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Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference is an annual ten-day summer conference for writers, founded in 1926 and held each August on Middlebury College's campus in Ripton, Vermont.
Brent Weeks
Brent Weeks, American epic fantasy author born and raised in Montana, wrote the Night Angel Trilogy (2008, monthly rapid release) and the five-book Lightbringer Series; millions sold, Oregon resident.
Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis, American novelist of Less Than Zero (1985), American Psycho (1991), and The Shards (2023); deadpan satirist of privileged, disaffected Los Angeles and Wall Street.
Breyten Breytenbach
Breyten Breytenbach (1939–2024) was a South African poet, painter, and anti-apartheid activist, one of the foremost Afrikaans poets, who served seven years in prison for treason.
Brian Bilston
Brian Bilston is the pseudonym of an Oxford-based English poet and novelist, dubbed the 'poet laureate of Twitter'; author of You Took the Last Bus Home, Diary of a Somebody, and Sounds Made by Humans with The Catenary Wires.
Brian C. Muraresku
Brian C. Muraresku is an American author and lawyer whose New York Times bestselling 2020 debut, The Immortality Key, argues psychedelics shaped ancient Greek and early Christian ritual.
Brian Herbert
Brian Herbert (born 1947, Seattle) is an American science fiction author, son of Frank Herbert, coauthor with Kevin J. Anderson of twelve Dune continuation novels, author of Dreamer of Dune, and president of the Herbert legacy company.
Brian Jacques
Brian Jacques (1939-2011), English author of the Redwall children's fantasy series set at Redwall Abbey; former Liverpool truck driver whose vivid prose began as stories for blind schoolchildren.
Brian K. Vaughan
Brian K. Vaughan, born 1976 in Cleveland, Ohio, is an American comic book writer and screenwriter known for creator-owned series including Saga and Y: The Last Man.
Brian Masters
Brian Masters (born 1939) is a British writer and journalist, author of over twenty books on French literature, the British dukedoms, and serial killers. His Killing for Company (1985) on Dennis Nilsen won the CWA Gold Dagger; he was portrayed by Jason Watkins in ITV's Des (2020).
Brian Michael Bendis
Brian Michael Bendis (born 1967, Cleveland) is an American comics writer, creator of Jinxworld, co-creator of Miles Morales, Jessica Jones, and Riri Williams, writer of Ultimate Spider-Man, New Avengers, and Action Comics 1000, and five-time Eisner winner.
Brian Moore (novelist)
Brian Moore (1921-1999), Belfast-born novelist also published as Bernard Mara and Michael Bryan, wrote some twenty novels including The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, Black Robe, and Lies of Silence, winning two Governor General's Awards and three Booker shortlistings; Graham Greene called him his favorite living novelist.
British literature
British literature is literature produced by authors of the United Kingdom, spanning Latin, Gaelic, Welsh, Old, Middle, and Modern English works. Commonly divided into six periods from Medieval to contemporary, its concept, canon, decolonization debates, and falling UK enrollment are key distinguishing topics.
Brontë family
The Brontë family of Haworth, West Yorkshire: Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, authors of Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, with brother Branwell and father Patrick, preserved at the Brontë Parsonage Museum.
Bruce Chatwin
Bruce Chatwin (1940–1989), British writer of In Patagonia, The Viceroy of Ouidah, On the Black Hill, The Songlines, and Utz; former Sotheby's and Sunday Times figure whose fact-and-fiction travel books reshaped travel writing.
Bruce Pascoe
Bruce Pascoe, born 1947, is an Australian writer and historian of Bunurong, Palawa, and Yuin heritage, best known for Dark Emu (2014), arguing Aboriginal Australians practiced agriculture before colonization.
Bruce Wagner
Bruce Wagner, American novelist and screenwriter of the Cellphone Trilogy (I'm Losing You, I'll Let You Go, Still Holding), Wild Palms, and Maps to the Stars, chronicling Hollywood and spiritual yearning in Los Angeles.
Bruno K. Öijer
Bruno K. Öijer, born 1951 in Linköping, is a Swedish poet who debuted in 1973, broke through in 1990 with Medan giftet verkar, and won the Bellman Prize.
Bruno Schulz
Bruno Schulz (1892–1942) was a Polish prose writer and graphic artist of Jewish origin, known for the short story collections The Cinnamon Shops and Sanatorium under the Hourglass.
Bruno Tolentino
Bruno Tolentino was the pseudonym of Bruno Lúcio de Carvalho Tolentino, a Brazilian poet and translator (1940–2007) who spent nearly 30 years in Europe, taught at Oxford, and won the Jabuti Prize twice.
Bryan Edwards (historian)
Bryan Edwards (1743–1800) was a Jamaican planter, merchant, Member of Parliament, and historian whose 1793 History of the British West Indies became an instant bestseller while defending the slave trade.
Buchi Emecheta
Buchi Emecheta (Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta, 1944–2017) was a Nigerian-born British novelist who wrote about the lives of African women; her best-known books include The Joys of Motherhood.
Buddha-Rakkhita
Buddha-Rakkhita (Pali Buddharakkhita) is a Sri Lankan monk traditionally credited with the Jinālaṅkāra, a 250-verse Pali poem on the Buddha's life, supposedly written about 426 B.C.
Buddhadeva Bose
Buddhadeva Bose (বুদ্ধদেব বসু; 1908–1974) was a Bengali poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist of the post-Tagore modernist generation who wrote over a hundred books and edited the influential poetry journal Kavita.
Bùi Giáng
Bùi Giáng (1926–1998) was a Vietnamese poet, translator, and scholar of literature and philosophy who spent his career in Sài Gòn and became one of the most reprinted authors of southern Vietnamese literature.
Buland al-Haidari
Buland al-Haidari (بلند الحيدري) was an Iraqi poet of Kurdish origin, a founder of Arabic free verse, born in 1926 and died in exile in London in 1996.
Bulat Okudzhava
Bulat Okudzhava (Булат Окуджава) was a Soviet and Russian poet, novelist, and singer-songwriter, regarded as a founder of the Russian author song; his songs like "Song about the Arbat" spread on tape recordings.
Bulleh Shah
Bulleh Shah (بلھے شاہ), also Sayyid Abdullah Shah Qadri, c. 1680–1757/58, was a Punjabi Sufi poet of the Qadiri order under Shah Inayat Qadiri, famed for kafis like Bullah Ki Jana Main Kaun and a shrine in Kasur.
Burhan Sönmez
Burhan Sönmez (born 1965) is a Kurdish novelist from Turkey, president of PEN International since 2021, and author of seven novels including Istanbul Istanbul, which won the 2018 EBRD Literature Prize.
Buson school
The Buson school (蕪村派) was the circle of haikai poets and painters that formed around Yosa Buson in late eighteenth-century Kyoto, reviving the style of Matsuo Bashō.