The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people in Literature,
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Marina Perezagua
#106498
Overall Influence
1979 - Present (47 years)
Marina Perezagua is a novelist and writer in Spanish. Life Perezagua was born in Seville, Spain. She graduated in Art History from the University of Seville and the Universitá Degli Studi di Padova. She obtained her PhD in philology in the United States and later on she became a professor of language, literature, history and Latin American cinema at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Afterwards she worked for two years at the Instituto Cervantes de Lyon. She has three masters degrees and one doctorate.
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Pa. Vijay
#35573
Overall Influence
1974 - Present (52 years)
Pa. Vijay is an Indian lyricist, poet, writer, director, producer and film actor who predominantly works in Tamil cinema. He won the National Film Award for Best Lyrics in India for his song Ovvoru Pookalume in Cheran's Autograph .
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Marion May Campbell
#90062
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Marion May Campbell is a contemporary Australian novelist and an academician. Biography Marion May Campbell was born in Sydney, New South Wales, 1948. Campbell earned a BA in French Literature studying first at the University of New South Wales and completing her degree at the University of Western Australia. She then pursued her post-graduate study at Aix en Provence, writing a dissertation on the work of Stéphane Mallarmé and completed a PhD in Literary Studies and Creative Writing at Victoria University in 2011.
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Sue-Ellen Case
#68613
Overall Influence
1942 - Present (84 years)
Sue-Ellen Case is Professor and Chair of Critical Studies in the Theatre Department in the School of Theater Film and Television at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has published several books, including Feminism and Theatre and The Domain-Matrix: Performing Lesbian at the End of Print Culture. Case has also edited several anthologies of critical works and play texts, including The Divided Home/Land: Contemporary German Women's Plays; Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance, which won the 1996 Lambda Literary Award for Drama; Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre, and many others.
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Lulu Wang
#76835
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Lulu Wang is a Chinese-born writer who has lived in the Netherlands since 1986. She is a best-selling novelist and also a columnist for Shijie Bolan . Early life Lulu Wang was born on 22 December 1960 in Beijing, China. Her mother was a teacher of literature. At Peking University, Wang studied subjects including English language and literature. After graduation, she taught at the university before moving to the Netherlands in 1986, at the age of 26; there she taught Chinese at the Zuyd University of Applied Sciences in Maastricht.
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Roger Greenwald
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Overall Influence
1945 - Present (81 years)
Roger Greenwald is an American poet, translator, and editor based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Biography Roger Greenwald was born in New Jersey, where his father, a physicist, worked at the Fort Monmouth Signal Labs. He grew up in New York City and graduated from the Bronx High School of Science. In 1966 he received his BA from The City College of New York, where together with Richard Strier he edited four issues of the college literary magazine, Promethean, and participated in the weekly Promethean Writers Workshop, which included, among others, Peter Anson, Robert David Cohen, Samuel R. Delany, Joel Sloman, Elaine Schwager, and Lewis Warsh.
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Pauly Shore
#53594
Overall Influence
1968 - Present (58 years)
Paul Montgomery Shore is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker best known for his roles in 1990s comedy films. Shore began as a stand-up comedian at the age of 17, before becoming an MTV VJ in 1989. This led to a starring role in the comedy film Encino Man in 1992, which was a modest hit. He followed this with leading man vehicles, including Son in Law and Bio-Dome . Shore provided the voice of Robert "Bobby" Zimuruski in A Goofy Movie and its direct-to-video sequel, An Extremely Goofy Movie.
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Ruxandra Cesereanu
#85841
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
Ruxandra-Mihaela Cesereanu or Ruxandra-Mihaela Braga is a Romanian poet, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and literary critic. Also known as a journalist, academic, literary historian and film critic, Cesereanu holds a teaching position at the Babeș-Bolyai University , and is an editor for the magazine Steaua in Cluj-Napoca.
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Jerold Frakes
#118210
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Jerold C. Frakes is a significant scholar of medieval European literature across several languages and literatures. He studied at Memphis State University, the Universität Heidelberg, and the University of Minnesota . After more than two decades in the Comparative Literature and the German departments at the University of Southern California, he moved in 2006 to the University at Buffalo, where he was appointed SUNY Distinguished Professor in 2014. He has held visiting appointments at several universities, including the Universität Heidelberg , the Freie Universität Berlin , Columbia Universi...
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Géza Fodor
#79303
Overall Influence
1943 - 2008 (65 years)
Géza Fodor was a Hungarian art and literary critic, philosopher, and dramaturge. He was one of the founding members of the Katona József Theater in Budapest. He worked at the Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences between 1967 and 1973 and at the Faculty of Humanities of the Eötvös Loránd University thereafter.
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Xu Fancheng
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Overall Influence
1909 - 2000 (91 years)
Xu Fancheng , Courtesy name Jihai , also known as Hu Hsu and F.C. Hsu in India, was a Chinese scholar and translator, indologist and philosopher. He translated 50 of the Upanishads into classical Chinese. He also translated Nietzsche's Also sprach Zarathustra, Kalidasa's lyric poem Meghaduuta , and several of Sri Aurobindo's works into Chinese. He was familiar with Greek, Latin, English, French, as well as Sanskrit and German. A 16-volume edition of his complete works was published in 2006.
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Kim Uchang
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Overall Influence
1937 - Present (89 years)
Kim Uchang is a South Korean literary critic and scholar of English literature. He is known for his arguments on building a rational society based on “aesthetic rationality” and moving beyond the dichotomy of conservatism and liberalism, modernism and post-modernism, nationalism and globalism, and literature as an ideology to empower the masses and literature as an art free of any political context.
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Kathryn Davis
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Overall Influence
1946 - Present (80 years)
Kathryn Davis is an American novelist. She is a recipient of a Lannan Literary Award. Life Davis has taught at Skidmore College, and is now senior fiction writer in the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.
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Yuri Ilyich Druzhnikov
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Overall Influence
1933 - 2008 (75 years)
Yuri Ilyich Druzhnikov was born Yuri Izrailevich Alperovich on the 17 April 1933 in Moscow, USSR. He died on the 14 May 2008 in Davis, California. In his lifetime, he worked as an actor, a photographer, an editor, a journalist and travel correspondent, as an author and as a professor of Russian. He was also the vice-president of the American branch of the International PEN club.
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Ping Lu
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Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Lu Ping , born in Kaohsiung in 1953, is a Taiwanese writer who writes under the pen name “Ping Lu”. Her writing encompasses a broad range of genres, including novels, essays, poems, commentary, and theater plays. She is also known in the Chinese-language world for her critique of social phenomenon, ranging from cultural development to gender issues and human rights. Over the past two decades, Ms. Lu has successfully established herself as a prominent novelist, columnist, and commentator in Taiwan.
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Josefina Ludmer
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Overall Influence
1939 - 2016 (77 years)
Josefina Ludmer was an Argentinean professor, essayist, writer, and literary critic. She was a professor at the University of Buenos Aires and later at Yale University , specializing in Latin American literature.
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Biancamaria Frabotta
#65732
Overall Influence
1946 - 2022 (76 years)
Biancamaria Frabotta was an Italian writer. She promoted the study of women writers in Italy and her early poetry focused on feminist issues. The main themes of her later works are melancholy, the dichotomy between Nature and History and between Action and Contemplation, the relationship between the body and the self, and conjugal love. Besides essays on feminism and academic works on poets such as Giorgio Caproni, Franco Fortini, and Amelia Rosselli, she wrote plays, radio-dramas, a television show on Petrarch, and a novel. Until her retirement in 2016, she taught Modern Italian Literature...
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Lesley Lokko
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Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
Lesley Naa Norle Lokko is a Ghanaian-Scottish architect, academic, and novelist. From 2019 to 2020 she was a professor and served as Dean of Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, in addition to holding teaching positions and different careers in Johannesburg, London, Accra and Edinburgh.
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Giorgio Bàrberi Squarotti
#68455
Overall Influence
1929 - 2017 (88 years)
Giorgio Bàrberi Squarotti was an Italian academic, literary critic and poet. He taught at the University of Turin from 1967 until his death in 2017. He was considered to be one of the most important literary critics of his time.
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Jeremy Boissevain
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Overall Influence
1928 - 2015 (87 years)
Jeremy Fergus Boissevain was a Dutch anthropologist. He was Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam. Academic background Boissevain was awarded his PhD in 1962 from the London School of Economics. He was professor of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam continually from 1966 to 1993, and also taught at the Universities of Montreal, Sussex, Malta, New York , Massachusetts , Columbia University and the Jagiellonian University in Cracow.
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Robert Sheppard
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Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
Robert Sheppard is British poet and critic. He is at the forefront of the movement sometimes called "linguistically innovative poetry." Life Robert Sheppard was born in 1955 and was educated at the University of East Anglia . In 1996 he moved from London to Liverpool to teach at Edge Hill University as Professor of Poetry and Poetics and Programme Leader of the MA in Creative Writing. In 1996, Sheppard became Emeritus Professor at Edge Hill.
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Charles Martin
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Overall Influence
1969 - Present (57 years)
Charles Martin is an author from the Southern United States. Martin earned his B.A. in English from Florida State University and went on to receive an M.A. in Journalism and a Ph.D. in Communication from Regent University. He currently lives in Jacksonville, Florida with his wife and three sons.
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James Whitehead
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Overall Influence
1936 - 2003 (67 years)
James Tillotson Whitehead was an American poet and novelist. He published four books of poetry and one novel, Joiner. Biography James Whitehead was born in St. Louis in 1936. He grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, where his family moved after World War II. Standing six foot 5 inches, and known as "Big Jim" he received a football scholarship at Vanderbilt University. However, a serious injury there dashed any hopes he had of a professional career. Instead, he focused on his studies, earning a bachelor's degree in philosophy, then staying for a master's degree in English. He then went to the University of Iowa where he acquired an M.F.A.
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Tobias Reinhardt
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Overall Influence
1971 - Present (55 years)
Tobias Reinhardt is a German classical scholar, specialising in Latin literature and ancient philosophy. Since 2008, he has been the Corpus Christi Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
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Gotzon Garate Goihartzun
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Overall Influence
1934 - 2008 (74 years)
Gotzon Garate Goihartzun was a Basque and Spanish writer and linguist, collector of Basque dialects, Jesuit theologian. He made a significant contribution to Basque philology, sequentially from the Castilian tongue scraping borrowing. He was a polyglot, possessed by most of the Romance languages, English, German, Hindi, and a number of other, often while traveling to a country where the language was spoken, for the purpose of its study.
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Carmen Tafolla
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Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Carmen Tafolla is an internationally acclaimed Chicana writer from San Antonio, Texas, and a professor emerita of bicultural bilingual studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Tafolla served as the poet laureate of San Antonio from 2012 to 2014, and was named the Poet Laureate of Texas for 2015–16. Tafolla has written more than thirty books, and won multiple literary awards. She is one of the most highly anthologized Chicana authors in the United States, with her work appearing in more than 300 anthologies.
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Thomas G. Rosenmeyer
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Overall Influence
1920 - 2007 (87 years)
Thomas Gustav Rosenmeyer was a German-American classical scholar. He was a Professor Emeritus for Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. His main interest was the literature of classical Greece, especially Plato.
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Kurt Almqvist
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Overall Influence
1912 - 2001 (89 years)
Kurt Almqvist was a Swedish poet, intellectual and spiritual figure, representative of the Traditionalist School and the Perennial philosophy. Almqvist was a lifelong disciple of the Swiss metaphysician and spiritual guide Frithjof Schuon. He came into close contact with the spiritual representatives of the Shadhiliyya order in the beginning of the 1940s. He introduced Schuon's teachings on spirituality and transcendent unity of religions in a number of publications. He also introduced the works of René Guénon in his writings. He was a frequent contributor to the quarterly journal, Studies in...
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Gerhard Lauer
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Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Gerhard Lauer is a German literary scholar. He is currently Gutenberg Professor of Book Studies at the University of Mainz. He works on literary history, reading studies, and digital humanities. Lauer initially studied literary studies, philosophy, and musicology at the Saarland University and University of Tübingen, and completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Munich. He was then trained in German studies and Jewish studies. He went on to complete his Doctor of Philosophy in 1992 on the history of scholarship in exile with Wolfgang Frühwald as his doctoral supervisor. In 2000 ...
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Michael Edwards
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Overall Influence
1938 - Present (88 years)
Sir Michael Edwards, OBE is an Anglo-French poet and academic. Life Born in Barnes, SW London, Edwards was educated at Kingston Grammar School and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he read French and Spanish. He wrote his doctoral thesis on Jean Racine, completing it in Paris. He was the longtime Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick until 2002, when he was elected to a professorial chair for the Study of Literary Creation in the English Language at the Collège de France.
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Georgi Bardarov
#82196
Overall Influence
1973 - Present (53 years)
Georgi Kostadinov Bardarov is a Bulgarian scientist and writer. He teaches in the Geology and Geography department of Sofia University, where he is also vice-dean. His debut novel Аз още броя дните came out of the first intellectual reality show on Bulgarian television which Bardarov won in 2015. The book is based on a real-life cross-cultural romance during the siege of Sarajevo in the Bosnian civil war.
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Arthur Lithgow
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Overall Influence
1915 - 2004 (89 years)
Arthur Washington Lithgow III was an American actor and director. He helped pioneer the regional theater movement in the United States and founded two Shakespeare festivals. Early life Lithgow was born in Puerto Plata, the Dominican Republic, the son of Ina Berenice , an American nurse, and Arthur Washington Lithgow II, an American-Dominican entrepreneur born to Ellen Prentiss Peirce, American, and Washington G. Lithgow, a Dominican of American descent, who was a vice consul and vice commercial agent in the country. He first appeared onstage in December 1920 at age 5 as a cherub in a Christma...
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Philippe Beck
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Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
Philippe Beck is a French poet, writer and professor for Philosophy at University of Nantes, in France and European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Biography Beck was a former student of the ENS de Saint-Cloud, having first attended to study philosophy in 1985. He completed a master in literature and an H. dip in philosophy, and later defended a doctoral thesis in philosophy under the supervision of Jacques Derrida. He has been a lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Nantes since 1995. His seminars mainly focus on aesthetics. Since 2006 Beck has been a professor of poetry at ...
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Sidney Goldfarb
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Overall Influence
1942 - Present (84 years)
Sidney Goldfarb is a Harvard College-educated American poet and experimental playwright, whose work continues the tradition of poetic theater. Goldfarb co-founded the acclaimed Creative Writing Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1975, serving as its first director. He continues to teach there today. He is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship , a National Endowment for the Arts grant , a Goethe Foundation Grant , and multiple grants from the New York State Council on the Arts.
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Susan J. Douglas
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Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Susan J. Douglas is an American feminist columnist, and cultural critic who writes about gender issues, media criticism and American politics. She has published five books on American history, and is currently Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor of communication studies at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
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Dennis Scott
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Overall Influence
1939 - 1991 (52 years)
Dennis Scott was a Jamaican poet, playwright, actor and dancer. His well-known poem "Marrysong" is used in the IGCSE syllabus. He was also a theatre director and drama teacher. Biography Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Scott attended Jamaica College, where he became headboy. He was further educated at the University of the West Indies , Mona, and taught in Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago , and at Yale University in the United States. While at UWI he was the assistant editor of Caribbean Quarterly. Thereafter, he went to Athens, Georgia, on a Shubert Playwriting Fellowship , and was later awarded a Commonwealth Fellowship to take an education diploma course in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
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Patricia Edgar
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Overall Influence
1937 - Present (89 years)
Patricia May Edgar AM is an Australian author, television producer, educator and media scholar best known as the founding director of the Australian Children's Television Foundation. Biography Early life Edgar was born in Mildura, Victoria, and moved to California in the 1960s with her husband, author and social researcher Dr. Don Edgar
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Germain Marc'hadour
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Overall Influence
1921 - 2022 (101 years)
Germain Marc'hadour was a French Catholic priest and a professor of English at the Université Catholique de l'Ouest in Angers. He was an internationally recognized authority on the life and work of Saint Sir Thomas More and the founder of the journal Moreana.
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Adrian Oțoiu
#98311
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Adrian Oțoiu is a novelist, essayist and translator. He was born on 30 April 1958 in Râmnicu Sărat, in southeastern Romania. As his father was an aviation pilot, he spent his childhood in the company of airplanes.
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Charles Dédéyan
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Overall Influence
1910 - 2003 (93 years)
Charles Dédéyan was a French-Armenian Romance philologist, literature comparatist and specialist of French literature. Biography Dédéyan defended his thesis at the Sorbonne . From 1942 he was a lecturer at the University of Rennes and from 1945 to 1949 professor at the University of Lyon. From 1949 he held the chair of Comparative Literatures at the Sorbonne.
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David Morris
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Overall Influence
1942 - Present (84 years)
David B. Morris is a writer and scholar, emeritus professor of literature at the University of Virginia. His main interest is pain and its various manifestations. Interest in pain Morris wrote an award-winning article about pain for Arthritis Today, and lectured to wide audiences like American Academy of Pain Medicine, American Pain Society, American Society for Pain Management Nurses and The International Association for the Study of Pain . Morris is a founding co-director of the Taos Writing Retreat for Health Professionals, co-sponsored by Kaiser-Permanente and the University of New Mexico...
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Susie Bright
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Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Susannah Bright is an American feminist, author and journalist, often on the subject of politics and sexuality. She is the recipient of the 2017 Humanist Feminist Award, and is one of the early writers/activists referred to as a sex-positive feminist. Her papers are part of the Human Sexuality Collection at Cornell University Library along with the archives of On Our Backs.
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Christian Merlin
#104767
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
Christian Merlin is a French contemporary music critic and musicologist. Biography Christian Merlin, who holds an agrégation in German and a doctorate in literature, is a musicologist and a lecturer at the Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III. A music critic at Le Figaro and the magazine Diapason, he contributes to programmes on France Musique such as Le Casque et l'enclume and Classic Club. He is also the author or editor of several issues of L'Avant-Scène Opéra, as well as of a book devoted to the symphony orchestra, documented by long years of acquaintance with instrumentalists and con...
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Richard Gilman
#102802
Overall Influence
1923 - 2006 (83 years)
Richard Martin Gilman was an American drama and literary critic. Early life On April 30, 1923, Gilman was born as Richard Martin Gilman in Brooklyn, New York, U.S. Gilman's family is Jewish. Education In 1947, Gilman graduated with a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin.
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Ostap Slyvynsky
#108351
Overall Influence
1978 - Present (48 years)
Ostap Slyvynsky is a Ukrainian poet, essayist, translator, literary critic, and academic. He is the author of several collections of poetry and was a recipient of Ukrainian and international literary awards. He is also noted for translating several works of fiction from other languages into Ukrainian.
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Craig Lucas
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Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Craig Lucas is an American playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, musical actor, and film director. Biography Born on April 30, 1951, he was found abandoned in a car in Atlanta, Georgia. Lucas was adopted when he was eight months old by a conservative Pennsylvania couple. His father was an FBI agent; his mother was a painter. She was born Jewish but suppressed the identity, which Lucas relates in his storytelling. He graduated in 1969 from Conestoga High School in Berwyn, Pennsylvania. In the 1960s and 1970s, Lucas became interested in the political left and discovered an attraction toward men.
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Susan Palwick
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Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
Susan Palwick is an American writer and associate professor emerita of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. She began her professional career by publishing "The Woman Who Saved the World" for Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in 1985.
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Carl Joachim Classen
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Overall Influence
1928 - 2013 (85 years)
Carl Joachim Classen was a German classical scholar. Biography Classen studied classics at Göttingen and Hamburg. His academic teachers include Ernst Zinn and Bruno Snell in Hamburg and Kurt Latte in Göttingen. After being promoted to Dr. phil. in 1952 he took the first and second state examination in 1952 and 1956, respectively. He attained the B. Litt. at the University of Oxford in 1956 and worked as a lecturer of classics at the University of Ibadan for three years. After his return to Germany he worked as a lecturer at the Göttingen university, completing his Habilitation in 1961.
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Robert Bausch
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Overall Influence
1945 - 2018 (73 years)
Robert Bausch was an American fiction writer, the author of nine novels and one collection of short stories. He was a Professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College, and he had taught at the University of Virginia, The American University, Johns Hopkins University, George Mason University, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His fourth novel, A Hole in the Earth, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Washington Post Favorite Book of the Year. He was awarded the Fellowship of Southern Writers' award for fiction for his fifth novel, The Gypsy Man. In 2...
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Ronald Johnson
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Overall Influence
1935 - 1998 (63 years)
Ronald Johnson was an American poet. Born in Ashland, Kansas, he graduated from Columbia University, lived in New York in the late 1950s, wandered around Appalachia and Britain for a number of years, then settled in San Francisco for the next twenty-five years before returning to Kansas, where he died.
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