : études sur Gassendi, Cyrano de Bergerac, La Fontaine, Saint-Évremond , concerning the heterodox currents of thought in classical France.
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John Strachan
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Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
John Strachan is a literary critic, historian and poet, Professor of English and Pro Vice-Chancellor at Bath Spa University, England. Strachan is the current Director of GuildHE Research and Co-Chair of the Charles Lamb Society. He is Associate Editor of the Oxford Companion to English Literature. Strachan has previously held professorships at Northumbria University and the University of Sunderland. Educated at the University of Southampton and Wolfson College, Oxford . Strachan specialises in Romanticism, especially late Georgian comic writing
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Ann Townsend
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Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Ann Townsend is an American poet and essayist. She is the co-founder of VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts and a professor of English and director of the creative writing at Denison University, She has published three original poetry collections and co-edited a collection of lyric poems.
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Hartmut Steinecke
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Overall Influence
1940 - 2020 (80 years)
Hartmut Steinecke was a German literary critic and university lecturer. Life Born in Nürnberg, Steinecke studied history and philosophy at the Universität des Saarlandes and the University of Bonn, where he received his doctorate in 1966 with a thesis about Hermann Broch. From 1967 to 1973 he was a research assistant at the German Department of the University of Bonn, where he habilitated in 1973 with a thesis on Romantic theory and criticism in Germany. In 1974 he became professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Paderborn. He taught there until his retirement in 2005.
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Gareth Alban Davies
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Overall Influence
1926 - 2009 (83 years)
Gareth Alban Davies was a Welsh poet, educator and Hispanist who was Cowdray Professor of Spanish at the University of Leeds. Davies translated many Spanish texts into English and Welsh, and was a noted expert on the works of Fernando Arrabal and Federico García Lorca.
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Michael McDowell
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Overall Influence
1950 - 1999 (49 years)
Michael McEachern McDowell was an American novelist and screenwriter described by author Stephen King as "the finest writer of paperback originals in America today". His best-known work is the screenplay for the Tim Burton film Beetlejuice.
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Madison U. Sowell
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Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Madison U. Sowell was appointed provost and vice president of academic affairs at Tusculum University in June 2018. Early life, education, and vita Sowell was born and reared in Piggott, Arkansas, where he still owns and maintains family cotton and rice farms. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when he was 17, shortly before beginning his undergraduate studies in the BYU Honors Program. He then served a mission in the Italy North Mission .
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Diana Der Hovanessian
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Overall Influence
1934 - 2018 (84 years)
Diana Der Hovanessian , Armenian American poet, translator, and author. Much of the subject of her poetry was about Armenia and the Armenian diaspora. She wrote and published over twenty-five books. Life and career Diana Der Hovanessian was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, to an Armenian family. She received her education at Boston University, majoring in English, and then continued her education at Harvard University, studying under Robert Lowell. She became an American literature professor at Yerevan State University, and twice a Fulbright Professor of Armenian Poetry. She led many worksho...
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Mikhail German
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Overall Influence
1933 - 2018 (85 years)
Mikhail Yurievich German was a Soviet and Russian writer, art historian, doctor of art criticism, professor, and member of the International Association of Art Critics , International Council of Museums , International PEN Club, Union of Russian Writers, Union of Journalists of St. Petersburg and the International Federation of Journalists . He was a leading researcher at the Russian Museum.
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Ralph Brown
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Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Ralph William John Brown is an English actor and writer, known for playing Danny the drug dealer in Withnail and I, the security guard Aaron in Alien 3, DJ Bob Silver in The Boat That Rocked aka Pirate Radio, super-roadie Del Preston in Wayne's World 2, the pilot Ric Olié in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, and Henry Clinton in Turn: Washington's Spies. He won the Samuel Beckett Award for his first play Sanctuary written for Joint Stock Theatre Company in 1987, and the Raindance and Sapporo Film Festival awards for his first screenplay for the British film New Year's Day in 2001.
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Michelle Hoover
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Overall Influence
Michelle Hoover is an American writer and college instructor. She is the author of The Quickening, a 2010 novel. Biography She was born in Ames, Iowa, but currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts. She was selected as the Philip Roth Writer-in-Residence at Bucknell University. She was a MacDowell Fellow from the MacDowell Colony. She has taught writing at Boston University and, since 2014, teaches at Brandeis University as the Fannie Hurst writer-in-residence. She also teaches at GrubStreet, where she co-founded the Novel Incubator program. She has an MFA from University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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Kathy Fagan
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Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Kathy Fagan Grandinetti is an American poet. Biography Fagan earned a B.A. in English from California State University, Fresno in 1980. She holds an M.F.A. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from the University of Utah. She teaches at Ohio State University. Her poems have appeared in AGNI, The Paris Review, FIELD, The Kenyon Review, Slate, Ploughshares, The New Republic, Shenandoah and The Missouri Review.
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Zofia Agnieszka Kłakówna
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Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Zofia Agnieszka Kłakówna is a Polish philologist, educational theorist, academic, schoolteacher of Polish language with practice at all levels of school teaching and author of school textbooks. A lecturer at the Pedagogical Academy in Kraków and the Jan Długosz Academy in Częstochowa , a teacher of Polish language at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg , she also worked as a teacher and director of the Polish School in Rabat, Morocco . She was the editor-in-chief of a methodical journal for Polish language teachers Wisełka, later renamed Ojczyzna Polszczyzna and Nowa Polszczyzna...
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Betsy Prioleau
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Overall Influence
Betsy Prioleau is an American author and cultural historian. Prioleau's books include Swoon: Great Seducers and Why Women Love Them and Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love, and Diamonds and Deadlines: A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and A Female Tycoon in the Gilded Age.
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John Shirley
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Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
John Shirley is an American writer, primarily of horror, fantasy, science fiction, dark street fiction, westerns, and songwriting. He has also written one historical novel, a western about Wyatt Earp, Wyatt in Wichita, and one non-fiction book, Gurdjieff: An Introduction to His Life and Ideas. Shirley has written novels, short stories, TV scripts and screenplays—including The Crow—and has published over 84 books including 10 short-story collections. As a musician, Shirley has fronted his own bands and written lyrics for Blue Öyster Cult and others. His newest novels are Stormland and Axle Bus...
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Heinrich Tiefenbach
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Overall Influence
1944 - 2021 (77 years)
Heinrich Tiefenbach is a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies Biography Heinrich Tiefenbach was born in Orsoy, Germany on 17 September 1944. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Bonn in 1970, and completed his habilitation at the University of Münster in 1984. Until his retirement, Tiefenbach was Professor of German Philology at the Institute for Germanic Studies at the University of Regensburg.
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Cordelia Gundolf
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Overall Influence
1917 - 2008 (91 years)
Cordelia Gundolf was an Italian Language educator in Australia, and an expert in Italian Literature, publishing a number of works on the topic. Background Born in Munich, Germany on 31 November 1917, Gundolf came from a famous literary family, being the daughter of Friedrich Gundolf and godchild of Melchior Lechter, a noted graphic artist. She originally worked in Rome as a translator. Gundolf's grandfather was Jewish; her mother was concerned this would make problems for the family following Adolf Hitler's accession to power in Germany, so she asked Albert Einstein, a family friend for advice.
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David Rivard
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Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
David Rivard is an American poet. He is the author of seven books including Wise Poison, winner the 1996 James Laughlin Award, and Standoff, winner the 2017 PEN New England Award in Poetry. He is also a Professor of English Creative Writing in the Masters of Fine Arts program at the University of New Hampshire.
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Stephen D. Behrendt
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Stephen D. Behrendt is a historian at Victoria University Wellington who specialises in the transatlantic slave trade. He earned his MA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin. His updating of James A. Rawley's The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History, originally published by Norton in 1981, was published by University of Nebraska Press in 2005. In 2010, he co-edited an edition of The Diary of Antera Duke, an Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader with A. J. H. Latham and David Northrup.
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