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Alice Walker is an American novelist, short story writer and poet, born in Eatonton, Georgia, in 1944. Her novel “The Color Purple” (1982) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award in 1983, making her the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer for fiction. She has also published story collections, essays, … Read more
Ken Kesey (1935 to 2001) was an American novelist and a central figure of the 1960s counterculture, best known for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” (1962) and “Sometimes a Great Notion” (1964). He saw himself as a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s, and led the … Read more
Ann Patchett is an American novelist, born in Los Angeles in 1963 and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, whose fourth novel, “Bel Canto” (2001), won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize. She has published ten novels, among them “State of Wonder”, “Commonwealth”, “The Dutch House” and “Tom Lake”, along with memoirs, essays and picture books. … Read more
Isabel Allende is a Chilean-American novelist, born in Lima, Peru, in 1942, who writes in Spanish and is best known for her first novel, “The House of the Spirits” (1982). Her fiction often draws on her own life and on historical events, puts women at the centre and sometimes uses elements of magical realism. Her … Read more
Shirley Jackson (1916 to 1965) was an American writer known mainly for her horror and mystery fiction, including the short story “The Lottery” and the novels “The Haunting of Hill House” and “We Have Always Lived in the Castle”. In a career of just over two decades she wrote six novels, two memoirs and more … Read more
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 to 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer, the author of “The Scarlet Letter” (1850) and “The House of the Seven Gables” (1851). Much of his writing centres on New England and its Puritan past, and his fiction is considered part of the Romantic movement and, more specifically, dark romanticism. … Read more
E. B. White (1899 to 1985) was an American writer and essayist who contributed to The New Yorker for nearly six decades and wrote three children’s novels: “Stuart Little”, “Charlotte’s Web” and “The Trumpet of the Swan”. He was also co-author of the style guide “The Elements of Style”. Elwyn Brooks White was born in … Read more
Joyce Carol Oates (born 16 June 1938) is an American writer who has published nearly 60 novels since the 1960s, along with many volumes of short stories, novellas, plays, poetry and non-fiction. She won the National Book Award for “them” (1969), and four of her books have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Oates was … Read more
Philip Roth (1933 to 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer whose fiction, often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey, is known for its autobiographical character and its explorations of Jewish and American identity. He won the Pulitzer Prize for “American Pastoral” and the National Book Award twice. Roth was born in … Read more
Norman Mailer (1923 to 2007) was an American novelist and journalist whose first novel, “The Naked and the Dead”, made him famous at 25. He won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for “The Armies of the Night” and for “The Executioner’s Song”. Mailer was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, on 31 January 1923 and grew … Read more
