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Christina Stead
Christina Stead was an Australian novelist and short story writer best known for The Man Who Loved Children (1940), the 1965 reissue of which brought her international acclaim.
Christine de Pizan
Christine de Pizan (also Christine de Pisan; Venice 1364 – c. 1430) was an Italian-born French court writer, France's first woman of letters and among the first female professional authors, known for the querelle de la Rose, La Cité des dames (1405), and the Ditié de Jeanne d'Arc.
Christoph Hein
Christoph Hein, born 1944 in Silesia, is a German novelist, playwright, and essayist known for the novella Der fremde Freund (1982) and as a chronicler of German-German relations.
Christoph Martin Wieland
Christoph Martin Wieland (1733–1813) was a German Enlightenment poet and novelist, for a time the most widely read German author and a forerunner of Weimar Classicism.
Christopher Brennan
Christopher John Brennan (1870–1932) was an Australian poet, scholar, and critic who brought the French Symbolist influence of Mallarmé into English verse and became Australia's first Professor of Comparative Literature.
Christopher Buckley (novelist)
Christopher Buckley (b. 1952), American novelist and political satirist, son of William F. Buckley Jr.; author of Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Boomsday; distinct from the poet Christopher Buckley.
Christopher Fry
Christopher Fry (1907–2005) was an English playwright who led the revival of poetic drama with T. S. Eliot, best known for The Lady's Not for Burning.
Christopher Hope
Christopher Hope is a South African novelist and poet, born in Johannesburg in 1944, who left South Africa in 1975 and writes satirical fiction about apartheid.
Christopher Isherwood
Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986), British-born novelist and diarist, U.S. citizen from 1946, author of Goodbye to Berlin, The Berlin Stories (basis of Cabaret), A Single Man, and Christopher and His Kind.
Christopher Okigbo
Christopher Okigbo (Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo; 1932–1967) was a Nigerian poet, publisher, and soldier who died in 1967 fighting for Biafran independence in the Nigerian Civil War.
Christopher Paolini
Christopher Paolini, also known as Chris Paolini, is an American fantasy and science fiction author born in 1983, best known for the Inheritance Cycle, which began with Eragon.
Christopher Pike (author)
Christopher Pike, pen name of Kevin Christopher McFadden (born in Brooklyn, New York; dates reported as 1954, 1955, or 1961), American YA horror author of Slumber Party, The Last Vampire/Thirst, and The Midnight Club, adapted by Netflix in 2022.
Christopher Robin Milne
Christopher Robin Milne (1920-1996), English bookseller and writer, son of A. A. Milne and the real-life basis of Christopher Robin in Winnie-the-Pooh; author of The Enchanted Places.
Christopher Ryan (American author and podcaster)
Christopher Ryan is an American author and podcaster based in Barcelona, co-author with Cacilda Jethá of Sex at Dawn (2010), a New York Times bestseller arguing that pre-agricultural humans were largely promiscuous.
Christopher Smart
Christopher Smart (1722–1771) was an English poet best known for the religious poems A Song to David and Jubilate Agno, written largely during his confinement for mental illness.
Christopher Tolkien
Christopher John Reuel Tolkien (1924–2020), C. J. R. Tolkien, English medievalist and youngest son of J.R.R. Tolkien; Oxford Old and Middle English professor, drew The Lord of the Rings maps, literary executor from 1973, editor of The Silmarillion and the twelve-volume History of Middle-earth.
Christos Tsiolkas
Christos Tsiolkas is a Greek-Australian novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, born in Melbourne in 1965, whose fourth novel The Slap sold over one million copies worldwide.
Christy Brown
Christy Brown (1932–1981), Irish writer, painter, and poet with cerebral palsy who controlled only his left foot; author of My Left Foot (1954) and Down All the Days (1970); subject of Jim Sheridan's 1989 Oscar-winning film.
Chrystos
Chrystos, born 1946, is a Menominee poet, two-spirited lesbian writer, and activist whose five poetry collections, including Not Vanishing (1988), address feminism, social justice, and Native rights.
Chu Mạnh Trinh
Chu Mạnh Trinh (1862–1905) was a Vietnamese scholar-official and poet of the late Nguyễn dynasty who won first prize in Nôm poetry at the 1905 Vịnh Kiều competition.
Chu Tien-hsin
Chu Tien-hsin (朱天心, born 1958) is a Taiwanese writer of mainlander descent, sister of Zhu Tianwen, whose fiction on memory and Taipei includes The Old Capital (1997).
Chu Tien-wen
Chu Tien-wen (朱天文), born 1956 in Taipei, is a Taiwanese writer and screenwriter, the principal screenwriter for director Hou Hsiao-hsien, including A City of Sadness, which won the Golden Lion at Venice.
Chuck Klosterman
Chuck Klosterman, American cultural critic and New York Times bestselling author born 1972 in Wyndmere, North Dakota; wrote Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, The Nineties, and Football, co-founded Grantland, and lives in Portland, Oregon.
Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk, born 1962 in Pasco, Washington, is the transgressive fiction author of Fight Club (1996) and Survivor, Choke, Haunted, Rant, and the Fight Club 2 and 3 graphic novels.
Chuya Nakahara
Chuya Nakahara (中原中也, 1907–1937) was a Japanese modernist poet known for musical verse built on traditional rhythms and for his translations of Arthur Rimbaud, sometimes called the Japanese Rimbaud.
Ciceronian oratory
Ciceronian oratory is the public speaking and rhetorical theory of Cicero (106–43 BC), whose speeches and treatises defined eloquence for later antiquity and the Renaissance.
Cino da Pistoia
Cino da Pistoia, born Guittoncino dei Sigisbuldi, was an Italian poet and jurist (1270–1336), a friend of Dante and a founding figure of the legal commentators.
Cíntia Moscovich
Cíntia Moscovich, born 1958 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, is a Brazilian writer and teacher of literary creation known for short fiction combining subtle humor and melancholy with Jewish and female themes.
Cirilo Villaverde
Cirilo Villaverde (1812–1894) was a Cuban novelist, journalist, and independence activist, best known for the antislavery novel Cecilia Valdés, completed in New York in 1882.
Ciro Alegría
Ciro Alegría (1909–1967) was a Peruvian novelist of the indigenist school, best known for El mundo es ancho y ajeno (Broad and Alien Is the World, 1941).