Writers and literary biographies

Esther Freud

Esther Freud, born in London in 1963, is a British novelist best known for her semi-autobiographical 1992 debut Hideous Kinky, made into a film starring Kate Winslet.

Etel Adnan (إيتيل عدنان), 1925–2021, Lebanese-American poet, essayist, novelist, and painter; author of Sitt Marie Rose; wrote in French and English; known for leporellos, Mount Tamalpais paintings, documenta 13, Whitney Biennial, and the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize.

Étienne Goyémidé

Étienne Goyémidé (1942–1997) was a Central African novelist, playwright, and poet, best known for the novels Le silence de la forêt and Le dernier survivant de la caravane.

Etienne van Heerden

Etienne van Heerden, born 1954, is a South African novelist and University of Cape Town professor who writes in Afrikaans, best known for his breakthrough novel Toorberg.

Etty Hillesum

Etty Hillesum, born Esther Hillesum, was a Dutch Jewish writer who kept a diary in Amsterdam and at the Westerbork transit camp from 1941 until her death at Auschwitz in 1943.

Euclides da Cunha

Euclides da Cunha, full name Euclides Rodrigues da Cunha (1866 to 1909), was a Brazilian writer whose classic Os Sertões (1902) recounts the Canudos campaign.

Eudora Welty

Eudora Welty (1909–2001), Jackson, Mississippi author and photographer, wrote The Optimist's Daughter (1973 Pulitzer Prize), Delta Wedding, and One Writer's Beginnings; first living writer in Library of America.

Eufrosin Poteca

Eufrosin Poteca, born Radu, was a Wallachian Orthodox archimandrite and philosopher, the first professor of philosophy in Romanian-language schools, teaching at Saint Sava in Bucharest.

Eugen Relgis

Eugen Relgis, born Eisig D. Sigler, was a Romanian Jewish anarchist-pacifist writer and philosopher whose 1922 work Principiile umanitariste was translated into 17 languages, making him famous between the world wars.

Eugène Baie

Eugène Baie (1874–1963) was a Belgian French-language essayist, historian, and economist who led international commerce and statistics institutes and wrote Le siècle des Gueux, a six-volume history of Flemish sensibility.

Eugène Sue

Eugène Sue (Marie Joseph Sue, 1804–1857) was a French novelist and socialist deputy. His serialized romans-feuilletons Les Mystères de Paris (1842–43) and Le Juif errant (1844–45) were best sellers; arrested in the 1851 coup, he died in exile at Annecy.

Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé

Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé (1848-1910) was a French diplomat, travel writer, and literary critic who introduced Russian literature to French readers with Le roman russe (1886).

Eugénio de Andrade

Eugénio de Andrade, pen name of José Fontinhas (1923–2005), was a Portuguese poet and translator, one of the most widely translated of the twentieth century.

Eugenio Montale

Eugenio Montale (1896–1981) was an Italian poet, critic, and translator who won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature; his books include Ossi di seppia and Satura.

Eugénio Tavares

Eugénio Tavares (1867–1 June 1930), born on Brava, was a Cape Verdean poet, journalist, writer, and musician called the "Camões de Cabo Verde" and one of the first morna composers.

Euphrase Kezilahabi

Euphrase Kezilahabi (1944–2020) was a Tanzanian novelist, poet, and scholar of Swahili literature, a pioneer of free verse whose novel Rosa Mistika was later translated by Yale University Press.

Eustaquio Palacios

José Eustaquio Palacios (1830–1898) was a Colombian writer, lawyer, educator, and journalist from Roldanillo, remembered for the historical novel El Alférez Real (1886), a portrait of colonial society in Santiago de Cali.

Eva Gerlach

Eva Gerlach is the pen name of Margaret Dijkstra, born 1948 in Amsterdam, a Dutch poet and translator who won the P.C. Hooft-prijs in 2000.

Evan S. Connell

Evan S. Connell (1924–2013) was an American novelist, poet, and essayist known for Mrs. Bridge and Mr. Bridge and the Custer history Son of the Morning Star.

Evaristo Carriego

Evaristo Carriego (1883–1912) was an Argentine poet from Entre Ríos who wrote about the poor neighborhoods, or orillas, of Buenos Aires, and is best known through Borges's 1930 book about him.

Evaristo da Veiga

Evaristo da Veiga (Evaristo Ferreira da Veiga e Barros; 1799–1837) was a Brazilian poet, journalist, and bookseller who wrote the lyrics of Brazil's Independence Anthem.

Ève Curie

Ève Curie (Ève Denise Labouisse, 1904-2007), French pianist, journalist, and diplomat, younger daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie; author of the 1937 bestseller Madame Curie, Free France wartime correspondent, and NATO adviser.

Evelio Rosero

Evelio Rosero, full name Evelio José Rosero Diago, is a Colombian novelist born in Bogotá in 1958, known for fiction confronting the violence of Colombia's armed conflict.

Evelyn Ryan

Evelyn Lehman Ryan, Defiance, Ohio contest writer and popular poet; subject of Terry Ryan's 2001 memoir The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio and the 2005 Julianne Moore film; won hundreds of 25-words-or-fewer ad contests over 24 years.

Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh (1903-1966), English satirical novelist and Catholic convert, author of Decline and Fall, A Handful of Dust, Scoop, Brideshead Revisited, and the Sword of Honour trilogy.

Everhardus Johannes Potgieter

Everhardus Johannes Potgieter (1808–1875) was a Dutch poet and critic who co-founded the magazine De Gids and is considered the founder of Dutch literary criticism.

Evie Woods

Evie Woods, also known as Evie Gaughan, is an Irish novelist from Galway whose 2023 novel The Lost Bookshop sold over a million copies worldwide.

Eyvind Johnson

Eyvind Johnson, born Olof Edvin Verner Jonsson, was a Swedish novelist and member of the Swedish Academy who shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature with Harry Martinson.

Ezequiel Martínez Estrada

Ezequiel Martínez Estrada (1895–1964) was an Argentine essayist, poet, and literary critic whose Radiografía de la pampa (1933) reinterpreted Argentina by reversing Sarmiento's civilization and barbarism.