A-Z of Authors Last Names

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Irvine Welsh.
Novelist known for his grim depictions of working-class/unemployed life in the slum "schemes" of Edinburgh - most famously Trainspotting and its film adaptation.

Xinran (b. 1958)

British-Chinese feminist journalist and radio personality
Writes of Western-Chinese relations, especially pertaining to adoption

Famous For:
Sky Burial
The Mothers' Bridge of Love

W.B. Yeats.

Markus Zusak (b. 1975)

The Book Thief
I am the Messenger

There's more but I'm too tired to write.

Akroyd, Peter (b 1949)

Prolific author, writer of numerous novels (many based in London), biographies, historical works and poetry. Examples:

The Last Testament Of Oscar Wilde

The House Of Doctor Dee

The Lambs Of London

London, The Biography

History Of England, vols 1-5

Emily Jane Brontë (1818 - 1848)

Pseudonyms Emmii, Ellis Bell
British poet, essayist, philosopher, novelist, artist, musician, homemaker
Clergyman's daughter
Sister of Charlotte, Branwell and Anne Brontë
Bereaved of her mother and two eldest sisters Maria and Elizabeth, by age 7
Creator of complex fictional paracosms, including The Glass Town Confederacy and Gondal
Inspired by British Naval explorers Parry and Ross
Wrote Gothic-Romantic poetry from a young age
Inspired to create the character of Augusta Geraldin Almeda (A.G.A.) by the coronation of Queen Victoria
Stubborn and headstrong, reluctant to leave home
Educated in Brussels and fluent in French
Accomplished pianist and music teacher
Shot pistols and purchased stocks in early railway development
Animal lover, with pets ranging from hawks to geese to a bull mastiff
Wrote in the style of German Romanticism about Heaven, Earth, Love and Death
Died of consumption at aged 30, one year after publishing Wuthering Heights

Most Famous Works:

Poetry 1833 on
Remembrance
Stars
No Coward Soul
A Tyrant Spell
Essays 1842
Le Chat
Le Papillon
Novel
Wuthering Heights (1847)

Agatha Christie

Daphne du Maurier (1907 - 1989)

British novelist, playwright and biographer of literary fiction
Elevated to The Order of the British Empire as Lady Browning, Dame Daphne du Maurier DBE
Victim of incest, felt 'masculine' or androgynous, wrote with passion about sexuality and gender

Most famous works:

The Birds (Hitchcock film)
Rebecca
My Cousin Rachel
The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like the writers he inspired a great deal. Transcendentalism interests me.

William Faulkner

Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

Lebanese-American poet and essayist
Wrote in English and Arabic; studied in Paris
The third best-selling poet of all time
Themes involve universal love, spirituality
Became an alcoholic and lived in reclusion

Most Famous Work:
The Prophet (1923)

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Patricia Ingham

Editor, Literary Biographer, Literary Historian
Senior Research Fellow and Reader, Oxford University

Select Titles:
The Language of Gender and Class: Transformation in the Victorian Novel
Dickens, Women and Language
Authors in Context: The Brontës
Authors in Context: Thomas Hardy
The Brontës: A Critical Reader
Invisible Writing and the Victorian Novel

She has also edited editions of Brontë, Hardy, Gaskell and Dickens for Oxford World Classics and Penguin.

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis

Commonly known as 'Juvenal'.

Roman poet who wrote in the late First Century and Early Second Century AD. Generally regarded as the inventor of 'Satire' in its current barbed, cynical form.

Helen Keller (1880 -1968)

First blind-deaf person to earn a BA Degree (Harvard)

Publications:
The Frost King, 1891
The Story of My Life, 1903
The World I Live In, 1908
Out of the Dark, 1913
My Religion, 1927

D. H. Lawrence.