Selected Author Biographies
Prose:
Poetry:
Eudora Welty (b. 1909)
Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
John Cheever (1912-1982)
Charles Olson (1910-1970)
Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
Saul Bellow (b. 1915)
Robert Hayden (1913-1980)
Grace Paley (b. 1922)
Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)
James Baldwin (1924-1987)
John Berryman (1914-1972)
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)
Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)
Denise Levertov (1923-1997)
Toni Morrison (b. 1931)
A. R. Ammons (1926-2001)
John Updike (b. 1932)
James Merrill (1926-1995)
Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937)
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
Raymond Carver (b. 1938)
Galway Kinnell (b. 1927)
Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995)
Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940)
Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
Alice Walker (b. 1944)
Gary Snyder (b. 1930)
Leslie Marmon Silko (b. 1948)
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
Michael S. Harper (b. 1938)
Simon J. Ortiz (b. 1941)
Rita Dove (b. 1952)
Li-Young Lee (b. 1957)
