Paul Frederic Bowles ( / b oʊ l z / ; December 30, 1910 – November 18, 1999) was an American composer, author, and translator. He became connected with the city of Tangier in Morocco, where he moved in 1947 and lived for 52 years until his death. After growing up in a middle-class family in New York City, where he showed talent for music and writing, Bowles studied at the University of Virginia.
Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen CBE (pronounced BOH-ən; June 7, 1899 – February 22, 1973) was an Anglo-Irish writer and short story author known for her books about the large homes of Irish Protestant landowners and her stories about life in London during wartime. In 1958, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature by Roman Jakobson, a Russian-American linguist.
Tadeusz Borowski (Polish pronunciation: [taˈdɛ.uʐ bɔˈrɔfskʲi]; 12 November 1922 – 3 July 1951) was a Polish writer and journalist. He wrote poetry and stories about his time as a prisoner in Auschwitz. These works are considered important pieces of Polish literature.
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges (pronounced BOR-hess; Spanish: [ˈxoɾxe ˈlwis ˈboɾxes]; August 24, 1899 – June 14, 1986) was an Argentine writer, poet, essayist, and translator. He is considered an important figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His most famous works, Ficciones (translated as Fictions) and El Aleph (translated as The Aleph), published in the 1940s, are collections of short stories.
Roberto Bolaño Ávalos (Spanish: [roˈβeɾto βoˈlaɲo ˈaβalos]; April 28, 1953 – July 15, 2003) was a Chilean writer who created novels, short stories, poems, and essays. In 1999, Bolaño received the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel The Savage Detectives. In 2008, he was honored posthumously with the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for his novel 2666.
Elizabeth Baker Bohan (born as Baker; August 18, 1849 – August 27, 1930) was a British-born American who worked as an author, journalist, artist, and social reformer. She focused on improving the prison system. She wrote two novels: Un Americano, a story about California’s mission days (1895), and The Drag-Net, a story about modern prisons (1909, illustrated by Langdon Smith).
Judith Marcia Blume (born February 12, 1938) is an American author who writes books for children, teenagers, and adults. She started writing in 1959 and has written more than 26 books. Some of her most famous books include Superfudge (1980), Are You There God?
Harold Bloom was born on July 11, 1930, and died on October 14, 2019. He was an American literary critic and held the position of Sterling Professor of humanities at Yale University. In 2017, he was described as “probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world.” After publishing his first book in 1959, Bloom authored more than 50 books, including over 40 works of literary criticism, many books about religion, and one novel.
Allan David Bloom was born on September 14, 1930, and died on October 7, 1992. He was an American philosopher, expert in classical literature, and teacher. He studied with scholars such as David Grene, Leo Strauss, Richard McKeon, and Alexandre Kojève.
Alexander Alexandrovich Blok (Russian: Александр Александрович Блок, IPA: [ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪtɕ ˈblok]) was born on November 28 (Old Style: November 16), 1880, and died on August 7, 1921. He was the most famous Russian lyrical poet during the Silver Age of Russian Poetry.