John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American writer who wrote short stories and novels. He was sometimes called “the Chekhov of the suburbs.” His stories and novels are set in places such as the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Westchester suburbs, old New England villages near Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born, and Italy, especially Rome. Some of his short stories include “The Enormous Radio,” “Goodbye, My Brother,” “The Five-Forty-Eight,” “The Country Husband,” and “The Swimmer.” He also wrote five novels: The Wapshot Chronicle (1958, which won the National Book Award), The Wapshot Scandal (1965, which won the William Dean Howells Medal), Bullet Park (1969), Falconer (1977), and a novella titled Oh What a Paradise It Seems (1982).
Charles Bruce Chatwin FRSL (13 May 1940 – 18 January 1989) was an English writer, novelist, and journalist. His first book, In Patagonia (1977), helped make him famous as a travel writer, even though he thought of himself as a storyteller, interested in sharing unusual stories. He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel On the Black Hill (1982), and his novel Utz (1988) was nominated for the Booker Prize.
René Émile Char (French: [ʁəne ʃaʁ]; born June 14, 1907; died February 19, 1988) was a French poet who was part of the French Resistance during World War II.
Raymond Thornton Chandler was born on July 23, 1888, and died on March 26, 1959. He was a novelist and screenwriter who lived in both the United States and Britain. In 1932, at the age of 44, Chandler began writing detective fiction after losing his job as an executive for an oil company during the Great Depression, a time when many people struggled to find work and money was scarce.
Elizabeth Chadwick, who was born in 1957, is an author who writes historical fiction. She is a member of Regia Anglorum, a medieval reenactment group.
Frédéric-Louis Sauser (September 1, 1887 – January 21, 1961), better known as Blaise Cendrars (French: [sɑ̃dʁaʁ]), was a Swiss-born novelist and poet. He became a naturalized French citizen in 1916. Cendrars was a writer who had a significant impact on the European modernist movement.
Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches (27 May 1894 – 1 July 1961), known as Louis-Ferdinand Céline, was a French writer, doctor, and person who expressed strong opinions. His first book, Journey to the End of the Night (1932), won the Prix Renaudot award but caused disagreement among critics. This was because Céline wrote about life in a negative way and used the language of working people.
Paul Celan ( / ˈ s ɛ l æ n / ; German: [ˈtseːlaːn] ; born Paul Antschel ; 23 November 1920 – c. 20 April 1970) was a poet who wrote in German, a survivor of the Holocaust, and a translator of literary works. After World War II, he chose to use a pen name, which is an anagram of his original Romanian name, Ancel.
Camilo José Cela y Trulock, 1st Marquess of Iria Flavia (Spanish: [kamilo xoˈse ˈθela]; 11 May 1916 – 17 January 2002) was a Spanish writer, poet, short story writer, and essayist. He was part of the Generation of ’36 movement. He received the 1989 Nobel Prize in Literature for his rich and detailed writing style, which showed how people can be vulnerable with kindness and care.
Edgar Cayce (March 18, 1877 – January 3, 1945) was an American man known for having special abilities. He claimed to be able to diagnose illnesses and suggest treatments while sleeping. During thousands of recorded sessions, Cayce answered questions about healing, reincarnation, dreams, the afterlife, past lives, nutrition, Atlantis, and future events.