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List of the most influential people in Literature,

#6251

Robert Dunn

#113972

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Robert Dunn is the author of seven musical novels, Pink Cadillac , Cutting Time , Soul Cavalcade , Meet the Annas , Look at Flower , Stations of the Cross: A Musical Novel of Obsession , and Savage Joy . The novels are published under Dunn's own independent publishing company, Coral Press, located in New York City. His novel The Sting Rays is available online at Electron Press.

#6252

James E. Post

#70715

Overall Influence

James E. Post is an American author and professor who holds the John F. Smith, Jr. Professorship in Management at Boston University. In 2010, James E. Post was awarded the Aspen Institute Faculty Pioneers and Dissertation Proposal Award.

#6253

Diana Knight

#174868

Overall Influence

Diana Marilyn Knight is a British scholar of French literature, who specialises in 19th-century French literature, Honoré de Balzac, and Roland Barthes. is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Nottingham.

#6254

Mark Hanna

#170442

Overall Influence

1917 - 2003 (86 years)

Mark Hanna was an American screenwriter and actor. He was known for writing the screenplays for many science fiction B movies in the 1950s, particularly Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. His first major screenplay was Gunslinger in 1956. He continued to be prolific through the mid-1960s, after which his film credits become sporadic. His last screenplay was for Star Portal in 1998, five years before his death from stroke complications.

#6255

Barbara Borg

#97974

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Barbara Elisabeth Borg is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the Scuola Normale Superiore. She is known in particular for her work on Roman tombs, the language of classical art, and geoarchaeology.

#6256

James Purdy

#121869

Overall Influence

James P. Purdy is an American scholar of writing and rhetoric. He is an associate professor at Duquesne University and director of its writing center, and serves on the editorial board of Computers and Composition: An International Journal and Writing Spaces. His focus is on writing, publishing, and literacy in the digital age.

#6257

Cassandra Laity

#174115

Overall Influence

Cassandra Laity is an author and researcher in the field of modernism. In 2015 she is a visiting scholar at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Early life and education Laity completed her PhD at the University of Michigan.

#6258

Arjumand Ara

#167964

Overall Influence

Arjumand Ara is an Indian professor of Urdu literature at University of Delhi. She is a translator, critic and a scholar of humanities. She has translated Findings, Keepings: Life, Communism and Everything, biography of eminent Urdu Scholar Ralph Russell into Urdu. In 2021, She has received Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize for translating Arundhati Roy's English novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness into Urdu.

#6259

Katie Fallon

#172817

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Kathleen "Katie" Fallon is an American non-fiction author and essayist. Her essays have appeared in numerous literary journals, both electronic and print, and received several accolades. In 2011, she published her first book, Cerulean Blues: A Personal Search for a Vanishing Songbird. She currently resides in Cheat Neck, WV with her husband Jesse, where she teaches creative writing at nearby West Virginia University. Much of Fallon's writing is grounded in naturalism and conservation efforts, especially concerning raptors and other birds.

#6260

Phil Redmond

#82454

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Sir Philip Redmond is an English television producer and screenwriter from Huyton, England. He is known for creating the television series Grange Hill, Brookside and Hollyoaks. Early life Redmond took the 11-plus and passed, but attended St Kevin's RC School in Northwood, Kirkby . His mother was a cleaner and his father was a bus driver.

#6261

L.S. Asekoff

#180376

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Louis S. Asekoff is an American poet and professor emeritus. Asekoff often incorporates surrealist imagery and monologue into his poetry, which is concerned with both the imagistic and aural dimensions of language. Asekoff's unconventional use of monologue as a poetic instrument is suggestive of "the inability of words to properly convey meaning" and a vehicle for implicating the readers who become "members of his poetic universe." In 2012, Poet laureate Philip Levine, who selected Asekoff for the Witter Bynner Poetry Prize, described Asekoff as "a true surreal visionary."

#6262

Jo Labanyi

#177134

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Jo Labanyi is Professor of Spanish at New York University. She specialises in the study of Spanish literature and culture of the 19th and 20th centuries. Biography Labanyi studied for her undergraduate degree at Oxford University, graduating with a BA in Spanish in 1967. She was director of the Institute of Romance Studies at the University of London from 1997 to 2002. She was Professor of Spanish and Cultural Studies at the University of Southampton from 2001 to 2006 before moving to New York University in 2006.

#6263

Jonathan M. Hess

#158993

Overall Influence

1965 - 2018 (53 years)

Jonathan M. Hess was an American philologist and literary scholar, who served as chair of the Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures Department and director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

#6264

Jeff Melvoin

#161433

Overall Influence

1901 - Present (125 years)

Jeff Melvoin is an American television writer, producer, and educator. He has written dozens and produced hundreds of one-hour episodes on over a dozen television series. Melvoin is founder and chair of the Writers Guild of America's Showrunner Training Program and the Writers Education Committee. He is a past board member of the Mystery Writers of America and the Writers Guild of America, West.

#6265

Susan Wicks

#98659

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Susan Wicks is a British poet and novelist. She studied at the University of Hull, University of Sussex. She taught at University College, Dublin, University of Dijon, and the University of Kent. She teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London. She lives in Tunbridge Wells.

#6266

Robert X. Browning

#34620

Overall Influence

Robert Xavier Browning is a professor at Purdue University and head of the C-SPAN Archives in West Lafayette, Indiana. Education and academic career Browning graduated from Marquette University with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1972. He received a master's degree in public administration in 1977 and a master's degree in political science in 1978, both from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In 1981, he was awarded his Ph.D., also from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, under the direction of Ira Sharkansky with the thesis "Political and economic predictors of policy outcomes: U.S. socia...

#6267

Michael Klein

#162440

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Michael Klein is an American Lambda literary award-winning fiction writer, poet, and faculty member of the English department at Goddard College and The Frost Place Conference on Poetry. Life Klein was born in Washington, DC and attended Bennington College as an undergraduate, later receiving his MFA from Vermont College. He resides in New York City, where he has lived since the age of two. Klein attended PS 41 in the West Village, and New Lincoln School on the Upper West Side for Junior High School, and finished at New York City's Music and Art High School where he studied voice.

#6268

Rob Nairn

#31779

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Robert G. Nairn was a South African Buddhist teacher, author and populariser. He was born and grew up in Rhodesia. Nairn was a follower of Tibetan Buddhism, in the Karma Kagyu lineage. Academic education and legal career Graduating from the University of Rhodesia with an LL.B , Nairn was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship for postgraduate studies in UK and went on to study criminology, psychology and law at King's College London and to receive a postgraduate diploma in criminology from Edinburgh University. He then returned to Rhodesia to become an advocate of its High Court.

#6269

Steven Fechter

#126528

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Steven Fechter is an American playwright. He is best known for his play, The Woodsman, and co-wrote the screenplay for the film version starring Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick. Fetcher grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from Binghamton University. He holds the PhD form the Graduate Theatre Program at Hunter College.

#6270

Kjell Venås

#111186

Overall Influence

1927 - 2018 (91 years)

Kjell Venås was a Norwegian philologist. He was born in Hemsedal, and took his dr.philos. degree in 1967. He spent most of his career at the University of Oslo; as a lecturer from 1970 to 1971 and professor from 1971 to 1997. Specializing in research about the Nynorsk language form, Venås has also been involved in the Norwegian Language Council. He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He died in March 2018.

#6271

Kerri Webster

#168212

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Kerri Webster is an American poet. She was a recipient of a 2011 Whiting Award. She currently teaches at Boise State University. Biography Kerri Webster was born in 1971 and raised in Idaho. She is the author of four books of poetry and two chapbooks. She received her MFA from Indiana University, and was Writer in Residence in the MFA program at Washington University in St. Louis . For ten years, Webster worked as a Writer in the Schools, conducting weekly creative writing workshops for students. She teaches in the MFA program at Boise State University. Webster’s poems have appeared in numero...

#6272

Danièle Sallenave

Danièle Sallenave

#69500

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Danièle Sallenave is a French novelist and journalist. In April 2011, she became a member of the Académie française. In 1980 Sallenave received the Prix Renaudot for her novel Les Portes de Gubbio.

#6273

Hope Sabanpan-Yu

#87963

Overall Influence

Hope Sabanpan-Yu is a short story writer/poet from Cebu City, Philippines. She earned her doctorate degree in Comparative Literature from the University of the Philippines Diliman and her Master of Arts in English from the University of Calgary .

#6274

John Gay

#137666

Overall Influence

1924 - 2017 (93 years)

John Gay was an American screenwriter, born in Whittier, California. Career Gay began his career writing episodes for television anthology series such as Lux Video Theatre, Kraft Television Theatre, and Goodyear Television Playhouse. He made his film screenwriting debut in 1956 with Run Silent, Run Deep. Additional screen credits include Separate Tables, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, The Hallelujah Trail, No Way to Treat a Lady, Soldier Blue, Sometimes a Great Notion, and A Matter of Time.

#6275

Sharrona Pearl

#148038

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Sharrona Pearl is a Canadian-American historian and theorist of the face and writer who teaches at Drexel University. Background and education She was raised in Toronto, Canada, and graduated from the Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto in 1995. She earned her bachelor’s of arts degree summa cum laude from York University in 1999, and was awarded her doctorate in the History of Science from Harvard University in 2006. She has studied abroad at both the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Cambridge. Pearl has taught at Harvard University, MIT, The University of Pennsylvania,...

#6276

Nelson Brodt

#175964

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Nelson Omar Brodt Chávez is a Chilean actor, director, dramatist, and teacher, with an extensive career in theater, film, and television. Career Nelson Brodt began his career at the Theater of the University of Concepción, where he developed an intense theatrical focus. In 1971 he emigrated to Santiago, where he participated as an actor in the Theater Company, the Los Cuatro Theater Company, the Nuevo Popular Theater, and the . In these years he also made his television debut on telenovelas such as and .

#6277

James Deahl

#122955

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

James Deahl is a Canadian poet and publisher. He is known for his 1987 collaboration with Milton Acorn, A Stand of Jackpine. External links German biography and official translations of his poems

#6278

Ishaq Samejo

#158104

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Ishaq Samejo is Pakistani poet, writer and literary critic of Sindhi Language. Early life It is mentioned in Encyclopedia Sindhiana by Sindhi Language Authority that Samejo was born to Jaaro Khan on 18 March 1975 at village Fazulpur, Dadu District, Sindh.

#6279

Peter Klappert

#128292

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Peter Klappert is an American poet. Life He grew up in West Hempstead, New York, and Rowayton, Connecticut. He graduated from Cornell University and the University of Iowa, with an M.A. and an M.F.A.

#6280

Luis Humberto Crosthwaite

#66514

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Luis Humberto Crosthwaite is a writer, editor, and journalist whose work has appeared in a variety of international venues. His fiction works have garnered critical attention for his ability to express the complexities of living on the US/Mexico border region.

#6281

Angèle Bassolé-Ouédraogo

#34309

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Angèle Bassolé-Ouédraogo is an Ivoirian-born Canadian poet and journalist. She has won the Trillium Book Award and been nominated for the Ottawa Book Award. Biography She was born in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, and raised in Upper Volta. She was an avid reader as a child, and was encouraged by her local librarian who eventually taught her as his assistant, which allowed her access to more books than she would normally be allowed. She wrote her first poem around the age of 11 to 12, after being influenced by her brother Francis, who would go on to be a well known poet in Côte d'Ivoire. Her first p...

#6282

Kevin Bishop

#124334

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Kevin Brian Bishop is a British actor, comedian and writer. He is best known for his roles as Jim Hawkins in Muppet Treasure Island, Stupid Brian in My Family, and Nigel Norman Fletcher in the 2016 revival of Porridge, and as star of The Kevin Bishop Show, which he co-wrote with Lee Hupfield.

#6283

Amy Catanzano

#159587

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Amy Catanzano is an American poet from Boulder, Colorado. She is the author of Multiversal, which won the PEN USA Literary Award in Poetry. Michael Palmer describes her work as "a poetic vision of multiple orders and multiple forms, of a fluid time set loose from linearity, and an open space that is motile and multidimensional." Since 2009 she has published writing on a theory and practice called "quantum poetics," which explores the intersections of poetry and science, particularly physics. Her other interests include cross-genre texts and the literary avant-garde.

#6284

Deborah L. Nelson

#134167

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Deborah L. Nelson is an American academic. Nelson earned her doctorate from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and joined the University of Chicago faculty in 1996. She was appointed the Helen B. and Frank L. Sulzberger Professor of English in 2018. Her 2017 book, Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil won the 2018 James Russell Lowell Prize awarded by the Modern Language Association, and the 2019 Gordon J. Laing Award.

#6285

Marilyn Brown

#140858

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Marilyn McMeen Miller Brown is an American novelist best known for her work within her native Mormon culture. She is the creator and namesake of the Marilyn Brown Novel Award. Brown has written 14 novels. In 2000, she served as president of the Association for Mormon Letters. Brown has also had works attributed to her not only as Marilyn Brown, but as Marilyn Miller, Marilyn McMeen Miller, Marilyn R. Brown and several other related variants.

#6286

Erika Meitner

#157053

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Erika Meitner is an American poet. Life She graduated from Dartmouth College with an A.B. in 1996, and from the University of Virginia with an MFA in creative writing, and an MA in religious studies.

#6287

Dawn Lundy Martin

Dawn Lundy Martin

#103450

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Dawn Lundy Martin is an American poet, essayist and activist. She has received a number of awards such as the Academy of American Arts and Science's May Sarton Prize for Poetry. Martin is currently faculty at University of Pittsburgh and director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. Martin received the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for her book Good Stock, Strange Blood published by Coffee House Press.

#6288

May Telmissany

#164194

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

May Telmissany is an Egyptian-Canadian novelist, translator, film critic and academic. She teaches Arabic studies and cinema at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Biography May Telmissany was born in Cairo, Egypt, on 1 July 1965. She is the daughter of Egyptian documentary filmmaker Abdel-Kader El-Telmissany . Telmissany first studied French literature at Ain Shams University. She worked for several years in the French Service of Radio Cairo[Which one?] and in the Arts Faculty at Menoufia University. She also lived for a time in Paris. In 1995, she obtained a master's degree in French literature from Cairo University.

#6289

Jay Meek

#114288

Overall Influence

1937 - 2007 (70 years)

Jay Meek was an American poet, and director of the Creative Writing program at the University of North Dakota. He was the poetry editor of the North Dakota Quarterly for many years. He graduated from University of Michigan in 1959, and from Syracuse University with a master's degree in creative writing in 1963. He taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sarah Lawrence College, Wake Forest University, Memphis State University, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Colby College and Syracuse University.

#6290

Esther Morgan

#170206

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Esther E. Morgan is a British poet. She graduated with an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia in 1998. She has published four collections of poetry and won an Eric Gregory Award in 1998. Her first collection was Beyond Calling Distance . It won the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Her second collection, The Silence Living in Houses, was published in 2005. Grace was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the 2012 T. S. Eliot Prize. It includes the poem This Morning which won the 2010 Bridport Poetry Prize.

#6291

Ella Dzelzainis

#176095

Overall Influence

Ella Dzelzainis lectures in nineteenth-century literature and is the Postgraduate Research Director for the School of English at Newcastle University. Dzelzainis is an advisory editor for Oxford Bibliographies and is on the editorial boards of the Gaskell Journal on "Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century", and the journal Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature.

#6292

William Wadsworth

#176658

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

William Wadsworth, also known as Bill Wadsworth, is an American poet born on Long Island, New York in 1950. Wadsworth's work has appeared in The New Republic, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Tin House, Salmagundi, and the Boston Review, among other magazines, as well as in several anthologies, including The Best American Erotic Poems, edited by David Lehman, and the Library of America Anthology of American Religious Poems, edited by Harold Bloom. His collection of poems, The Physicist on a Cold Night Explains, was published by Vaso Roto Press in 2010.

#6293

Alison Ruth Sharrock

#116255

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

#6294

Brendan O'Brien

#173598

Overall Influence

Brendan O'Brien is an American screenwriter, best known for writing 2014 film Neighbors along with Andrew J. Cohen. Early life and education O'Brien and his screenwriter-director friend Andrew J. Cohen were both born and grew up in Scarsdale, New York, and both went to Scarsdale Middle School, where they became friends in the sixth grade. O'Brien graduated from Georgetown University.

#6295

Roberta Hill Whiteman

#80225

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Roberta Hill Whiteman is an Oneida poet from Wisconsin. She is known for the collections Star Quilt and Philadelphia Flowers . She received the 1991 Wisconsin Idea Foundation's Excellence Award. Early life and education She was born Roberta Hill in 1947 into the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin. She lived with her family on the reservation and also in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Her father was a musician. She attended local schools.

#6296

John Murillo

#171795

Overall Influence

John Murillo is an American poet. He is a Cave Canem fellow and MacDowell fellow. Life He grew up in Los Angeles to an African-American father and Mexican mother. He graduated from Howard University and New York University. Murillo previously taught at Hampshire College and New York University. He currently teaches at Wesleyan University and Sierra Nevada College.

#6297

Alireza Korangy

#170044

Overall Influence

Alireza Korangy is an Iranian-American literary critic, philologist and linguist. He is currently faculty at the American University of Beirut. He was previously an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia. Korangy also taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Persian Literature and is known for his works on Persian poetry, Iranian and Semitic philology and linguistics, and folklore.

#6298

Eeva Tikka

#152919

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Eeva Tikka is a Finnish writer who wrote Hiljainen kesä, which received the 1980 Thanks for the Book Award.

#6299

Patrice Rankine

#174858

Overall Influence

Patrice Rankine is a Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago. He is a leading scholar in the area of classical reception. Early life Patrice Rankine was born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York on September 25, 1971. Son of Jamaican immigrants, he spent his pre-school and first school years in Kingston, Jamaica, before returning to Brooklyn in 1979. He attended public schools in New York City and studied photography at South Shore High School, working with photographer Mitchel Grey during his senior year. Accepted at School of Visual Arts for matriculation in September, 1988, he instead attended Brooklyn College, where he shifted to the study of Ancient Greek.

#6300

Joseph Papaleo

#143468

Overall Influence

1925 - 2004 (79 years)

Joseph Papaleo was an Italian American novelist, and academic. Life He grew up in The Bronx. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, from Columbia University with an M.A., and from the University of Florence with a Ph.D.

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