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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]

E. A. Wallis Budge

E. A. Wallis Budge (Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge) (July 27, 1857 - November 23, 1934) Budge was born in Bodmin, Cornwall, England to Mary Ann Budge. His father is unknown. He went to live with his grandmother and aunt in London as a young man. He was interested in languages by the age of ten, but left s....[more]

Naguib Mahfouz

Leopold S. Senghor

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]

Taddesse Adera

Literary Criticism

Niyi Afolabi

Literary Criticism, Social Science

Charles Angoff

Literary Collections, Literary Criticism

K. Anthony Appiah

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

Richard Appignanesi

Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Medical, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Science, Social Science

R. Victoria Arana

Literary Criticism

E. O. Arewa

Fiction, Literary Criticism

Isobel Armstrong

Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Poetry, Social Science

Martin Banham

Drama, Literary Collections, Literary Criticism, Performing Arts

Karin Barber

Performing Arts, Social Science

J. G. Bartholomew

History, Travel

Ulli Beier

Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Criticism, Poetry

Harold Bloom

Biography & Autobiography, Drama, Fiction, History, Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Collections, Literary Criticism, Performing Arts, Poetry, Political Science, Religion, Social Science

Harold Bloom, July 11, 1930 - Harold Bloom was born on July 11, 1930 in New York City. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Cornell in 1951 and his Doctorate from Yale in 1955. After graduating from Yale, Bloom remained there as a teacher, and was made Sterling Professor of Humanities in 1983. Bloom's theories have chan....[more]