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Robert Aickman
Robert Fordyce Aickman (1914–1981), English author of 48 "strange stories" in eight collections, co-founder of the Inland Waterways Association, grandson of Richard Marsh, World Fantasy Award winner 1975.
Robert B. Parker
Robert B. Parker (1932–2010), American crime novelist, created Boston PI Spenser in The Godwulf Manuscript (1973), wrote the Jesse Stone, Sunny Randall, and Virgil Cole western series, won the 1976 Edgar and 2002 MWA Grand Master Award, and completed Chandler's Poodle Springs.
Robert Bloch
Robert Albert Bloch (1917–1994), American horror and suspense writer, author of Psycho, Lovecraft protégé; wrote 25 novels, hundreds of stories, and Star Trek and Hitchcock TV scripts.
Robert Bloomfield
Robert Bloomfield (1766–1823) was an English laboring-class poet, formerly a farmhand and shoemaker. His four-book georgic work, The Farmer's Boy (1800), was a bestseller of the Romantic period.
Robert Bridges
Robert Seymour Bridges was an English poet and physician who became Poet Laureate in 1913 and edited the first published edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins' poems in 1918.
Robert Browning
Robert Browning (1812–1889), English Victorian poet of Camberwell and Venice, master of the dramatic monologue ('My Last Duchess', 'Porphyria's Lover') and author of The Ring and the Book; husband of Elizabeth Barrett, long obscure, famous late, influence on Pound and Eliot.
Robert Burns
Robert Burns, also known as Rabbie Burns or the Bard of Ayrshire, is Scotland's national poet, famous for "Auld Lang Syne" and celebrated on Burns Night each January 25.
Robert Byron (travel writer)
Robert Byron (1905-1941), British travel writer and architectural historian, author of The Road to Oxiana (1937) about Persia and Afghanistan; distinguished from the poet Lord Byron; died when his ship was torpedoed in 1941.
Robert Caro
Robert Caro (born 1935) is an American journalist-biographer, author of The Power Broker (1975 Pulitzer) and the multi-volume The Years of Lyndon Johnson, with two Pulitzers, two National Book Awards, and a fifth LBJ volume still unfinished.
Robert Coover
Robert Lowell Coover (1932–2024), American postmodern fiction writer, author of The Origin of the Brunists, Pricksongs & Descants with 'The Babysitter', and The Public Burning; Brown University professor and electronic literature pioneer.
Robert Cormier
Robert Cormier (Robert Edmund Cormier, 1925–2000) was an American novelist and journalist whose dark young adult novel The Chocolate War (1974) helped establish the YA novel.
Robert Creeley
Robert Creeley (1926–2005) was an American poet, editor, and teacher associated with the Black Mountain poets, known for a compressed, elliptical style that influenced a generation.
Robert Duncan
Robert Duncan was an American poet, born in Oakland in 1919, identified with Black Mountain and the San Francisco Renaissance and known for poems drawing on myth and the occult.
Robert E. Howard
Robert E. Howard (1906-1936), American pulp writer of Cross Plains, Texas, creator of Conan the Barbarian, Kull, and Solomon Kane; father of sword-and-sorcery, published mainly in Weird Tales, died at 30.
Robert Fagles
Robert Fagles (1933–2008), American translator and Princeton comparative literature professor, translated Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid, Aeschylus's Oresteia, and Sophocles's Theban Plays, selling over two million copies.
Robert Frost
Robert Frost (1874–1963), American poet of New England rural life; author of A Boy's Will, North of Boston, and The Road Not Taken; four Pulitzer Prizes and Kennedy's inaugural poem.
Robert Gernhardt
Robert Gernhardt was a German poet, satirist, and cartoonist who co-founded the magazine Titanic in 1979 and wrote more than 50 books of comic poetry and prose.
Robert Graves
Robert Graves (1895-1985), English poet, novelist, and translator; author of Goodbye to All That, I, Claudius, The White Goddess, and The Greek Myths; Oxford Professor of Poetry 1961-1966.
Robert Greene (American author)
Robert Greene, American author of The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, Mastery, and The 50th Law with 50 Cent; number one NYT bestselling writer on power strategies, dubbed hip-hop's Machiavelli.
Robert Harris (novelist)
Robert Harris (born 1957, Nottingham) is a British novelist and former BBC and Observer political journalist, author of Fatherland, the Cicero trilogy, Conclave, and Agrippa; his thrillers have sold millions and been translated into forty languages.
Robert Hayden
Robert Hayden (Asa Bundy Sheffey, 1913–1980), American poet and first African American Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress; wrote "Middle Passage" and "Frederick Douglass"; won the 1966 Dakar grand prize for A Ballad of Remembrance.
Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick (1591–1674) was an English poet and Anglican cleric, vicar of Dean Prior in Devonshire, whose collection Hesperides (1648) includes "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may".
Robert Jordan
Robert Jordan, pen name of James Oliver Rigney Jr. (1948-2007), American fantasy author, Citadel physics graduate and Vietnam veteran, creator of the 14-volume Wheel of Time series (1990), completed by Brandon Sanderson, and author of seven Conan novels.
Robert Jordan bibliography
Robert Jordan bibliography: works of James Oliver Rigney Jr. (1948–2007), also Reagan O'Neal and Jackson O'Reilly. The Fallon trilogy, seven Conan novels, and The Wheel of Time, fourteen novels plus New Spring, completed by Brandon Sanderson.
Robert Kirkman
Robert Kirkman (born 1978, Richmond, Kentucky) is the American comic writer behind The Walking Dead and Invincible, Image Comics' COO, and co-founder of Skybound Entertainment with David Alpert in 2010.
Robert Kroetsch
Robert Kroetsch was a Canadian novelist, poet, and essayist from Heisler, Alberta, a central figure of Canadian postmodern writing whose novels and long poems are set on the western prairies.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer best known for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Robert Lowell
Robert Lowell (1917–1977), American poet and Pulitzer winner; his 1959 Life Studies launched confessional poetry. Also known for Lord Weary's Castle, Imitations, and Day by Day.
Robert Ludlum
Robert Ludlum (1927–2001), American thriller novelist, author of the Bourne trilogy and creator of Jason Bourne and Covert-One; over 225 million copies in print; 1971 debut The Scarlatti Inheritance.
Robert Munsch
Robert Munsch (Robert Norman Peter Maria Munsch), born 1945 in Pittsburgh, is a Canadian children's author and storyteller with nearly 100 books and over 87 million copies sold, known for The Paper Bag Princess and Love You Forever.