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William Howard Gass (July 30, 1924 – December 6, 2017) [1] was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and philosophy professor. He wrote three novels, three collections of short stories, a collection of novellas, and seven volumes of essays, three of which won National Book Critics Circle Award prizes and one of which, A Temple of Texts (2006), won the Truman Capote ...
Edgar Allan Poe (né Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre.
The narrator, commenting on the antics of his own literary creation, named Justin Horgenschlag, remarks sarcastically: “You can’t expect Collier’s readers to swallow that kind of bilge.” [12] Significantly, “The Heart of a Broken Story” was accepted for publication in Esquire—and not Collier’s. [13]
Robert White Creeley (May 21, 1926 – March 30, 2005) [1] was an American poet and author of more than 60 books. He is associated with the Black Mountain poets, although his verse aesthetic diverged from that school.
Taijiro-Tamura-1. Taijiro Tamura (田村 泰次郎, Tamura Taijirō, 30 November 1911 - 2 November 1983) was a Japanese novelist. He was born in Yokkaichi, Mie, and was educated at Waseda University in Tokyo where he studied literature.
Philip Aegidius Walshe (actually Montgomery Carmichael), The Life of John William Walshe, F.S.A., London, Burns & Oates, (1901); New York, E. P. Dutton (1902). This book was presented as a son’s story of his father’s life in Italy as “a profound mystic and student of everything relating to St. Francis of Assisi,” but the son, the father and the memoir were all invented by Montgomery ...
As such, Scrutiny was widely read, and Leavis became very influential in 20th century literary criticism in part because he was editor of the journal. [6] After writing many articles for the journal, music critic Wilfrid Mellers appeared on the editorial board of the January 1942 issue, and continued in that position until the December 1948 ...
Peter Francis Straub (/ s t r aʊ b /; March 2, 1943 – September 4, 2022) [1] was an American novelist and poet. He had success with several horror and supernatural fiction novels, among them Julia (1975), Ghost Story (1979) and The Talisman (1984), the latter co-written with Stephen King.