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Arthur Quiller-Couch

1863 - 1944

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch was a Cornish writer who published many novels but is most well known for his monumental publication, The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900. He was also celebrated for his literary criticism, influencing many writers around the world.

Beatrix Potter

1866 - 1943

Beatrix Potter was an English writer and illustrator, most famous for her stories featuring animals, notably The Tale of Peter Rabbit, which she published in her thirties and saw much success. Raised in an upper-class family by governesses, Potter was often isolated from other children, so she held great love for her many pets and the nature around her.

Bertrand N. O. Walker

1870 - 1927

Born in Kansas City and a member of the Oklahoma band of the Big Turtle Clan, Bertrand N. O. Walker was an author of poetry and folktales. Walker published two books under his Wyandotte name, Hen-Toh, including his collection of short stories "Tales of the Bark Lodges".

Carl Sandburg

1878 - 1967

Carl Sandburg was an American poet, writer, and editor, who won three Pulitzer Prizes in his lifetime. Because of his diverse life experiences, he related to many different classes of American society and thus his works touched many. At his death, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared, “Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America.” ...  [+]

Claude McKay

1889 - 1948

Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay (1889 – 1948) was a Jamaican writer and poet, who was a seminal figure in the Harlem Renaissance. He wrote five novels: Home to Harlem (1928), a best-seller that won the Harmon Gold Award for Literature, Banjo (1929), Banana Bottom (1933), Romance in Marseille (published in 2020), and in 1941 a manuscript called Amiable With Big Teeth: A Novel of the Love Affai ...  [+]

D. H. Lawrence

1885 - 1930

D. H. Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter. His whole work is based on an analysis of the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization.

His opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life.

Edward Nathaniel Harleston

1869-1919

Born and raised in Charleston, Carolina, E. N. Harleston worked many jobs before self-publishing his first poems. After gaining some popularity in the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the first Black-run newspapers in the United States, he published his sole volume of poetry, The Toiler’s Life, in 1907.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

1869 - 1935

Edwin Arlington Robinson was one of the most prolific major American poets of the 20th century. Ironically, despite his extensive literary output, very few of his poems have won renown. Nowadays, he is regarded as unique among the American poets of his time for his devotion to his art. During his lifetime, he won 3 Pulitzer Prizes and was nominated 4 times for the Nobel Prize in Literature.