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Robert White Creeley (May 21, 1926 – March 30, 2005) [1] was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school.
Raymond Benson, author of post-Ian Fleming James Bond novels; Marilyn Buck, poet, translator, revolutionary, and political prisoner; Tracy Daugherty, author and biographer; John R. Erickson, author of the Hank the Cowdog book series
This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...
Odessans viewed Midland as a town full of rich snobs and Midlanders view Odessa as a city full of rednecks, money burners and drunks. In 1983 an article in Forbes magazine named Midland one of the nicest places to live in America. At the same time, Newsweek named Odessa "Murder Capital U.S.A." with a record 29.8 murders per 100,000 residents ...
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Stephen F. Austin (1793–1836), "father of Texas" Padre José Nicolás Ballí (c. 1770–1829), grantee, settler, and namesake of Padre Island; Plácido Benavides (1810–1837), settler; Joshua Brown (1816–1876), first settler of Kerrville, Texas; John Neely Bryan (1810–1877), founder of Dallas; Moses Austin Bryan (1817–1895), early ...
From 1989 until her retirement in 2006, Morrison held the Robert F. Goheen Chair in the Humanities at Princeton University. [10] She said she did not think much of modern fiction writers who reference their own lives instead of inventing new material, and she used to tell her creative writing students, "I don't want to hear about your little ...
Pearl S. Buck (M.F.A. 1924) – author, novelist, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938; NoViolet Bulawayo (M.F.A. 2010) – Zimbabwean author of We Need New Names; Murray Burnett (B.A. 1931) – author of the play Everybody Comes to Rick's, which was turned into the film Casablanca