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Theodor Däubler
Theodor Däubler (1876–1934) was a German-language poet, translator, and art critic born in Trieste, best known for his cosmic epic Das Nordlicht, a poem of more than 30,000 lines.
Theodor Fontane
Theodor Fontane, born Henri Théodore Fontane (1819–1898), was a German novelist, poet, and journalist and the leading representative of poetic realism, best known for late novels including Effi Briest.
Theodor Kallifatides
Theodor Kallifatides (Θοδωρής Καλλιφατίδης), born 1938 in Molaoi, Greece, is a Greek-Swedish author and translator who emigrated to Sweden in 1964, known for his trilogy on his Greek childhood village.
Theodor Storm
Theodor Storm (1817–1888) was a German writer and jurist of literary realism, known for poems and novellas set on the North Sea coast of Schleswig-Holstein.
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945), American novelist born in Terre Haute, Indiana; founder of American literary naturalism, author of Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925), censorship battles, late Communist Party membership.
Theodore Roethke
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) was an American poet and professor whose central subject was his childhood in his father's Michigan greenhouse; "The Waking" is his best-known poem.
Theodore Sturgeon
Theodore Sturgeon (Edward Hamilton Waldo, 1918–1985), American science fiction writer of the Golden Age; author of More Than Human, "Slow Sculpture" (Hugo and Nebula), and Star Trek's "Amok Time."
Theognis of Megara
Theognis of Megara (Θέογνις ὁ Μεγαρεύς) was an archaic Greek elegiac poet whose name is attached to the Theognidea, a collection of about 1,389 lines of moral verse.
Théophile Gautier
Théophile Gautier (Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier; 1811–1872) was a French poet, novelist, and leading art critic known for art for art's sake, Mademoiselle de Maupin, and Émaux et Camées.
Thimi Mitko
Thimi Mitko (Efthimi Mitko, 1820–1890) was an Albanian folklorist of the National Revival who compiled Bleta Shqiptare, the first collection of Tosk folk songs and tales, printed in Alexandria in 1878.
Thirties poets
The thirties poets, nicknamed "MacSpaunday," were British writers led by W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender, and C. Day Lewis whose work reflected the decade's political crises.
Thiru. V. Kalyanasundaram
Thiru. V. Kalyanasundaram (1883–1953), known as Thiru Vi Ka, was a Tamil scholar, essayist, and independence-era activist who helped define modern Tamil prose and founded the weekly Navasakthi.
Thiruvalluvar (திருவள்ளுவர்)
Thiruvalluvar (திருவள்ளுவர்) is the Tamil poet to whom the Tirukkural's 1,330 couplets are attributed; his dates, birthplace, and religion are debated, and the poem itself never names him.
Thit Jensen
Thit Jensen, full name Maria Kirstine Dorothea Jensen (1876–1957), was a Danish novelist and lecturer, sister of Johannes V. Jensen, known for novels about women's lives and campaigns for contraception.
Thomas Artsruni
Thomas Artsruni, known in Armenian as T'ovma Arcruni, was a late 9th-century Armenian historian and vardapet from the Artsruni princely house, best known for his History of the House of the Artsrunik'.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859), Baron Macaulay: British Whig historian, essayist, poet, and politician; author of History of England (1848-55) and the 1835 Minute on Indian Education that made English the language of government education in India.
Thomas Bowdler
Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825), English physician and editor of The Family Shakespeare (1818 ten-volume edition; 1807 edition largely by his sister Henrietta), whose name produced the verb bowdlerize.
Thomas Campion
Thomas Campion (1567–1620) was an English poet, composer, and physician who wrote the words and music of his songs and produced influential treatises on poetry and music.
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), Scottish essayist and historian, author of Sartor Resartus, The French Revolution, and On Heroes; coined 'dismal science' and championed the Great Man theory of history.
Thomas Chatterton
Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770) was an English poet from Bristol who wrote mock-medieval verse attributed to the fictional priest Thomas Rowley and died in London at 17.
Thomas De Quincey
Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859), English Romantic essayist, author of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821), the first autobiographical account of drug addiction; also wrote Recollections of the Lake Poets and Suspiria de Profundis.
Thomas Erikson
Thomas Erikson (born 1965) is a Swedish behaviourist and author of the Surrounded by series, led by Surrounded by Idiots (Omgiven av idioter, 2014), which sorts behavior into four DISC-based colors; over 12 million copies sold, widely criticized as pseudoscience.
Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray (1716–1771), English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, and Cambridge professor of modern history; author of "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (1751), declined the 1757 laureateship, published little, second only to Pope among eighteenth-century English poets.
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), English novelist and poet, author of Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Jude the Obscure, set in fictional Wessex; after 1895 he wrote nearly a thousand poems.
Thomas Harris
Thomas Harris (born c. 1940) is the American novelist who created Hannibal Lecter in Red Dragon (1981); author of Black Sunday, The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Hannibal Rising, and Cari Mora, with over 50 million copies sold.
Thomas Head Raddall
Thomas Head Raddall (1903–1994) was a Canadian writer of historical fiction and popular history about Nova Scotia, winning the Governor General's Award three times, twice for non-fiction.
Thomas Hood
Thomas Hood (1799–1845) was an English poet and humorist whose protest poem "The Song of the Shirt" became one of the best-known poems of the nineteenth century.
Thomas Keneally
Thomas Keneally, born in 1935, is an Australian novelist and nonfiction writer whose 1982 novel Schindler's Ark won the Booker Prize and inspired Spielberg's Oscar-winning film Schindler's List.
Thomas King
Thomas King (born 1943) is an American-born Canadian novelist, essayist, and broadcaster who has written about Indigenous life in North America; his works include Medicine River, Green Grass, Running Water, and The Inconvenient Indian.
Thomas Kinsella
Thomas Kinsella was an Irish poet, translator, and editor, born in Dublin, whose 1969 translation of The Táin became the standard used in classrooms worldwide.