Radu Aldulescu

Radu Aldulescu - prose writer. Born on June 29th 1954 in Bucharest. After graduating from a theoretical secondary school in Bucharest in 1973, he worked in various places such as “Policolor”...

Stefan Agopian

Ştefan Agopian - prose writer, essayist and journalist. Born on June 16th 1947 in Bucharest, he is the son of Ştefan Agopian, a handicraftsman, and of Maria (née Sacoşan)....

Diana Adamek

Diana Adamek - Literary critic and essayist. Born on April 26 1957 in Baia Mare, she is the daughter of Alexandru Adamek, a Slovenian, Ph. D. researcher in economics, and of Maria Adamek....

Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) was a Scottish essayist and social historian. Short Biography: His work included Sartor Resartus in 1836, describing his loss of Christian belief,...

Elias Canetti

Elias Canetti (1905-1994) was a Bulgarian-born writer. Short Biography: He was exiled from Austria as a Jew in 1938, and settled in England in 1939. His books, written in...

Albert Camus

Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a Algerian-born French writer. Short Biography: A journalist in France, he was active in the Resistance during World War II. His novels, which...

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681) was a Spanish dramatist and poet. Short Biography: After the death of Lope de Vega, he was considered to be the leading Spanish dramatist....

Brett Bara

Brett Bara is an author ad writer. Why is she famous? She is famous due to her writing career.Our editors need your help to write the biography of Brett Bara. If you want to contribute...

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler (1835-1902) was a English author, who made his name in 1872 with his satiric attack on contemporary utopianism, Erewhon ('nowhere' reversed), but is now remembered for...

William Burroughs

William Burroughs (born in 1914) was an American novelist, born in Saint Louis, Missouri. He dropped out and, as part of the beat generation, wrote "Junkie" in 1953, "The Naked...

Frances Burney

Frances Burney (1752-1840) was a English novelist and diarist, daughter of the musician Dr. Charles Burney (1726-1814). Short Biography: She achieved success with Evelina, published...

Anthony Burgess

Pen name of Anthony John Burgess Wilson (1917-1993) was a British novelist, critic, and composer. Short Biography: His prolific work includes A Clockwork Orange in 1962, set...

John Bunyan

John Bunyan (1628-1688) was a English author. Short Biography: A Baptist, he was imprisoned in Bedford 1660-1672 for preaching. - During a second jail sentence in 1675 he started...

Ivan Bunin

Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin (1870-1953) was a Russian writer. Short Biography: Author of Derevnya (The Village) in 1910, which tells of the passing of peasant life; and Gospodin iz...

Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891-1940) was a Russian novelist and playwright. Short Biography: His novel The White Guard in 1924, dramatized as The Days of the Turbins in...

William Frank Buckley

William Frank Buckley (1925-2008) was an American conservative political writer, novelist, and founder-editor of the National Review in 1955. Short Biography: In such books as...

Sir Thomas Browne

Thomas Browne (1605-1682) was an English author and physician. Short Biography: Born in London, he travelled widely in Europe before settling in Norwich in 1637. He is noted...

Hermann Broch

Hermann Broch (1886-1951) was a Austrian novelist. Short Biography: He used experimental techniques in Die Schlafwandler / The Sleepwalkers in 1932, Der Tod des Vergil / The Death...

Andre Breton

Andre Breton (1896-1966) was a French author, among the leaden of the Dada art movement. Short Biography: Les Champs magne'tiques (Magnetic Fields) in 1921, an experiment in...

Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad (born Teodor Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski) was born on December 3, 1857 in Berdicew, Poland. He was a Polish-born British novelist. Biography and Career : His father...

James Boswell

James Boswell (1740-1795) was a Scottish biographer and diarist. Biography: He was a member of Samuel Johnson's London Literary Club, and in 1773 the two men travelled to Scotland...

George Henry Borrow

George Henry Borrow (1803-1881) was a British author and traveller. Short Biography: He travelled on foot through Europe and the East. His books, incorporating his knowledge...

Wolfgang Borchert

Wolfgang Borchert (1921-1947) was a German playwright and prose writer. Short Biography: Borchert was sent home wounded during World War II while serving on the Russian front...

Heinrich Boll

Heinrich Boll (1917-1985) was a West German novelist. Short Biography: A radical Catholic and anti-Nazi, he attacked Germany's political past and the materialism of its contemporary...