Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre. Howa
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Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1914– April 16, 1994) was an American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer. He was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Ellison is best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. He als
Continue reading >>Jerome David J. D. Salinger (pron. ˈsælɪndʒər sal-in-jər; January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010) was an American writer. His last published original work was in 1965, and his last interview in 1980.
Continue reading >>Tennessee Williams was born Thomas Lanier Williams in Columbus, Mississippi, on March 26, 1914. His father was a traveling salesman, and for many years the family lived with his mother's parents. When Williams was about 13, they moved to a crowded tenemen
Continue reading >>Cormac McCarthy (born Charles McCarthy;July 20, 1933) is an American novelist and playwright. He has written ten novels, spanning the Southern Gothic, Western, and Post-apocalyptic genres. He won the Pulitzer Prizeand the James Tait Black Memorial Prize f
Continue reading >>Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964) was an American writer and essayist. An important voice in American literature, O'Connor wrote two novels and 32 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. She was a Southern wr
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