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#3401

Chandler Brossard

#59808

Overall Influence

1922 - 1993 (71 years)

Chandler Brossard was an American novelist, writer, editor, and teacher. He wrote or edited a total of 17 books. With a challenging style and outsider characters, Brossard had limited critical success in the United States. His novels were more appreciated in France and Great Britain.

#3402

Rob Hood

#76321

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Robert Maxwell Hood is an Australian writer and editor recognised as one of Australia's leading horror writers, although his work frequently crosses genre boundaries into science fiction, fantasy and crime.

#3403

Deb Margolin

#28590

Overall Influence

Deb Margolin is an American performance artist and playwright. She came to prominence in the 1980s in the feminist political theatre troupe Split Britches, which she co-founded with Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw. Margolin has since created a string of one-woman shows. A compilation of her texts, Of All The Nerve: Deb Margolin SOLO, was published in 1999 by Cassell/Continuum Press. Literary theorist Lynda Hart edited and wrote a commentary on each piece.

#3404

Balachandra Rajan

#81884

Overall Influence

1920 - 2009 (89 years)

Balachandra Rajan was an Indian diplomat and a scholar of poetry and poetics. Life and career Focusing particularly on the poetry of John Milton, Rajan was Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Western Ontario and Rajan was Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1944 to 1948, but left England to return to his native India, where he served in the Indian Foreign Service until 1961. During that period he served on the Indian Delegation to the United Nations, working extensively with UNESCO and UNICEF, and chairing an international anti-malaria effort. He served as Chairman of the UNICEF Executive Board from 1955 to 1956.

#3405

Raphaël Baroni

#76625

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Raphaël Baroni is a Swiss narratologist. He is an associate professor in the Department of French as a foreign language at the University of Lausanne. He is mainly interested in the analysis of narrative time, plot, tellability, and sequence, in relation with narrative interest and transmedial analysis. He is the author of La tension narrative . As summarized by Emma Kafalenos, in this book, Baroni emphasizes that:

#3406

Ryan G. Van Cleave

#45336

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Ryan Van Cleave is an American freelance writer, writing coach, and keynote speaker. He runs the creative writing program at the Ringling College of Art and Design in Florida. Life Van Cleave was raised in the Chicago suburbs. He taught creative writing at a number of US universities including Florida State University, the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Clemson University. He is the author of twenty books, including the creative writing textbook Contemporary American Poetry: Behind the Scenes, Memoir Writing for Dummies, and The Weekend Book Proposal: How to Write a Winning Proposal in 48 Hours and Sell Your Book.

#3407

Jennifer Haley

#64214

Overall Influence

Jennifer Haley is an American playwright. She grew up in San Antonio, Texas and studied acting at the University of Texas at Austin for her undergraduate degree. Haley also received a MFA in playwriting at Brown University in 2005, where she worked under American playwright and professor, Paula Vogel. Now living in Los Angeles, Haley is pursuing a career in theatre, film and television.

#3408

Rita Mae Brown

#61157

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Rita Mae Brown is an American feminist writer, best known for her coming-of-age autobiographical novel, Rubyfruit Jungle. Brown was active in a number of civil rights campaigns and criticized the marginalization of lesbians within feminist groups. Brown received the Pioneer Award for lifetime achievement at the Lambda Literary Awards in 2015.

#3409

Raymond Brinley Williams

#109190

Overall Influence

#3410

Claude Couffon

#83716

Overall Influence

1926 - 2013 (87 years)

Claude Couffon was a prolific Spanish to French translator, university professor, French poet, and an expert in Spanish and Latin American literature. Biography He taught Spanish and Latin American literature at Le Sorbonne, Paris, until he retired in 1991.

#3411

André Franquin

#34763

Overall Influence

1924 - 1997 (73 years)

André Franquin was an influential Belgian comics artist, whose best-known creations are Gaston and Marsupilami. He also produced the Spirou et Fantasio comic strip from 1946 to 1968, a period seen by many as the series' golden age.

#3412

Pyun Hye-young

#59522

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Pyun Hye-young is a South Korean writer. Life Pyun Hye-young was born in Seoul in 1972. She earned her undergraduate degree in creative writing and graduate degree in Korean literature from Hanyang University. After receiving these degrees, Pyun worked as an office worker, and many office workers appear in her stories.

#3413

William Morris Meredith Jr.

William Morris Meredith Jr.

#77491

Overall Influence

1919 - 2007 (88 years)

William Morris Meredith Jr. was an American poet and educator. He was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1978 to 1980, and the recipient of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

#3414

Carolyn Cooper

#54508

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Carolyn Cooper CD is a Jamaican author, essayist and literary scholar. She is a former professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. From 1975 to 1980, she was an assistant professor at Atlantic Union College in South Lancaster, Massachusetts. In 1980, she was appointed as a lecturer in the Department of Literatures in English at the University of the West Indies , where she continued to work until her retirement as a professor in 2017. Also a newspaper journalist, Cooper writes a weekly column for the Sunday Gleaner.

#3415

Rukhsana Ahmad

#73996

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Rukhsana Ahmad is a Pakistani writer of novels, short stories, poetry, plays, and a translator, who after marriage migrated to England for further studies and pursue a career in writing. She has campaigned for Asian writers, particularly women.

#3416

Christine Aventin

#76595

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Christine Aventin is a French-language Belgian writer. When she was just 15, she published Le Cœur en poche, which sold over 100,000 copies. Bibliography The daughter of a Dutch teacher, Aventin was born in Hermalle-sous-Argenteau near Liège in southwestern Belgium. She studied French language and literature at University of Liège and English literature at Leeds University. She went on to teach Belgian literature at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. In 1988, when she was 15, she published Le Cœur en poche. It tells the story of Alexandre, a prostitute's daughter, whose life is split between days with her friends at high school and nights in the world of prostitution.

#3417

Mike Allred

#70709

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Michael Dalton Allred is an American comic book artist and writer. He is most well known for his independent comics creation Madman and for co-creating and drawing the comic book series iZombie. His work often draws upon pop art, as well as commercial and comic art of the 1950s and 1960s.

#3418

Stephen Marley

#38516

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Stephen Marley is a British author, voice director and video game designer. He was born in Derby of Irish parents and was educated in Bemrose School in Derby and at Nottingham. He graduated in Social Anthropology in 1971 in London, gained an M.Sc in the Sociology of Science in 1973 and worked on his Ph.D on ancient Chinese science while lecturing in Manchester. He gave up an academic career and took up writing full-time in 1985. From 1995 onwards he has also followed a parallel career in video games. In one game he designed on PlayStation, Martian Gothic, he voice directed, among others, Fenel...

#3419

Catherine Driscoll

#75943

Overall Influence

1900 - Present (126 years)

Catherine Driscoll is an Australian professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. She grew up in Wauchope, New South Wales and was educated at Wauchope High School, the University of Newcastle , and the University of Melbourne. She has worked at the University of Melbourne, the University of Adelaide, and joined the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at the University of Sydney in 2003. She has held visiting fellow positions at Duke University, Columbia University, Cardiff University, and the Australian National University.

#3420

Harjot Oberoi

#18877

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Harjot Singh Oberoi is a Professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He received his PhD from the Australian National University. His thesis earned him the J.G. Crawford Prize in 1987. He is known for his studies of Sikh history, particularly during the late 19th-century and early 20th-century.

#3421

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#60149

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Bonnie Jo Campbell is an American novelist and short story writer. Her most recent work is Mothers, Tell Your Daughters, published with W.W. Norton and Company. Life and work Campbell attended Comstock High School , and received a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1984. From Western Michigan University, she received an MA in mathematics in 1995 and an MFA in creative writing in 1998. She has traveled with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, and has organized adventure bicycle tours in Eastern Europe and Russia.

#3422

Todd F. Davis

#81164

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Todd F. Davis is a prize-winning American poet and critic. Life and work Todd F. Davis is Professor of English and Environmental Studies at Penn State University’s Altoona College. He is the author of five books of poetry, as well as the author or editor of several volumes of literary criticism.

#3423

Graciela Palau de Nemes

#83517

Overall Influence

1919 - 2019 (100 years)

Graciela Palau de Nemes was a Cuban literary critic who specialized in critiquing Spanish and Latin American literature, with a particular focus on the works of the Nobel laureate poet Juan Ramón Jiménez.

#3424

Warren Motte

#71638

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Warren F. Motte is a Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Colorado Boulder. His focus is contemporary writing, with an emphasis upon experimental, avant-garde, or other subversive forms of both fiction and poetry. Motte has authored or edited many volumes of literary criticism, including the first book-length study of the renowned French writer Georges Perec, an authoritative book on the experimental writing group known as Oulipo, and major studies of other writers such as Edmond Jabès, Marie NDiaye, Christine Montalbetti, Antoine Volodine, and Jean Rolin. Motte'...

#3425

Leah Blatt Glasser

#81369

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Leah Blatt Glasser is an American literary critic and Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman scholar at Mount Holyoke College. She was Dean of First-Year Studies and is currently a lecturer in English at Mount Holyoke College. Her former student would later credit Glasser for her success.

#3426

Christopher Nolan

#40871

Overall Influence

1965 - 2009 (44 years)

Christopher Nolan was an Irish poet and author. He was born in Mullingar, Ireland, but later moved to Dublin. He was educated at the Central Remedial Clinic School, Mount Temple Comprehensive School and at Trinity College, Dublin. His first book was published when he was fifteen. He won the Whitbread Book Award for his autobiography in 1987. He was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters in the UK, the medal of excellence from the United Nations Society of Writers, and a Person of the Year award in Ireland.

#3427

Tim Kendall

#76271

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Tim Kendall is an English poet, editor and critic. He was born in Plymouth. In 1994 he co-founded the magazine Thumbscrew, which published work by poets including Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney and Miroslav Holub, and which ran under his editorship until 2003. In 1997 he won an Eric Gregory Prize for his poetry. His latest book of poems, Strange Land, appeared in 2005.

#3428

Maria Dzielska

#55573

Overall Influence

1942 - 2018 (76 years)

Maria Celina Dzielska was a Polish classical philologist, historian, translator, biographer of Hypatia, and political activist. She was a Professor of Ancient Roman History at Jagiellonian University.

#3429

Alan Wearne

#64900

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Alan Wearne is an Australian poet. Early life and education Alan Wearne was born on 23 July 1948 and grew up in Melbourne. He studied history at Monash University, where he met the poets Laurie Duggan and John A. Scott. He was involved in the Poets Union.

#3430

Joel Brouwer

#81190

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Joel Brouwer is an American poet, professor and critic. His most recent poetry collection is Off Message released in 2016 He is also the author of Exactly What Happened, which received the Larry Levis Prize from Virginia Commonwealth University, and Centuries, a National Book Critics Circle "Notable Book."

#3431

Harold Jenkins

#66711

Overall Influence

1909 - 2000 (91 years)

Harold Jenkins, FBA is described as "one of the foremost Shakespeare scholars of his century". His edition of Hamlet was published by Arden Shakespeare in 1982. It represents a peak in the editorial style of drawing on both quarto versions, particularly the 1604 quarto, and also the Folio of 1623, in order to create a single text. He wrote two monographs on Henry Chettle and Edward Benlowes, and he published editions of Elizabethan plays and numerous scholarly articles.

#3432

Walter Sullivan

#83041

Overall Influence

1924 - 2006 (82 years)

Walter Laurence Sullivan was a southern novelist and literary critic. He published a number of works and was an English professor at Vanderbilt University for more than fifty years. He wrote chiefly about the literature, the society, and the values of the South. He was a founding charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.

#3433

Howard V. Hendrix

#45100

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Howard Vincent Hendrix is an American scholar and science fiction writer.. He is the author of the novels Lightpaths and Standing Wave, Better Angels, Empty Cities of the Full Moon, The Labyrinth Key, and Spears of God. His early short stories are found in the ebook Mobius Highway.

#3434

Jane Chapman

#12725

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Jane Chapman is a British academic, professor of communications at the University of Lincoln, a research associate and a former fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge and the Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge. She is the author of twelve books and over 35 academic articles and book chapters.

#3435

Rebecca Brown

#56378

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Rebecca Brown is an American novelist, essayist, playwright, artist, and professor. She was the first writer in residence at Richard Hugo House, co-founder of the Jack Straw Writers Program, and served as the creative director of literature at Centrum in Port Townsend, Washington from 2005 to 2009. Brown's best-known work is her novel The Gifts of the Body, which won a Lambda Literary Award in 1994. Rebecca Brown is an Emeritus faculty member in the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont and is also a multi-media artist whose work has been displayed in galle...

#3436

Laura Howes

#54666

Overall Influence

Laura Howes is an American scholar of Middle English literature. She is the author of Chaucer's Gardens and the Language of Convention and the editor, with Marie Borroff, of the Norton Critical Edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight . Howes received her B.A. from Cornell University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University, and is Professor of English at the University of Tennessee.

#3437

John Espey

#73493

Overall Influence

1913 - 2000 (87 years)

John Jenkins Espey was a novelist, memoirist and literary scholar, born in Shanghai where his parents were Presbyterian missionaries. Espey returned to the United States to study at Occidental College in 1930, then went to Merton College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar in 1935. In 1938, he became a member of the faculty at his alma mater, then taught in the English Department at UCLA from 1948 until his death.

#3438

Barbara Tate

#39657

Overall Influence

1927 - 2009 (82 years)

Barbara Tate was a British artist and writer, perhaps best known for her bestselling book West End Girls, which was published shortly after her death. Career in Art Born in Uxbridge as Barbara June Peddle, her father Charles Jonathan Peddle was a carpenter and lorry-driver. A violent man, he once tied a noose around her neck when she was aged 3 and balanced her on her toes until she was rescued hours later when her mother came home. Abandoned soon after by her mother Elsie Irene, née Williams , she was brought up by her maternal grandparents. In 1944 aged 17 she won a scholarship to Ealing S...

#3439

Betsy Sholl

#71805

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Elizabeth "Betsy" Sholl is an American poet who was poet laureate of Maine from 2006 to 2011 and has authored nine collections of poetry. Sholl has received several poetry awards, including the 1991 AWP Award, and the 2015 Maine Literary Award, as well as receiving fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Maine Arts Commission.

#3440

Tony Schwartz

#14926

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Tony Schwartz is an American journalist and business book author who is best known for ghostwriting Trump: The Art of the Deal. Early life and education Schwartz was born to Irving Schwartz and Felice Schwartz, the founder of the nonprofit organization Catalyst, Inc., which works to build inclusive workplaces and expand opportunities for women and businesses. In 1974, Schwartz graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan, where he majored in American Studies.

#3441

Melanie Rae Thon

#68055

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Melanie Rae Thon is an American fiction writer known for work that moves beyond and between genres, erasing the boundaries between them as it explores diversity, permeability, and interdependence from a multitude of human and more-than-human perspectives.

#3442

Hazel Rowley

#32884

Overall Influence

1951 - 2011 (60 years)

Hazel Joan Rowley was a British-born Australian author and biographer. Born in London, Rowley emigrated with her parents to Adelaide at the age of eight. She studied at the University of Adelaide, graduating with Honours in French and German. Later she acquired a PhD in French. She taught literary studies at Deakin University in Melbourne, before moving to the United States.

#3443

Teresia Teaiwa

#61542

Overall Influence

1968 - 2017 (49 years)

Teresia Teaiwa was a distinguished award winning I-Kiribati and African-American scholar, poet, activist and mentor. Teaiwa was well-regarded for her ground-breaking work in Pacific Studies. Her research interests in this area embraced her artistic and political nature, and included contemporary issues in Fiji, feminism and women's activism in the Pacific, contemporary Pacific culture and arts, and pedagogy in Pacific Studies. An "anti-nuclear activist, defender of West Papuan independence, and a critic of militarism", Teaiwa solidified many connections across the Pacific Ocean and was a hug...

#3444

David Hernández de la Fuente

#68214

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

David Hernández de la Fuente is a Spanish writer, translator and university lecturer who is specialized in Classics. Biography Hernández de la Fuente was born in Madrid in 1974 and he studied at the Complutense University of Madrid. He obtained university degrees in Classics, Spanish Philology and Law from Madrid University and a PhD in Classics , supervised by Carlos García Gual, and Sociology , supervised by Antonio López Peláez and Sagrario Segado Sánchez-Cabezudo. After the completion of his PhD, he has been lecturer of Classical Studies at the Charles III University of Madrid, Fellow of ...

#3445

William Hauptman

#80665

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Born in Texas, William Hauptman received a BFA from the University of Texas Drama Department and later traveled to San Francisco and New York. A graduate who received an MFA from the Yale School of Drama, he is the author of both plays and fiction.

#3446

Richard Marius

#40437

Overall Influence

1933 - 1999 (66 years)

Richard Curry Marius was an American academic and writer. He was a scholar of the Reformation, novelist of the American South, speechwriter, and teacher of writing and English literature at Harvard University. He was widely published, leaving behind major biographies of Thomas More and Martin Luther, four novels set in his native Tennessee, several books on writing, and a host of scholarly articles for academic journals and mainstream book reviews.

#3447

Joan Larkin

#85550

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Joan Larkin is an American poet and playwright. She was active in the small press lesbian feminist publishing explosion in the 1970s, co-founding the independent publishing company Out & Out Books. She is now in her fourth decade of teaching writing. The science fiction writer Donald Moffitt was her brother.

#3448

Robert Mallet

#22272

Overall Influence

1915 - 2002 (87 years)

Robert Mallet was a French writer and academic. He was the first Dean of the University of Antananarivo. He was also the Rector of the Academy of Amiens, Rector-Chancellor of the Académie de Paris, one of the founders of and a professor of the University of Paris-VII, and Chairman of the board of directors of the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie . In 1993 he was awarded the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca.

#3449

Iván Oñate

#91601

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Iván Oñate is an Ecuadorean poet and academic. Oñate was born in on March 17, 1948, in Ambato, Ecuador. He lives in Quito, Ecuador. He has been called “the most original poet of the new generation” by French critics Jean Franco and Jean-Marie Lemogodeuc They further remark that “one must pay attention to his disquieting visions, to his taste for life and vertigo, to his wild revelations mixing anguish and delirium.” He has published eight books of poetry and fiction, and his widely anthologized work has been translated into at least five languages.

#3450

John Whittier Treat

John Whittier Treat

#82800

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

John Whittier Treat is Professor Emeritus of East Asian Languages and Literature at Yale University, Connecticut, United States, where he teaches Japanese literature and culture. He was co-editor of the Journal of Japanese Studies. He has published numerous essays and several books on Japan-related topics. In 2008 he discussed his work with Peter Shea at the University of Minnesota.

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