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Tobias Wolff is an American short story writer, memoirist and novelist, best known for the memoirs “This Boy’s Life” and “In Pharaoh’s Army”. He has also published four collections of stories, the novel “Old School” and the novella “The Barracks Thief”, and received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2015. Wolff … Read more
Armistead Maupin is an American writer best known for “Tales of the City”, a series of ten novels published between 1978 and 2024 about a group of friends in San Francisco, many of them LGBTQ. The books began as a newspaper serial and have been adapted for television four times. Maupin was born in Washington, … Read more
Eudora Welty (1909 to 2001) was an American short story writer, novelist and photographer who wrote about the American South. She published five novels and more than forty short stories, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1973 for “The Optimist’s Daughter”, and was the first living author to have her work published by the … Read more
Lew Wallace (1827 to 1905) was an American soldier, lawyer, territorial governor and diplomat who is remembered as the author of “Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ” (1880). By 1900 it had overtaken “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” as the best-selling American novel of the nineteenth century, and it has never been out of print. Lewis Wallace … Read more
Ralph Ellison (1913 to 1994) was an American novelist, essayist and critic, best known for “Invisible Man” (1952), which won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1953. It was the only novel he published in his lifetime; a second, “Juneteenth”, was assembled from his manuscripts and published in 1999. Ralph Waldo Ellison was born … Read more
Carson McCullers (1917 to 1967) was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright whose fiction is set mostly in the Deep South. She is best known for “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, “The Member of the Wedding” and the novella “The Ballad of the Sad Café”, books about isolation and unreturned love among … Read more
Samuel R. Delany (born 1 April 1942) is an American novelist, critic and memoirist, best known for the science fiction novels “Babel-17”, “The Einstein Intersection”, “Nova” and “Dhalgren” and for the Return to Nevèrÿon fantasy series. He has won four Nebula Awards and two Hugo Awards and was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy … Read more
Rita Mae Brown (born 28 November 1944) is an American novelist, poet and screenwriter, best known for her coming-of-age novel “Rubyfruit Jungle” and for the long-running Mrs. Murphy mysteries, which are credited jointly to her cat, Sneaky Pie Brown. She has also written the “Sister” Jane foxhunting mysteries and the Runnymede novels. Brown was born … Read more
John Cheever (1912 to 1982) was an American short story writer and novelist whose fiction is set largely in Manhattan, the Westchester suburbs and old New England villages. His collection “The Stories of John Cheever” (1978) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and his first novel, “The Wapshot Chronicle” (1957), won the National Book Award. … Read more
Stephen Graham Jones (born 1972) is an American horror writer and a member of the Blackfeet Tribe, known for “The Only Good Indians” (2020), the Indian Lake Trilogy that opens with “My Heart Is a Chainsaw” (2021), and “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter” (2025). He is the Ivena Baldwin Professor of English at the University of … Read more
