Franz Kafka ( 3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) Albert Camus, Gabriel García Márquez and Jean-Paul Sartre are among the writers influenced by Kafka’s work; the term Kafkaesque has entered the English language to describe existential situations like those in his writing. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka Anel P. Albertao posted this amazing Kafka quote on FaceBook. “I […]
Writer Cullen McCullers Quotes
Born Lula Carson Smith on February 19, 1917 in Georgia, she died on September 29, 1967 at age 50. She was a novelist in the Southern Gothic Genre. Her first novel at age 22 was The Heart is a Lonely Hunter about the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts in a U.S. Southern small town. […]
Richard Peck Writer Quotes
Richard Peck, born April 10, 1934 (age 81)is an American novelist, particularly for young adults. He taught junior high and high school English. He left teaching in 1971 to write his first novel, Don’t Look and It Won’t Hurt, in 1972, in which “A teenage girl struggles to understand her place within her family and […]
Nancy Kress Science Fiction Writer Quotes
Nancy Kress is an American science fiction writer, born in January, 1948. Her 1991 novella, Beggars in Spain, won the Hugo and Nebula awards. Since then she expanded it into a novel. In 2012 she also won the Nebula Award for Best Novella for “After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall.”
Katherine Anne Porter Quotes
Katherine Ann Porter, born May 15, 1890 in Texas, died September, 1980 in Maryland, was a Pulitzer Prize- winning American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist. She was known for her penetrating insight and her work with dark themes such as betrayal, death, and the origin of human evil. She was married […]
Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
Alfred Lord Tennyson was born on August 6, 1809 in England and died October 6, 1892.He followed William Wordsworth as Poet Laureate of Great Britain. He held that position from 1850 to the time of his death in 1892, the longest tenure of any laureate. Robert Browning was his contemporary who said Tennyson was “insane” […]
Judith Barrington Quotes from Writing Memoir
Judith Barrington was, for several years, on the faculty of the low residency MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Much sought after as a writing teacher, over the past thirty years she has taught creative writing at various universities and at many summer writing workshops. http://www.judithbarrington.com/bio/index.html Here are two of […]