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J. M. Coetzee

J.M. Coetzee's full name is John Michael Coetzee. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1940, Coetzee is a writer and critic who uses the political situation in his homeland as a backdrop for many of his novels. Coetzee published his first work of fiction, Dusklands, in 1974. Another book, Boyhood, loosely chronicles an ....[more]

Tobias Hecht

Tobias Hecht is the author, most recently, of After Life: An Ethnographic Novel. He was awarded the 2002 Margaret Mead Prize, for his book At Home in the Street and won second prize in the Hucha de Oro, Spain’s most important award for short stories.

Joseph Conrad

Antoine de Saint-ExupΘry

David Abdulai

Literary Collections, Political Science, Reference

Chinua Achebe

Biography & Autobiography, Fiction, Literary Collections

Albert Chinualumogu Achebe was born the son of Isaiah Okafo, a Christian churchman, and Janet N. Achebe November 16, 1930 in Ogidi, Nigeria. He attended Government College in Umuahia from 1944 to 1947 and University College in Ibadan from 1948 to 1953. He then received his B.A. from London University in 1953 and studie....[more]

Charles Angoff

Literary Collections, Literary Criticism

K. Anthony Appiah

Comics & Graphic Novels, Literary Collections, Literary Criticism, Social Science

Martin Banham

Drama, Literary Collections, Literary Criticism, Performing Arts

Willis Barnstone

History, Juvenile Fiction, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Criticism, Poetry, Religion

Willis Barnstone was born in Lewiston, Maine. He attended Bowdoin, Columbia, and Yale, earning his doctorate. Barnstone taught in Greece from 1949 to 1951, and in Buenos Aires during the Dirty War. He went to China during the Cultural Revolution, where he was later a Fulbright Professor of American Literature at Beijin....[more]

Paul Bowles

Biography & Autobiography, Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Literary Collections, Literary Criticism, Music, Photography, Social Science, Travel

David Bunn

Literary Collections, Political Science

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