http://www.imdb.com/list/8siTj1jdVOc/ Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:23:02 GMT Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:29:40 GMT Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:21:40 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457907/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457907/ Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (10 November 1759 – 9 May 1805) was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788–1805), Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. They frequently discussed issues concerning aesthetics, and Schiller encouraged Goethe to finish works he left as sketches. This relationship and these discussions led to a period now referred to as Weimar Classicism. They also worked together on Die Xenien, a collection of short satirical poems in which both Schiller and Goethe challenge opponents to their philosophical vision. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:56:35 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017667/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017667/ François Villon in fifteenth-century French, (c. 1431 – after 5 January 1463) was a French poet, thief, and vagabond. He is perhaps best known for his Testaments and his Ballade des Pendus, written while in prison. The question &quot;Mais où sont les neiges d'antan?&quot;, taken from the Ballade des dames du temps jadis and translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti as &quot;Where are the snows of yesteryear?&quot;, is one of the most famous lines of translated secular poetry in the English-speaking world. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:51:13 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024742/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024742/ François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), better known by the pen name VOLTAIRE, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion and free trade. Voltaire was a prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form including plays, poetry, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and more than 2,000 books and pamphlets. He was an outspoken supporter of social reform, despite strict censorship laws and harsh penalties for those who broke them. As a satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance, religious dogma and the French institutions of his day.<br/>Voltaire was one of several Enlightenment figures (along with Montesquieu, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Émilie du Châtelet) whose works and ideas influenced important thinkers of both the American and French Revolutions. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:50:42 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024865/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024865/ Elizabeth Barrett Browning (6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was one of the most prominent poets of the Victorian era. Her poetry was widely popular in both England and the United States during her lifetime. A collection of her last poems was published by her husband, Robert Browning, shortly after her death. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:41:18 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029146/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029146/ Émile François Zola (2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was a French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in the renowned newspaper headline J'Accuse. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:51:21 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030055/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030055/ Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (28 March 1868 – 18 June 1936), also known as Maxim Gorky was a Russian, Soviet author, a founder of the Socialist Realism literary method and a political activist. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:51:38 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032086/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032086/ Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (28 March 1868 – 18 June 1936), also known as Maxim Gorky was a Russian, Soviet author, a founder of the Socialist Realism literary method and a political activist. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:51:57 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032802/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032802/ Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (28 March 1868 – 18 June 1936), also known as Maxim Gorky was a Russian, Soviet author, a founder of the Socialist Realism literary method and a political activist. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:47:14 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034997/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034997/ Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:42:37 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036051/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036051/ John Griffith &quot;Jack&quot; London (born John Griffith Chaney,[1] January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916)[2][3][4][5] was an American author, journalist, and social activist. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:27:06 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036582/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036582/ Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),[1] better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He is most noted for his novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called &quot;the Great American Novel.&quot; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:23:35 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038474/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038474/ The Brontës (were a 19th century literary family associated with Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (born 21 April 1816), Emily (born 30 July 1818), and Anne (born 17 January 1820), are well known as a trio of sibling poets and novelists. They originally published their poems and novels under masculine pseudonyms, following the custom of the times practised by female writers. Their stories immediately attracted attention, although not always the best, for their passion and originality. Charlotte's Jane Eyre was the first to know success, while Emily's Wuthering Heights, Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and other works were later to be accepted as masterpieces of literature. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:44:02 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044685/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044685/ Hans Christian Andersen, referred to using the initials H. C. Andersen in Denmark and the rest of Scandinavia; April 2, 1805 – August 4, 1875) was a Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet noted for his children's stories. These include &quot;The Steadfast Tin Soldier&quot;, &quot;The Snow Queen&quot;, &quot;The Little Mermaid&quot;, &quot;Thumbelina&quot;, &quot;The Little Match Girl&quot;, and &quot;The Ugly Duckling&quot;. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:29:47 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052617/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052617/ Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the &quot;Lost Generation&quot; of the 1920s. He finished four novels, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender is the Night and his most famous, The Great Gatsby. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:01:16 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052738/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052738/ Annelies Marie &quot;Anne&quot; Frank (12 June 1929 – early March 1945) is one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:57:53 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054403/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054403/ Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his early death. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:46:12 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056700/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056700/ The Brothers Grimm (German: Die Brüder Grimm or Die Gebrüder Grimm), Jacob Grimm (January 4, 1785 – September 20, 1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (February 24, 1786 – December 16, 1859), were German academics, linguists and cultural researchers who collected folklore and published several collections of it as Grimm's Fairy Tales, which became very popular. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:03:10 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063555/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063555/ Sayat-Nova (14 June 1712, Tiflis – died 22 September 1795, Haghpat), was an Armenian poet, musician and ashik who had compositions in a number of languages. His adopted name Sayat Nova meant &quot;Master of Songs&quot; in Persian. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:44:43 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072197/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072197/ Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:16:17 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071481/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071481/ Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the &quot;Lost Generation&quot; of the 1920s. He finished four novels, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender is the Night and his most famous, The Great Gatsby. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:15:16 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074509/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074509/ Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the &quot;Lost Generation&quot; of the 1920s. He finished four novels, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender is the Night and his most famous, The Great Gatsby. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:59:32 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0202812/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0202812/ Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. After she studied at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she spent a short time at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst. Thought of as an eccentric by the locals, she became known for her penchant for white clothing and her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, even leave her room. Most of her friendships were therefore carried out by correspondence. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:17:34 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076245/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076245/ Lillian Florence “Lily” Hellman (June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984) was an American playwright, linked throughout her life with many left-wing causes. She was romantically involved for 30 years with mystery and crime writer Dashiell Hammett (and was the inspiration for his character Nora Charles), and was also a long-time friend and literary executor of author Dorothy Parker. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:49:34 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079740/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079740/ James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark novel which perfected his stream of consciousness technique and combined nearly every literary device available in a modern re-telling of The Odyssey. Other major works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His complete oeuvre includes three books of poetry, a play, occasional journalism, and his published letters. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:46:38 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078321/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078321/ Florence Margaret Smith, known as Stevie Smith (20 September 1902 – 7 March 1971) was an English poet and novelist. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:48:07 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077941/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077941/ Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, (French pronunciation: [mo.ljɛːʁ]; baptised January 15, 1622 – February 17, 1673) was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature.[1] Among Molière's best-known works are Le Misanthrope (The Misanthrope), L'École des femmes (The School for Wives), Tartuffe ou L'Imposteur, (Tartuffe or the Hypocrite), L'Avare (The Miser), Le Malade imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid), and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (The Bourgeois Gentleman). Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:25:22 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079596/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079596/ Miles Franklin (born &quot;Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin&quot;; 14 October 1879 – 19 September 1954) was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her autobiographical novel, My Brilliant Career, published in 1901. While she wrote throughout her life, her other major literary success, All That Swagger, was not published until 1936.<br/>She was committed to the development of a uniquely Australian form of literature, and she actively pursued this goal by supporting writers, literary journals, and writers' organisations. She has had a long-lasting impact on Australian literary life through her endowment of a major literary award known as the Miles Franklin Award. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:42:23 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078736/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078736/ Agatha Christie, DBE, (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), was a British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 80 detective novels—especially those featuring Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple—and her successful West End theatre plays. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:19:36 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079920/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079920/ The Brontës (were a 19th century literary family associated with Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (born 21 April 1816), Emily (born 30 July 1818), and Anne (born 17 January 1820), are well known as a trio of sibling poets and novelists. They originally published their poems and novels under masculine pseudonyms, following the custom of the times practised by female writers. Their stories immediately attracted attention, although not always the best, for their passion and originality. Charlotte's Jane Eyre was the first to know success, while Emily's Wuthering Heights, Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and other works were later to be accepted as masterpieces of literature. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:49:55 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082225/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082225/ Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (French pronunciation: [maʁsɛl pʁust]; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental 'À la recherche du temps perdu' (In Search of Lost Time; earlier translated as Remembrance of Things Past). It was published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:43:05 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080854/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080854/ Jean-Louis &quot;Jack&quot; Kerouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist and poet. He is considered a literary iconoclast and a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:27:14 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082940/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082940/ David Herbert Richards Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialization. In them, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, and instinct.<br/>Lawrence's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his &quot;savage pilgrimage.&quot; At the time of his death, his public reputation was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents. E. M. Forster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as, &quot;The greatest imaginative novelist of our generation.&quot; Later, the influential Cambridge critic F. R. Leavis championed both his artistic integrity and his moral seriousness, placing much of Lawrence's fiction within the canonical &quot;great tradition&quot; of the English novel. Lawrence is now valued by many as a visionary thinker and significant representative of modernism in English literature. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:43:34 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085640/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085640/ Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories, and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), and the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse). Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:43:48 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085380/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085380/ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953) was an American author who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling, about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie, also known as The Yearling. The book was written long before the concept of young-adult fiction, but is now commonly included in teen-reading lists. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:44:26 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089364/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089364/ James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark novel which perfected his stream of consciousness technique and combined nearly every literary device available in a modern re-telling of The Odyssey. Other major works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His complete oeuvre includes three books of poetry, a play, occasional journalism, and his published letters. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:45:42 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090494/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090494/ Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his early death. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:44:12 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089603/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089603/ Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫 Mishima Yukio?) was the pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka (平岡 公威 Hiraoka Kimitake?, January 14, 1925–November 25, 1970), a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor and film director, also remembered for his ritual suicide by seppuku after a failed coup d'état. Nominated three times for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Mishima was internationally famous and is considered one of the most important Japanese authors of the 20th century, whose avant-garde work displayed a blending of modern and traditional aesthetics that broke cultural boundaries, with a focus on sexuality, death, and political change. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:22:10 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090005/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090005/ Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as &quot;Jack&quot;, was a British novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist. He is well known for his fictional work, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:00:16 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089585/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089585/ Napoleon Lapathiotis (Ναπολέων Λαπαθιώτης; 31 October 1888 – 7 January 1944) was a Greek poet. A native of Athens, he began writing and publishing poetry when he was eleven. In 1907, along with others, he established the Igiso (Ἡγησώ, from the Attic Greek name Hēgēso) magazine, in which he published his works. In 1909, he graduated from the law school of the University of Athens. His first book of poems was published in 1939. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:52:10 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089052/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089052/ Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems &quot;The Hunting of the Snark&quot; and &quot;Jabberwocky&quot;, all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy, and there are societies dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works and the investigation of his life in many parts of the world, including the United Kingdom, Japan, the United States, and New Zealand. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:23:59 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089755/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089755/ Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke (Danish pronunciation: [kʰɑːɑn ˈb̥leg̊sn̩]), (17 April 1885 – 7 September 1962), née Karen Christenze Dinesen, was a Danish author also known by her pen name Isak Dinesen. She also wrote under the pen names Osceola and Pierre Andrézel. Blixen wrote works in both Danish and in English.<br/>Blixen is best known for Out of Africa, her account of living in Kenya, and one of her stories, Babette's Feast, both of which have been adapted into highly acclaimed, Academy Award-winning motion pictures. Prior to the release of the first film, she was noted for her Seven Gothic Tales, for which she is also known in Denmark.<br/>Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, described as &quot;a mistake&quot; that Blixen was not awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature during the 1930s. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:52:25 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088943/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088943/ David Herbert Richards Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, and instinct. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:31:27 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091783/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091783/ Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (6 June 1799 – 10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1837) was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. Pushkin pioneered the use of vernacular speech in his poems and plays, creating a style of storytelling—mixing drama, romance, and satire—associated with Russian literature ever since and greatly influencing later Russian writers. He also wrote historical fiction. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:44:58 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091142/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091142/ Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:48:18 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092618/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092618/ Henry Charles Bukowski (born Heinrich Karl Bukowski; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles. It is marked by an emphasis on the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women and the drudgery of work. Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually publishing over sixty books. In 1986 Time called Bukowski a &quot;laureate of American lowlife&quot;. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:34:45 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094286/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094286/ Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American writer, poet and art collector who spent most of her life in France. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:33:30 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093776/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093776/ John Kingsley (&quot;Joe&quot;) Orton (1 January 1933 – 9 August 1967 ) was an English playwright.<br/>In a short but prolific career lasting from 1964 until his death, he shocked, outraged and amused audiences with his scandalous black comedies. The adjective Ortonesque is now used to refer to something characterised by a dark but farcical cynicism. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:53:29 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091325/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091325/ David Herbert Richards Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, and instinct. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:41:59 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095280/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095280/ Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley.<br/><br/>George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, later George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was a British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. Amongst Byron's best-known works are the brief poems She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, and So, we'll go no more a roving, in addition to the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan. He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:35:32 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093840/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093840/ Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:44:27 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098022/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098022/ Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – after December 26, 1913) was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist and satirist. Today, he is best known for his short story, &quot;An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge&quot; and his satirical lexicon, The Devil's Dictionary. The sardonic view of human nature that informed his work – along with his vehemence as a critic, with his motto &quot;nothing matters&quot; – earned him the nickname &quot;Bitter Bierce.&quot; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:36:13 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097937/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097937/ Christy Brown (5 June 1932 – 7 September 1981) was an Irish author, painter and poet who suffered from cerebral palsy. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:39:08 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097446/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097446/ Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was a British author, journalist and Naval Intelligence Officer. Fleming is best known for creating the fictional British spy James Bond and for a series of twelve novels and nine short stories about the character, which are one of the best-selling series of related novels of all time having sold over 100 million copies worldwide. Fleming also wrote the children's story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and two works of non-fiction. Fleming is reputed to have been the designer of Operation Mincemeat and Operation Goldeneye, the former of which was successfully carried out during the Second World War.<br/>In 2008, The Times ranked Fleming fourteenth on its list of &quot;The 50 greatest British writers since 1945&quot;. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:36:49 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099762/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099762/ Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American novelist and painter. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of 'novel' that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism, one that is distinctly always about and expressive of the real-life Henry Miller and yet is also fictional. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn and Black Spring. He also wrote travel memoirs and essays of literary criticism and analysis.<br/><br/>Anaïs Nin (born Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977) was a French-Cuban author, based at first in France and later in the United States, who published her journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death, her erotic literature and short stories. A great deal of her work, including Delta of Venus and Little Birds, was published posthumously. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:47:45 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0154038/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0154038/ Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891– January 28, 1960) was an American folklorist, anthropologist, and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:14:06 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100990/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100990/ Sor (Sister) Juana Inés de la Cruz (12 November 1648 – 17 April 1695), fully Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana, was a self-taught scholar and poet of the Baroque school, and nun of New Spain. Although she lived in a colonial era when Mexico was part of the Spanish Empire, she is considered today a Mexican writer, and stands at the beginning of the history of Mexican literature in the Spanish language. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:36:28 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099464/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099464/ Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works (55 novels in total, plus four &quot;lost&quot; novels), 82 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts,[1] and many miscellaneous writings), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen. His works predicted such century-later commonplaces as television, laptop computers (The Master Key), wireless telephones (Tik-Tok of Oz), women in high risk, action-heavy occupations (Mary Louise in the Country), and the ubiquity of advertising on clothing (Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work). Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:50:14 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099040/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099040/ Janet Paterson Frame, ONZ, CBE (28 August 1924 - 29 January 2004) was a New Zealand author. She wrote eleven novels, four collections of short stories, a book of poetry, an edition of juvenile fiction, and three volumes of autobiography during her lifetime. Since her death, a twelfth novel, a second volume of poetry, and a handful of short stories have been released. Frame's celebrity is informed by her dramatic personal history as well as her literary career. Following years of psychiatric hospitalisation, Frame was scheduled for a lobotomy that was canceled when, just days before the procedure, her debut publication of short stories was unexpectedly awarded a national literary prize. These dramatic personal experiences feature prominently in Frame's autobiographical trilogy and director Jane Campion's popular film adaptation of the texts, with recognisably autobiographical elements further resurfacing in many of her fictional publications. Characterised by scholar Simone Oettli as a writer who simultaneously sought fame and anonymity, Frame eschewed the dominant New Zealand literary realism of the post-war era, combining prose, poetry, and modernist elements with a magical realist style, garnering numerous local literary prizes despite mixed critical and public reception. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:15:24 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099901/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099901/ Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American novelist and painter. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of 'novel' that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism, one that is distinctly always about and expressive of the real-life Henry Miller and yet is also fictional. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn and Black Spring. He also wrote travel memoirs and essays of literary criticism and analysis. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:47:26 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100567/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100567/ Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was a British author, journalist and Naval Intelligence Officer. Fleming is best known for creating the fictional British spy James Bond and for a series of twelve novels and nine short stories about the character, which are one of the best-selling series of related novels of all time having sold over 100 million copies worldwide. Fleming also wrote the children's story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and two works of non-fiction. Fleming is reputed to have been the designer of Operation Mincemeat and Operation Goldeneye, the former of which was successfully carried out during the Second World War.<br/>In 2008, The Times ranked Fleming fourteenth on its list of &quot;The 50 greatest British writers since 1945&quot;. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:38:49 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102181/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102181/ Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a culturally influential German-language novelist. Contemporary critics and academics, such as Vladimir Nabokov,[2] regard Kafka as one of the best writers of the 20th century. The term &quot;Kafkaesque&quot; has become part of the English language. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:52:08 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101416/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101416/ Colette (pronounced: [kɔ.lɛt]) was the surname of the French novelist and performer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954). She is best known for her novel 'Gigi', upon which Lerner and Loewe based the stage and film musical comedies of the same title. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:37:30 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102103/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102103/ Amantine (also &quot;Amandine&quot;) Lucile Aurore Dupin, later Baroness (French: baronne) Dudevant (Paris, 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pseudonym George Sand (French pronunciation: [ʒɔʁʒ sɑ̃d]), was a French novelist and memoirist. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:06:01 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104099/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104099/ Camilo Ferreira Botelho Castelo-Branco,1st Viscount de Correia Botelho (March 16, 1825 – June 1, 1890), was a prolific Portuguese writer of the 19th century, having authored over 260 books (mainly novels, plays and essays). His writing is, overall, considered original in that it combines the dramatic and sentimental spirit of Romanticism with a highly personal combination of sarcasm, bitterness and dark humour. He is also celebrated for his peculiar wit and anecdotal character, as well as for his turbulent (and ultimately tragical) life. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:39:55 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106810/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106810/ Antonin Artaud (September 4, 1896, in Marseille – March 4, 1948 in Paris) was a French playwright, poet, actor and theatre director. Antonin is a diminutive form of Antoine &quot;little Anthony&quot;, and was among a list of names which Artaud used throughout his writing career. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:42:26 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108330/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108330/ Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (born June 19, 1945) is an American author. He is known for his memoirs, particularly This Boy's Life (1989), and his short stories. He has also written two novels. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:13:20 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108648/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108648/ Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the &quot;Lost Generation&quot; of the 1920s. He finished four novels, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender is the Night and his most famous, The Great Gatsby. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:34:58 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108101/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108101/ Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as &quot;Jack&quot;, was a British novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist. He is well known for his fictional work, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:42:04 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110877/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110877/ Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973) was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He chose his pen name after Czech poet Jan Neruda.<br/>Neruda wrote in a variety of styles such as erotically charged love poems as in his collection Twenty Poems of Love and a Song of Despair, surrealist poems, historical epics, and overtly political manifestos. In 1971 Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez once called him &quot;the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language.&quot; Neruda always wrote in green ink as it was his personal color of hope. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:11:24 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109849/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109849/ Johan August Strindberg (22 January 1849 – 14 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, and essayist. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics. A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and history plays, to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:53:17 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110588/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110588/ Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet, short story writer, and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th century urban foibles. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:52:48 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111454/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111454/ Thomas Stearns &quot;T. S.&quot; Eliot OM (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) was a poet, playwright, and literary critic, and arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:57:06 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110876/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110876/ David Wojnarowicz (pronounced /ˌvɔɪnəˈroʊvɪtʃ/, US dict: voy′·nə·rō′·vĭch; September 14, 1954 – July 22, 1992) was a painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, and activist who was prominent in the New York City art world of the 1980s. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:36:58 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112637/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112637/ Giles Lytton Strachey (1 March 1880 – 21 January 1932) was a British writer and critic. He is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. His 1921 biography Queen Victoria was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:53:33 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114702/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114702/ Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (English pronunciation: /ræmˈboʊ/ or /ˈræmboʊ/, French pronunciation: [aʁtyʁ ʁɛ̃bo]; 20 October 1854 – 10 November 1891) was a French poet. Born in Charleville, Ardennes, he produced his best known works while still in his late teens—Victor Hugo described him at the time as &quot;an infant Shakespeare&quot;—and he gave up creative writing altogether before the age of 21. As part of the decadent movement, Rimbaud influenced modern literature, music and art. He was known to have been a libertine and a restless soul, traveling extensively on three continents before his death from cancer less than a month after his 37th birthday.<br/><br/>Paul-Marie Verlaine (30 March 1844 – 8 January 1896) was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siècle in international and French poetry. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:15:58 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0345434/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0345434/ Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his early death. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:56:43 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120054/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120054/ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (29 June 1900 – 31 July 1944) was a French writer and aviator. He is best remembered for his novella The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) and for his books about aviation adventures, including Night Flight and Wind, Sand and Stars. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:42:57 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116480/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116480/ Knut Hamsun (August 4, 1859 – February 19, 1952) was a Norwegian author, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. He was praised by King Haakon VII of Norway as Norway's soul. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:07:11 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116594/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116594/ Valerie Jean Solanas (April 9, 1936 – April 25, 1988) was an American radical feminist writer, best known for her attempted murder of Andy Warhol in 1968. She wrote the SCUM Manifesto which encouraged male gendercide and the creation of an all-female society. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:44:02 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118163/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118163/ Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. Best known for his character Conan the Barbarian, he is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:58:31 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117164/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117164/ Pier Paolo Pasolini (March 5, 1922 – November 2, 1975) was an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual. Pasolini distinguished himself as a poet, journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, painter and political figure. He demonstrated a unique and extraordinary cultural versatility, becoming a highly controversial figure in the process. Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:51:01 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125484/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125484/ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (29 June 1900 – 31 July 1944) was a French writer and aviator. He is best remembered for his novella The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) and for his books about aviation adventures, including Night Flight and Wind, Sand and Stars. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:58:09 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117106/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117106/ Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936) was a Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27. He is believed to be one of thousands who were summarily shot by anti-communist death squads during the Spanish Civil War. In 2008, a Spanish judge opened an investigation into Lorca's death. The Garcia Lorca family eventually dropped objections to the excavation of a potential gravesite near Alfacar. However, no human remains were found. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:11:10 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115638/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115638/ Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (4 January 1732 – 18 May 1799) was a watchmaker, inventor, musician, diplomat, fugitive, spy, publisher, arms dealer, and revolutionary (both French and American). He was best known, however, for his theatrical works, especially the three Figaro plays. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:21:43 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119502/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119502/ Neal Leon Cassady (February 8, 1926 – February 4, 1968) was a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic movement of the 1960s, perhaps best known for being characterized as Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:23:21 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120514/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120514/ Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his early death. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:45:02 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0129111/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0129111/ Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (November 11, 1821 – February 9, 1881) was a Russian writer of novels, short stories and essays. He is best known for his novels Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:28:54 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138097/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138097/ William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616)[nb 1] was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:01:20 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0140447/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0140447/ Ayn Rand (born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum, February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982), was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:46:32 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0189142/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0189142/ Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time; earlier translated as Remembrance of Things Past). It was published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:34:49 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145653/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145653/ Francis &quot;Frank&quot; McCourt (August 19, 1930 – July 19, 2009) was an Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, best known as the author of Angela’s Ashes, an award-winning, tragicomic memoir of the misery and squalor of his childhood. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:01:01 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0174398/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0174398/ Honoré de Balzac (20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon.<br/>Due to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters, who are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human. His writing influenced many subsequent novelists. Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:21:31 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177572/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177572/ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath. He is considered the supreme genius of modern German literature. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:06:53 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177746/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177746/ Amantine (also &quot;Amandine&quot;) Lucile Aurore Dupin, later Baroness (French: baronne) Dudevant (Paris, 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pseudonym George Sand as a French novelist and memoirist.<br/><br/>Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (11 December 1810 – 2 May 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist. Along with his poetry, he is known for writing La Confession d'un enfant du siècle (The Confession of a Child of the Century, autobiographical) from 1836. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:59:20 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0171214/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0171214/ Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories, and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), and the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse).<br/><br/>Lillian Florence “Lily” Hellman (June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984) was an American playwright, linked throughout her life with many left-wing causes. She was romantically involved for 30 years with mystery and crime writer Dashiell Hammett (and was the inspiration for his character Nora Charles), and was also a long-time friend and literary executor of author Dorothy Parker. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:58:57 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0141399/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0141399/ Jacqueline Susann (August 20, 1918 – September 21, 1974) was an American author known for her best-selling novels. Her most notable work was Valley of the Dolls, a book that broke sales records and spawned an Oscar-nominated 1967 film and a short-lived TV series. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:01:57 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158033/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158033/ James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark novel which perfected his stream of consciousness technique and combined nearly every literary device available in a modern re-telling of The Odyssey. Other major works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His complete oeuvre includes three books of poetry, a play, occasional journalism, and his published letters. Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:23:01 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206608/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206608/ Bertolt Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956) was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:46:41 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0180073/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0180073/ Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (2 June 1740 – 2 December 1814) was a French aristocrat, revolutionary politician, philosopher, and writer famous for his libertine sexuality and lifestyle. His works include novels, short stories, plays, dialogues, and political tracts; in his lifetime some were published under his own name, while others appeared anonymously and Sade denied being their author. He is best known for his erotic works, which combined philosophical discourse with pornography, depicting sexual fantasies with an emphasis on violence, criminality, and blasphemy against the Catholic Church. He was a proponent of extreme freedom, unrestrained by morality, religion or law.<br/>Sade was incarcerated in various prisons and in an insane asylum for about 32 years of his life; eleven years in Paris (10 of which were spent in the Bastille) a month in Conciergerie, two years in a fortress, a year in Madelonnettes, three years in Bicêtre, a year in Sainte-Pélagie, and 13 years in the Charenton asylum. During the French Revolution he was an elected delegate to the National Convention. Many of his works were written in prison. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:56:50 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211941/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211941/ William Seward Burroughs II (also known by his pen name William Lee; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American novelist, poet, essayist and spoken word performer. Burroughs was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author who affected popular culture as well as literature. He is considered to be &quot;one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the twentieth century.&quot; Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays. Five books have been published of his interviews and correspondences. Burroughs also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians, and made many appearances in films. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:56:15 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112461/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112461/ James Dennis &quot;Jim&quot; Carroll (August 1, 1949 – September 11, 2009) was an author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician. Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:10:06 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0172493/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0172493/ Susanna Kaysen (born November 11, 1948) is an American author. Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:56:38 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0178161/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0178161/ Jules Gabriel Verne ( February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905) was a French author who pioneered the science-fiction genre. He is best known for novels such as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before air travel and practical submarines were invented, and before practical means of space travel had been devised. He is the second most translated individual author in the world, according to Index Translationum. Some of his books have also been made into live-action and animated films and television shows. Verne, along with Hugo Gernsback and H. G. Wells, is often popularly referred to as the &quot;Father of Science Fiction&quot; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:05:14 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0221838/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0221838/ Brendan Francis Behan (Irish: Breandán Ó Beacháin; 9 February 1923 – 20 March 1964) was an Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both Irish and English. He was also an Irish republican and a volunteer in the Irish Republican Army. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:48:05 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0217019/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0217019/ Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (2 June 1740 – 2 December 1814) was a French aristocrat, revolutionary politician, philosopher, and writer famous for his libertine sexuality and lifestyle. His works include novels, short stories, plays, dialogues, and political tracts; in his lifetime some were published under his own name, while others appeared anonymously and Sade denied being their author. He is best known for his erotic works, which combined philosophical discourse with pornography, depicting sexual fantasies with an emphasis on violence, criminality, and blasphemy against the Catholic Church. He was a proponent of extreme freedom, unrestrained by morality, religion or law. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:08:16 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206608/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206608/ Bertolt Brecht (born Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht 10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956) was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director.<br/>An influential theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble—the post-war theatre company operated by Brecht and his wife, long-time collaborator and actress Helene Weigel. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:01:35 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0247196/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0247196/ Reinaldo Arenas (July 16, 1943 – December 7, 1990) was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright who despite his early sympathy for the 1959 revolution, grew critical of and then rebelled against the Cuban government. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:47:13 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210217/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210217/ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. <br/><br/>William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:04:08 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0261066/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0261066/ Miguel Piñero (19 December 1946 – 18 June 1988) was a Puerto Rican playwright, actor, and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:37:08 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280778/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280778/ Dame Iris Murdoch DBE (15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish-born British author and philosopher, best known for her novels about political and social questions of good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net, was selected in 2001 by the editorial board as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 1987, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. In 2008, The Times named Murdoch among their list of &quot;The 50 greatest British writers since 1945&quot;. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:05:31 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0302240/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0302240/ Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the &quot;Lost Generation&quot; of the 1920s. He finished four novels, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender is the Night and his most famous, The Great Gatsby. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:28:59 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274558/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274558/ Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:04:58 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290045/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290045/ Jill Ker Conway (born 9 October 1934) is an Australian-American author. Well known for her autobiographies, in particular her first memoir, The Road from Coorain. Conway was born in Hillston, New South Wales in the outback of Australia. Together with her two brothers, Conway was raised in near-total isolation on a family owned 73 square kilometres (18,000 acres) tract of land, Coorain (aboriginal word for &quot;windy place&quot;), which was eventually expanded into 129 square kilometres (32,000 acres). On Coorain she lived a lonely life, and grew up without playmates except for her brothers. She was schooled entirely by her mother and a country governess. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:36:35 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0305206/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0305206/ Harvey Lawrence Pekar (October 8, 1939 – July 12, 2010) was an American underground comic book writer, music critic and media personality, best known for his autobiographical American Splendor comic series. In 2003, the series inspired a critically acclaimed film adaptation of the same name. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:57:46 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369084/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369084/ George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, later George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was a British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. Amongst Byron's best-known works are the brief poems She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, and So, we'll go no more a roving, in addition to the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan. He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:24:19 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0325055/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0325055/ Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. Born in Massachusetts, she studied at Smith College and Newnham College, Cambridge before receiving acclaim as a professional poet and writer. She married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956 and they lived together first in the United States and then England, having two children together: Frieda and Nicholas. Following a long struggle with depression and a marital separation, Plath committed suicide in 1963. Controversy continues to surround the events of her life and death, as well as her writing and legacy.<br/>Plath is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for her two collections The Colossus and Other Poems and Ariel. In 1982, she became the first poet to win a Pulitzer Prize posthumously, for The Collected Poems. She also wrote The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:35:48 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308644/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308644/ Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:11:44 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377158/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377158/ Colette was the surname of the French novelist and performer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954). She is best known for her novel Gigi, upon which Lerner and Loewe based the stage and film musical comedies of the same title. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:43:46 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0426394/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0426394/ Agatha Christie, DBE, (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), was a British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 80 detective novels—especially those featuring Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple—and her successful West End theatre plays. Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:24:51 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416829/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416829/ Brigitte Reimann (b. July 21, 1933, Burg bei Magdeburg, d. February 22, 1973, East Berlin) was a German writer who is best known for her posthumously published novel Franziska Linkerhand. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:35:11 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375920/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375920/ John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1 April 1647 – 26 July 1680), styled Viscount Wilmot between 1652 and 1658, was an English Libertine poet, a friend of King Charles II, and the writer of much satirical and bawdy poetry. He was the toast of the Restoration court and a patron of the arts. He married an heiress, Elizabeth Malet, and had many mistresses, including the actress Elizabeth Barry. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:07:16 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0294806/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0294806/ Omar Khayyám (Persian: عمر خیام, Early New Persian. pronunciation /ˈoːmɒːɾ xæjˈjɒːm/, English pronunciation /ˈoʊmɑr kaɪˈjɑm/) (18 May 1048–1131) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher and poet. He also wrote treatises on mechanics, geography, and music. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:25:39 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0491232/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0491232/ William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616)[nb 1] was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:49:45 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417658/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417658/ Henry Charles Bukowski (born Heinrich Karl Bukowski; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles. It is marked by an emphasis on the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women and the drudgery of work. Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually publishing over sixty books. In 1986 Time called Bukowski a &quot;laureate of American lowlife&quot;. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:37:20 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379725/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379725/ Truman Capote ( /ˈtruːmən kəˈpoʊtiː/; September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American author, many of whose short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and true crime novel In Cold Blood (1966), which he labeled a &quot;nonfiction novel.&quot; At least 20 films and television dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:40:10 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0355295/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0355295/ The Brothers Grimm (German: Die Brüder Grimm or Die Gebrüder Grimm), Jacob Grimm (January 4, 1785 – September 20, 1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (February 24, 1786 – December 16, 1859), were German academics, linguists and cultural researchers who collected folklore and published several collections of it as Grimm's Fairy Tales, which became very popular. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:20:09 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0815233/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0815233/ Isabella Mary Beeton (née Mayson) (12 March 1836 – 6 February 1865), universally known as Mrs Beeton, was the English author of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, and is one of the most famous cookery writers. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:23:47 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482546/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482546/ Helen Beatrix Potter (28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for children's books featuring anthropomorphic characters such as in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:01:36 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0778611/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0778611/ Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) <br/><br/>Simone-Ernestine-Lucie-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir, often shortened to Simone de Beauvoir (January 9, 1908 – April 14, 1986) Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:02:59 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0922597/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0922597/ ean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) <br/><br/>Simone-Ernestine-Lucie-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir, often shortened to Simone de Beauvoir (January 9, 1908 – April 14, 1986) Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:37:33 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420609/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420609/ Truman Capote ( /ˈtruːmən kəˈpoʊtiː/; September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American author, many of whose short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and true crime novel In Cold Blood (1966), which he labeled a &quot;nonfiction novel.&quot; At least 20 films and television dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:39:26 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416508/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416508/ Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, her realism and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:09:02 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0796335/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0796335/ Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, (baptised January 15, 1622 – February 17, 1673) was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature. Among Molière's best-known works are Le Misanthrope (The Misanthrope), L'École des femmes (The School for Wives), Tartuffe ou L'Imposteur, (Tartuffe or the Hypocrite), L'Avare (The Miser), Le Malade imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid), and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (The Bourgeois Gentleman). Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:50:20 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0825271/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0825271/ Jean de La Fontaine (July 8, 1621, Château-Thierry – April 13, 1695, Paris) was the most famous French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, and in French regional languages. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:59:32 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0963169/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0963169/ Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning DBE (13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was a British author and playwright.<br/>Many of her works have been adapted into films, including the novels Rebecca (which won the Best Picture Oscar in 1941) and Jamaica Inn and the short stories &quot;The Birds&quot; and &quot;Don't Look Now&quot;. The first three were directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:13:23 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1076240/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1076240/ Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, her realism and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:14:03 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1052353/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1052353/ Françoise Sagan (21 June 1935 – 24 September 2004) – real name Françoise Quoirez – was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Hailed as &quot;a charming little monster&quot; by François Mauriac on the front page of Le Figaro, Sagan was known for works with strong romantic themes involving wealthy and disillusioned bourgeois characters. Her best-known novel was her first – Bonjour Tristesse (1954) – which was written when she was a teenager. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:02:58 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0819714/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0819714/ Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer who wrote exclusively in English. In addition to poetry, he wrote short stories and scripts for film and radio, which he often performed himself. His public readings, particularly in America, won him great acclaim; his sonorous voice with a subtle Welsh lilt became almost as famous as his works. His best-known works include the &quot;play for voices&quot; Under Milk Wood and the celebrated villanelle for his dying father, &quot;Do not go gentle into that good night&quot;. Appreciative critics have also noted the craftsmanship and compression of poems such as &quot;In my Craft or Sullen Art&quot; and the rhapsodic lyricism of &quot;Fern Hill'&quot;. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:10:49 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0824758/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0824758/ Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (September 9, 1828 – November 20, 1910) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:56:08 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810784/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810784/ John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English Romantic poet. Along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, he was one of the key figures in the second generation of the Romantic movement, despite the fact that his work had been in publication for only four years before his death. During his life, his poems were not generally well received by critics; however, after his death, his reputation grew to the extent that by the end of the 19th century he had become one of the most beloved of all English poets. Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:10:25 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1440180/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1440180/ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath. He is considered the supreme genius of modern German literature. His works span the fields of poetry, drama, prose, philosophy, and science. His Faust has been called the greatest long poem of modern European literature. His other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:05:47 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1049402/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1049402/ Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet who vigorously opposed militarism, materialism and sexual repression. In the 1950s, Ginsberg was a leading figure of the Beat Generation. Ginsberg's epic poem &quot;Howl&quot;, in which he celebrates his fellow &quot;angel-headed hipsters&quot; and harshly denounces what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States, is one of the classic poems of the Beat Generation.<br/>The poem, dedicated to writer Carl Solomon, has the opening:<br/><br/>I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by<br/>madness, starving hysterical naked,<br/>dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn<br/>looking for an angry fix... Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:52:01 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1259591/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1259591/ Alexandre Dumas, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870) was a French writer, best known for his historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne were originally serialized. He also wrote plays and magazine articles and was a prolific correspondent. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:17:20 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1181615/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1181615/ Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the &quot;Lost Generation&quot; of the 1920s. He finished four novels, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender is the Night and his most famous, The Great Gatsby. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:57:40 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1530494/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1530494/ François Rabelais (c. 1494 – 9 April 1553) was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor and Renaissance humanist. He has historically been regarded as a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, and bawdy jokes and songs. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:18:18 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361416/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361416/ The Brontës (were a 19th century literary family associated with Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (born 21 April 1816), Emily (born 30 July 1818), and Anne (born 17 January 1820), are well known as a trio of sibling poets and novelists. They originally published their poems and novels under masculine pseudonyms, following the custom of the times practised by female writers. Their stories immediately attracted attention, although not always the best, for their passion and originality. Charlotte's Jane Eyre was the first to know success, while Emily's Wuthering Heights, Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and other works were later to be accepted as masterpieces of literature. Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:14:52 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376136/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376136/ Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author who wrote The Rum Diary (1998), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) and Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 (1973). Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:47:05 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093776/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093776/ John Kingsley (&quot;Joe&quot;) Orton (1 January 1933 – 9 August 1967) was an English playwright.<br/>In a short but prolific career lasting from 1964 until his death, he shocked, outraged and amused audiences with his scandalous black comedies. The adjective Ortonesque is now used to refer to something characterised by a dark but farcical cynicism. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:50:47 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0423455/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0423455/