Chatterton, Thomas
1752 - 1770

British poet and satirist born in Bristol where he grew up in the shadow of the city's magnificent 15th century cathedral,...

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Blok, Aleksandr
1880 - 1921

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok is one of the great masters of Russian symbolism. He combined the early Russian literary...

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Keeler, Harry Stephen
1890 - 1967

The American author Harry Stephen Keeler was one of a kind. He wrote some seventy novels that are a blend of crime fiction,...

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Ko Un
1933 -

The Korean poet, essayist and novelist Ko Un was born as Ko Untae to a peasant family in Gunsan, North Jeolla province. He...

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