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Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead [1] (born November 6, 1969) is an American novelist.He is the author of nine novels, including his 1999 debut The Intuitionist; The Underground Railroad (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; and The Nickel Boys, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction again in 2020, making him one of only ...
Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets (1779–81) was possibly the first thorough-going exercise in biographical criticism. [6]Biographical criticism is a form of literary criticism which analyzes a writer's biography to show the relationship between the author's life and their literary works. [7]
Altrive Tales: Featuring a Memoir of the Author's Life: 1832 Charles Dickens: Autobiographical Fragment: 1847 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The Autobiography Of Goethe: Truth And Poetry, From My Own Life: 1848 William Wordsworth: The Prelude: 1850 Leo Tolstoy: Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth: 1856 Alexandre Dumas: Mes Mémoires: 1856 John Neal
Kaveh Akbar (b. 15 January 1989; Persian: کاوه اکبر) is an Iranian American poet, novelist, and editor. [1] [2] He is the author of the poetry collections Calling a Wolf a Wolf and Pilgrim Bell and of the novel Martyr!, a New York Times bestseller, [3] National Book Award finalist, [4] and one of Barack Obama's favorite books of the year.
Biographical criticism is a form of literary criticism which analyzes a writer's biography to show the relationship between the author's life and their literary works. [2] Biographical criticism is often associated with historical-biographical criticism , [ 3 ] a critical method that "sees a literary work chiefly, if not exclusively, as a ...
The Only Woman in the Room, published in 2019 by Sourcebooks Landmark, is a fictionalized biography of Hedy Lamarr. The book is a New York Times and USA Today bestseller and Barnes & Noble Book Club Pick. [7] In 2019, it received a space in Library Reads's Hall of Fame. [8]
Forrest Gander (born January 21, 1956) is an American poet, translator, essayist, and novelist.The A.K. Seaver Professor Emeritus of Literary Arts & Comparative Literature at Brown University, Gander won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2019 for Be With and is chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.