Writers and literary biographies

Joy Goswami

Joy Goswami (জয় গোস্বামী), born 1954 in Kolkata, is an Indian Bengali poet regarded as a leading voice of the post-Jibanananda Das era, winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award.

Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo (born 1951) is an American poet and musician of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation who served as US Poet Laureate from 2019 to 2022.

Joyce Carol Oates (born 1938, Lockport, New York), also published as Rosamond Smith and Lauren Kelly, is a prolific American novelist, story writer, and essayist; National Book Award 1970 for them, Pulitzer finalist five times, Princeton professor since 1978.

Joyce Cary

Joyce Cary (Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary, 1888–1957), Irish-born British novelist and former Nigerian colonial administrator, author of Mister Johnson, The Horse's Mouth, and two first-person trilogies on art and politics.

Joyce Kilmer

Joyce Kilmer (Alfred Joyce Kilmer, 1886–1918), American poet and journalist, author of "Trees"; served as a sergeant in the Fighting 69th, killed by a German sniper at the Second Battle of the Marne, awarded the posthumous French Croix de Guerre.

Joyce Maynard

Joyce Maynard (born 1953) is an American novelist and memoirist, author of Labor Day, To Die For, and At Home in the World, known for her 1972 New York Times essay and her relationship with J. D. Salinger.

József Eötvös

József Eötvös (Eötvös József, 1813–1871) was a Hungarian novelist and statesman who wrote The Village Notary, served twice as education minister, and passed Hungary's 1868 Nationalities Act.

József Gvadányi

József Gvadányi was a Hungarian baroque satirical poet and Habsburg cavalry general who fought in the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War before becoming a prolific author in his sixties.

JT LeRoy

JT LeRoy was a fictitious author persona created by Laura Albert, who wrote Sarah and The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things; Savannah Knoop played LeRoy in public until the 2005-2006 New York magazine and Times exposés.

Juan Antonio de Zunzunegui

Juan Antonio de Zunzunegui was a Spanish realist novelist of Basque origin who portrayed the Bilbao and Madrid bourgeoisie and won the Premio Miguel de Cervantes in 1962.

Juan Carlos Onetti

Juan Carlos Onetti (1909–1994) was a Uruguayan novelist and short-story writer who won the 1980 Premio Cervantes and created the fictional city of Santa María.

Juan de Dios Peza

Juan de Dios Peza (1852–1910) was a Mexican lyric poet known as "el poeta del hogar" (the poet of the home), best remembered for the widely recited poem "Reír llorando."

Juan de Espinosa Medrano

Juan de Espinosa Medrano, called el Lunarejo, was a Peruvian priest, preacher, and playwright of the seventeenth-century Baroque, known for the Apologético, the first literary criticism written in America.

Juan del Encina

Juan del Encina, born Juan de Fermoselle, was a Spanish poet, playwright, and composer of the late 1400s and early 1500s, called the father of Castilian drama.

Juan Filloy

Juan Filloy (1894–2000) was an Argentine writer and judge in Río Cuarto, Córdoba, whose novels include Caterva and Op Oloop, and who gave every book title exactly seven letters.

Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Juan Gabriel Vásquez (born 1973 in Bogotá) is a Colombian novelist whose fiction, translated into about thirty languages, deals with the political and drug-war history of late twentieth-century Colombia.

Juan Gelman

Juan Gelman (1930–2014) was an Argentine poet who won the 2007 Premio Cervantes, his work marked by the Dirty War disappearance of his son and his own exile.

Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda

Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda (1948–2022) was a Colombian poet, essayist, literary critic, and diplomat who directed the magazine Eco and served as ambassador to Greece.

Juan José Morosoli

Juan José Morosoli (1899–1957) was a Uruguayan narrator, poet, playwright, and journalist from Minas, a leading figure of the country's rural-themed narrative whose works include Hombres (1932) and his only novel, Muchachos (1950).

Juan José Saer

Juan José Saer (1937–2005) was an Argentine novelist and essayist who lived in France and wrote fiction set in the Santa Fe river region he called la zona.

Juan Laurentino Ortiz

Juan Laurentino Ortiz, known as Juanele, was an Argentine poet of Entre Ríos whose work, written almost entirely beside its rivers, is among the major poetic achievements of 20th-century Argentine literature.

Juan León Mera

Juan León Mera (1832–1894) was an Ecuadorian writer, poet, and politician from Ambato, known for the national anthem lyrics, the Indianist novel Cumandá, and pioneering Ecuadorian literary criticism.

Juan Marsé

Juan Marsé Carbó, born Juan Faneca Roca (1933–2020), was a Spanish novelist whose fiction of postwar Barcelona made him one of Spain's major writers, winning the Cervantes Prize.

Juan Meléndez Valdés

Juan Meléndez Valdés (1754–1817), who wrote under the pseudonym Batilo, was a Spanish poet and magistrate regarded as the leading Spanish lyric poet of the eighteenth century.

Juan Ramón Jiménez

Juan Ramón Jiménez was a Spanish poet who won the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature and wrote Platero y yo, prose poems about a man and his donkey.

Juan Ruiz

Juan Ruiz, known as the Archpriest of Hita (Arcipreste de Hita), was a 14th-century Castilian cleric and poet, presumed author of the medieval masterpiece Libro de buen amor.

Juan Rulfo

Juan Rulfo (1917–1986) was a Mexican writer from Jalisco whose reputation rests on two books: the story collection El Llano en llamas and the novel Pedro Páramo.

Juan Villoro

Juan Villoro, full name Juan Antonio Villoro Ruiz, is a Mexican writer and journalist born in Mexico City in 1956, known for novels, essays, and football crónicas.

Juan Zorrilla de San Martín

Juan Zorrilla de San Martín (1855–1931) was a Uruguayan romantic poet, known as the "Poeta de la Patria", best remembered for the epic poem Tabaré.