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Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – 1914?) was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist and satirist. Today, he is best known for his short story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and his satirical dictionary, The Devil's Dictionary.
The sardonic view of human...
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Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American writer and journalist. He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris, and one of the veterans of World War I later known as "the Lost Generation." He received the...
Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino (15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) (Italian pronunciation: [ˈiːtalo kalˈviːno]) was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics...
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Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (pronounced /ˈhɔr.heɪ luˈiːs ˈbɔr.hɛz/; Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxorxe ˈlwis ˈborxes]; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986), best known as Jorge Luis Borges, was an Argentine writer, essayist and poet born in...
H. L. Mencken
Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Mencken, known as the "Sage of...
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Robert W. Chambers
Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 – December 16, 1933) was an American artist and writer.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York, to William P. Chambers (1827 - 1911), a famous lawyer, and Caroline Chambers (née Boughton), a direct descendant of...
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Julio Cortázar
Julio Cortázar, born Jules Florencio Cortázar, (August 26, 1914 – February 12, 1984) was an Argentine author of novels and short stories. He influenced an entire generation of Latin American writers from Mexico to Argentina, but most of his best...
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James Morrow
James Morrow (born 1947) is a fiction author. A self-described "scientific humanist", his work satirises organized religion and elements of humanism and atheism.
He lives in State College, Pennsylvania with his wife, Kathryn Smith Morrow, his son,...
Norman Partridge
Norman Partridge (born May 28, 1958) is an American author of horror and mystery fiction. He has written two detective novels about retired boxer Jack Baddalach, Saguaro Riptide and The Ten Ounce Siesta. He is also the author of a Crow novel, The...
William March
William March (born William Edward Campbell (September 18, 1893 – May 15, 1954) was an American author and a highly decorated US Marine, called "the unrecognized genius of our time." His novels intertwine his own personal torment with the conflicts...
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Miroslav Šustek
Miroslav Šustek (born 1947) is a Slovak horror and ghost story writer. Despite his forty years of prolific writing, his debut short story collection, Nie ste vy náhodou ten chýrny pán Rafin? (Are You By Any Chance The Famous Mr Rafin?) was only...
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Garret Schuelke
Garret Schuelke is a writer, poet, journalist, lyricist, photographer, and painter born, and currently residing in, Alpena, Michigan. He attends Alpena Community College and plans on attending Western Michigan University in fall 2009. His work has...
