Robert Charles Benchley was born on September 15, 1889, and died on November 21, 1945. He was an American writer, newspaper columnist, and actor. He began his career at The Harvard Lampoon while studying at Harvard University.
Peter Bradford Benchley (May 8, 1940 – February 11, 2006) was an American author. He is best known for his bestselling novel Jaws and helped write the movie version of Jaws with Carl Gottlieb. Many of his other books were also adapted into movies and television shows, including The Deep, The Island, Beast, and White Shark.
Jacinto Benavente y Martínez (August 12, 1866 – July 14, 1954) was one of the most important Spanish dramatists of the 20th century. He was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Literature for continuing the important traditions of Spanish drama in a happy way.
Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005) was a Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow received the Pulitzer Prize, the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times.
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc was born on July 27, 1870, and died on July 16, 1953. He was a writer and political activist of French and English heritage. Belloc wrote many different types of books, including essays about history, politics, and economics, as well as poetry, travel stories, and humorous writing.
Brendan Francis Aidan Behan (also known as Francis Behan) (pronounced BEE-ən; Irish: Breandán Ó Beacháin; born February 9, 1923; died March 20, 1964) was an Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and Irish Republican. He was an activist who wrote in both English and Irish. His long-term struggle with alcohol, even after attempts to treat it, affected his ability to create and caused health and social problems that limited his work and eventually led to his death.
Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm (24 August 1872 – 20 May 1956) was an English writer, humorist, and artist who used the name Max. He became famous in the 1890s as a fashion-conscious person and a humorist. From 1898 to 1910, he worked as the drama critic for the Saturday Review.
Samuel Barclay Beckett ( / ˈ b ɛ k ɪ t / ; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish writer, known for his work as a novelist, playwright, poet, and literary critic. He wrote in both English and French. His stories and plays often showed sad, unemotional, and mix of sad and funny parts of life, along with dark humor and unusual language.
Ann Beattie was born on September 8, 1947. She is an American novelist and short story writer. She has won awards for excellence from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in writing short stories.
Peter Soyer Beagle (born April 20, 1939) is an American writer who creates stories and scripts, especially for fantasy fiction. His most famous book is The Last Unicorn (1968), which Locus readers voted the number five “best fantasy novel of all time” in 1987. Over the past 25 years, he has received many literary awards, including a World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2011.