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Profiles

  • Alice Notley (1945 - 2025)
    Alice Notley (born November 8, 1945 - 19 May 2025) was an American poet. Notley came to prominence as a member of the second generation of the New York School of poetry—although she has always denied...
  • Jiří Orten (1919 - 1941)
    Jiří Orten (born Jiří Ohrenstein; 30 August 1919 in Kutná Hora – 1 September 1941 in Prague) was a Czech poet. His work was influenced by surrealism and folklore.
  • Joseph Rhode Grismer, (USA) (1848 - 1922)
    Joseph Rhode Grismer Grismer was an American, stage actor, playwright and theatrical director and producer. He was probably best remembered for his play The New South and for his revision of ...
  • Milton Hawkins Bird (1893 - 1979)
    Milton Hawkins Bird Milton Hawkins Bird, S.13. 1917, ED.M. 1928, ED.D. 1930. Lecturer on Educational Psychology 1935-.
  • Paul Twitchell (1908 - 1971)
    Paul Twitchell (born Jacob Paul Twitchell; October 22, 1908 or 1909 – September 17, 1971) was an American writer and spiritual teacher who created and directed the development of the new religious mo...

Authors & Writers

Definition (Oxford Paperback Dictionary Thesaurus 2001)

A writer is a person who has written a particular text, or who writes books or articles as an occupation - the thesaurus lists author, bard, composer, dramatist, journalist, littérateur, novelist, playwright, poet, wordsmith.

Please link the profiles of writers to this project and consider whether they could also be added to other genre projects listed below. This is a universal project.

References and Sources

Celebrated and influential writers from around the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Author

An author is broadly defined as "the person who originated or gave existence to anything" and whose authorship determines responsibility for what was created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work and can also be described as a writer.

Authors & Writers

Definition (Oxford Paperback Dictionary Thesaurus 2001)

A writer is a person who has written a particular text, or who writes books or articles as an occupation - the thesaurus lists author, bard, composer, dramatist, journalist, littérateur, novelist, playwright, poet, wordsmith.

Please link the profiles of writers to this project and consider whether they could also be added to other genre projects listed below. This is a universal project.

References and Sources

Celebrated and influential writers from around the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Author

An author is broadly defined as "the person who originated or gave existence to anything" and whose authorship determines responsibility for what was created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work and can also be described as a writer.