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Kiran Desai

Kiran Desai is an Indian author who is a citizen of India and a permanent resident of the United States. She is the daughter of the noted author Anita Desai.Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the...

Michele Grossman

Michelle Grossman is a senior lecturer in the department of communication, language, and cultural studies at Victoria University of Technology.

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best known works include Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game (also...

Markus Zusak

Markus Zusak was born in 1975 and is the author of five books, including the international bestseller,
The Book Thief
, which is translated into more than forty languages. First released in 2005,
...

Rumi

Profile in Farsi: مولویMawlānā Jalāl-ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (Persian: مولانا جلال الدین محمد رومی), also known as Mawlānā Jalāl-ad-Dīn Muhammad Balḫī (Persian: محمد بلخى) or Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi,...

James E. Lovelock

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.James Ephraim Lovelock, CH, CBE, FRS, is an independent scientist, author,...

Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe was a novelist, poet, professor at Brown University and critic. He is best known for his first novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), which is the most widely read book in modern African...

Witi Ihimaera

Witi Ihimaera is a novelist and short story writer from New Zealand, perhaps the best-known Māori writer today. He is internationally famous for The Whale Rider.Ihimaera in New Zealand and is of...

George Douglas Brown

George Douglas Brown (26 January 1869 – 28 August 1902) was a Scottish novelist, best known for his highly influential realist novel The House with the Green Shutters (1901), which was published the...

Selma Lagerlöf

Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf was a Swedish author. In 1909 she became the first woman to ever receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and...

James Joyce

James Joyce was born in Dublin, on February 2, 1882, as the son of John Stanislaus Joyce, an impoverished gentleman, who had failed in a distillery business and tried all kinds of professions,...

Steven Pressfield

I was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in 1943 to a Navy father and mother. I graduated from Duke University in 1965. In January of 1966, when I was on the bus leaving Parris Island as a...

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