Writers and literary biographies

Édouard Estaunié

Édouard Estaunié (1862–1942) was a French novelist and telecommunications engineer who rose to inspecteur général des Télégraphes, wrote twelve novels on the hidden inner life, and was elected to the Académie française in 1923.

Édouard Glissant

Édouard Glissant (1928–2011) was a Martinican writer, poet, and philosopher whose concepts of creolization, Relation, and opacity reshaped thinking about Caribbean identity; he won the Prix Renaudot in 1958.

Édouard Maunick

Édouard Maunick (1931–2021) was a Mauritian French-language poet whose work centers on exile and métissage; he won the Prix Guillaume Apollinaire in 1977 and the Académie française's Grand Prix de la Francophonie in 2003.

Édouard Rod

Édouard Rod (Louis-Édouard Rod) was a French-Swiss novelist and critic, born at Nyon in 1857, who wrote psychological novels, championed comparative literary study, and died in 1910.

Eduard Loewenthal

Eduard Loewenthal (1836–1917) was a German philosophical and political writer, newspaper editor, and philologist who pioneered the German peace movement and was nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Eduard Mörike

Eduard Mörike (1804–1875) was a German lyric poet and Lutheran pastor, born in Ludwigsburg, best known for his 1838 Gedichte and the novella Mozart auf der Reise nach Prag.

Eduard Vilde

Eduard Vilde (1865–1933) was an Estonian writer, journalist, and diplomat, a classic of Estonian literature and one of the founders of the Estonian novel, known for Külmale maale.

Eduardas Mieželaitis

Eduardas Mieželaitis (1919–1997) was a Lithuanian poet and translator, a leading figure of Soviet-era Lithuanian poetry who won the 1962 Lenin Prize for Žmogus (Man).

Eduardo Caballero Calderón

Eduardo Caballero Calderón (1910–1993) was a Colombian novelist, essayist, and journalist whose work centered on Tipacoque, Boyacá; his novels include El Cristo de espaldas and Siervo sin tierra.

Eduardo Carranza

Eduardo Carranza Fernández (1913–1985) was a Colombian poet from the eastern plains who co-founded the Piedra y Cielo group and directed the National Library of Colombia.

Eduardo Galeano

Eduardo Galeano, full name Eduardo Germán Hughes Galeano, was a Uruguayan writer and journalist, best known for Las venas abiertas de América Latina and Memoria del fuego.

Eduardo Gutiérrez

Eduardo Gutiérrez (1851–1889) was an Argentine novelist and journalist whose serialized gaucho novels, especially Juan Moreira, Santos Vega, and Hormiga Negra, made him Argentina's leading popular writer.

Eduardo Mallea

Eduardo Mallea was an Argentine novelist, essayist, and diplomat who directed the literary supplement of La Nación and wrote the influential essay Historia de una pasión argentina (1937).

Eduardo Mendoza

Eduardo Mendoza (Eduardo Mendoza Garriga) is a Spanish novelist born in Barcelona in 1943 whose satirical novels set in the city earned him the 2016 Cervantes Prize.

Eduardo White

Eduardo White (1963–2014) was a Mozambican poet who wrote in Portuguese, a leading figure of the Charrua movement known for poems of love and the Indian Ocean.

Eduards Veidenbaums

Eduards Veidenbaums (1867–1892) was a Latvian poet and translator whose roughly hundred poems, marked by irony and social protest, influenced Latvian writers well into the 21st century.

Edvard Hoem

Edvard Hoem, full name Edvard Arnt Hoem, is a Norwegian novelist, poet, dramatist, and hymn writer who writes in Nynorsk. His four-volume family saga sold more than 300,000 copies.

Edvarts Virza

Edvarts Virza, real name Jēkabs Eduards Liekna (1883–1940), was a Latvian poet and prose writer whose prose poem Straumēni (1933) made him the only interwar Latvian Nobel Prize candidate in literature.

Edwar al-Kharrat

Edwar al-Kharrat (إدوار الخراط) was an Egyptian novelist, critic, and translator best known for Rama and the Dragon and for formulating the 'New Sensibility' concept in Arabic literature.

Edward Abbey

Edward Abbey (1927–1989), American writer and self-described agrarian anarchist of the Southwest desert; author of Desert Solitaire (1968) and The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975), whose eco-sabotage novel inspired Earth First!.

Edward Bellamy

Edward Bellamy (1850–1898) was an American author and reformer from Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, whose utopian novel Looking Backward: 2000–1887 (1888) became a 19th-century bestseller and launched the Nationalist clubs and movement.

Edward Bunker

Edward Bunker (1933–2005), American ex-con crime novelist, screenwriter, and actor; wrote No Beast So Fierce and Education of a Felon, played Mr. Blue in Reservoir Dogs.

Edward Dowden

Edward Dowden (1843–1913) was an Irish critic and poet who held the first chair of English literature at Trinity College Dublin and wrote the influential Shakspere (1875).

Edward FitzGerald

Edward FitzGerald, born Edward Purcell, was a British writer and translator whose 1859 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, a free rendering of the Persian poet's quatrains, deeply influenced Victorian poetry.

Edward Gorey

Edward St. John Gorey (1925–2000), American writer and pen-and-ink illustrator of macabre Victorian chapbooks like The Gashlycrumb Tinies and The Doubtful Guest; Harvard graduate, Doubleday Anchor cover artist, Tony-winning Dracula designer.

Edward Lear

Edward Lear (1812–1888), English artist, travel writer, and poet, popularized the limerick with A Book of Nonsense (1846), pseudonym Derry Down Derry, and wrote The Owl and the Pussycat; also a landscape painter.

Edward Said (إدوارد سعيد)

Edward Said, full name Edward Wadie Said (إدوارد وديع سعيد), was a Palestinian American literary critic and Columbia professor whose 1978 book Orientalism is regarded as the founding text of postcolonial studies.

Edward St Aubyn

Edward St Aubyn (born 1960, London) is a British novelist, author of the semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose quintet including Mother's Milk, shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize.

Edward Stratemeyer

Edward Stratemeyer (1862–1930), American author and publisher, founded the Stratemeyer Syndicate book-packaging firm in 1905, creator of the Rover Boys, Tom Swift, Hardy Boys, and Nancy Drew series written by paid ghostwriters under house pseudonyms.