Writers and literary biographies

Edappally Raghavan Pillai

Edappally Raghavan Pillai (ഇടപ്പള്ളി രാഘവൻ പിള്ള, 1909–1936) was an Indian poet who, with his close friend Changampuzha, brought the romantic revolution to Malayalam poetry in the 1930s.

Edasseri Govindan Nair (ഇടശ്ശേരി ഗോവിന്ദൻ നായർ; 1906–1974) was an Indian poet and playwright who wrote in Malayalam, remembered as a leading figure of modern Malayalam poetry who won the 1969 Sahitya Akademi Award for Kavile Pattu.

Edebiyatçılar Derneği

Edebiyatçılar Derneği, or Turkish Authors Association, is a nationwide writers' organization in Turkey founded in Ankara in 1992, with about 600 members in over 50 cities.

Eden Robinson

Eden Robinson (born Vicki Lena Robinson, 1968) is a Canadian novelist of Haisla and Heiltsuk ancestry, known for Monkey Beach (2000) and the Trickster trilogy adapted for television in 2020.

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), American poet, critic, and short-story writer; inventor of detective fiction through the Dupin tales and author of "The Raven"; born Boston, died Baltimore.

Edgar Allan Poe bibliography

The Edgar Allan Poe bibliography covers Poe's published books, beginning with Tamerlane and Other Poems in 1827, the posthumous collections, and the reference bibliographies cataloging them.

Edgar Lee Masters

Edgar Lee Masters (1868–1950) was an American poet and Chicago lawyer, partner of Clarence Darrow, whose Spoon River Anthology (1915) became the best-selling book of American poetry to that date.

Edgar Mittelholzer

Edgar Mittelholzer (1909–1965) was a Guyanese novelist, born in New Amsterdam, British Guiana, the first Caribbean writer to earn his living from writing and author of 23 novels.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (E. R. Burroughs) was an American novelist who created Tarzan of the Apes and John Carter of Mars. His works founded the planetary romance genre.

Edgar Wallace

Edgar Wallace (1875-1932), born Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace, English crime novelist, journalist, and playwright; author of The Four Just Men and The Ringer, King Kong screenwriter, and basis of Germany's 32-film Rialto series.

Edgardo Cozarinsky

Edgardo Cozarinsky (1939–2024) was an Argentine writer and filmmaker based between Buenos Aires and Paris who left more than 20 films and 25 books blending fiction, documentary, and essay.

Edip Cansever

Edip Cansever (Ömer Edip Cansever, 1928–1986) was a Turkish poet of the İkinci Yeni movement known for dramatic poems with named characters, such as Ben Ruhi Bey Nasılım.

Edith Howes

Edith Howes was a New Zealand teacher and children's writer who wrote about 30 books, pioneered Montessori-influenced infant teaching at Gore, and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928.

Edith Sitwell

Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell (1887–1964) was a British poet, eldest of the literary Sitwell siblings, best known for Façade (1922) and her flamboyant public persona.

Edith Södergran

Edith Irene Södergran (1892–1923) was a Finland-Swedish poet, born in St. Petersburg, who introduced modernist free verse in Swedish and became one of Finland's foremost poets.

Edith Tiempo

Edith Tiempo was a Filipino poet, fiction writer, and teacher who in 1962 co-founded Asia's first creative writing workshop and became National Artist for Literature in 1999.

Edith Tolkien

Edith Mary Tolkien, née Bratt (1889–1971), English pianist and wife of J.R.R. Tolkien; met him at a Birmingham boarding house, married him in 1916, inspired Lúthien, and is buried as Lúthien at Wolvercote Cemetery.

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton (1862–1937), born Edith Newbold Jones, was an American novelist of Gilded Age New York society; author of The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and The Age of Innocence, and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Novel Prize (1921).

Edmond Amran El Maleh

Edmond Amran El Maleh (إدمون عمران المالح, 1917–2010) was a Moroccan Jewish writer, journalist, and Communist activist who wrote in French, publishing his first novel at about age 60.

Edmond Rostand

Edmond Rostand (1868–1918) was a French poet and dramatist whose verse play Cyrano de Bergerac, premiered in 1897, became one of the most successful French plays ever staged.

Edmondo De Amicis

Edmondo De Amicis (1846–1908) was an Italian writer, soldier, and journalist whose schoolboy novel Cuore (1886) became the first best-seller of unified Italy, translated into more than 25 languages.

Edmund Blunden

Edmund Blunden (1896–1974) was an English poet, memoirist, and Oxford Professor of Poetry who fought on the Western Front and wrote Undertones of War (1928), in print ever since.

Edmund Gosse

Edmund Gosse (1849–1928) was an English poet, critic, and biographer who championed Ibsen and is now remembered chiefly for Father and Son (1907), his memoir of leaving the Plymouth Brethren.

Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser (c. 1552–1599) was an English Elizabethan poet whose allegorical epic The Faerie Queene is a major work of the English Renaissance; he invented the Spenserian stanza.

Edmund Waller

Edmund Waller (1606–1687) was an English poet and long-serving member of Parliament whose closed heroic couplets shaped the neoclassical style later perfected by Dryden and Pope.

Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson (1895–1972) was an American writer and literary and social critic, the premier critic in America from the mid-1920s to the early 1960s, whose books include Axel's Castle and To the Finland Station.

Edna Ferber

Edna Ferber (1887–1968), American novelist and playwright, Pulitzer winner for So Big (1925); wrote Show Boat, Cimarron, and Giant, and Broadway hits Dinner at Eight and Stage Door with George S. Kaufman.

Edna O'Brien

Edna O'Brien (1930–2024), Irish novelist and short-story writer from Tuamgraney, County Clare. Her debut The Country Girls (1960) was banned in Ireland; later honors included the Saoi of Aosdána (2015) and the novel Girl (2019).

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay, known to her family as Vincent, was an American poet and playwright who won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver.