Atwood, Margaret
1939 -

Canadian author, born in Ottawa and grew up in Ontario, Quebec and Toronto. Her parents, Carl Edmund Atwood and Margaret...

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Keats, John
1795 - 1821

The English poet John Keats was born in London. His father, who was stable manager at the Swan and Hoop Inn, died in an...

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Starrett, Vincent
1886 - 1974

American Vincent Starrett was what in English is known as a ‘bookman’. He devoted his life and his professional activities to...

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Whitehead, Colson
1969 -

American writer Art Colson Chipp Whitehead spent his early years at 139th Riverside in Harlem, a tough place by his...

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