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Erik Johan Stagnelius

Erik Johan Stagnelius (1793–1823) was a Swedish Romantic poet from Öland, unknown in his life but admired after death as one of Sweden's finest lyricists.

Erik Larson (author)

Erik Larson (born 1954, Brooklyn) is the American narrative nonfiction author of The Devil in the White City, In the Garden of Beasts, Dead Wake, and The Demon of Unrest; seven NYT bestsellers, twelve million copies. Not the AI researcher Erik J. Larson.

Erik Lindegren

Erik Lindegren (Johan Erik Lindegren, 1910–1968) was a Swedish poet, critic, and translator whose 1942 collection mannen utan väg launched the modernist forties; he joined the Swedish Academy in 1962.

Erin Hunter

Erin Hunter is the collective pseudonym used by a team of up to nine writers and editors, created by Victoria Holmes for the Warriors series of feral cat books.

Erkin Vohidov

Erkin Vohidov (1936–2016) was an Uzbek poet, playwright, and translator, a leading figure of modern Uzbek literature who translated Goethe's Faust and wrote the narrative poem Ruhlar isyoni.

Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner, also known as A. A. Fair, was an American author who created the defense-attorney detective Perry Mason. He wrote 82 novels between 1933 and 1973.

Ernest Claes

Ernest Claes (1885–1968) was a Flemish novelist and civil servant whose comic-ironic fiction about village life, especially De Witte (1920), made him one of Flanders' most widely read authors.

Ernest Cline

Ernest Cline (born 1972, Ohio) is the American novelist and screenwriter who wrote Ready Player One (2011), Armada, Ready Player Two, Bridge to Bat City, and the film Fanboys, and co-wrote the 2018 Spielberg adaptation, living in Austin, Texas.

Ernest Dowson

Ernest Christopher Dowson (1867–1900) was an English poet of the Decadent movement and a member of the Rhymers' Club, best known for the poem "Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae".

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), American novelist and short story writer of the Lost Generation, author of The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea; winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize and 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature, known for spare, understated prose and the iceberg theory of omission.

Ernest Hemingway bibliography

Ernest Hemingway bibliography: reference works cataloging Hemingway's writings, from Louis Cohn's 1931 checklist and Audre Hanneman's Comprehensive Bibliography (1967/1975) to C. Edgar Grissom's 2011 Descriptive Bibliography and The Hemingway Review's running Current Bibliography.

Ernest J. Gaines

Ernest J. Gaines (1933–2019) was an American novelist whose fiction portrays the black communities of rural south Louisiana, best known for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.

Ernesto Cardenal

Ernesto Cardenal (Ernesto Cardenal Martinez, 1925–2020) was a Nicaraguan poet, Catholic priest, and Sandinista Minister of Culture 1979–1988, founder of exteriorismo and the Solentiname community, suspended by the Vatican and rebuked by Pope John Paul II in 1983.

Ernesto Mejía Sánchez

Ernesto Mejía Sánchez was a Nicaraguan poet, essayist, critic, and philologist (1923–1985) who spent most of his career in Mexico and became a leading scholarly editor of Rubén Darío and Alfonso Reyes.

Ernesto Sabato

Ernesto Sabato was an Argentine novelist, essayist, and trained physicist whose three novels on solitude include El túnel (1948), and who led the 1984 Nunca Más report.

Ernst Enno

Ernst Enno (1875–1934) was an Estonian poet and short prose writer, one of the first Estonian symbolists, founder of the mystical tradition in Estonian poetry, and a notable children's poet.

Ernst Jandl

Ernst Jandl (1925–2000) was an Austrian poet and a central figure of German-language experimental poetry, best known for the sound poem "schtzngrmm" and the comic "ottos mops".

Ernst Jünger

Ernst Jünger (1895–1998), German writer, soldier, and entomologist, author of Storm of Steel (1920), Der Arbeiter (1932), and On the Marble Cliffs (1939); Pour le Mérite recipient, Weimar radical, Third Reich outsider, Paris officer, and controversial postwar Goethe Prize laureate.

Ernst Moritz Arndt

Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860) was a German nationalist historian, writer, and poet born on Rügen whose patriotic songs and pamphlets made him a leading voice against Napoleonic rule.

Ernst Robert Curtius

Ernst Robert Curtius (1886–1956) was a German Romance philologist and literary scholar who promoted French literature in the 1920s and wrote the influential European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (1948).

Ernst Stadler

Ernst Stadler (1883–1914) was a German expressionist poet best known for the collection Der Aufbruch and its signature long verse lines; he died in the First World War.

Ernst Toller

Ernst Toller (1893–1939) was a German dramatist and political activist, the leading German-language playwright of the 1920s, whose best plays were written in prison for his role in the Bavarian Soviet Republic.

Ernst von der Recke

Ernst von der Recke (1848–1933) was a Danish poet, playwright, and metrist whose lyrical drama Bertran de Born was a great success at the Royal Theatre in 1873.

Ernst Weiß

Ernst Weiß (1882–1940) was an Austrian physician and writer of German-language expressionist fiction, a friend of Franz Kafka, who died in Paris exile in 1940 and is best known for Der Augenzeuge.

Errana

Errana, also known as Errapragada, was a 14th-century Telugu poet at the court of Prolaya Vema Reddy who completed the Aranya Parva of the Andhra Mahabharatam and wrote the Harivamsamu.

Erving Winslow

Erving Winslow (1839–1922) was an American commission merchant, editorial writer, and poet in Boston who served as secretary of the Anti-Imperialist League and opposed United States imperial policies.

Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer

Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer (1878–1962) was a German-language novelist, dramatist, and poet born in Budapest, admired for his Paracelsus trilogy and later stigmatized as a Nazi-era writer for his völkisch ideology.

Es'kia Mphahlele

Es'kia Mphahlele, born Ezekiel Mphahlele in Pretoria in 1919, was a South African writer and teacher whose memoir Down Second Avenue became a landmark of African literature.

Esaias Tegnér

Esaias Tegnér (1782–1846) was a Swedish poet, professor of Greek at Lund University, and bishop of Växjö, best known for the verse cycle Frithiofs saga.

Estanislao Zuleta

Estanislao Zuleta Velásquez (1935–1990) was a Colombian philosopher, essayist, and university teacher who, despite never completing formal schooling, became one of the country's most cited public intellectuals.