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#4851

Dean Rader

#110540

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Dean Rader is an American writer and professor who teaches at the University of San Francisco, in the Department of English, where he has also served as department chair. Rader holds M.A. and Ph.D. in comparative literature from the State University of New York at Binghamton where he studied translation, poetry, visual culture, and literary studies. He is primarily known for his poems that mix high and low art and his scholarly work on Native American poetry.

#4852

Celia Correas de Zapata

#118913

Overall Influence

1933 - 2022 (89 years)

Celia Correas de Zapata was an Argentine academic, poet, and author, and a leading scholar of the history of Latin American women writers. She was a professor of literature at San Jose State University, and was director of the 1976 Conference of Inter-American Women Writers, one of the earliest U.S. conferences in this field.

#4853

Michaela DePrince

#41232

Overall Influence

1995 - Present (31 years)

Michaela Mabinty DePrince is a Sierra Leonean-American ballet dancer, currently dancing with the Boston Ballet. She rose to fame after starring in the documentary First Position in 2011, following her and other young ballet dancers as they prepared to compete at the Youth America Grand Prix. With her adoptive mother, Elaine DePrince, she authored the book Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina. DePrince formerly danced with the Dance Theatre of Harlem as the youngest dancer in the history of the company and was a former soloist with the Dutch National Ballet. Since 2016, Michaela is...

#4854

Lisa Kron

#88030

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Elizabeth S. "Lisa" Kron is an American actress and playwright. She is best known for writing the lyrics and book to the musical Fun Home for which she won both the Tony Award for Best Original Score and the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical. Fun Home was also awarded the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2015 and the 2014 Obie Award for writing for musical theater.

#4855

Len Roberts

#64087

Overall Influence

1947 - 2007 (60 years)

Len Roberts was an American poet. Life He graduated from Siena College, the University of Dayton with a master's degree, and from Lehigh University with a Ph.D. He presented some of his work at Lafayette College. Allen Ginsberg sent his manuscript to a publisher which was Cohoes Theater.

#4856

Cynthia Macdonald

Cynthia Macdonald

#113068

Overall Influence

1928 - 2015 (87 years)

Cynthia Lee Macdonald was an American poet, educator, and psychoanalyst. Life Macdonald was born in Manhattan to screenwriter Leonard Macdonald and his wife Dorothy Kiam Macdonald. She earned a B.A. in English from Bennington College in 1950 and pursued studies in voice at the Mannes School of Music in 1951-1952. She pursued a career in opera and concert singing from 1953-1966. After changing her focus to poetry, Macdonald received a master's degree in writing and literature from Sarah Lawrence College.

#4857

Paul Miron

#94756

Overall Influence

1926 - 2008 (82 years)

Paul Miron was a Romanian linguist and philologist, professor at the University of Freiburg, the first professor of Romanian Language and Literature in West Germany. External links "Paul Miron ", serie nouă, XIII, 2008, nr. 2, Cluj-Napoca, p. 113–115Sorin Lavric, "Paul Miron la 80 de ani", in România literară, 23/2006 "Paul Miron ", in România literară, 16/2008 Antonina Sârbu, "Doi ani fără Poștalionul din vis, Paul Miron", Revista Limba Română, nr. 3-6, year XXI, 2011

#4858

Kavoos Hasanli

#104555

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Kavoos Hasanli is poet, critic, and professor at Shiraz University. Biography Kavoos Hasanli was born on May 22, 1962, in Qanat-e No, a village in the county of Khorrambid in Fars Province, Iran. He describes his childhood difficulties as follows; "From the beginning when my eyes opened on water, green land, and flower, poverty was my play mate days and nights. I grew up with it as a child. Now, I am proud of it as I have learnt a lot from it." He did his primary and secondary education is Safashahr, and his pre university in Abadeh. He did his undergraduate and his post graduate studies in Persian language and literature in Shiraz University.

#4859

Rabindra Kumar Das Gupta

#76015

Overall Influence

1915 - 2009 (94 years)

Rabindra Kumar Das Gupta was an Indian scholar of Bengali and English literature and a social and cultural commentator. He was considered by his peers as one of the last scholars with equal command of English and Bengali languages.

#4860

Carrie Etter

#85434

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Carrie Etter is an American poet. Life Originally from Normal, Illinois, she moved to Southern California at the age of 19, and on to London in 2001. Etter holds a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MFA, MA and PhD from the University of California, Irvine. She was a visiting lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire for 2003–2004, teaching short-story writing and literature.

#4861

Virgil Suárez

#101013

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Virgil Suárez is a poet and novelist. He is a professor of English at Florida State University. He is one of the leading writers in the Cuban American community, known for his novels including Latin Jazz and Going Under. He has also reviewed books for The Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Tallahassee Democrat.

#4862

David Lee

#84215

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

David Lee is an American poet and the first poet laureate of the state of Utah. His 1999 collection News From Down to the Café was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and, in 2001, he was a finalist for the position of United States Poet Laureate. He has been acclaimed by the Utah Endowment for the Humanities as one of the twelve greatest writers to ever emerge from the state. A former farmer, he is the subject of the PBS documentary The Pig Poet. His poems have appeared widely in publications including Poetry, Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, Narrative Magazine, and JuxtaProse Literary Magazine.

#4863

Mary Luckhurst

#56581

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Mary Luckhurst is a writer, academic, and theatre director. She is Professor of Theatre and Performance and is the first female Head of the School of Arts at the University of Bristol. She is known for her academic and educational work in the arts in universities and the public realm and for her championing of women’s equality and human rights. She is currently working on projects about female performers who challenge the stigmas of ageing, disability and mental health.

#4864

P. M. Forni

#74638

Overall Influence

1951 - 2018 (67 years)

Pier Massimo Forni , a native of Italy, was a professor at Johns Hopkins University, where he taught since 1985. Forni published several books, including his 2002 best-seller Choosing Civility: The Twenty-Five Rules of Considerate Conduct. He co-founded and directed the Civility Project at Johns Hopkins, the purpose of which is to assess the significance of civility, manners and politeness in contemporary society.

#4865

Jad Hatem

#52840

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Jad Hatem is a Lebanese poet and philosopher. He has been a distinguished philosophy, literature and religious sciences Professor at the Saint-Joseph University in Beirut since 1976. Hatem has been the Head of Department of Philosophy and the Director of Michel Henry's Study Center within that department. He's also Editor in Chief of Extasis , La Splendeur du Carmel and L'Orient des dieux, and serves on various other academic editorial boards.

#4866

Don Byrd

#90246

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Donald J. Byrd is a poet, sound artist, and Professor of English at the State University of New York at Albany. His work is generally in the fields of literary analysis and information theory. In his lifetime, he proposes to complete one-hundred volumes that will complete a set which he refers to as The Nomad's Encyclopedia.

#4867

Sigmund Eisner

#92778

Overall Influence

1920 - 2012 (92 years)

Sigmund Eisner was an American scholar of medieval literature. A professor emeritus at the University of Arizona, he was a noted expert on Geoffrey Chaucer and was frequently consulted on matters of astronomy in Chaucer.

#4868

Dorian Haarhoff

#38010

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Dorian Haarhoff is a South African-Namibian writer and poet. Haarhoff was born in 1944 in Kimberley, Northern Cape, then part of the Cape Province. He is a naturalized citizen of Namibia. He wrote his first poem in 1955 and has been published in numerous books. He was also a professor of English at the University of Namibia. As of 2004, he worked in the creative writing department at the University of Cape Town.

#4869

Peter Mackridge

#125986

Overall Influence

1946 - 2022 (76 years)

Peter Mackridge was a British Hellenist and historian who served as Professor of Modern Greek at the University of Oxford. Life He was born in Harpenden, Hertfordshire and studied French and Modern Greek in Oxford. He spent a lot of time in Greece for the purpose of completing his PhD about the Greek novel of the 1930s. In 1973 he was appointed a lecturer of Modern Greek Language and Literature at the University of London and in 1981 he moved to Oxford University initially as lecturer and then, in 1996, as professor of Modern Greek and Literature until his retirement in 2003.

#4870

Oh Kyu-won

#127994

Overall Influence

1941 - 2007 (66 years)

Oh Kyu Won was a South Korean writer. Life Oh Kyu Won's original name was Oh Gyuok. Born on December 29, 1941 in Miryang, Gyeongsangnam-do, he attended Busan Teachers' School before graduating from the Law Department of Dong-a University. He was the president of the Munjangsa publishing company, and is presently a professor in the Department of Creative Writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts.

#4871

Kim McLarin

#105136

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Kim McLarin is an American novelist, best known for Growing Up X: A Memoir by the Daughter of Malcolm X, co-authored with Ilyasah Shabazz, and Jump at the Sun. Her works include contemporary novels, short stories and non-fiction.

#4872

Simon Payaslian

#58265

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Simon Payaslian is an Armenian-American historian, author, editor, who has held the Charles K. and Elizabeth M. Kenosian Chair in Modern Armenian History and Literature at Boston University since 2007. From 2002 to 2007 he held the Kaloosdian/Mugar Chair in Armenian genocide Studies and Modern Armenian History at Clark University.

#4873

Richard Price

#101576

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Richard Price is an American novelist and screenwriter, known for the books The Wanderers , Clockers and Lush Life . Price's novels explore late-20th-century urban America in a gritty, realistic manner that has brought him considerable literary acclaim. Several of his novels are set in a fictional northern New Jersey city called Dempsy.

#4874

Judith T. Zeitlin

#136917

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Judith T. Zeitlin is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Her areas of interest are Ming-Qing literary and cultural history, with specialties in the classical tale and drama. In 2011 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

#4875

Ma Sen

#35687

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Ma Sen is a Taiwanese writer. Ma Sen is a literary critic, a writer of fiction, and a playwright. He studied film and drama in France starting in 1961, later studying Sociology at the University of British Columbia. He is now a professor at Foguang University in the Graduate Institute of Literary Studies.

#4876

Jan Terlouw

#41160

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (95 years)

Jan Cornelis Terlouw is a retired Dutch politician, physicist and author. A member of the Democrats 66 party, he served as Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1981 to 1982 under Prime Minister Dries van Agt.

#4877

Francesca Rhydderch

Francesca Rhydderch

#122946

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Francesca Rhydderch is a Welsh novelist and academic. In 2013, her debut novel, The Rice Paper Diaries, was longlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award and won the Wales Book of the Year Award 2014 for Fiction. Her short stories have been published in anthologies and magazines and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and Radio Wales.

#4878

Stephen Todd Walker

#90908

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Stephen Todd Walker is an American finance expert and author. He has an extensive background in alternative investments. He has written two books on the subject, Wave Theory For Alternative Investments: Riding The Wave with Hedge Funds, Commodities, and Venture Capital by McGraw-Hill in December 2010 and Understanding Alternative Investments: Creating Diversified Portfolios that Ride the Wave of Investment Success by Palgrave MacMillan in July 2014. Presently, he is a senior vice president at Royal Bank of Canada.

#4879

Nicole Cooley

#109971

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Nicole Ruth Cooley is an American poet. She has authored six collections of poems, including Resurrection, Breach, Milk Dress, and Of Marriage. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Field, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, The Paris Review, PEN America, The Missouri Review, and The Nation. She co-edited, with Pamela Stone, the "Mother" issue of Women's Studies Quarterly.

#4880

Iolanda Batallé

Iolanda Batallé

#110922

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Iolanda Batallé is a Catalan writer and editor. She has been the Director of Institut Ramon Llull between 2018 and 2021. She is now director of Ona Llibres since 2022. Biography Born in Barcelona in 1971, Batallé is a Graduate in English Philology and has a Master's in Business Administration from the ESADE Business School and the University of Berkeley.

#4881

William Wallace Robson

#107657

Overall Influence

1923 - 1993 (70 years)

William Wallace Robson FRSE FRSA was a British literary critic and scholar. Life He was born in Plymouth on 20 June 1923 the son of Kathleen Ryan and her husband, William Robson, a barrister. He was educated at Leeds Modern School.

#4882

Michael J. Colacurcio

Michael J. Colacurcio

#119951

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Michael Joseph Colacurcio is a distinguished professor of English at UCLA. He specializes in American literature and literary history. Biographical information Education and academic career Michael Colacurcio studied at Xavier University and the University of Illinois . He taught English literature at Cornell University from 1963 to 1976 . Since 1980, Colacurcio has taught in California, first at the University of California at Irvine, then at the University of California, Los Angeles , where he currently teaches in the Department of English.

#4883

Nicole Ward Jouve

#97957

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Nicole Ward Jouve is a French writer and literary critic, who writes in both French and English. For most of her career Ward Jouve lived and worked in England. She is Emeritus Professor of Literature at the University of York.

#4884

Adam Rapp

#96050

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Adam Rapp is an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, musician and film director. His play Red Light Winter was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2006. Early life Rapp was born in Chicago to Mary Lee and Douglas Rapp, and spent most of his youth in Joliet, Illinois.

#4885

Laure-Anne Bosselaar

#88478

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Laure-Anne Bosselaar is a Belgian-American poet, translator, professor, and former poet laureate of Santa Barbara, California. She is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently, These Many Rooms . Her collection, Small Gods of Grief , won the 2001 Isabella Gardner Prize for Poetry. A New Hunger, was an American Library Association Notable Book in 2008. She is the author of Artémis, a collection of French poems, published in Belgium. Her chapbook Rooms Remembered appeared from Sungold Editions in 2018.

#4886

Alison Calder

#95625

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Alison Calder is a Canadian poet, literary critic and educator. Biography Calder was born in London, England on 21 December 1969 and grew up in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. She studied at the University of Saskatchewan, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts, and at the University of Western Ontario where she earned an Master of Arts and a PhD in English Literature. She was also a Distinguished Junior Scholar in Residence at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia.

#4887

Kirsten Greenidge

Kirsten Greenidge

#85605

Overall Influence

Kirsten Greenidge is an American playwright. Her plays are known for their realistic language and focus on social issues such as the intersectionality of race, gender, and class. Her sister is the historian Kerri Greenidge.

#4888

Corinne Demas

#70827

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Corinne Demas is the award winning author of five novels, two collections of short stories, a collection of poetry, a memoir, two plays, and numerous books for children. She has published more than fifty short stories in a variety of magazines and literary journals. Her publications before 2000 are under the name Corinne Demas Bliss.

#4889

Hugo Mujica

#53736

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Hugo Mujica is an Argentine Catholic priest, poet, writer, and former Trappist monk. Biography Mujica was born in Avellaneda, a neighborhood near the city of Buenos Aires, to an anarchist syndicalist father. As his father became blind after a work accident when Mujica was only thirteen years of age, he began to work in a glass factory, continuing with high school at night school. At the same time he pursued studies in Fine Arts. Amidst the fervour of the sixties he settled in Greenwich Village, New York. There he began to study philosophy at the experimental Free University of New York, and resumed painting at School of Visual Arts.

#4890

Tobe Levin

#58482

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Tobe Levin Freifrau von Gleichen , a multi-lingual scholar, translator, editor and activist, is an Associate of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University; a Visiting Research Fellow at the International Gender Studies Centre, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford; an activist against female genital mutilation and professor of English Emerita at the University of Maryland, University College.

#4891

Atle Kittang

#109041

Overall Influence

1941 - 2013 (72 years)

Atle Kittang was a Norwegian literary researcher and literary critic. His doctorate thesis from 1973 was a study on the French poet Arthur Rimbaud. He was professor at the University of Bergen, since 1974. His research included studies on works by Knut Hamsun and Henrik Ibsen. Among his books are Litteraturkritiske problem and Moderne litteraturteori – en innføring . He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

#4892

Joseph Tabbi

#103687

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Joseph Tabbi is a US literary scholar and theorist, notable for his contributions to the fields of American literature and electronic literature. He was the first scholar granted access to the archives of the reclusive novelist William Gaddis, and is the author of Nobody Grew but the Business: On the Life and Work of William Gaddis and the editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature , Post-Digital: Critical Debates from electronic book review , and an additional forthcoming volume from Bloomsbury Publishing. His other works include Cognitive Fictions and Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk .

#4893

François Paré

#95801

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

François-Rosaire Paré is a Québécois author and academic specialising in the literature of cultural minorities, though He started his career as a professor of French Renaissance literature. Paré lived in Montreal during his youth. After earning his Bachelor of Arts degree at the Université de Montréal, he pursued further studies in Buffalo, New York at SUNY. He would eventually settle in Ontario, first at St Catharines, then moving to the Kitchener-Waterloo region to teach at the University of Guelph. He was the Chair of the French Studies Department at the University of Waterloo from 2003-20...

#4894

Nikolay Boykov

#113562

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Nikolay Boykov is a contemporary Bulgarian writer and literary translator from Hungary. He was born on 26 January 1968 in Vidin, Bulgaria. In 1985, he graduated the Mathematical High School in Vidin and was accepted to study computer science in Sofia University. Later, after studying polytechnics for two semesters in Hungary, he moved to study Hungarian philology in the University of Debrecen, which he graduated in 1994.

#4895

John Caddy

#113604

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

John Caddy is an American poet and naturalist. Early life John Caddy was born in Hibbing, Minnesota and grew up in Virginia, Minnesota. His great-grandfather, Hibbing Pioneer Tom Caddy, was a Mine Captain from Upper Michigan via Cornwall who sank the first underground mine shafts in Hibbing. John taught at the University High School and the College of Education of the University of Minnesota for eight years. In 1967, John was one of the founding poets of the Minnesota Poets in the Schools Program .

#4896

Peter Oresick

#95697

Overall Influence

1955 - 2016 (61 years)

Peter Oresick was an American poet. Oresick was best known as the editor of Working Classics, a landmark literary anthology of working-class poetry, and as a publisher. He served in senior positions in literary, scholarly, and technical publishing from 1981 to 2004 at the University of Pittsburgh Press, the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation, and Printing Industries of America. In 2010, he became editor-in-chief of the literary magazine The Fourth River.

#4897

Adalcinda Camarão

#103541

Overall Influence

1914 - 2005 (91 years)

Adalcinda Magno Camarão Luxardo was a Brazilian writer, educator and composer. Biography Adalcinda Magno Camarão Luxardo was born in Muaná, Marajó, July 18, 1914. She was the daughter of João Evangelista de Carvalho Camarão and Camila de Brito Magno Camarão. She was educated at Colégio Pedro II and also at the Instituto de Educação.

#4898

Sylvia Iparraguirre

Sylvia Iparraguirre

#50112

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Sylvia Iparraguirre is an Argentine novelist and human rights activist. She is a recipient of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize. Biographic Overview She was born in Junín, Buenos Aires. Her novel Tierra del Fuego: Una Biografia del Fin del Mundo won the 1999 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for women writers in Spanish. It is a fictionalised account of the life of Jemmy Button.

#4899

Bino Realuyo

#99529

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Bino A. Realuyo is a Filipino-American novelist, poet, community organizer and adult educator. He was born and raised in Manila, Philippines but spent most of his adult life in New York City. He is the author of a novel, The Umbrella Country, a poetry collection, The Gods We Worship Live Next Door, and the editor of two anthologies.

#4900

Rick Barot

#134067

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Rick Barot is an American poet and educator. Life Barot was born in the Philippines, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and attended Wesleyan University and the Iowa Writers Workshop. He has published three books of poetry with Sarabande Books: The Darker Fall , which received the Kathryn A. Morton Prize; Want , which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and won the 2009 Grub Street Book Prize; and Chord , which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and received the 2016 UNT Rilke Prize, the PEN Open Book Award, and the Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award. He has received f...

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