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James Whitcomb Riley
James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier Poet (1849-1916), was an American dialect poet and performer from Greenfield, Indiana, author of "Little Orphant Annie" and "The Old Swimmin' Hole," and namesake of Riley Hospital for Children.
Jamgon Kongtrul
Jamgon Kongtrul, also known as Jamgön Kongtrül the Great and born Yonten Gyatso, was a Tibetan Buddhist scholar and treasure revealer who co-founded the Rimé movement and compiled the Five Great Treasuries.
Jami' al-Tawarikh
Jami' al-Tawarikh (جامع التواریخ, "Compendium of Chronicles") is a world history written 1300–10 by Rashid al-Din, vizier to the Il-khans Ghazan and Oljeitu; its illustrated copies are seminal for Persian art.
Jamie Fraser (character)
Jamie Fraser (James Alexander Malcolm McKenzie Fraser) is the fictional Highland hero of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander novels (1991 onward) and the Starz series, played by Sam Heughan; not a real person, inspired by Jacobite accounts, Doctor Who's Jamie McCrimmon, and Clan Fraser of Lovat.
Jamie Hewlett
Jamie Hewlett (born 1968) is a British illustrator and designer, co-creator of Tank Girl (1988, Deadline, with Alan Martin) and of the virtual band Gorillaz with Damon Albarn, and Designer of the Year 2006.
Jamil Buthayna
Jamil Buthayna (جميل بثينة), the poet Jamil ibn Abdallah, was an Umayyad-era Arabian master of ghazal ʿudhri, chaste love poetry devoted wholly to Buthayna; he died in 701.
Jamila
Jamila (Джамиля) is a 1958 novella by the Kyrgyz writer Chingiz Aitmatov about a young married woman who leaves her husband for the man she loves.
Jan Andrzej Morsztyn
Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (1621–1693) was a Polish Baroque poet and diplomat, Grand Treasurer of the Crown, often considered the best poet of the Polish Baroque, and a paid agent of Louis XIV.
Jan Blahoslav
Jan Blahoslav (1523–1571) was a Czech bishop of the Unity of Brethren, humanist scholar, and translator of the Czech New Testament of 1564, predecessor of the Bible kralická.
Jan Carew
Jan Carew, born Jan Rynveld Carew (1920–2012), was a Guyanese novelist, playwright, poet, broadcaster, and scholar, a leading figure in pan-African and Caribbean studies best known for the 1958 novel Black Midas.
Jan Chryzostom Pasek
Jan Chryzostom Pasek (c. 1636 – 1701) was a Polish soldier and memoirist whose vivid Memoirs depict seventeenth-century warfare and noble life in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Jan Cremer
Jan Cremer (1940–2024) was a Dutch writer and visual artist whose debut novel Ik Jan Cremer (1964) broke 1960s sexual taboos and sold about 400,000 copies in the Netherlands.
Jan Ellison
Jan Ellison (Jan Ellison Baszucki), American novelist, author of the debut novel A Small Indiscretion (Random House, 2014), a USA TODAY bestseller and O. Henry Prize-winning short story writer.
Jan Erik Vold
Jan Erik Vold, born 1939 in Oslo, is a Norwegian modernist poet and translator who debuted in 1965 and became a central figure of the Profil generation.
Jan Fethke
Jan Fethke (Jean Forge, 1903-1980), German-Polish screenwriter, film director and Esperanto novelist; wrote Abismoj and Mr. Tot aĉetas mil okulojn and co-wrote Fritz Lang's Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse.
Jan Frans Willems
Jan Frans Willems (1793–1846) was a Flemish philologist, poet, and literary historian known as the father of the Flemish movement, who edited medieval Dutch texts like Reinaert de Vos.
Jan Fridegård
Jan Fridegård (1897–1968) was a Swedish novelist and poet of proletarian literature, known for the autobiographical Lars Hård series and a Viking Age trilogy told from a slave's view.
Jan Gopal
Jan Gopal (जन गोपाल, c. 1563–1640) was a Hindi nirguṇ bhakti poet and merchant disciple of Dādū Dayāl, author of the Dādū Janma Līlā, the earliest account of Dādū's life.
Jan Guillou
Jan Guillou, born 1944, is a Swedish journalist and novelist known for the Carl Hamilton spy novels and exposing the secret intelligence agency IB in 1973.
Jan Herben
Jan Herben (1857–1936) was a Czech journalist, historian, and politician, founder and chief editor of the periodical Čas, the main press organ of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk's Realist movement.
Jan Jacob Slauerhoff
Jan Jacob Slauerhoff, who published as J. Slauerhoff, was a Dutch physician and poet and ship's doctor, one of the major Dutch poets of the interwar period.
Jan Karon
Jan Karon (Janice Meredith, born 1937) is the American author of the 15-novel Mitford series about Episcopal priest Father Tim Kavanagh; a former advertising executive, she debuted at 57 and sold over 40 million books.
Jan Kjærstad
Jan Kjærstad (born 1953) is a Norwegian novelist and essayist, a central figure in recent Norwegian literature best known for the Jonas Wergeland trilogy, which earned the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2001.
Ján Kollár
Ján Kollár (1793–1852) was a Slovak poet, Lutheran pastor, and Slavic scholar whose sonnet cycle Slávy dcera became a foundation of modern Slovak poetry and voiced Slavic reciprocity.
Jan Morris
Jan Morris (1926–2020), born James Humphry Morris, Welsh travel writer, historian, and journalist; author of Pax Britannica, Venice, and the transition memoir Conundrum; reported the 1953 Everest first ascent for The Times.
Jan Neruda
Jan Neruda (1834–1891) was a Czech poet, journalist, and critic who led the Májovci generation and is best known for his 1878 story collection Tales of the Little Quarter.
Jan Nisar Akhtar
Jan Nisar Akhtar (جاں نثار اختر), born Syed Jaan Nisar Husain Rizvi (1914–1976), was a Gwalior-born Urdu poet of the Progressive Writers' Movement and Hindi film lyricist who wrote about 151 songs, won the 1976 Sahitya Akademi Award for Khaak-e-Dil, and fathered Javed Akhtar.
Jan Parandowski
Jan Parandowski (1895–1978) was a Polish essayist, novelist, and translator best known for Mitologia (1924), his prose Odyssey, and 45 years as president of the Polish PEN Club.
Jan Potocki
Jan Potocki (1761–1815) was a Polish count, writer, traveler, and scholar who wrote in French and is best known for the novel The Manuscript Found in Saragossa.
Jan Śniadecki
Jan Śniadecki (1756–1830) was a Polish mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who served as rector of the University of Vilnius and helped lead the Polish Enlightenment.