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Thomas Ligotti
Thomas Ligotti (born 1953, Detroit) is an American weird-fiction and supernatural horror writer, author of Songs of a Dead Dreamer, Grimscribe, Teatro Grottesco, and The Conspiracy Against the Human Race; a philosophical pessimist and multiple Bram Stoker Award winner.
Thomas Love Peacock
Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) was an English novelist, poet, and satirist whose seven satirical novels caricatured Romantic-era figures at dinner tables; his essay The Four Ages of Poetry prompted Shelley's Defence of Poetry.
Thomas Malory
Sir Thomas Malory (c. 1415–1471) was an English knight, imprisoned for much of his later life, who wrote Le Morte Darthur, the most influential account of King Arthur in English.
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann (1875–1955), German novelist and 1929 Nobel laureate, author of Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, Joseph and His Brothers, and Doctor Faustus; anti-fascist exile in the United States 1938–1952.
Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore (1779–1852), Irish poet and songwriter known as "Anacreon Moore," wrote the Irish Melodies (1808–1834) set to Irish airs, the oriental romance Lalla Rookh, and the standard biography of Lord Byron.
Thomas Murner
Thomas Murner (1475–1537) was a Franciscan priest and German satirist from Oberehnheim in Alsace, famed for the Narrenbeschwörung and Schelmenzunft and for roughly thirty anti-Luther pamphlets.
Thomas Nashe
Thomas Nashe, also spelled Nash, was an English Elizabethan pamphleteer and satirist, remembered for his inventive prose and The Unfortunate Traveller (1594), the first picaresque novel in English.
Thomas Percy (bishop)
Thomas Percy (1729 to 1811) was an English antiquarian and Anglican clergyman, bishop of Dromore from 1782, whose Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765) inspired British and German Romanticism.
Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon, American novelist of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow (1974 National Book Award), Vineland, and Shadow Ticket (2025); reclusive, MacArthur Fellow, counterrealist postmodern fiction.
Thomas Shadwell
Thomas Shadwell (1640 or 1642 – 1692) was an English Restoration dramatist and poet, poet laureate from 1688, remembered as the target of John Dryden's satire Mac Flecknoe.
Thomas Urquhart
Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty (Urchard, 1611–c. 1660), Scottish Royalist knight, writer, and polymath, translator of Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel (Books I–II, 1653) and author of Logopandecteision, a scheme for a universal language.
Thomas Warton
Thomas Warton (1728–1790) was an English poet, critic, and literary historian at Oxford who wrote The History of English Poetry and served as poet laureate from 1785.
Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Clayton Wolfe (1900-1938), Asheville, North Carolina novelist, author of Look Homeward, Angel (1929) and Of Time and the River (1935), edited by Maxwell Perkins; distinct from Tom Wolfe the New Journalist.
Thomas Wyatt (poet)
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542), English poet, courtier, and diplomat under Henry VIII; with the Earl of Surrey he introduced the sonnet into English, translating and adapting Petrarch; poems circulated in manuscript until Tottel's Miscellany (1557).
Thomas-Mann-Gesellschaft
The Deutsche Thomas Mann-Gesellschaft (German Thomas Mann Society) is a literary society founded in Lübeck in 1965 to promote the study of Thomas Mann, with over 1,000 members.
Thomasine Gyllembourg
Thomasine Gyllembourg, born Thomasine Buntzen, was a Danish writer who debuted at 53 in 1827 and wrote 24 tales and four plays anonymously as the author of En Hverdags-Historie.
Thoppil Mohamed Meeran
Thoppil Mohamed Meeran (1944 – 2019) was an Indian writer in Tamil and Malayalam who won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1997 for his novel Saivu Narkali.
Thorkild Bjørnvig
Thorkild Bjørnvig (1918–2004) was a Danish poet, essayist, and literary scholar who co-edited the influential postwar journal Heretica, translated Rilke, and became widely known for his 1970s environmental poetry.
Thorne Smith
Thorne Smith (James Thorne Smith Jr., 1892–1934) was an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy, best known for Topper (1926), a best-seller adapted into films, radio, and television.
Thornton W. Burgess
Thornton W. Burgess was an American children's author and conservationist who wrote about nature for five decades. His syndicated Bedtime Stories column introduced generations to wildlife.
Thotagamuwe Sri Rahula Thera
Thotagamuwe Sri Rahula Thera was a fifteenth-century Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and poet, head of the Vijayabahu Pirivena, regarded as one of the greatest classical Sinhala writers.
Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan (തുഞ്ചത്ത് രാമാനുജൻ എഴുത്തച്ഛൻ)
Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan (തുഞ്ചത്ത് രാമാനുജൻ എഴുത്തച്ഛൻ) is a 16th-century Kerala poet honored as the father of Malayalam, credited with the Kilippattu form and the Adhyatma Ramayanam and Mahabharatam Kilippattu, with uncertain dates, name and caste.
Tibullus
Tibullus (c. 54 – 19 BC) was a Latin poet of the Augustan age, one of the principal Roman writers of love elegy, alongside Propertius and Ovid.
Tie Ning
Tie Ning (铁凝, born 1957) is a Chinese novelist and short-story writer, president of the China Writers Association, known for "Oh, Xiangxue" and the novel Rose Gate.
Tierno Monénembo
Tierno Monénembo, pen name of Thierno Saïdou Diallo, is a Guinean French-language novelist known for novels of exile and dictatorship, winner of the 2008 Prix Renaudot.
Tillie Olsen
Tillie Olsen, born Tillie Lerner, was an American writer and activist known for Tell Me a Riddle (1961) and Silences (1978), a study of why women and working-class writers go unheard.
Tim O'Brien (author)
Tim O'Brien (William Timothy O'Brien, born 1946) is the American author of Going After Cacciato (1979 National Book Award) and The Things They Carried (1990), Vietnam War fiction blending memory, metafiction, and truth.
Tim Powers
Tim Powers (born 1952) is an American fantasy author of supernatural secret histories such as The Anubis Gates, Last Call, Declare, and On Stranger Tides; twice World Fantasy Award winner, steampunk progenitor, Cal State Fullerton graduate mentored by Philip K. Dick.
Tim Winton
Tim Winton (Timothy John Winton, born 1960) is an Australian novelist and environmentalist from Perth, Western Australia; four-time Miles Franklin winner (Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music, Breath), twice Booker-shortlisted, author of Juice, and leader of the Save Ningaloo Reef campaigns.
Timotei Cipariu
Timotei Cipariu (1805–1887) was a Romanian philologist, linguist, and Greek-Catholic priest at Blaj, remembered as the father of Romanian philology for studying and publishing old Romanian texts.