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  1. 23 hours ago · Ernest Miller Hemingway (/ ˈ ɜːr n ɪ s t ˈ h ɛ m ɪ ŋ w eɪ /; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is often romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle, and outspoken and blunt public image.

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  3. 23 hours ago · Early life Pynchon, age 16, in his high school senior portrait Thomas Pynchon was born on May 8, 1937, in Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, one of three children of engineer and politician Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Sr. (1907–1995) and Katherine Frances Bennett (1909–1996), a nurse. During his childhood, Pynchon alternately attended Episcopal services with his father and Roman Catholic ...

    • c. 1959–present
  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Ezra_PoundEzra Pound - Wikipedia

    23 hours ago · Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem, The Cantos ...

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Jean_RossJean Ross - Wikipedia

    23 hours ago · Olivia Wilde [5] (step-granddaughter) Jean Iris Ross Cockburn [a] ( / ˈkoʊbərn / KOH-bərn; 7 May 1911 – 27 April 1973) was a British journalist, political activist, and film critic. [6] During the Spanish Civil War (1936–39), she was a war correspondent for the Daily Express and is alleged to have been a press agent for Joseph Stalin 's ...

  6. 23 hours ago · Early and personal life Ismail Kadare was born in the Kingdom of Albania during the reign of King Zog I. He was born in Gjirokastër, an historic Ottoman Empire fortress mountain city of tall stone houses in southern Albania, a dozen miles from the border with Greece. He lived there on a crooked, narrow street known as "Lunatics' Lane". His parents were Halit Kadare, a post office employee ...

    • Albanian, Kosovo
    • 2, including Besiana
    • Novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter, playwright
    • Helena Gushi
  7. 23 hours ago · Jimmy Buffett. James William Buffett (December 25, 1946 – September 1, 2023) was an American singer-songwriter. [10] He was known for his tropical rock sound and persona, [2] which often portrayed a lifestyle described as "island escapism" [11] and promoted enjoying life and following passions. [12]

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