Jan Rynveld Carew (24 September 1920 – 6 December 2012) was a novelist, playwright, poet, and teacher born in Guyana. He lived in several countries, including the Netherlands, Mexico, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Ghana, Jamaica, Canada, and the United States. Carew’s works, which varied in style and covered many different topics, made him an important intellectual in the Caribbean region.
Orson Scott Card was born on August 24, 1951, and is an American writer best known for his science fiction books. As of 2024, he is the only person to have won both a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award in one year, for his novel Ender’s Game (1985) and its follow-up book Speaker for the Dead (1986). A movie version of Ender’s Game, which Card helped produce, was released in 2013.
Truman Garcia Capote ( / k ə ˈ p oʊ t i / kə- POH -tee ; born Truman Streckfus Persons ; September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays are considered important works in literature. He is recognized as one of the founders of New Journalism, along with other writers such as Gay Talese, Hunter S.
Elias Canetti (Bulgarian: Елиас Канети; July 25, 1905 – August 14, 1994; pronounced /kəˈnɛti, kɑː-/) was a writer who wrote in German. He was known for his work as a novelist, playwright, memoirist, and nonfiction writer. He was born in Ruse, Bulgaria, to a Sephardic Jewish family.
Aurora Matilde Gómez Camus was born on September 26, 1919, and passed away on April 28, 2012. She was a Spanish poet from Cantabria who also wrote non-fiction books.
Albert Camus was born on November 7, 1913, in French Algeria, and he died on January 4, 1960. He was a French philosopher, novelist, author, playwright, journalist, and political activist. In 1957, at the age of 44, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Joseph John Campbell was born on March 26, 1904, and died on October 30, 1987. He was an American writer and the husband of Jean Erdman. He taught literature at Sarah Lawrence College and studied myths and religions from around the world.
John W. Campbell Jr. (June 8, 1910 – July 11, 1971) was an American science fiction writer and editor.
Julia Margaret Cameron (born Pattle; June 11, 1815 – January 26, 1879) was an English photographer known as one of the most important portrait artists of the 19th century. She is famous for her soft-focus close-up portraits of famous Victorians and for images that show characters from mythology, Christianity, and literature. She was born in Calcutta.
Italo Calvino was an Italian novelist and short story writer. He was born on October 15, 1923, and died on September 19, 1985. His most famous works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a winter’s night a traveler (1979).