The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people in Literature,
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Ronald Paulson
#28820
Overall Influence
1930 - Present (96 years)
Ronald Howard Paulson is an American professor of English, a specialist in English 18th-century art and culture, and the world's leading expert on English artist William Hogarth. Education Paulson earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University in 1952, where he was an editorial associate of campus humor magazine The Yale Record. He earned his doctorate degree from Yale in 1958.
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Robert Schneider
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Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
Robert Schneider is an Austrian writer, who published novels including Schlafes Bruder, texts for the theatre, and poetry. His works have been translated to many languages. Schlafes Bruder became the basis of a film, a ballet, an opera and several plays, and received international awards. Schneider withdrew from writing in 2007.
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David Chase
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Overall Influence
1945 - Present (81 years)
David Henry Chase is an American writer, producer and director. He is best known for being the creator, head writer and executive producer of the HBO drama The Sopranos which aired for six seasons between 1999 and 2007. Chase has also produced and written for shows such as The Rockford Files, I'll Fly Away, and Northern Exposure. He created the original series Almost Grown which aired for 10 episodes in 1988 and 1989. He has won seven Emmy Awards. Chase's film debut came in 2012 with Not Fade Away, followed by The Many Saints of Newark , a prequel film to the TV series The Sopranos.
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Hovis Presley
#61933
Overall Influence
1960 - 2005 (45 years)
Hovis Presley was an English poet and stand-up comedian from Bolton, Lancashire, noted for his down-to-earth humour. Born as Richard Henry McFarlane, he attended Thornleigh Salesian College, Bolton and went on to graduate from Bradford University. He went on to have a variety of jobs and travelled widely, from labouring on German railways to teaching English in Cairo and India. The choice of stage persona "Hovis Presley" was in itself a deft example of aspects of his work—ironic word-play, incongruously blending the expected norms of poetry with slightly surreal evocations of ordinary, and di...
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Carolin Duttlinger
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Overall Influence
1976 - Present (50 years)
Carolin Duttlinger is a German academic and Germanist. She studied at the University of Freiburg and at the University of Cambridge, where she completed her doctorate in 2003. She is Professor of German Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford and a fellow and tutor of Wadham College. In 2016 and 2019-20 she was external senior fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies.
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William Peter Blatty
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Overall Influence
1928 - 2017 (89 years)
William Peter Blatty was an American writer, director and producer. He is best known for his 1971 novel, The Exorcist, and for his 1973 screenplay for the film adaptation of the same name. Blatty won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Exorcist, and was nominated for Best Picture as its producer. The film also earned Blatty a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama as producer.
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Thrity Umrigar
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Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
Thrity Umrigar is an Indian-American journalist, critic, and novelist. Early life Umrigar was born in Mumbai, India to a Parsi family, and relocated to the United States at the age of 21. Career Umrigar received a Bachelor of Science from Bombay University, an M.A. From Ohio State University, and a Ph.D. in English from Kent State University.
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Koulsy Lamko
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Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
Koulsy Lamko is a Chadian-born playwright, poet, novelist and university lecturer. Born in Dadouar, Lamko left his country for Burkina Faso in 1979 due to the beginning of the civil war. There, he became acquainted with Thomas Sankara and involved with the Institute of Black Peoples in Ouagadougou. Lamko spent ten years promoting community theater in Burkina Faso through the Theater of the Community and helped found the International Festival of Theatre for Development. Some of his poetry was published in Revue Noire in 1994. In 1997 he co-released the album Bir Ki Mbo of mixed poetry and music in tribute to Sankara in collaboration with Stéphane Scott and Rémi Stengel.
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Jamal Jumá
#68656
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Jamal Jumá, born in Baghdad, is an Iraqi poet and writer. Since 1984, he has lived in Denmark. He has Bachelor of Arts in Arabic literature from University of Basrah and Cand.mag. in Semitic Philology from the University of Copenhagen. He was an Arabic literature lecturer at the Center of Oriental Studies at the University of Vilnius.
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Marko Kravos
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Overall Influence
1943 - Present (83 years)
Marko Kravos is a Slovene poet, writer, essayist and translator from Trieste, Italy. He was born in Montecalvo Irpino, a small village in the Southern Italian region of Irpinia, where his family was sent to confination by the Italian Fascist regime. He spent his childhood in Trieste, where he attended Slovene language schools. After graduating in Slavic philology at the University of Ljubljana in 1969, in Slovenia , he worked in several publishing houses in Trieste. He also worked as a Slovene language professor at the University of Trieste. Between 1996 and 2000, he served as president of th...
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Edgar Bowers
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Overall Influence
1924 - 2000 (76 years)
Edgar Bowers was an American poet who won the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1989. Biography Bowers was born in Rome, Georgia, in 1924. During World War II, he joined the military and worked in counter-intelligence against Germany. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1950 and did graduate work in English literature at Stanford University. Bowers published several books of poetry, including The Form of Loss, For Louis Pasteur and The Astronomers. He won two fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and taught at Duke University and the University of California, ...
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Yi Seungu
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Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
Yi Seungu is a South Korean writer. Life Yi Seungu was born in Jangheung County, South Jeolla Province, South Korea in 1959. After graduating from Seoul Theological University, Yi Seungu studied at Yonsei University Graduate School of Theology. Widely considered to be one of the most outstanding writers to have emerged in South Korea after the political repression of the 1980s, he is today a professor of Korean literature at Chosun University.
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Tuvya Ruebner
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Overall Influence
1924 - 2019 (95 years)
Tuvya Ruebner was an Israeli poet who wrote in Hebrew and German, and he also translated poems - from Hebrew into German and from German into Hebrew. In addition, he was the editor of numerous literary books, a scholar, a teacher, and a photographer. Ruebner was Emeritus Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Haifa University and Oranim College. The recipient of many literary awards in Israel, Germany and Austria, he was awarded the Israel Prize for Poetry in 2008 - the highest accolade the State of Israel bestows. The jury awarding that prize described Ruebner as "among the most important Hebrew poets", and his poetry as "restrained, polished and intellectual ...
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Pedro Lastra
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Overall Influence
1932 - Present (94 years)
Pedro Lastra is a Chilean poet and essayist. Lastra is a graduate of the University of Chile. Pedro Lastra first came to the U.S. as a visiting professor at SUNY Buffalo in the sixties after judging a short story competition in Cuba as part of his growing resume. There he would meet Julio Rodríguez-Puértolas, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, emeritus, and Alan Francis, retired DOE/NYC, who later earned his doctorate from Harvard , but who always mentions Pedro as an important influence in his career as Hispanist and jazz musician. They both were on the faculty of Stony Brook University during the seventies and performed jazz and poetry there.
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Deb Olin Unferth
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Overall Influence
1969 - Present (57 years)
Deb Olin Unferth is an American short story writer, novelist, and memoirist. She is the author of the collection of stories Minor Robberies, the novel Vacation, both published by McSweeney's, and the memoir, Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War, published by Henry Holt. Unferth was a finalist for a 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for her memoir, Revolution.
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Jon Manchip White
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Overall Influence
1924 - 2013 (89 years)
Jon Ewbank Manchip White was the Welsh American author of more than thirty books of non-fiction and fiction, including The Last Race, Nightclimber, Death By Dreaming, Solo Goya, and his final novel, Rawlins White: Patriot to Heaven, published in 2011. White was also the author of a number of plays, teleplays, screenplays and volumes of short stories and poetry.
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Henri Thomas
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Overall Influence
1912 - 1993 (81 years)
Henri Thomas was a French writer and poet. Life Henri Thomas was born at Anglemont, Vosges, and grew up in the Alsace/Lorraine region of France. He moved to Paris to attend the prestigious Henri IV high school, working with the noted essayist Alain. However, his teaching and academic career faltered and he dedicated himself to writing full-time from 1935. He mixed with many influential intellectuals and writers in Paris in the 1930s and 1940s, most notably Gide and Paulhan. His first novel "The Coal Bucket" was published by Gallimard in 1940, as were the majority of his literary production for the next forty odd years.
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Tomris Uyar
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Overall Influence
1941 - 2003 (62 years)
Tomris Uyar was a Turkish writer and translator. She was born in Istanbul, the daughter of two lawyers and granddaughter of Republican People's Party politician Süleyman Sırrı Gedik. She was educated at the British Girls' Secondary School and at Arnavutköy American Girls' College, now called Robert College . She graduated from the Journalism Institute affiliated to the Faculty of Economics of Istanbul University .
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Neil Astley
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Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Neil Astley, Hon. FRSL is an English publisher, editor and writer. He is best known as the founder of the poetry publishing house Bloodaxe Books. Life and work Astley was born in Portchester, Hampshire, and grew up in nearby Fareham. He was educated at Price's School, Fareham , the Alliance Française, Paris , and Newcastle University . From 1972 to 1975 he worked in Leicester, Colchester, London, Paris and Australia, as a journalist, in publishing , and as a press officer for Warner Brothers’ magazine division and for Lyons Maid ice cream. In his essay "The Story of Bloodaxe", he recounts two...
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Ralph Elliott
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Overall Influence
1921 - 2012 (91 years)
Ralph Warren Victor Elliott, AM was a German-born Australian professor of English, and a runologist. Life and career Elliott was born Rudolf W. H. V. Ehrenberg in Berlin, Germany, on 14 August 1921, the son of Margarete and Kurt Phillip Rudolf Ehrenberg, an architect. Rudolf's father was of half Jewish and half German Lutheran background, and his mother was Jewish. His paternal grandfather was the distinguished jurist Victor Gabriel Ehrenberg and his paternal grandmother was the daughter of Rudolf von Jhering. Through his father, Elliott was a first cousin, once removed, of singer Olivia Newton-John.
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Leslie Epstein
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Overall Influence
1938 - Present (88 years)
Leslie Donald Epstein is an American educator, essayist, and novelist. Epstein is currently Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Boston University. Career Epstein was born to an American Jewish family in Los Angeles and grew up in Hollywood. His father Philip and uncle Julius were both noted screenwriters. Together, they won an Academy Award for the celebrated 1942 film Casablanca.
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Halyna Kruk
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Overall Influence
1974 - Present (52 years)
Halyna Kruk is a Ukrainian writer, translator, educator and literary critic. Her surname also appears as Krouk. Life She was born in Lviv, Ukraine and was educated at the University of Lviv, earning a PhD in Ukrainian literature in 2001. She is a professor of literary studies at the university; her research focuses on medieval literature in the Ukraine.
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Gordon Rohlehr
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Overall Influence
1942 - Present (84 years)
Gordon Rohlehr was a Guyana-born scholar and critic of West Indian literature, noted for his study of popular culture in the Caribbean, including oral poetry, calypso and cricket. He pioneered the academic and intellectual study of Calypso, tracing its history over several centuries, writing a landmark work entitled Calypso and Society in Pre-Independence Trinidad , and is considered the world's leading authority on its development.
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Mathias Énard
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Overall Influence
1972 - Present (54 years)
Mathias Énard is a French novelist. He studied Persian and Arabic and spent long periods in the Middle East. He has lived in Barcelona for about fifteen years, interrupted in 2013 by a writing residency in Berlin. He won several awards for Zone, including the Prix du Livre Inter and the Prix Décembre, and won the Prix Goncourt/Le Choix de l’Orient, the , and the Prix du Roman-News for Rue des Voleurs . He won the 2015 Prix Goncourt for Boussole . In 2020 he was Friedrich Dürrenmatt Guest Professor for World Literature at the University of Bern.
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Paul West
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Overall Influence
1930 - 2015 (85 years)
Paul Noden West was a British-born American novelist, poet, and essayist. He was born in Eckington, Derbyshire in England to Alfred and Mildred West. Before his death, he resided in Ithaca, New York, with his wife Diane Ackerman, a writer, poet, and naturalist. West is the author of more than 50 books.
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Peter Filkins
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Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Peter Filkins is an American poet and literary translator. Filkins graduated from Williams College with a Bachelor of Arts and from Columbia University with a Master of Fine Arts degree. His poetry collections include the forthcoming Water / Music, as well as The View We’re Granted, co-winner of the 2013 Sheila Motton Best Book Award from the New England Poetry Club, and Augustine’s Vision, winner of the 2009 New American Press Chapbook Award. His poems, essays, reviews, and translations have appeared in numerous journals, including The New Republic, Partisan Review, The New Criterion, Poetry, The Yale Review, the New York Times Book Review, and the Los Angeles Times.
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Marguerite Duras
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Overall Influence
1914 - 1996 (82 years)
Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu , known as Marguerite Duras , was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film Hiroshima mon amour earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards.
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Gina Arnold
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Overall Influence
Gina Arnold is an American author, music critic, and academic. A lecturer at Stanford University and an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco, she is the author of four books, including the 33⅓ book on Liz Phair, Exile in Guyville.
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Flavia Bujor
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Overall Influence
1988 - Present (38 years)
Flavia Bujor is a French novelist of Romanian origin. She lived in Romania until the age of two when she moved to Paris, France. She had a passion for stories from an early age. She lives with her parents in Paris.
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Kerstin Hensel
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Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
Kerstin Hensel is a German writer. Biography Hensel was born in 1961 in Karl-Marx Stadt in the former GDR. A trained nurse, she also studied at the Johannes R. Becher Institute of Literature in Leipzig. She has published numerous books in a variety of genres including novels, short stories, poetry and plays. She has won several literary prizes, among which the most notable are the Anna Seghers Prize in 1987 and the Lessing Prize in 1997.
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Richard Blanco
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Overall Influence
1968 - Present (58 years)
In 2023, Blanco was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Biden from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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David Hare
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Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
Sir David Rippon Hare is an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre and film director. Best known for his stage work, Hare has also enjoyed great success with films, receiving two Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay for writing The Hours in 2002, based on the novel written by Michael Cunningham, and The Reader in 2008, based on the novel of the same name written by Bernhard Schlink.
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Chemmanam Chacko
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Overall Influence
1926 - 2018 (92 years)
Chemmanam Chacko was an Indian satirical poet from Kerala, India. He died on 15 August 2018 at the age of 92 at his residence in Padamugal. Early life Chacko was born on 7 March 1926, in the village of Mulakulam in erstwhile Travancore. Chemmanam is his family name. His father was an Orthodox Christian priest. He did his early schooling in Saint Joseph's school, Piravom, and went on to receive his BA honours in Malayalam literature with first rank from University College, Trivandrum. He worked as a professor at Mar Ivanios College and the Department of Malayalam, University of Kerala.
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Peter Hamm
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Overall Influence
1937 - 2019 (82 years)
Peter Hamm was a German poet, author, journalist, editor, and literary critic. He wrote several documentaries, including ones about Ingeborg Bachmann and Peter Handke. He wrote for the German weekly newspapers Der Spiegel and Die Zeit, among others. From 1964 to 2002, Hamm worked as contributing editor for culture for the broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk. He was also a jury member of literary prizes, and critic for a regular literary club of the Swiss television company Schweizer Fernsehen.
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Toeti Heraty
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Overall Influence
1933 - 2021 (88 years)
Toeti Heraty was an Indonesian poet. She has been singled out as the "only woman amongst the leading contemporary Indonesian poets". Biography Toeti Heraty was born in Bandung, Java on 27 November 1933. Her father was a well-known engineering expert Roosseno Soerjohadikoesomo and her siblings all work in the hard sciences. Following her family tradition, she pursued medicine at the University of Indonesia from 1951 until 1955. Then she took an advanced degree in psychology in 1962 and wrote her thesis on Simone de Beauvoir. At Leiden University, Netherlands she took her degree in Philosophy and produced a dissertation on "The I/Ego in Culture" or "Aku Dalam Budaya".
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Heid E. Erdrich
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Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
Heid E. Erdrich is a poet, editor, and writer. Erdrich is Ojibwe enrolled at Turtle Mountain. Early life and education Heid Ellen Erdrich was born in Breckenridge, Minnesota, and was raised in Wahpeton, North Dakota. She comes from a family of seven siblings including sisters Louise Erdrich and Lise Erdrich . Their father Ralph and mother Rita taught at a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school for the Turtle Mountain Band. Their maternal grandfather, Patrick Gourneau, was the tribal chairman of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe from 1953 to 1959 and fought against Indian termination.
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F. W. Bernstein
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Overall Influence
1938 - 2018 (80 years)
F. W. Bernstein was a German poet, cartoonist, satirist, and academic. He worked for the satirical biweekly pardon. After teaching at schools, he was professor of caricature and comics at the Berlin Academy of the Arts from 1984 to 1999. He was one of the founding members of the Neue Frankfurter Schule, which published the satirical magazine Titanic.
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Lewis Nordan
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Overall Influence
1939 - 2012 (73 years)
Lewis Nordan was an American writer. Nordan was born to Lemuel and Sara Bayles in Forest, Mississippi and grew up in Itta Bena, Mississippi. He received his B.A. at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, his M.A. in 1966 from Mississippi State University, and his PhD in 1973 from Auburn University in Alabama. After holding faculty positions at the University of Georgia and the University of Arkansas, he became in 1983 an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh. In 1983, at age forty-five, Nordan published his first collection of stories, Welcome to the Arrow-Catcher Fair. The c...
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Gerald Haslam
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Overall Influence
1937 - 2021 (84 years)
Gerald William Haslam was an author focused on rural and small towns in California's Great Central Valley including its poor and working-class people of all colors. A native of Oildale, California, Haslam has received numerous literary awards.
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Lucy Ellmann
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Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Lucy Ellmann is an American-born British novelist based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Biography Her first book, Sweet Desserts, won the Guardian Fiction Prize. She is the daughter of the American biographer and literary critic Richard Ellmann and the feminist literary critic Mary Ellmann. She is married to the American writer Todd McEwen. Her fourth novel, Dot in the Universe, was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Believer Book Award. Her latest book, Ducks, Newburyport was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 2019. It won the 2019 Goldsmiths Prize and the 2020 Jam...
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Luciano Erba
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Overall Influence
1922 - 2010 (88 years)
Luciano Erba was an Italian poet, literary critic and translator. Life and career Born in Milan, in 1947 Erba graduated in French literature at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. A member of the so-called "Linea Lombarda" movement, he debuted as a poet in 1951 with the collection Linea K.; his style was characterized from a realistic and everyday approach which was at the same time also metaphoric and hermetic.
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Bill Willingham
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Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
William Willingham is an American writer and artist of comics, known for his work on the series Elementals and Fables. Career William Willingham was born in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. During his father's military career the family also lived in Alaska, California, and finally three years in Germany. Willingham got his start from the late 1970s to early 1980s as a staff artist for TSR, Inc., where he illustrated a number of their role-playing game products. He was the cover artist for the AD&D Player Character Record Sheets, Against the Giants, Secret of Bone Hill, the Gamma World book Legion of Gold, and provided the back cover for In the Dungeons of the Slave Lords.
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Kim Hyesoon
#38947
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
Kim Hyesoon is a South Korean poet. Life Kim Hyesoon was born in Uljin County, North Gyeongsang Province. She was raised by her grandmother and had tuberculous pleurisy as a child. She received her Ph.D. in Korean literature from Konkuk University and began her career as a poet in 1979 with the publication of the poem "Dead body Smoking a Cigarette" along with four other of her poems in the literary magazine Literature and Intellect . Kim Hyesoon is Poet, essayist, and critic. She is one of the most prominent and influential contemporary poets of South Korea. She has published fourteen poetry books and four books on poetics.
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Keith Lee Morris
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Overall Influence
Keith Lee Morris is an American author who has published three novels, The Greyhound God , The Dart League King and Traveler's Rest as well as two collections of short stories, The Best Seats in the House and Other Stories and Call It What You Want . His work has been published in A Public Space, Tin House, The Southern Review, Ninth Letter, Story Quarterly, The New England Review, The Cincinnati Review, and The Georgia Review.
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Musaemura Zimunya
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Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
Musaemura Bonas Zimunya is one of Zimbabwe's most important contemporary writers. Life Zimunya was born in Umtali, Rhodesia , to Mandiera Watch and Kufera Zimunya. In 1973 he was expelled from the University of Rhodesia for 'disturbing the peace'. While exiled in Great Britain he studied at the University of Kent, Canterbury. He got a Bachelor's degree in 1978 and a Master's degree in 1979. His MA dissertation was later published as Those Years of Drought and Hunger: The Birth of African Fiction in English in Zimbabwe.
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Annette Kolodny
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Overall Influence
1941 - 2019 (78 years)
Annette Kolodny was an American feminist literary critic and activist, held the position of College of Humanities Professor Emerita of American Literature and Culture at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Her major scholarly writings examined the experiences of women on the American frontiers and the projection of female imagery onto the American landscape. Her other writings examined some aspects of feminism after the 1960s; the revision of dominant themes in American studies; and the problems faced by women and minorities in the American academy.
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Michael Lowenthal
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Overall Influence
1969 - Present (57 years)
Michael Lowenthal, an American fiction writer, is the author of four novels, most recently The Paternity Test . Currently an instructor of creative writing at Lesley University, he has been the recipient of fellowships from the Bread Loaf and Wesleyan writers' conferences, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, and the Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers. His short stories have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The Kenyon Review, Tin House, and Esquire.
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Scott Cairns
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Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Scott Clifford Cairns is an American poet, memoirist, librettist, and essayist. Formal education Cairns earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Western Washington University , a Master of Arts degree from Hollins University , a Master of Fine Arts degree from Bowling Green State University , and a PhD from the University of Utah .
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Kathleen Rooney
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Overall Influence
1980 - Present (46 years)
Kathleen Rooney is an American writer, publisher, editor, and educator. Early life and education Kathleen Rooney was born in Beckley, West Virginia and raised in the Midwest. She earned a B.A. from the George Washington University and an M.F.A. in Writing, Literature, and Publishing from Emerson College. While at Emerson, she was awarded a 2003 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from Poetry Magazine.
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