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#4701

Michael Gizzi

#109390

Overall Influence

1949 - 2010 (61 years)

Michael Gizzi was an American poet, teacher, and licensed arborist. Life Michael Gizzi was born in Schenectady, New York, in 1949, to Carolyn and Anthony Gizzi. He had two brothers, Peter and Thomas Gizzi. He spent part of his childhood living in Ohio and later lived in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, for three years of high school . His parents moved to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, but he later returned to Rhode Island as an undergraduate student at Brown University. He graduated from Brown University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1976, and returned to Brown to earn his Master of Arts degree in English in June 1977.

#4702

Patricia Goedicke

#98511

Overall Influence

1931 - 2006 (75 years)

Patricia Goedicke was an American poet. Biography Born Patricia McKenna in Boston, Massachusetts, she grew up in Hanover, New Hampshire, where her father was a resident psychiatrist at Dartmouth College. During her high school years she was an accomplished downhill skier. She earned her B.A. at Middlebury College in 1953, where she studied with Robert Frost. She also studied under W. H. Auden at Young Men's Hebrew Association of New York City in 1955.

#4703

Susan Brantly

#104536

Overall Influence

Susan Brantly is an American scholar in Scandinavian literature and a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Career Susan Brantly received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in German and Scandinavian from Harvard University in 1980, her Master of Arts Degree in Scandinavian Literature from the University of Minnesota in 1983, and her Ph.D. in Germanic Languages and Literature from Yale University in 1987. That same year, she began working in the Scandinavian Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin, where she is currently a professor. Contemporary Swedish historical fiction remains a central research interest.

#4704

Mick Imlah

#95875

Overall Influence

1956 - 2009 (53 years)

Michael Ogilvie Imlah , better known as Mick Imlah, was a Scottish poet and editor. Background Imlah was brought up in Milngavie near Glasgow, before moving to Beckenham, Kent, in 1966. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he subsequently taught as a Junior Fellow. He helped revive the historic Oxford Poetry before editing Poetry Review from 1983–6, and then worked at the Times Literary Supplement from 1992. His collection The Lost Leader won the Forward Prize for Best Collection, and was shortlisted for the 2009 International Griffin Poetry Prize.

#4705

David Nolan

#37792

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

David Nolan is an American author, civil rights activist, and historian. Biography Nolan was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1946, the son of journalist Joseph T. Nolan and his artist wife Virginia.

#4706

Harvey Shapiro

#79866

Overall Influence

1924 - 2013 (89 years)

Harvey Shapiro was an American poet and editor of The New York Times. He wrote a dozen books of poetry from 1953 to 2006, writing in epigrammatic style about things in his everyday life. As an editor, he was always affiliated with The New York Times in some capacity, mainly in the magazine and book reviews, from 1957 to 2005.

#4707

Micheline Aharonian Marcom

#57025

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Micheline Aharonian Marcom is an American novelist. Life and work Micheline Aharonian Marcom was born in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia in 1968 to an American father and an Armenian-Lebanese mother. She grew up in Los Angeles, but as a child in the years before the Lebanese Civil War, she spent summers in Beirut with her mother's family.

#4708

Laura Pavel

#107516

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Laura Pavel is a Romanian essayist and literary critic. Biography Daughter of Dora Pavel, writer, and Eugen Pavel, linguist, scientific researcher. Married to the literary critic Călin Teutişan. She has a BA in Letters of the "Babeş-Bolyai" University in Cluj-Napoca, the Romanian-English section . PhD in Letters , with a thesis dedicated to Eugène Ionesco . She is part of the literary group gathered around the cultural journal Echinox. Research fellowships at the Université Libre de Bruxelles , Indiana University of Bloomington and the University of Amsterdam . Presently she is Professor at ...

#4709

Kim Sa-in

#119642

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Kim Sain or Kim Sa-in is a South Korean poet, literary critic, and professor of creative writing at Dongduk Women's University. Kim has been appointed as the 7th President of the LTI Korea in the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism of South Korea, which is an Undersecretary-level position.

#4710

Philip Metres

#104400

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Philip Metres is an American writer, poet, translator, scholar, and essayist. His poetry books include Shrapnel Maps, Pictures at an Exhibition, and Sand Opera. He has published poems, essays, and reviews in literary journals and magazines including Poetry, American Poetry Review, New England Review, Tin House, Ploughshares, New American Writing, Massachusetts Review, and others. His work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry; The New American Poetry of Engagement; With Our Eyes Wide Open: Poems of the New American Century; A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Person...

#4711

Jon Pineda

#65861

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Jon Pineda is an American poet, memoirist, and novelist. Life Jon Pineda was raised in Chesapeake, Virginia. He graduated from James Madison University and Virginia Commonwealth University. His work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, The Literary Review, Sou'wester, Prairie Schooner, Many Mountains Moving, Asian Pacific American Journal, Puerto del Sol, and elsewhere.

#4712

John Armleder

#25591

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

John Armleder is a Swiss performance artist, painter, sculptor, critic, and curator. His work is based on his involvement with Fluxus in the 1960s and 1970s, when he created performance art pieces, installations, and collective art activities that were strongly influenced by John Cage. However, Armleder's position throughout his career has been to avoid associating his artistic practice with any type of manifesto.

#4713

William Calin

#94292

Overall Influence

1936 - 2018 (82 years)

William Compaine Calin was a senior scholar of Medieval French literature and French poetry at the University of Florida. His work has focused on Occitan Studies and on Franco-British literary relations.

#4714

Alexandra Chasin

#70277

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Alexandra Chasin is an American experimental writer based in Brooklyn, New York. She is also an associate professor of literary studies at The Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts. Biography Chasin was born in 1961, in Boston, Massachusetts. She attended Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, where she received her bachelor's degree in European Cultural Studies in 1984. In 1993, Chasin earned her Ph.D in Modern Thoughts and Literature from Stanford University. She received her master's degree in fiction writing, in 2002, from Vermont College of Fine Arts.

#4715

Francisco Aragón

Francisco Aragón

#100440

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Francisco Aragón is a Latino poet, editor and writer. Life Born in San Francisco, California, Aragón's parents migrated from Nicaragua in the 1950s. is a graduate of Archbishop Riordan High School. He studied at the University of California at Berkeley and New York University. He earned an MA from the University of California at Davis and an MFA from the University of Notre Dame.

#4716

Paul Attanasio

#79782

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Paul Albert Attanasio is an American screenwriter and film and television producer. He has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, for Quiz Show and Donnie Brasco .

#4717

Hwang Tong-gyu

#127351

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Hwang Donggyu is a South Korean poet, academician and critic. Life Hwang Donggyu was born in Seoul. He received a degree in English literature from Seoul National University, where he also completed his graduate studies. His literary career launched with the publication of works such as "October” and "A Letter of Delight” in the journal Contemporary Literature .

#4718

Sarah Gambito

#109520

Overall Influence

Sarah Gambito is an American poet and professor. She is the author of three collections of poetry, Loves You , Delivered , and Matadora . Her first collection, Matadora , was a New England/New York Award winner and won the 2005 Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry.

#4719

Will Buckingham

#72391

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Will Buckingham is a novelist, non-fiction writer, and philosopher. Born in Norfolk, his education includes a master's degree in anthropology from Durham and a PhD in philosophy from Staffordshire University .

#4720

Mary Rakow

#92347

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Mary Rakow is an American novelist. Life She graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from University of California, Riverside, in 1970, from Harvard University with a master's degree in Theological Studies, and from Boston College with a Ph.D. in Theology, Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit Honor Society. Her work has appeared in Works & Conversations. She has appeared on Writers on Writing, with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett KUCI-FM.

#4721

Qeysar Aminpour

#83522

Overall Influence

1959 - 2007 (48 years)

Kaiser Aminpour was an Iranian poet. Aminpour was one of the several distinguished poets who can be considered the founder of post-Revolution Iranian poetry. Biography Aminpour was born in Gatvand near Dezful, the provincial capital of Iran's Khuzestan Province. He completed early education in Dezful before leaving for the capital Tehran, where he intended to study veterinary medicine at the University of Tehran. However, he abandoned this plan and enrolled into social sciences in 1978.

#4722

Lester Goran

#66312

Overall Influence

1928 - 2014 (86 years)

Lester Goran was an American writer best known for his works about growing up poor the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Early life Goran was born May 16, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His parents were Jacob and Tillie Goran. Goran was raised in a housing project near the University of Pittsburgh. Although the university was close, Goran grew up among the working class culture of the projects. Although he was Jewish, his writing was heavily influenced by the culture of Irish-Americans and the goings on of the local pubs, especially the Irish Club.

#4723

Stuart Sim

#46001

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Stuart Sim is a literary critic, social critic and critical theorist currently holding place as professor of English literature at Northumbria University . He is known for his researches on globalization, postmodernism, poststructuralism, postmarxism, continental philosophy, cultural theory and critical theory. He has taught in the Open University, North-West Region, and also the University of Sunderland and is the author, or editor, of 30 books. Sim has also written numerous journal articles and book chapters and His work has been translated into 17 languages. He was elected a Fellow of the English Association in 2002.

#4724

Ewan Fernie

#100957

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Ewan Fernie is a British scholar and writer. He is professor, fellow and chair of Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. He is also director of the pioneering 'Everything to Everybody' Project, a collaboration between the University of Birmingham and Birmingham City Council.

#4725

Luis Landero

#112145

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Luis Landero is a Spanish writer. He was born in Alburquerque, Badajoz and made his literary debut through the 1989 novel Juegos de la edad tardía . Subsequent novels include Caballeros de fortuna , El mágico aprendiz , El guitarrista , Hoy, Júpiter , Retrato de un hombre inmaduro , Absolución , El balcón en invierno and La vida negociable . He has been translated into several European languages.

#4726

Flip Wilson

#64592

Overall Influence

1933 - 1998 (65 years)

Clerow "Flip" Wilson Jr. was an American comedian and actor best known for his television appearances during the late 1960s and 1970s. From 1970 to 1974, Wilson hosted his own weekly variety series The Flip Wilson Show, and introduced viewers to his recurring character Geraldine. The series earned Wilson a Golden Globe and two Emmy Awards, and it was the second highest-rated show on network television for a time.

#4727

Nancy Eimers

#105331

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Nancy Eimers is an American poet. Life She graduated from Indiana University with an M.A., from the University of Arizona with an M.F.A., and from the University of Houston with a Ph.D. She teaches at Western Michigan University. She is also a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review.

#4728

Ambelin Kwaymullina

#86269

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Ambelin Kwaymullina is a Palyku novelist, illustrator, and assistant professor of law at the University of Western Australia. She was born as the eldest of three children to Sally Morgan, an author and artist, and Paul Morgan, a teacher. She graduated from the University of Western Australia in 1998 with a Bachelor of Laws with honours. Kwaymullina's academic research focuses on both public law, and on Indigenous peoples and the law. Her works of fiction include both young adult science fiction novels and children's picture books.

#4729

John Nichols

#57968

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

John Treadwell Nichols was an American novelist. Nichols graduated from Hamilton College in 1962. Novels Nichols was the author of the "New Mexico trilogy", a series about the complex relationship among history, race and ethnicity, and land and water rights in the fictional town of Chamisaville, New Mexico. The trilogy consists of The Milagro Beanfield War , The Magic Journey, and The Nirvana Blues.

#4730

Brigitte Fontaine

#45649

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Brigitte Fontaine, is a singer of avant-garde music. She has employed numerous unusual musical styles, melding rock and roll, folk, jazz, electronica, spoken word poetry, and world. She has collaborated with Stereolab, Michel Colombier, Jean-Claude Vannier, Areski Belkacem, Gotan Project, Sonic Youth, Antoine Duhamel, Grace Jones, Noir Désir, Archie Shepp, Arno, and The Art Ensemble of Chicago. She is also a novelist, playwright, poet, and actress.

#4731

Yi Seongbok

#125116

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Yi Seongbok is a South Korean poet. Life Yi Seongbok was born on June 4, 1952, in Gyeongsangbuk-do, Korea. Yi earned both his M.A. and B.A. from Seoul National University and has taught French Literature at Keimyung University in Daegu.

#4732

Julie Agoos

#124478

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Julie Agoos is an American poet. Life Julie Agoos is the author of two previous collections of poetry, Above the Land and Calendar Year . She received a BA from Harvard University, and an MA from The Writing Seminars of Johns Hopkins University. She was the 1989 poet in residence at The Frost Place in Franconia, NH.

#4733

Velma Maia Thomas

#97714

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Reverend Velma Maia Thomas is an author and academic from the United States of America. Background Thomas was born June 18, 1955, in Detroit, Michigan. She received her bachelor's degree from Howard University and master's degree from Emory University. She also holds a graduate certificate in Heritage Preservation from Georgia State University.

#4734

Kathleen Peirce

#109812

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Kathleen Peirce is an American poet. She graduated from the Iowa Writer's Workshop in 1988. She currently teaches at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, for the Texas State University MFA. She has one son.

#4735

Larry D. Thomas

Larry D. Thomas

#71697

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Larry D. Thomas is an American poet. He was the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate, and in 2009 was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters. Early life and education Thomas was born in Haskell, Texas in 1947. He attended the University of Houston, where he earned a Bachelor's in English in 1970.

#4736

Kathy Lou Schultz

#84269

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Kathy Lou Schultz is an American author and poet from Burke, South Dakota. Early life and education She was born on November 30, 1966, to Lewis and Jeanne Schultz, who soon after moved the family to Kearney, Nebraska.

#4737

Julianna Baggott

Julianna Baggott

#98022

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Julianna Baggott is a novelist, essayist, and poet who also writes under the pen names Bridget Asher and N.E. Bode. She is an associate professor at Florida State University's College of Motion Picture Arts. She is a 2013 recipient of the Alex Awards.

#4738

Frances Sherwood

#70519

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Frances Sherwood was an American writer, novelist, and educator. Sherwood published four novels and one book of short stories. Her 1992 novel, Vindication, was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. It has been translated into twelve languages.

#4739

Rona Murray

#121187

Overall Influence

1924 - 2003 (79 years)

Rona Jean Murray was a Canadian poet. Life Murray spent her early childhood in India, where her father commanded a Gurkha regiment. When she was eight years old her family immigrated to Canada in 1932.

#4740

Cristanne Miller

#104991

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Cristanne Miller received her PhD in 1980 from the University of Chicago, and was for many years the W.M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor at Pomona College. Since 2006 she has taught at the University at Buffalo in New York, where she is SUNY Distinguished Professor and Edward H. Butler Professor of English.

#4741

Luis López Álvarez

Luis López Álvarez

#72115

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (96 years)

Luis López Álvarez is a Spanish poet and former professor. Biography As a teenager, Luis López Alvarez had Narciso Alonso Cortés as a teacher. He particularly belongs to the poets of the generation of the 50s. With his third book of poems, Las Querencias he presented a total of thirty-seven impeccable classical sonnets which he completed years later in the collection of 113 sonnets that make Querencias y quereres . Meanwhile, with his romance Los Comuneros, he achieved great fame and recognition. He further innovated in his trilogy of poems Cárcava , Tránsito , and Pálpito .

#4742

Parneshia Jones

Parneshia Jones

#98199

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Parneshia Jones is an American publisher, poet, and editor. Life Hailing from Evanston, Illinois, Parneshia Jones grew up visiting her neighborhood library frequently. When she was in sixth grade, she wrote her first poem, about her brother. Through writing this first piece of poetry, she found her passion for writing and poetry.

#4743

Ji Xianlin

#89025

Overall Influence

1911 - 2009 (98 years)

Ji Xianlin was a Chinese Indologist, linguist, paleographer, historian and writer who has been honored by the governments of both India and China. Ji was proficient in many languages including Chinese, Sanskrit, Arabic, English, German, French, Russian, Pali and Tocharian, and translated many works. He published a memoir, The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, about his persecution during the Cultural Revolution.

#4744

Gene Andrew Jarrett

Gene Andrew Jarrett

#89240

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Gene Andrew Jarrett is an American professor, literary scholar, and academic administrator. He is Dean of the Faculty and William S. Tod Professor of English at Princeton University. Prior to his current role at Princeton, Jarrett was the Seryl Kushner Dean of the College of Arts and Science and Professor of English at New York University. Prior to that, he worked at Boston University, where he served as Chair of the English Department from 2011 to 2014 and Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Humanities from 2014 to 2017. At BU he was a professor in the Department of English and the Program in African American Studies.

#4745

William Franke

#98219

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

William Franke is an American academic and philosopher, professor of Comparative Literature at Vanderbilt University . A main exposition of his philosophical thinking is A Philosophy of the Unsayable , a book which dwells on the limits of language in order to open thought to the inconceivable. On this basis, the discourses of myth, mysticism, metaphysics, and the arts take on new and previously unsuspected types of meaning. This book is the object of a Syndicate Forum and of a collective volume of essays by diverse hands in the series “Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion”: Contemporary Debates in Negative Theology and Philosophy.

#4746

Pierre Chuvin

#112005

Overall Influence

1943 - 2016 (73 years)

Pierre Chuvin was a French hellenist and historian. He was specialized on ancient Greece and Greek mythology, as well as modern Central Asia and the Turkic-speaking world. Biography He studied at the Université de Clermont-Ferrand under Francis Vian and the École nationale des langues orientales vivantes, where he learned modern Greek and Turkish, and did an agrégation on classical literature. In 1983 he presented his doctoral thesis on the ancient Greek epic Dionysiaca by Nonnus.

#4747

John Ash

#80037

Overall Influence

1948 - 2019 (71 years)

John Ash was an expatriate British poet and writer. His lifelong interest in Byzantium was a major theme which ran through his poetry, fiction and travel writing, along with family, friends and the three major cities he has lived in. As well as his books , his work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Washington Post and Paris Review.

#4748

Leonard van der Kuijp

#34317

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp is a Dutch professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies and former chair of the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies at Harvard University. Leonard van der Kuijp began his studies in mathematics, but then shifted his attention to Tibet. He received his master's degree at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada, and his doctorate at the University of Hamburg in Germany.

#4749

Leo Haber

#127787

Overall Influence

Leo Haber is an American writer based in New York. Haber was born in Manhattan and studied at City College of New York and is adjunct professor of Hebrew language at Hebrew Union College, New York. Aside from his novel The Red Heifer , his writing has appeared in various magazines. and he is editor of the Midstream magazine.

#4750

Elizabeth Wong

#83078

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Elizabeth Wong is a contemporary American playwright, television writer, librettist, theatrical director, college professor, social essayist, and a writer of plays for young audiences. Her critically acclaimed plays include China Doll is a fictional tale of the actress, Anna May Wong; and Letters to A Student Revolutionary, a story of two friends during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Wong has written for television on All American Girl, starring Margaret Cho. She is a visiting lecturer at the College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, where her papers are a...

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