The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people in Literature,
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Olga Xirinacs Díaz
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Overall Influence
1936 - Present (90 years)
Olga Xirinacs Díaz is a Spanish writer and piano teacher. During her literary career, she has written poetry, drama, tales and essays. She was born in Tarragona , where she still lives and works. Xirinacs often writes in the daily press: her articles have been published in La Vanguardia, Avui, and Foc Nou, amongst others. She has given narrative courses in the Aula de Lletres and in Barcelona's Pompeu Fabra University.
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Susan Sellers
#63498
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Susan Sellers is a British author, translator, editor and novelist. She was the first woman to be made a Professor in the field of English literature as well as creative writing at the University of St Andrews, and is co-General Editor of the Cambridge University Press edition of the writings of Virginia Woolf.
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Richard Bausch
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Overall Influence
1945 - Present (81 years)
Richard Bausch is an American novelist and short story writer, and Professor in the Writing Program at Chapman University in Orange, California. He has published twelve novels, eight short story collections, and one volume of poetry and prose.
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Claire Kahane
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Overall Influence
1935 - Present (91 years)
Claire Kahane is an American writer, scholar and feminist literary critic. She is Professor Emerita of English at the University at Buffalo, where she taught from 1974 to 2000. Kahane is the author of Passions of the Voice, a study of narrative and "the strategies of hysteric discourse." Scholar Christine Wiesenthal, writing in the journal Victorian Review, wrote that "the confluence of feminist, narrative, and psychoanalytic theory" in Passions of the Voice was "an innovative and provocative mix." Kahane is also the co-editor, with Charles Bernheimer, of In Dora's Case, a collection of essay...
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Chris Carey
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Overall Influence
Chris Carey, FBA is a British classical scholar, currently Professor Emeritus of Greek at University College London . He held the Professorship of Greek at UCL, from 2003 until his retirement in 2016. In April 2000 The Independent named him one of the "stars of modern classical scholarship".
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Arturo Vivante
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Overall Influence
1923 - 2008 (85 years)
Arturo Vivante was an Italian American fiction writer. He was the son of Elena , a painter, and Leone Vivante, a philosopher. The family fled to England in 1938, anticipating the war and the fascist government's anti-Semitic policies . The British sent Arturo to an internment camp in Canada while his family remained in England for the duration of the war. He graduated from McGill University in 1944 and received his medical degree at University of Rome in 1949. He practiced medicine in Rome until 1958, but thereafter moved to New York to pursue writing full-time.
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Martin Hose
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Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
Martin Hose is a German classical philologist. After achieving the Abitur in 1981, Hose studied classical philology, history, and education at the Universities of Hamburg and Konstanz and graduated in 1988 from Konstanz with the Staatsexamen and the master of arts. After that, he taught at University College London from 1988 to 1989 and at the University of Konstanz from 1988 to 1994, where received his doctorate in 1990 for a work on the Chorus in Euripides and his habilitation in 1993 for a work on the historians of the Roman empire from Florus to Cassius Dio. In 1994 he received a position...
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Stuart Tave
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Overall Influence
1923 - Present (103 years)
Stuart Malcolm Tave is an American literary scholar. Tave graduated from Columbia University, earned a master's degree at Harvard University, and completed a D. Phil at the University of Oxford. Tave taught at the University of Chicago, where he served as chair of the English department, dean of the Division of the Humanities, and William Rainey Harper Professor. He received a Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching from the institution in 1958, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1959. Upon his retirement in 1993, Tave was granted emeritus status. In 2000, the Univers...
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Susham Bedi
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Overall Influence
1945 - 2020 (75 years)
Susham Bedi was an Indian author of novels, short stories and poetry. She was a professor of Hindi language and literature at the department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University, New York. She wrote predominantly about the experiences of Indians in the South Asian diaspora, focusing on psychological and 'interior' cultural conflicts. Unlike other prominent Indian American novelists she wrote mainly in Hindi rather than in English. She has been widely translated into English, French, Dutch and other languages by artists, academics, and students.
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Theresa Williams
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Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Theresa Williams is a contemporary fiction writer whose works include The Secret of Hurricanes: A Novel and short stories in such magazines and journals as The Sun, The Chattahoochee Review, and Hunger Mountain. She is the recipient of an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council and her novel, The Secret of Hurricanes was a finalist for the Paterson Fiction Prize. She teaches literature and creative writing at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.
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Hattie Naylor
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Overall Influence
Hattie Naylor is an English playwright. Her 2009 Ivan and the Dogs won the Tinniswood Award for original radio drama and was nominated in the 2010 Olivier Awards for Outstanding Contribution to Theatre. It has since been developed into a film directed by Andrew Kôtting called Lek and the Dogs . Other productions include Weighting Extraordinary Bodies, national tour 2015/16. Her work as a librettist includes Picard in Space with Will Gregory directed by Jude Kelly, for the Electronica Festival at the Southbank 2012. The Night Watch, her adaptation of Sarah Water’s novel, Manchester Royal Ex...
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M. Thomas Inge
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Overall Influence
1936 - 2021 (85 years)
M. Thomas Inge was an American academic. He was the Robert Emory Blackwell Professor of Humanities at Randolph–Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, where he taught, edited, and wrote about Southern literature and culture, American humor and comic art, film and animation, Asian literature, and William Faulkner.
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Sianne Ngai
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Overall Influence
1971 - Present (55 years)
Sianne Ngai is an American cultural theorist, literary critic, and feminist scholar. From 2000 to 2007 she was an Assistant Professor of English at Stanford University, from 2007-2011 an Associate Professor of English at UCLA, and from 2011 to 2017 Professor of English at Stanford University. She joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in fall 2017. Ngai earned her B.A. from Brown University in 1993 and her Ph.D from Harvard in 2000.
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David Vann
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Overall Influence
1966 - Present (60 years)
David Vann was born October 19, 1966, on Adak Island in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. He is a novelist and short story writer, and is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of Warwick in England. Vann received a Guggenheim Fellowship and has been a National Endowment of the Arts fellow, a Wallace Stegner fellow, and a John L’Heureux fellow. His work has appeared in many magazines and newspapers. His books have been published in 23 languages and have won 14 prizes and been on 83 'best books of the year' lists. They have been selected for the New Yorker Book Club, the Time...
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Richard Macksey
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Overall Influence
1931 - 2019 (88 years)
Richard Alan Macksey was Professor of Humanities and co-founder and longtime Director of the Humanities Center at The Johns Hopkins University, where he taught critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies. Professor Macksey was educated at Johns Hopkins, earning his B.A. in 1953 and his Ph.D. in 1957. He taught at Johns Hopkins since 1958. He was the longtime Comparative Literature editor of MLN , published by Johns Hopkins University Press. He was a recipient of the Hopkins Distinguished Alumnus Award. Dr. Macksey also presided over one of the largest private libraries in Maryland, with over 70,000 books and manuscripts.
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Mike Mignola
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Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Michael Mignola is an American comic book artist and writer best known for creating Hellboy for Dark Horse Comics, part of a shared universe of titles including B.P.R.D., Abe Sapien, Lobster Johnson, and various spin-offss. He has also created other supernatural and paranormal themed titles for Dark Horse including Baltimore, Joe Golem, and The Amazing Screw-On Head.
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Ken George
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Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
Kenneth John George is a British oceanographer, poet, and linguist. He is noted as being the originator of Kernewek Kemmyn, an orthography for the revived Cornish language which he claims is more faithful to Middle Cornish phonology than its precursor, .
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Jirō Akagawa
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Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Jirō Akagawa is a Japanese novelist born in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. Biography Best known for his humorous mysteries, Akagawa's first short story, "Ghost Train", was published in 1976 and went on to win the annually granted All Yomimono New Mystery Writers' Prize by Bungeishunjū, a Japanese literary publishing company. Other works of his, The Incident in the Bedroom Suburb and Voice from Heaven, were later made into anime, while Sailor Suit and Machine Gun was made into a popular live action movie. His most recognized works to date pertain to his Mike-neko Holmes series. He is extr...
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Enoch Powell
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Overall Influence
1912 - 1998 (86 years)
John Enoch Powell, , was a British politician. He served as a Conservative Member of Parliament and was Minister of Health then Ulster Unionist Party MP . Before entering politics, Powell was a classical scholar. During the Second World War, he served in both staff and intelligence positions, reaching the rank of brigadier. He also wrote poetry, and many books on classical and political subjects.
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Alan Shapiro
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Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Alan Richard Shapiro is an American poet and professor of English and creative writing at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Shapiro's poetry books include Tantalus in Love, Song and Dance, and Dead Alive and Busy. In addition to poetry, Shapiro has published two personal memoirs, Vigil and The Last Happy Occasion.
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Igor Torkar
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Overall Influence
1913 - 2004 (91 years)
Igor Torkar was the pen name of Boris Fakin , a Slovenian writer, playwright, and poet best known for his literary descriptions of Communist repression in Yugoslavia after World War II. Life Torkar was born in a Slovene family in the village of Kostanjevica na Krasu, then part of the Austro-Hungarian County of Gorizia and Gradisca, now in Slovenia. He attended the Poljane Grammar School in Ljubljana. His teachers included the literary historian France Koblar, the writer Juš Kozak, and the painter Božidar Jakac.
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Charles Higham
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Overall Influence
1931 - 2012 (81 years)
Charles Higham was an English author, editor and poet. After moving to Australia in 1954, Higham began a career in journalism, before moving to the United States in 1969. In the United States, he became known as a celebrity biographer, mainly of film stars, such as Katharine Hepburn and Errol Flynn. The latter book, among several during Higham's career, was criticized for fabrications. Close friends of another of his subjects, Orson Welles, in particular Peter Bogdanovich, were critical of Higham's interpretation of his career.
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Petr Král
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Overall Influence
1941 - 2020 (79 years)
Petr Král was a Czech writer, initially influenced by surrealism. Král was born in Prague. Having graduated from FAMU, he worked as an editor in the Orbis publishing house, where he focused on a line of books about film and filmmakers. In 1968, he emigrated to France where he worked in a gallery, a photo shop, as a teacher, interpreter, translator, screenplay author, reviewer and so on. In 1984 he lived in Québec. From 1990 to 1991 he was a cultural counsellor at the Czech embassy in Paris. He translated from and into French . He edited several anthologies. Since April 2006, he resided in Pra...
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Darcey Bussell
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Overall Influence
1969 - Present (57 years)
Dame Darcey Andrea Bussell, is an English retired ballerina and a former judge on the BBC television dance contest Strictly Come Dancing. Trained at the Arts Educational School and the Royal Ballet School, Bussell started her professional career at Sadlers Wells Royal Ballet, but after only one year she moved to the Royal Ballet, where she became the youngest-ever principal dancer at the age of 20 in 1989. Bussell is widely acclaimed as one of the great British ballerinas.
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Virgil Nemoianu
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Overall Influence
1940 - Present (86 years)
Virgil Nemoianu is a Romanian-American essayist, literary critic, and philosopher of culture. He is generally described as a specialist in "comparative literature" but this is a somewhat limiting label, only partially covering the wider range of his activities and accomplishments. His thinking places him at the intersection of neo-Platonism and neo-Kantianism, which he turned into an instrument meant to qualify, channel, and tame the asperities, as well as what he regarded the impatient accelerations and even absurdities of modernity and post-modernity. He chose early on to write within the i...
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Hans-Joachim Newiger
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Overall Influence
1925 - 2011 (86 years)
Hans-Joachim Newiger was a German classical philologist. Life Born in Königsberg, Newiger was appointed on 21 December 1953 at the University of Kiel with his Dissertation Metaphern und Chorpersonifikationen bei Aristophanes, which was published in 1957 in extended form under the title Metapher und Allegorie. Studien zu Aristophanes . In 1955/56 he received the . His habilitation was completed in 1968 at the University of Kiel under Hans Diller and with a study of the writing of Gorgias about the non-being. From 1969 to 1971 he was professor of classical philology at the TU Berlin. In 1971 h...
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Roger Luckhurst
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Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
Roger Luckhurst is a British writer and academic and since 2020 the Geoffrey Tillotson Chair of Nineteenth Century Studies at Birkbeck College. He was appointed professor in modern and contemporary literature in the Department of English, Theatre, and Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London in 2008 and was distinguished visiting professor at Columbia University in 2016. He works on Victorian literature, contemporary literature, Gothic and weird fiction, trauma studies, and speculative/science fiction. Luckhurst is notable for his introductions and editorships to the Oxford World's C...
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Philippe Forest
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Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Philippe Forest is a French author and professor of literature. He has been awarded the First Novel Prix Femina and the Prix Décembre , and his works have been translated into English, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. He has taught at several Universities, including Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Saint-Andrews, and the University of Nantes.
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Alison Light
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Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
Alison Light, is a writer, critic and independent scholar. She is the author of five books to date. In 2020 A Radical Romance, was awarded the Pen Ackerley prize, the only prize for memoir in the UK. Common People: The History of an English Family was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize. She has held a number of academic posts and is currently an Honorary Fellow in History and English at Pembroke College, Oxford. She is also an Honorary Professor in the Department of English, University College, London and an Honorary Professorial Fellow in the Department of English, Edinburgh University.
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Tanya Grae
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Tanya Grae is an American poet and essayist, whose debut collection Undoll was awarded the Julie Suk Award and a Florida Book Award and was a National Poetry Series finalist. Her poems and essays have been widely published in literary journals, including Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, AGNI, Prairie Schooner, Post Road, and The Massachusetts Review. Grae was born in Sumter, South Carolina, while her father was stationed at Shaw AFB. She grew up traveling the United States as her father relocated for the military every few years and often writes about those early experiences. Her family is from Nashville, Tennessee and is of Irish, Dutch, and Cherokee descent.
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Pierre-Georges Castex
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Overall Influence
1915 - 1995 (80 years)
Pierre-Georges Castex was a French academic, literary critic and author. Professor of Modern French Literature at Paris-Sorbonne University from 1956 until 1982, Castex was distinguished by election as a Member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques in 1974.
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Clifford Ando
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Overall Influence
1969 - Present (57 years)
Clifford Ando is an American classicist who specializes in Roman law and religion. His work deals primarily with law, religion, and government in the Imperial era, particularly issues of Roman citizenship, legal pluralism, and legal procedure. In the history of law, his work addresses the relations among civil law, public law, and international law.
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Arno Karlen
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Overall Influence
1937 - 2010 (73 years)
Arno Chanoch Karlen was an American poet, psychoanalyst, and popular science writer. He won the 1996 Rhone-Poulenc Prize for science books with Plague's Progress. Biography Early life Arno Karlen was born on May 7, 1937, in Philadelphia. His parents were Jewish immigrants from modern-day Belarus and Ukraine who immigrated to the United States in the early 1900s. He was a talented child who was promoted two grades and finished high school at 15. As a teenager, he was interested in literature, science, and classical music. He studied music, and graduated from Antioch College with majors in Eng...
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Jonathan Harvey
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Overall Influence
1968 - Present (58 years)
Jonathan Paul Harvey is an English screenwriter, actor, playwright and author. Life and works Harvey was born in Liverpool, Lancashire in 1968 to Maureen and Brian Harvey. He has a brother, Timothy, who is a music teacher in Chester. A former secondary school English teacher, his first serious attempt as a playwright was in 1987. He entered a competition, with a first prize of £1,000, for young writers at the Liverpool Playhouse, with his play The Cherry Blossom Tree, a blend of suicide, murder and nuns. He won National Girobank Young Writer of the Year Award for The Cherry Blossom Tree.
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Halim Barakat
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Overall Influence
1933 - 2023 (90 years)
Halim Barakat was an Arab novelist and sociologist. He was born into a Greek-Orthodox Arab family in Kafroun, Syria, and raised in Beirut. Career Barakat received his bachelor's degree in sociology in 1955, and his master's degree in 1960 in the same field. He received both from the American University of Beirut. He received his PhD in social psychology in 1966 from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. From 1966 until 1972 he taught at the American University of Beirut. He then served as research fellow at Harvard University from 1972 to 1973, and taught at the University of Texas at Austin in 1975-1976.
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Joe Meno
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Overall Influence
1974 - Present (52 years)
Joe Meno is an American novelist, writer of short fiction, playwright, and music journalist based in Chicago. Biography After attending Columbia College Chicago, Meno spent time working as a flower delivery truck driver and art therapy teacher at a juvenile detention center. His first novel Tender as Hellfire was published when he was only 24 and received strong reviews from sources like Library Journal. His short fiction has appeared in literary magazines like TriQuarterly, Ninth Letter, Joyland: A hub for short fiction, and Other Voices. He currently teaches fiction writing at Columbia College Chicago.
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Patrick Phillips
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Overall Influence
1970 - Present (56 years)
Patrick Phillips is an American poet, writer, and professor. He teaches writing and literature at Stanford University, and is a Carnegie Foundation Fellow and a fellow of the Cullman Center for Writers at the New York Public Library. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Copenhagen, and previously taught writing and literature at Drew University. He grew up in Georgia and now lives in San Francisco.
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Alison Fell
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Overall Influence
1944 - Present (82 years)
Alison Fell is a Scottish poet and novelist with a particular interest in women's roles and political victims. Her poems have appeared in many anthologies. Her children's books also pass on social messages.
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Peter Dronke
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Overall Influence
1934 - 2020 (86 years)
Ernst Peter Michael Dronke FBA was a scholar specialising in Medieval Latin literature. He was one of the 20th century's leading scholars of medieval Latin lyric, and his book The Medieval Lyric is considered the standard introduction to the subject.
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Richard Altick
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Overall Influence
1915 - 2008 (93 years)
Richard Daniel Altick was an American literary scholar, known for his pioneering contributions to Victorian Studies, as well as for championing both the joys and the rigorous methods of literary research.
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Guillermo Morón
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Overall Influence
1926 - 2021 (95 years)
Guillermo Morón Montero was a Venezuelan writer and historian. Guillermo Morón has won awards including the Municipal Prize of Literature , and the National Prize for Literature . Published works El libro de la fe Los Cronistas y la Historia Los borradores de un Meditador Historia de Venezuela Historia política de José Ortega y Gasset Imágenes y nombres Microhistorias Textos sobre Lisandro Alvarado Historia de Francisco y otras maravillas El gallo de las espuelas de oro Homenaje a Don Rómulo Gallegos Ciertos animales criollos Los más antiguos Son españoles Los presidentes de Venezuela El ca...
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W. S. Di Piero
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Overall Influence
1945 - Present (81 years)
William Simone Di Piero is an American poet, translator, essayist, and educator. He has published ten collections of poetry and five collections of essays in addition to his translations. In 2012 Di Piero received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for his lifetime achievement; in making the award, Christian Wiman noted, "He’s a great poet whose work is just beginning to get the wide audience it deserves."
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Lucie Brock-Broido
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Overall Influence
1956 - 2018 (62 years)
Lucie Brock-Broido was an American author of four collections of poetry. Biography She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A graduate of the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, she was Director of Poetry in the Writing Division at Columbia University School of the Arts in New York City.
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Sheila Murphy
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Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Sheila E. Murphy is an American text and visual poet who has been writing and publishing since 1978. She is the recipient of the Gertrude Stein Award for her book Letters to Unfinished J. Green Integer Press. 2003. Murphy was awarded the Hayku Poetry Book Prize from Meritage Press and xPress in 2017 for her book Reporting Live from You Know Where. 2018. She currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Graham Foust
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Overall Influence
1970 - Present (56 years)
Graham W. Foust is an American poet and currently is an associate professor at the University of Denver. Early life and education Foust was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and grew up in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing from Beloit College, a Master of Fine Arts from George Mason University, and a Ph.D. from the State University of New York-Buffalo.
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Santanu Kumar Acharya
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Overall Influence
1933 - Present (93 years)
Santanu Kumar Acharya is a National Sahitya Academy Award-winning Indian writer. Life Acharya, born in 1933 in Kolkata, comes from the village Siddheswar Pur of the Cuttack district Odisha. He served the Government of Odisha as a college teacher for 34 years, from 1958 to 1992. He retired as the Registrar of Utkal University.
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Noboru Tsujihara
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Overall Influence
1945 - Present (81 years)
Noboru Tsujihara is a prize-winning Japanese novelist. Early life Tsujihara was born in 1945. Prizes and honours 1990 Akutagawa Prize for Mura no namae 1999 Yomiuri Prize for Tobe kirin 2000 Tanizaki Prize for Yudotei Enboku 2005 Kawabata Yasunari Prize for Kareha no naka no aoi honoo 2012 Medal with Purple Ribbon2022 Person of Cultural Merit
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David Koepp
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Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
David Koepp is an American screenwriter. He is the ninth most successful screenwriter of all time in terms of U.S. box office receipts with a total gross of over $2.3 billion. Koepp has achieved both critical and commercial success in a wide variety of genres: thriller, science fiction, comedy, action, drama, crime, superhero, horror, adventure, and fantasy.
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Kimberly Johnson
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Overall Influence
1971 - Present (55 years)
Kimberly Johnson is an American poet and Renaissance scholar. Life Johnson was raised in Utah. She earned her MA in 1995 from the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars, her MFA in 1997 Iowa Writers' Workshop, and a PhD in 2003 from University of California, Berkeley.
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Tom Grimes
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Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Tom Grimes is an American novelist, playwright, and creative writing instructor. He currently teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Texas State University in San Marcos, and served as the program's director from 1996 to 2015.
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