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List of the most influential people in Literature,

#6151

Ananya Jahanara Kabir

#171977

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Ananya Jahanara Kabir is an Indian literary scholar. She studied literature at the University of Calcutta, University of Oxford, and Cambridge University, and has taught at the University of Leeds and King's College London. She is the author of numerous research papers and she has published several books. Her prizes include the Infosys Prize for humanities in 2017, and the Humboldt Prize in 2018. Kabir was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2023.

#6152

Tamara Bower

#143633

Overall Influence

Tamara Bower is an American archaeological illustrator and children's author. She has worked as a staff illustrator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and as a technical illustrator for archaeological digs in Egypt, Turkey, Spain, Belize, and California, and is also the author/illustrator of three children's books set in ancient Egypt. She lives in New York, NY.

#6153

Danielle Cadena Deulen

#104417

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

Danielle Cadena Deulen is an American poet, essayist, and academic. She is also the host of the Literary radio program and podcast Lit from the Basement. Biography Danielle Cadena Deulen was born and raised in Portland, Oregon to Daniel Deulen and Cecilia Cadena. She is half-Latinx on her mother's side. Much of her early life is explored in her personal essay collection, The Riots.

#6154

Shann Ray

#134334

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Shann Ray is an American poet, novelist, and scholar of forgiveness. He writes poetry and literary fiction under the name Shann Ray in honor of his mother Saundra Rae, and social science as Shann Ray Ferch. He is the author of the novel American Copper , American Masculine: Stories , Forgiveness and Power in the Age of Atrocity , Blood Fire Vapor Smoke: Stories , Sweetclover: Poems , Atomic Theory 7: Poems and Balefire: Poems . He is also the editor with Larry C. Spears of Conversations on Servant Leadership: Insights on Human Courage in Life and Work and The Spirit of Servant Leadership ...

#6155

James R. Kincaid

#135778

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

James R. Kincaid is an American academic, currently the Aerol Arnold Professor of English at the University of Southern California. His Erotic Innocence discusses the sexualization of children in mainstream culture.

#6156

Jin Eun-young

#171176

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Jin Eun-young is a South Korean poet and philosopher. She has been praised by the poet Choi Seung-ja, who said “I’ve finally found a poet whom I can call my true successor." Life Jin Eun-young was born in Daejeon, South Korea in 1970. She received her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in philosophy at Ewha Womans' University. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on Nichewa chaiui cheorak . She made her literary debut when "Keodaran changoga itneun jip" and three of her other poems were published in the 2000 Spring issue of Literature and Society. She has three poetry collections published to date: Ilgop gaeui daneoro dwen sajeon , Urineun maeilmaeil , and Humcheoganeun norae .

#6157

Zygmunt Kubiak

#169360

Overall Influence

1929 - 2004 (75 years)

Zygmunt Kubiak was a Polish writer, essayist, translator, propagator of the antique culture, and professor at the University of Warsaw. His book Mitologia Greków i Rzymian was shortlisted for the Nike Award in 1998.

#6158

Margaret Gibson

#171398

Overall Influence

1944 - 2006 (62 years)

Margaret Gibson is an American poet. Life Margaret Gibson grew up in Richmond, Virginia, and was educated at Hollins College, and the University of Virginia. She went to Yaddo in 1975. Gibson is Professor Emerita at The University of Connecticut.

#6159

Foster Fitzsimmons

#135810

Overall Influence

1912 - 1991 (79 years)

Foster Fitz-Simons was an American dancer, novelist, and teacher. He was a member of the first all-male dance company in the US, Ted Shawn's Male Dancers. He left Ted Shawn's company to form a partnership with Miriam Winslow; they performed together for many years, appearing with the Boston, Detroit, and Toronto Symphonies as well as at the Guild Theatre in New York City and at the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center. They toured South America for five months in 1941.

#6160

George Avery

#108815

Overall Influence

1927 - 2004 (77 years)

George Avery was an American professor of German Studies at Swarthmore College. Life After growing up in the Greek immigrant community of Philadelphia, he served in Germany as a soldier during World War II. His experience in Germany led to his deep interest in German culture. Immediately after the war, he participated in humanitarian efforts in Finland and Greece. After returning to the United States, he studied German at the University of Pennsylvania. He obtained his B.A. and M.A. there, as well as his Ph.D.

#6161

Akira Sasō

#145126

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Akira Sasō is a Japanese manga artist and educator. He has won a Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and two Japan Media Arts Awardss, the latter for his manga Shindō and Maestro . Biography Sasō was born in Takarazuka, Hyōgo, Japan, in 1961. He completed his secondary education at Ikeda Senior High School in Osaka, then attended the Faculty of Literature at Waseda University, graduating in 1984. That year he made his debut in manga with Shiroi shiroi natsu yanen, which was published in seinen oriented Young Magazine in 1984. By the late 1990s he had finished such works as Busy Love and .

#6162

Brikt Jensen

#177784

Overall Influence

1928 - 2011 (83 years)

Brikt Jensen was a Norwegian publisher, writer, journal editor, professor who also hosted a popular TV program about literature. Jensen was born in Bergen, and was made a PhD in 1964 with a thesis on François Mauriac's Ormebolet. He was editor for the literary magazine Vinduet from 1964 to 1969. He was manager for the publishing house Gyldendal Norsk Forlag from 1970 to 1980, and senior consultant from 1980 to 1993. From 1984 to 1990 he also presented the television program Bokstavelig talt for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, and from 1988 to 1992 he was a professor II in media studies at the University of Bergen.

#6163

Doina Cornea

#16951

Overall Influence

1929 - 2018 (89 years)

Doina Cornea was a Romanian human rights activist and French language professor. She was a dissident during the communist rule of Nicolae Ceaușescu. She was co-founder of the Democratic Anti-totalitarian Forum of Romania , as the first attempt to unify the democratic opposition to the post-communist government. This organization later transformed into the Romanian Democratic Convention , which brought Emil Constantinescu to power.

#6164

Gail Kern Paster

#122084

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Gail Kern Paster is an American Shakespeare scholar, historian and writer. Life She was born on 8 November 1944. Paster graduated from North Shore High School in 1962. She received her bachelor's degree from Smith College and her PhD from Yale University.

#6165

Michal Arbell-Tor

#171144

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Michal Arbel-Tor is a researcher of Israeli literature and a lecturer in Hebrew literature at Tel Aviv University. Childhood Arbel was born in Jerusalem, the daughter of Hana Arbel, a physicist, and Yehuda Arbel, a police officer and pilot. She attended the historic Rehavia Hebrew Gymnasium High School, served in the IDF as a clerk, and studied Hebrew literature and philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and graduated with a bachelor's degree with honors.

#6166

Peter Carravetta

#70965

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Peter Carravetta is an Italian philosopher, poet, literary theorist and translator. Works The Elusive Hermes. Method, Discourse, Interpreting Existenz delle voci The Sun and Other Things Linfinito Weak Thought, Gianni Vattimo, Translated by Peter Carravetta, SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy, 2012 Translation of Il pensiero debole, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1983

#6167

Abraham Wasserstein

#114197

Overall Influence

1921 - 1995 (74 years)

Abraham "Addi" Wasserstein was a German-born British and Israeli classicist, a professor of classics at the University of Leicester in the UK and then at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Early life Wasserstein was born in born Frankfurt am Main in Germany on 5 October 1921. His parents were Galician; his father was a raincoat manufacturer in Berlin. Wasserstein was educated at a Jewish school in Berlin, although his education was disrupted by the rise of Nazism in Germany. As a Jew his life was endangered due to the virulent antisemitism, and he was among those Jews expelled towards Poland on 28 October 1938.

#6168

Daniel Barbu

#29149

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Daniel-Constantin Barbu is a Romanian political scientist, publisher, essayist, journalist, and professor at the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Political Science. The head of the Research Institute at the University of Bucharest, and former dean of the Faculty, he was also director of Realitatea Românească, a daily newspaper, in 1991–1992. Barbu worked as a State Adviser for President Emil Constantinescu between 1997 and 1999. He is the author as of June 2007 of eight books and many more articles on political science, and a contributor to the magazine Sfera Politicii. He is also a membe...

#6169

Juan Pablo Plata Figueroa

Juan Pablo Plata Figueroa

#175608

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Juan Pablo Plata is a Colombian writer, journalist and researcher. Personal life Plata spent his childhood in Garzón . He graduated from the Emilio Valenzuela School in Bogotá. He started studying literature at the Universidad de los Andes, but finished his literary studies at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá with an emphasis in publishing.

#6170

Lori Jakiela

#74969

Overall Influence

Lori Jakiela is an American author of memoirs and poetry. She won Stanford University's William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for non-fiction for her third memoir, Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth Maybe, in 2016.

#6171

Tom Trusky

#150327

Overall Influence

1944 - 2009 (65 years)

Anthony Thomas Trusky was an American professor, writer, editor, film historian, and book artist. He was known for promoting poetry of the American West, recovering the films of Nell Shipman, and rediscovering and promoting the work of Idaho outsider artist James Castle. Trusky was a Professor of English at Boise State University and Director of the Hemingway Western Studies Center .

#6172

Anna Aguilar-Amat

#167403

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Anna Aguilar-Amat is a Catalan poet, translator, researcher and university professor in Terminology and Computational Linguistics. She writes primarily in Catalan but also has some work in Spanish . She has a PHD from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona where she now teaches Terminology applied to Translation at the Translation Faculty. She published five collections of poems and has received several awards for Catalan poetry. Her poetic work is present in several anthologies of Catalan poets and she has been translated into Spanish, English, French, Italian, Sardinian, Macedonian, Finnish, Arabian, Turkish, Greek, German and Slovenian.

#6173

Alison Donnell

#142199

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Alison Donnell is an academic, originally from the United Kingdom. She is Professor of Modern Literatures and Head of the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She was previously Head of School of Literature and Languages at the University of Reading, where she also founded the research theme "Minority Identities: Rights and Representations". Her primary research field is anglophone postcolonial literature, and she has been published widely on Caribbean and Black British literature. Much of her academic work also focuses questions relating to gender...

#6174

Dominic Thomas

#93348

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

For the British footballer, see Dominic Thomas. Dominic Thomas is a British academic. He is the Madeleine L. Letessier Professor and chair of the Department of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles . He is the author and editor of several books comparative literature and postcolonialism, with a focus on francophone African studies.

#6175

Dorothy Bush Koch

Dorothy Bush Koch

#13724

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Dorothy Walker Bush LeBlond Koch is an American author and philanthropist. She is the sixth and youngest child of the 41st president of the United States, George H. W. Bush, and First Lady Barbara Bush. Her older brother, George W. Bush was the 43rd President.

#6176

Kate Moira Ryan

#171225

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Kate Moira Ryan is an American playwright. Among the plays Ryan has worked on are Leaving Queens; The Beebo Brinker Chronicles, an adaptation of three books by Ann Bannon; Caveweller; and Bass for Picasso.

#6177

David L. Holmes

#38892

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

David L. Holmes was an American church historian. He was Walter G. Mason Professor of Religious Studies at the College of William and Mary. He was the son of David L. Holmes, a university coach and director of athletics revered by his athletes. He was married to Carolyn Coggin Holmes, executive director of James Monroe's Highland from 1975 to 2012. They had two daughters.

#6178

Ye Wenling

#107773

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Ye Wenling is a Chinese novelist. She was a member of the 6th, 7th and 8th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Biography Ye was born in Chumen Town, Yuhuan, Zhejiang, China in 1942. She has a brother, Ye Peng .

#6179

Ronna C. Johnson

#168100

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Ronna C. Johnson is a Professor of English at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. Johnson is an established authority on the Beat Generation. She has worked as a fiction editor for ASPECT magazine, Zephyr Press, and Dark Horse magazine. She is also the co-editor of the Journal of Beat Studies published by Pace University Press, a founding board member of the Beat Studies Association, and the co-editor of the Beat Studies book series published by Clemson University Press/Liverpool University Press.

#6180

Loren Reid

#134127

Overall Influence

1905 - 2014 (109 years)

Loren D. Reid was a communication professor and a writer. In addition to shorter terms of service with other universities, he had a 31-year career at the University of Missouri, including two terms as chair of the Department of Communication. He served in a number of professional organizations related to speech and communicating, including standing as the 43rd president of the National Communication Association. He lived to 109 years of age, making him a centenarian.

#6181

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

#170741

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas is an American writer and educator who is a professor at the University of Michigan School of Education. Her research considers children's literature and fan culture. Her book, The Dark Fantastic, was awarded the 2020 Children's Literature Association Book Award.

#6182

Alex Tizon

#38743

Overall Influence

1959 - 2017 (58 years)

Tomas Alexander Asuncion Tizon was a Filipino-American author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. His book Big Little Man, a memoir and cultural history, explores themes related to race, masculinity, and personal identity. Tizon taught at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. His final story, titled "My Family's Slave", was published as the cover story of the June 2017 issue of The Atlantic after his death, sparking significant debate.

#6183

Laura Moriarty

#106185

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Laura Moriarty is an American poet and novelist. Life and work Moriarty was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, grew up on Cape Cod in Massachusetts and has lived in Northern California since 1966. She attended Sacramento State University and the University of California at Berkeley in the 1970s. She was married to the poet Jerry Estrin until his death in 1993, and is currently married to the poet/librarian Nick Robinson.

#6184

Conrad Ludlow

#91638

Overall Influence

Conrad Ludlow is a former principal dancer with New York City Ballet under George Balanchine. He also danced at San Francisco Ballet and founded and directed Ballet Oklahoma . He is currently a professor at the University of Utah's ballet department. Several of Balanchine's works were created on Ludlow, including Emeralds, Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Ludlow partnered such dancers as Allegra Kent and Violette Verdy while at New York City Ballet.

#6185

Diana Gittins

#72574

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Diana Gittins , is a former associate lecturer in creative writing for the Open University and a published writer of fiction and non-fiction books. Gittins is the author of Madness in Its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital 1913-1997, which was adapted for broadcast for BBC Radio 4.

#6186

Glori Simmons

#159364

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Glori Simmons is an American poet, and short story writer. Simmons graduated from the University of Washington and from the University of Michigan with an MFA. She was a 2003 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

#6187

Bruce Robbins

#158455

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Bruce Robbins is an American literary scholar, author and an academic. He is the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

#6188

Wit Szostak

#112861

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Dobrosław Kot better known by his pen name Wit Szostak is a Polish fantasy writer, philosopher, and historian of Polish music folklore. He has published fourteen novels and numerous short stories. His 2008 short story Miasto grobów. Uwertura received the Janusz A. Zajdel Award.

#6189

Ruth L. Schwartz

#125307

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Ruth L. Schwartz is an American poet. Her most recent poetry collection is Dear Good Naked Morning . She graduated with a B.A. from Wesleyan University; an M.F.A. from the University of Michigan; and, a Ph.D. in Transpersonal Psychology from the University of Integrative Learning. The San Francisco Bay Area has been Ruth's chosen home since 1985; she has also traveled extensively in Latin America, and speaks fluent Spanish.

#6190

Michael Witmore

Michael Witmore

#111174

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Michael Witmore is a Shakespearean, scholar of rhetoric, digital humanist, and director of a library and cultural institution. In 2011, he was appointed the director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., where he continues to serve.

#6191

Diego Moldes

#74139

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Diego Moldes González is a Spanish writer, critic and film historian. Biography Born in Pontevedra, Spain, Diego Moldes is the author of 13 published books that are non-fiction, narrative and poetry. In twenty years, between 2004 and 2023, he has published thirteen books.

#6192

Charlie Smith

#142957

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Charlie Smith is a poet and novelist. He has written seven novels and seven books of poetry. He has won the Aga Khan Prize, the Levinson prize, the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. His writing has appeared in magazines and journals such as The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Harper's, The New Republic, the New York Times, and The Nation. He lives in New York City and Key West.

#6193

Mary Cappello

#171545

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Mary Cappello is a writer and professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Rhode Island. She is the author of five books of literary nonfiction, and her essays and experimental prose have been published in The Georgia Review, Salmagundi and Cabinet Magazine. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Salon, The Huffington Post, in guest author blogs for Powell's Books, and on six separate occasions as Notable Essay of the Year in Best American Essays. A 2011 Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts/Nonfiction, she recently received a 2015 Berlin Prize from The American Acade...

#6194

Anne Winters

#121066

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Anne Winters is an American poet, leftist, and professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Having received an early university education at both New York University and Columbia University in New York City, where she was born and raised, she went on to complete her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. She has studied, in various schools, under the well-known American poets Allen Tate, Randall Jarrell and Robert Lowell. She currently teaches British literature, the Bible , and graduate courses in translation and poetry.

#6195

Robin Gerster

#155699

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Robin Gerster is an Australian author who was born in Melbourne and educated in Melbourne and Sydney. Formerly a Professor in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Gerster has written prolifically on the cultural histories of war and travel, and on Western representations of Japan. As a postgraduate, he won the Australian War Memorial's inaugural C.E.W. Bean Scholarship, for a research project on Australian war literature. The PhD thesis that emerged from this research was subsequently published as Big-noting: The Heroic Theme in Australian War Writing, which remains the landmark study in its field.

#6196

Ron Terpening

#172639

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Ron Terpening is an American writer, professor of Italian, and editor. Though he started his writing career as an author of young-adult fiction, where the father/son conflict is a major theme, he is best known for his later novels of suspense, most of which are set, at least in part, in Italy, reflecting his academic background as a scholar of Italian culture. His thriller League of Shadows, for example, deals with the Fascist Era in Italy and its aftermath in the contemporary world. A later international thriller, Nine Days in October, came out of the author's course research on the forces ...

#6197

Inés Marful

#177402

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Inés Marful , also known as Inés Marful Amor, is a Spanish scholar, writer, and visual artist from Asturias, known for her scholarly work about Federico García Lorca. Her novel Cuatro Cuentos de Amor y El Intocable Absurdo won the 2008 Casino Mieres Novel Award.

#6198

Suzanne Conklin Akbari

#167718

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Suzanne Conklin Akbari is a medievalist, recognised for her global and comparative approach to medieval literary history. She was a Professor in English and Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto from 1995 until 2019, when she joined the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

#6199

Jason Schneiderman

#122654

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Jason Schneiderman is an American poet. Life Jason Schneiderman has BA degrees in English and Russian from the University of Maryland, an MFA in poetry from NYU, and a Ph.D. in English Literature with a focus on Queer Theory from the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is a tenured professor at Borough of Manhattan Community College., and has taught in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. He was a featured faculty member at the 2018 Conference on Poetry] at The Frost Place.

#6200

Nancy Worman

#148588

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Nancy Worman is Professor of Classics at Barnard and Columbia University. She is an expert on ancient Greek drama and oratory, on ancient literary criticism and literary theory, and on the reception of ancient Greece in the post-classical world.

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