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#1601

Eugene B. Redmond

#36880

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Eugene B. Redmond is an American poet, and academic. His poetry is closely connected to the Black Arts Movement and the city of East St. Louis, Illinois. Life Eugene B. Redmond was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He earned his bachelor's degree from Southern Illinois University in 1964, and his master's degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1966, both in English Literature. He became a teacher-counselor at Southern Illinois University's Experiment in Higher Education, in East St. Louis, where he worked under the direction of Dr. Edward W. Crosby, his mentor, until 1969. He left SIU ...

#1602

Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany

#27176

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Samuel R. "Chip" Delany is an American writer and literary critic. His work includes fiction , memoir, criticism, and essays on science fiction, literature, sexuality, and society. His fiction includes Babel-17, The Einstein Intersection ; Hogg, Nova, Dhalgren, the Return to Nevèrÿon series, and Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. His nonfiction includes Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, About Writing, and eight books of essays. He has won four Nebula awards and two Hugo Awards, and he was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2002.

#1603

Anand

#32951

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

P. Sachidanandan , who uses the pseudonym Anand, is an Indian writer, writing primarily in Malayalam. He is one of the known living intellectuals in India. His works are noted for their philosophical flavor, historical context and their humanism. He is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award and three Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards . He is also a recipient of Ezhuthachan Puraskaram, Vayalar Award, Odakkuzhal Award, Muttathu Varkey Award, Vallathol Award and Yashpal Award. He did not accept the Yashpal Award and the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Novel.

#1604

Alexandru Piru

#43848

Overall Influence

1917 - 1993 (76 years)

Alexandru Piru was a Romanian literary critic and historian. Born in Mărgineni, Bacău County, his parents were Vasile, a notary, and his wife Elena . In 1936, he graduated from Ferdinand I High School in Bacău, thereupon enrolling in the literature and philosophy faculty of Iași University. He graduated in 1940, and completed the pedagogical academy in Bucharest the following year. From 1943 to 1944, he taught at the National College in Iași. Piru then settled for good in Bucharest. In early 1946, he became a teaching assistant in George Călinescu's department at Bucharest University. In mid-1947, he received a doctorate; the thesis dealt with the works of Garabet Ibrăileanu.

#1605

Rivka Galchen

#17466

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Rivka Galchen is a Canadian-American writer. Her first novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, was published in 2008 and was awarded the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. She is the author of five books and a contributor of journalism and essays to The New Yorker magazine.

#1606

Vittorio Vettori

#51531

Overall Influence

1920 - 2004 (84 years)

Vittorio Vettori was an Italian poet, writer and humanist, passionate spokesperson of ‘’Toscana Europea’’. He has been author of more than 200 volumes of poetry, narrative, philosophy, literary criticism and Dante essays translated into diverse languages.

#1607

Mina Urgan

#42014

Overall Influence

1915 - 2000 (85 years)

Mina Urgan was a Turkish academic, translator, author and socialist politician. Early life Mina Urgan was born to poet Tahsin Nahit and his wife Şefika in İstanbul on 14 May 1916. To another source, she was born on 1 May 1915. Her father died as she was three years old, and her mother made a second marriage with Falih Rıfkı Atay, a renowned journalist and writer. As the Surname Law was enacted in Turkey in 1934, her stepfather's close friend, the renowned author Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, suggested her the family name Urgan , ironically stating that "it would match her because the socialist-minde...

#1608

Bahman Nirumand

Bahman Nirumand

#33975

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Bahman Nirumand is an Iranian and German journalist and author. Life Bahman Nirumand was born on 18 September 1936 to a wealthy family of civil servants in Tehran, Iran. His uncle was a consul in the Iranian embassy in Berlin before World War II. When he was 14 years old, Nirumand was sent to Germany to go to gymnasium, and attended Rudolf Steiner School.

#1609

Howard Hibbett

#24477

Overall Influence

1920 - 2019 (99 years)

Howard Hibbett was a translator and professor of Japanese literature at Harvard University. He held the Victor S. Thomas Professorship in Japanese Literature. Early life Hibbett was born in Akron, Ohio, on July 27, 1920. He began his studies of Japanese language and literature as a sophomore at Harvard College in 1942 before working as a language specialist for the U.S. Army in 1942-46. After graduating from Harvard College in 1947, he went on to receive his Ph.D., also from Harvard, in 1950. He taught at UCLA before returning to Harvard as a professor in 1958. He was Director of the Edwin O.

#1610

Jack Davis

#27451

Overall Influence

1917 - 2000 (83 years)

Jack Leonard Davis was an Australian 20th-century Aboriginal playwright, poet and Aboriginal Australian activist. His work incorporates themes of Aboriginality and identity. While known for his literary work, Davis did not focus on writing until his fifties. His writing centred around the Aboriginal experience in relation to the settlement of white Australians. His collection of poems The First Born was his first work to be published, and made him the first Aboriginal Australian man and second Aboriginal person to have published poetry. He later focused his writing on plays, starting with Kullark, which was first performed in 1979.

#1611

Paul Schrader

#18737

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Paul Joseph Schrader is an American screenwriter, film director, and film critic. He first became widely known for writing the screenplay of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver . He later continued his collaboration with Scorsese, writing or co-writing Raging Bull , The Last Temptation of Christ , and Bringing Out the Dead . Schrader is more prolifically a director-- his 22 films include Blue Collar , Hardcore , American Gigolo , Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters , Light Sleeper , Affliction , and First Reformed , with the last of these earning him his first Academy Award nomination. Schrader's work...

#1612

Matt Bondurant

#17924

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Matt Bondurant is an American novelist. Among his works are the books The Third Translation, The Wettest County in the World, The Night Swimmer, and Oleander City Life and career Bondurant was born and raised in Alexandria, Virginia, near Washington, D.C. He graduated with a B.A. and M.A. in English from James Madison University, where he was a member of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity. Bondurant went on to earn a PhD in English at Florida State University in 2003.

#1613

D. R. Nagaraj

#46689

Overall Influence

1954 - 1998 (44 years)

Dr. D. R. Nagaraj was an Indian cultural critic, political commentator and an expert on medieval and modern Kannada poetry and Dalit movement who wrote in Kannada and English languages. He won Sahitya Akademi Award for his work Sahitya Kathana. He started out as a Marxist critic but renounced the Marxist framework that he had used in the book Amruta mattu Garuda as too reductionist and became a much more eclectic and complex thinker. He is among the few Indian thinkers to shed new light on Dalit and Bahujan politics. He regarded the Gandhi-Ambedkar debate on the issue of caste system and unto...

#1614

Frank Davey

#37745

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Frankland Wilmot Davey, FRSC is a Canadian poet and scholar. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he grew up in the Fraser Valley village of Abbotsford. In 1957 he enrolled at the University of British Columbia where, in 1961, shortly after beginning MA studies, he became one of the founding editors of the influential and contentious poetry newsletter TISH. In the spring of 1962 he won the university's Macmillan Prize for poetry, and published the poetry collection D-Day and After, the first of the Tish group's numerous publications. In 1963 he began teaching at Canadian Services College Royal Roads Military College in Victoria.

#1615

Christopher Middleton

#26734

Overall Influence

1926 - 2015 (89 years)

Christopher Middleton was a British poet and translator, especially of German literature. Life He was born John Christopher Middleton in Truro, Cornwall, in 1926. Following four years' service in the Royal Air Force, he studied at Merton College, Oxford, matriculating in 1948. He then held academic positions at the University of Zürich and King's College London. In 1966 he took up a position as Professor of Germanic Languages & Literature at the University of Texas, Austin, retiring in 1998. Middleton has published translations of Robert Walser, Nietzsche, Hölderlin, Goethe, Gert Hofmann and many others.

#1616

Harry Ricketts

#31768

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Harry Ricketts is a poet, biographer, editor, anthologist, critic, academic, literary scholar and cricket writer. He has written biographies of Rudyard Kipling and of a dozen British First World War poets.

#1617

Steve Perry

#20305

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Steve Perry is an American television writer and science fiction author. Biography Perry is a native of the Deep South. His residences have included Louisiana, California, Washington, and Oregon. Prior to working full-time as a freelance writer, he worked as a swimming instructor, lifeguard, assembler of toys, a clerk in a hotel gift shop and car rental agency, aluminum salesman, martial art instructor, private detective, and nurse. His wife is Dianne Waller, a Port of Portland executive. They have two children and five grandsons. One of their children is science fiction author S. D. Perry.

#1618

Dan Chaon

#36675

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Dan Chaon is an American writer. Formerly a creative writing professor, he is the author of three short story collections and four novels. Early life and education Chaon was born June 11, 1964, in either Sidney, Nebraska or Omaha, Nebraska, and was the adopted son of Earl D. Chaon and Teresa N. Chaon. His father was a construction worker and his mother a stay-at-home mom, neither of whom graduated from high school. He was the oldest of three siblings. He grew up in a village of 20 people outside of Sidney, Nebraska.

#1619

Bill Berkson

#33967

Overall Influence

1939 - 2016 (77 years)

William Craig Berkson was an American poet, critic, and teacher who was active in the art and literary worlds from his early twenties on. Early life and education Born in New York City on August 30, 1939, Bill Berkson grew up on Manhattan's Upper East Side, the only child of Seymour Berkson, general manager of International News Service and later publisher of the New York Journal American, and the fashion publicist Eleanor Lambert. Although his father was of Jewish descent, the son did not find out until he was a teenager. His mother was Presbyterian. He attended The Day School of the Church of the Heavenly Rest and transferred to Trinity School in 1945.

#1620

Chandrashekhar Patil

#20393

Overall Influence

1939 - 2022 (83 years)

Chandrashekar Patil , popularly known as Champa, was an Indian poet, playwright and public intellectual writing in Kannada. Patil was a recipient of the Karnataka Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry in 1989 and the Karnataka state government's Pampa Award in 2009. Patil had served as the president of the Kannada Sahitya Parishat, a Kannada language literary organization.

#1621

Brian Evenson

#22871

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Brian Evenson is an American academic and writer of both literary fiction and popular fiction, some of the latter being published under B. K. Evenson. His fiction is often described as literary minimalism, but also draws inspiration from horror, weird fiction, detective fiction, science fiction and continental philosophy. Evenson makes frequent use of dark humor and often features characters struggling with the limits and consequences of knowledge. He has also written non-fiction, and translated several books by French-language writers into English.

#1622

Elizabeth Bear

#25767

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky is an American author who works primarily in speculative fiction genres, writing under the name Elizabeth Bear. She won the 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Short Story for "Tideline", and the 2009 Hugo Award for Best Novelette for "Shoggoths in Bloom". She is one of a small number of writers who have gone on to win multiple Hugo Awards for fiction after winning the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer .

#1623

Susan Wittig Albert

Susan Wittig Albert

#36219

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Susan Wittig Albert, also known by the pen names Robin Paige and Carolyn Keene, is an American mystery writer from Vermilion County, Illinois, United States. Albert was an academic and the first female vice president of Southwest Texas State University before retiring to become a fulltime writer.

#1624

Gane Todorovski

Gane Todorovski

#45318

Overall Influence

1929 - 2010 (81 years)

Dragan "Gane" Todorovski was a Macedonian poet, translator, essayist, literary critic, and historian, publicist. Biography Graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy, University SS. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, where he gained his PhD with the thesis "Slavs Veda and its mystificators". Worked as a journalist with "Tanjug", "Mlad borec" and "Studentski zbor". He was a long-time professor of Croatian and Macedonian Literature of 19th century at the Faculty of Philology in Skopje, as well as a one-time president of the Macedonian Writers' Association and , President of the Board of the Struga P...

#1625

Richard Roeper

#21168

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Richard E. Roeper is an American columnist and film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times. He co-hosted the television series At the Movies with Roger Ebert from 2000 to 2008, serving as the late Gene Siskel's successor. From 2010 to 2014, he co-hosted The Roe and Roeper Show with Roe Conn on WLS-AM. From October 2015 to October 2017, Roeper served as the host of the FOX 32 morning show Good Day Chicago.

#1626

Edward Falco

#14142

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Edward Falco is an American author, playwright, electronic literature writer, and new media editor. Works and publications Hypertexts and electronic literature An early innovator in the field of digital writing, Falco's literary and experimental hypertexts are taught in universities internationally. His online work includes Self-Portrait as Child w/Father , Circa 1967–1968 , and "Charmin' Cleary" . Falco's work also appears in the online journal Blackbird. Falco published two works with Eastgate,a hypertext poetry collection, Sea Island and hypertext novel, A Dream with Demons , Astrid Enss...

#1627

Tyehimba Jess

#18728

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Tyehimba Jess is an American poet. His book Olio received the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Biography Early life Tyehimba Jess was born Jesse S. Goodwin. He grew up in Detroit, where his father worked in that city's Department of Health. His father later became the first vice president of Detroit's chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People . Jess's mother was a teacher and nurse, who founded a nursing school at Wayne County Community College in 1972.

#1628

Patricia Waugh

#46776

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Professor Patricia Waugh is a literary critic, intellectual historian and Professor of English Literature at Durham University. She is a leading specialist in modernist and post-modernist literature, feminist theory, intellectual history, and postwar fiction and its political contexts. Along with Linda Hutcheon, Waugh is notable as one of the first critics to work on metafiction and, in particular, for her influential 1984 study, Metafiction: the Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction.

#1629

Elena Poniatowska

Elena Poniatowska

#26068

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (92 years)

Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska Amor , known professionally as Elena Poniatowska , is a French-born Mexican journalist and author, specializing in works on social and political issues focused on those considered to be disenfranchised especially women and the poor. She was born in Paris to upper-class parents, including her mother whose family fled Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. She left France for Mexico when she was ten to escape the Second World War. When she was eighteen and without a university education, she began writing for the newspaper Excélsior, doing interviews and society columns.

#1630

Joseph Frank

#26413

Overall Influence

1918 - 2013 (95 years)

Joseph Frank was an American literary scholar and leading expert on the life and work of Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. Frank's five-volume biography of Dostoevsky is frequently cited among the major literary biographies of the 20th century.

#1631

Peter Pohl

#17768

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Peter Pohl is a Swedish author and former director and screenwriter of short films. He has received prizes for several of his books and films, as well as for his entire work. From 1966 until his retirement in 2005, he was lecturer in Numerical analysis at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

#1632

Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ

Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ

#34912

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ is a Kenyan American poet, author, and academic. He is associate professor of literatures in English at Cornell University and co-founder of the Safal-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Writing. His father is the author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. His family was deeply impacted by the bloody British suppression of the Mau Mau revolution.

#1633

Ana Cano

#12915

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Ana María Cano González is a Spanish philologist. She was dean of the faculty of Philology of the University of Oviedo and chair of romance philology. She received her master's degree in primary education in 1967, after exerting this profession, a license in philosophy and letters from the University of Oviedo in 1972, and a doctorate at the same institution in 1975, cum laude, with a thesis on "The speech of Somiedo". Since 2001, she has been president of the Academy of the Asturian Language.

#1634

Frances Ferguson

#40606

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Frances Ferguson is a literary and cultural theorist who has taught courses in eighteenth and nineteenth century materials and twentieth century literary theory at a variety of universities, including Johns Hopkins University until July, 2012, where she was Mary Elizabeth Garrett Chair in Arts and Sciences at the university. She now teaches in the English department at the University of Chicago, where she is Ann L. and Lawrence B. Buttenwieser Professor.

#1635

Retta

#12368

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Marietta Sirleaf, known professionally as Retta, is an American stand-up comedian and actress. She is best known for her roles of Donna Meagle on NBC's Parks and Recreation and Ruby Hill on NBC's Good Girls. She has appeared in several films and television shows, and has performed stand-up on Comedy Central's Premium Blend.

#1636

Chas S. Clifton

#22241

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Chas S. Clifton is an American academic, author and historian who specialises in the fields of English studies and Pagan studies. Clifton currently holds a teaching position in English at Colorado State University-Pueblo, prior to which he taught at Pueblo Community College.

#1637

Kevin Young

#28323

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Kevin Young is an American poet and the director of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture since 2021. Author of 11 books and editor of eight others, Young previously served as Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library. A winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as a finalist for the National Book Award for his 2003 collection Jelly Roll: A Blues, Young was Atticus Haygood Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University and curator of Emory's Raymond Danowski Poetry Library. In Mar...

#1638

Kimiko Hahn

#30656

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Kimiko Hahn is an American poet and distinguished professor in the MFA program of Queens College, CUNY. Her works frequently deal with the reinvention of poetic forms and the intersecting of conflicting identities.

#1639

Jan Philipp Reemtsma

Jan Philipp Reemtsma

#17602

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Jan Philipp Fürchtegott Reemtsma is a German literary scholar, author, and patron who founded and was the long-term director of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. Reemtsma lives and works mainly in Hamburg.

#1640

Victor Brombert

#27208

Overall Influence

1923 - Present (101 years)

Victor Henri Brombert is an American scholar of nineteenth and twentieth century literature, the Henry Putnam University Professor at Princeton University. Early life Brombert was born in Berlin in 1923 into a well-to-do Russian-Jewish family that had fled Russia at the outbreak of the Revolution and settled in Leipzig. When Hitler came to power in Germany, the family left for Paris, and Brombert received his secondary education at the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly. As the German army advanced on Paris in 1940, the family fled to the unoccupied zone under the control of the Vichy government and a ye...

#1641

Mary Morris

#42738

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Mary Morris is an American author and a professor at Sarah Lawrence College. Morris published her first book, a collection of short stories, entitled Vanishing Animals & Other Stories, in 1979 at the age of thirty-two and was awarded the Rome Prize in Literature by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She has gone on to publish numerous collections of short stories, novels, and travel memoirs. She has also edited with her husband, the author Larry O'Connor, an anthology of women's travel literature, entitled Maiden Voyages, subsequently published as The Virago Book of Women Travellers.

#1642

Bertrand Westphal

Bertrand Westphal

#39541

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Bertrand Westphal , is a French scholar and essayist. Career Westphal, a professor of comparative literature and literary theory, has been teaching at the University of Limoges since 1998. He has been directing the "Human Spaces and Cultural Interactions" research team since 2000.

#1643

Thylias Moss

#24787

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Thylias Moss is an American poet, writer, experimental filmmaker, sound artist and playwright of African-American, Native American, and European heritage. Her poetry has been published in a number of collections and anthologies, and she has also published essays, children's books, and plays. She is the pioneer of Limited Fork Theory, a literary theory concerned with the limitations and capacity of human understanding of art.

#1644

Douglas Q. Adams

#14942

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Douglas Quentin Adams is a professor of English at the University of Idaho and an Indo-European comparativist. Adams studied at the University of Chicago, taking his PhD in 1972. He is an expert on Tocharian and a contributor on this subject to the Encyclopædia Britannica.

#1645

José Manuel Blecua Teijeiro

#38149

Overall Influence

1913 - 2003 (90 years)

José Manuel Blecua Teijeiro was a Spanish philologist, professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Barcelona and a member of the Royal Spanish Academy. He took his bachelor's degree at the College of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Zaragoza, under the tutelage of Miguel Labordeta. At the University of Zaragoza he studied Law and Philosophy. He was a teacher for twenty years at the Cuevas Institute in Almanzora and, later, at the Goya Institute in Zaragoza. In 1959, he moved to the Universidad de Barcelona, where he was one of the founders of the Spanish Philological Institute. He wrote his d...

#1646

Ottmar Ette

#41290

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Ottmar Ette is Professor of Romance languages and Comparative literature at University of Potsdam. Biographical notes In 1990, Ottmar Ette completed his dissertation at University of Freiburg on the Spanish-American modernist and Cuban national icon José Martí. In 1995, his habilitation on French post-modern theorist Roland Barthes was accepted at Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. In 2001, Ette received the "Hugo Friedrich und Erich Köhler"-award for his work on Roland Barthes from Freiburg University. Twice, he has been granted fellowships in advanced-study institutions. He has lectured and taught in a number of Latin-American and European countries, as well as in the USA.

#1647

Joy Williams

#35233

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Joy Williams is an American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. Her notable works of fiction include State of Grace, The Changeling, and Harrow. Williams has received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, a Rea Award for the Short Story, a Kirkus Award for Fiction, and a Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.

#1648

Mason Cooley

#31281

Overall Influence

1927 - 2002 (75 years)

Mason Cooley was an American aphorist known for his witty aphorisms. One of these such aphorisms Cooley developed was "The time I kill is killing me." He was professor emeritus of French, speech and world literature at the College of Staten Island. He was also an assistant professor of English at Columbia University from 1959 to 1967 and an adjunct professor from 1980 to 1988.

#1649

Alice Mattison

#29423

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Alice Mattison is an American novelist and short story writer. Life Mattison was born in Brooklyn and attended Queens College and Harvard University, where she received a doctorate in literature. She has lived in New Haven, Connecticut since the 1970s. She has taught fiction in the Low-Residency MFA Program in Writing at Bennington College since 1995 and at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. Mattison has also taught at Brooklyn College, Yale University and Albertus Magnus College.

#1650

Eileen Chang

#36996

Overall Influence

1920 - 1995 (75 years)

Eileen Chang , also known as Chang Ai-ling or Zhang Ailing, or by her pen name Liang Jing , was a Chinese-born American essayist, novelist, and screenwriter. She was a well-known feminist woman writer of Chinese literature, known for portraying life in 1940s Shanghai and Hong Kong.

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