Category: Authors Index

Zona Gale	Zane Grey	Woody Guthrie
William Wordsworth	William Somerset Maugham	William Shakespeare
William Makepeace Thackeray	William Donahey	William Faulkner
William James Lampton	William Dean Howells	William D’Arcy Haley
William Cullen Bryant	William Carlos Williams	William Butler Yeats
William Blake

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Zona Gale (1874 – 1938) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and short story author, best known for her novel and play, Miss Lulu Bett (1920), which earned the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921. She was the first woman … Read the rest

Zane Grey (1872 – 1939) was a popular American frontier novelist who wrote his first story at the age of fifteen, entitled Jim of the Cave. His father reportedly responded by tearing the book to shreds and giving Zane a … Read the rest

Woody Guthrie (1912 – 1967) was a revered activist folk singer and songwriter best known for his American populist songs during the Great Depression and American Dust Bowl, when he learned traditional folk and blues songs while traveling with displaced … Read the rest

William Wordsworth (1770-1850), renowned English poet, is credited with launching the Romantic movement along with fellow poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The two literary greats collaboratively published Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems in 1798, showcasing many of their greatest … Read the rest

William Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965), British playwright, novelist, and short story writer, earned the distinction of highest paid author of the 1930s. Orphaned at the age of ten and raised by an emotionally cold uncle, Maugham decided to become … Read the rest

I once recall hearing or reading a quotation expressing the following idea:

Nobody has driven that point deeper than William Shakespeare; the actors of his day are unknown — buried deeply in the dust of history — but Shakespeare’s name … Read the rest

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 – 1863) was a 19th century English novelist best known for his satires about human weakness, and his biography, Henry Esmond.
Thackeray’s family life was cut short at an early age. Born in Calcutta, India in … Read the rest

William Donahey (1883 – 1970) was an American cartoonist and children’s author of The Teenie Weenie series, a delightful bunch of two inch high characters who get into great mischief. The series was published as a comic strip in The … Read the rest

William Faulkner (1897 – 1962) is an iconic figure in American literature, particularly in the genre of Southern Gothic literature. Highly influenced by the black nanny who raised him, Callie Barr, and his mother and grandmother’s encouragement of his visual … Read the rest