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Chang-Rae Lee (이창래)
Chang-Rae Lee (이창래), Korean American novelist and Stanford English professor, born South Korea 1965; author of Native Speaker, A Gesture Life, The Surrendered (Pulitzer finalist), On Such a Full Sea, My Year Abroad, and A Tender Age.
Changampuzha Krishna Pillai
Changampuzha Krishna Pillai (ചങ്ങമ്പുഴ കൃഷ്ണപിള്ള, 1911–1948) was a Malayalam Romantic poet from Edappally, Kerala, best known for Ramanan, a 1936 pastoral elegy that sold over a lakh copies.
Chao Phraya Phrakhlang (Hon)
Chao Phraya Phrakhlang (Hon) (เจ้าพระยาพระคลัง (หน), died 1805) was a Thai poet and statesman, minister of harbors under King Rama I, best known for his Siamese rendering of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Charan Singh Shaheed
Charan Singh Shaheed (ਚਰਨ ਸਿੰਘ ਸ਼ਹੀਦ, 1891–1935) was a Punjabi poet, novelist, and journalist remembered as a pioneering humorist and satirist; he founded the weekly Mauji, called the first political satirical journal in the Punjab.
Charan-kabi
Charan-kabi (চারণকবি), the Bengali equivalent of minstrel, is a term for a wandering poet-singer who composes and performs ballads, most closely associated with the Swadeshi-era poet Mukunda Das.
Chariton
Chariton (Χαρίτων), in full Chariton of Aphrodisias, was a Greek novelist who wrote Chaereas and Callirhoe, generally regarded as the earliest fully extant Greek novel.
Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris (born 1951), also author of the Southern Vampire Mysteries, is an American novelist whose Sookie Stackhouse books inspired HBO's True Blood; she wrote Aurora Teagarden, Lily Bard, Harper Connelly, Midnight Texas, and Gunnie Rose series since 1981.
Charles Addams
Charles Samuel Addams (1912–1988), American New Yorker cartoonist of macabre single-panel cartoons; creator of the unnamed characters who became The Addams Family in the 1964 ABC television series.
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a French poet, art critic, and translator who laid the groundwork for modern poetry by defining "modernité" and establishing his aesthetic thought.
Charles Baxter (author)
Charles Baxter (born 1947) is an American novelist and short story writer whose Midwest-set fiction includes The Feast of Love, a National Book Award finalist.
Charles Bernstein
Charles Bernstein, born 1950, is an American poet and essayist who is a foundational member of Language poetry and co-editor of its namesake journal, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E.
Charles Braibant
Charles Braibant (1889–1976) was a French archivist and novelist who directed the Archives de France from 1948 to 1959 and won the 1933 Prix Renaudot for his novel Le roi dort.
Charles Brockden Brown
Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810) was an American novelist, editor, and pamphleteer of Philadelphia, commonly called America's first professional novelist; his Gothic novels include Wieland and Edgar Huntly.
Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski (Henry Charles Bukowski Jr., 1920–1994), German-born American poet and novelist of Los Angeles lowlife, author of Post Office and Ham on Rye, creator of alter ego Henry Chinaski, published by Black Sparrow Press.
Charles Causley
Charles Causley (1917–2003) was a Cornish poet and schoolteacher of Launceston, known for ballad-based verse, children's poetry, war poems from Royal Navy service, and honors including the 1967 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and a CBE.
Charles d'Orléans
Charles d'Orléans (1394–1465) was Duke of Orléans and one of France's major lyric poets; captured at Agincourt in 1415, he spent 25 years writing poetry in captivity in England.
Charles de Rochefort
Charles de Rochefort (1605–1683) was a French Protestant pastor in Rotterdam whose 1658 book on the Antilles is one of the most important early European descriptions of the Caribbean.
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens (Charles John Huffam Dickens, 1812–1870) was an English novelist and social critic, the best-selling author of his day; his works include Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol.
Charles Eastman
Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) was a Santee Dakota physician, writer, and Indian reformer who served at Pine Ridge during the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre and published acclaimed autobiographies of Dakota life, beginning with Indian Boyhood in 1902.
Charles Ferdinand Ramuz
Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (1878–1947) was a Swiss French-language novelist from Lausanne, counted among the greatest French-speaking Swiss writers, known for L'Histoire du soldat and Derborence.
Charles Frazier
Charles Frazier (born 1950) is an American novelist from western North Carolina, author of Cold Mountain (1997), the National Book Award-winning Civil War novel of Inman's walk home to Ada, later filmed by Anthony Minghella; his other novels are Thirteen Moons, Nightwoods, Varina, and The Trackers.
Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) was an Anglican clergyman, novelist, and Christian Socialist who served Eversley parish for life, wrote The Water-Babies and Alton Locke, and became Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge in 1860.
Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb (1775–1834), English essayist also known as "Elia"; author of Essays of Elia (1823), The Last Essays of Elia (1833), and Tales from Shakespeare (1807) with his sister Mary; longtime East India Company clerk.
Charles Langbridge Morgan
Charles Langbridge Morgan (1894–1958) was a British novelist, dramatist, and drama critic who wrote eleven novels and served as chief theater critic of The Times from 1926 to 1939.
Charles Maturin
Charles Robert Maturin (1780–1824) was a Church of Ireland clergyman and Gothic novelist of Huguenot descent, author of Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) and the tragedy Bertram (1816), championed by Scott and Byron.
Charles Mauron
Charles Mauron (1899–1966) was a French literary critic and translator who founded psychocritique, a method for finding a writer's unconscious personality in texts; blind from 1940, he taught at Aix-en-Provence.
Charles Montagu Doughty
Charles Montagu Doughty (1843–1926) was an English poet and traveler whose account of a solo journey through Arabia, Travels in Arabia Deserta (1888), became a classic.
Charles Mungoshi
Charles Mungoshi (1947–2019) was a Zimbabwean novelist, short-story writer, poet, and editor who wrote in both Shona and English, known for Waiting for the Rain and two Commonwealth Writers Prizes.
Charles Olson
Charles Olson (1910–1970) was an American poet and essayist, a leading figure of the Black Mountain poets, known for his 1950 manifesto "Projective Verse" and the epic The Maximus Poems.
Charles Plisnier
Charles Plisnier (1896–1952) was a Belgian francophone novelist, poet, and lawyer who in 1937 became the first writer without French nationality to win the Prix Goncourt.