writers
by pernogr | created - 17 Sep 2012 | updated - 21 Sep 2012 | Public
1. Charles Bukowski
Writer | Barfly
Charles Bukowski, the American poet, short-story writer, and novelist, was born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, Jr. in Andernach, Germany on August 1920. He was the son of Henry Bukowski, a US soldier who was part of the post-World War I occupation force, and Katharina Fett, a German woman. His father, his...
2. Arthur Schnitzler
Writer | Eyes Wide Shut
Arthur Schnitzler was born on May 15, 1862 in Vienna, Austrian Empire [now Austria]. He was a writer, known for Eyes Wide Shut (1999), The Affairs of Anatol (1921) and The Exposure. He was married to Olga Gussmann. He died on October 21, 1931 in Vienna, Austria.
3. Arthur Rimbaud
Writer | Ein großer graublauer Vogel
Arthur Rimbaud was born on October 20, 1854 in Charleville-Mézières, Ardennes, France. He was a writer, known for Ein großer graublauer Vogel (1970), Ardiente paciencia (1983) and Criminal Lovers (1999). He died on November 10, 1891 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.
4. Octave Mirbeau
Writer | The Diary of a Chambermaid
Octave Mirbeau was born on February 16, 1850 in Trevières, Calvados, France. He was a writer, known for The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946), Diary of a Chambermaid (1964) and Business Is Business (1915). He was married to Alice Regnault. He died on February 16, 1917 in Paris, France.
5. Marquis de Sade
Writer | Sinfonía erótica
Born a rich nobleman, Marquis being his title rather than his birth name, De Sade gradually became a decadent libertine among the French society of Louis XVI. A liberally educated iconoclast, he wrote prose and verse, and specialized in testing the limits of decency, breaking tabboos and shocking ...
6. Daphne Du Maurier
Writer | The Birds
Daphne Du Maurier was one of the most popular English writers of the 20th Century, when middle-brow genre fiction was accorded a higher level of respect in a more broadly literate age. For her services to literature, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1969, the ...
7. Curzio Malaparte
Writer | Il Cristo proibito
Curzio Malaparte (1898-1957) was a prominent Italian writer who directed one film, Strange Deception (which he also wrote and scored) that was recognized a decade later by US critic Parker Tyler in his book, Classics Of The Foreign Film.After serving in the Great War. Malaparte (who chose a last ...
8. William Makepeace Thackeray
Writer | Barry Lyndon
William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 - 24 December 1863) was a British novelist, author and illustrator. He is known for his satirical works, particularly his 1848 novel Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of British society, and the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon, which was adapted for a ...
9. Anthony Burgess
Writer | A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess was born on February 25, 1917 in Manchester, England, UK. He was a writer, known for A Clockwork Orange (1971), Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) and Vinyl (1965). He was married to Liana Burgess and Llewela Isherwood Jones. He died on November 22, 1993 in London, England, UK.
10. Alberto Moravia
Writer | Le mépris
Alberto Moravia was born on November 22, 1907 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and actor, known for Contempt (1963), The Conformist (1970) and From a Roman Balcony (1960). He was married to Carmen Llera and Elsa Morante. He died on September 26, 1990 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
11. Arthur C. Clarke
Writer | 2001: A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke was born in the seaside town of Minehead, Somerset, England in December 16, 1917. In 1936 he moved to London, where he joined the British Interplanetary Society. There he started to experiment with astronautic material in the BIS, write the BIS Bulletin and science fiction. During ...
12. Guy de Maupassant
Writer | La criada de la granja
Guy de Maupassant was born on August 5, 1850 in Château de Miromesnil, France. He was a writer, known for La criada de la granja (1953), Pierre & Jeanne and Black Sabbath (1963). He died on July 6, 1893 in Paris, France.
13. Jon Krakauer
Writer | Into the Wild
Raised in Corvallis, Oregon, Jon Krakauer graduated from Hampshire College in 1976, after which he worked as a carpenter and commercial salmon fisherman in Alaska before embarking on a career as a writer. He is the author of 8 books, including Into the Wild, Into Thin Air (which was one of three ...
14. Cormac McCarthy
Writer | The Road
Cormac McCarthy was born on July 20, 1933 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for The Road (2009), No Country for Old Men (2007) and The Counselor (2013). He was married to Jennifer Claire Winkley, Anne DeLisle and Lee Holleman. He died on June 13, 2023 in Santa Fe...
15. Philip K. Dick
Writer | Blade Runner
Philip Kindred Dick was born in Chicago in December 1928, along with a twin sister, Jane. Jane died less than eight weeks later, allegedly from an allergy to mother's milk. Dick's parents split up during his childhood, and he moved with his mother to Berkeley, California, where he lived for most of...
16. Jean Cayrol
Writer | Le coup de grâce
Jean Cayrol was born on June 6, 1911 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. He was a writer and director, known for Le coup de grâce (1965), On vous parle (1960) and Madame se meurt (1961). He was married to Jeanette Durand. He died on February 10, 2005 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.
17. James M. Cain
Writer | Double Indemnity
James M. Cain was a 'Film Noir' author. His father was a professor, and president, of 'Washington College'. His mother was an opera singer in Maryland.
James graduated from the same college in 1910, and became a writer for 'Baltimore American', then 'Baltimore Sun' [still being published] by 1914. ...
18. Louis Calaferte
Writer | Mon bel amour, ma déchirure
Louis Calaferte was born on July 14, 1928 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. He was a writer, known for Mon bel amour, ma déchirure (1987), The Mechanics of Women (2000) and Le petit théâtre d'Antenne 2 (1977). He died on May 2, 1994.
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