Writer/journalist Famous Names

Is a retired English journalist and television presenter, best known as a newsreader.During her care

Is a retired English journalist and television presenter, best known as a newsreader.During her career, she initially worked as a researcher, news reporter and later news reader for Granada Television, the BBC, became the first female newsreader on ITN, a

Is a French teacher and award-winning novelist. Referred to by Voici magazine as "a distant descenda

Is a French teacher and award-winning novelist. Referred to by Voici magazine as "a distant descendant of Dorothy Parker", Anna Gavalda was born in an upper-class suburb of Paris. While working as French teacher in high school, a collection of her short stories was first published in 1999 under the title "Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part" that met with both critical acclaim and commercial success,

Was a Byzantine princess and scholar, daughter of the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Irene

Was a Byzantine princess and scholar, daughter of the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Irene Doukaina.

Was a prominent eighteenth-century English poet, essayist, and children's author.A "woman of letters

Was a prominent eighteenth-century English poet, essayist, and children's author.A "woman of letters" who published in multiple genres, Barbauld had a successful writing career at a time when female professional writers were rare. She was a noted teacher

Is a Danish journalist and writer. She is especially known for her writing about children, sexuality

Is a Danish journalist and writer. She is especially known for her writing about children, sexuality, youngsters and health.[1][2] When she has not worked freelance, she has been employed at magazines and the Danish organization Boerns Vilkaar[3]/BV (The Conditions of Children).

Was a Danish novelist, the first novelist in Denmark.Lasson was born to Jens Lassen, judge on Fyn, (

Was a Danish novelist, the first novelist in Denmark.Lasson was born to Jens Lassen, judge on Fyn, (1625-1706) and Margrethe Christensdatter Lund and grew up on Dalum Kloster manor. She was ruined after her father's death and lived in poverty with a sister; their home was sold, but they were allowed to live there to their death.

Was a Swedish writer, poet, feminist and salonist.The daughter of Magnus Brynolfsson Malmstedt, a pr

Was a Swedish writer, poet, feminist and salonist.The daughter of Magnus Brynolfsson Malmstedt, a professor of Latin at Uppsala University, she learnt Latin at a young age and was greatly encouraged by her father to write and explore literature; he early saw her talent, and declared that he wanted to "create of her not only an educated, but a wise and learned woman".

Was a Russian journalist and human rights activist well-known for her opposition to the Chechen conf

Was a Russian journalist and human rights activist well-known for her opposition to the Chechen conflict and Russian president Putin. Politkovskaya made her name reporting from lawless Chechnya, where many journalists and humanitarian workers have been ki

Is a writer, critic and sociologist.

Is a writer, critic and sociologist.

Was a renowned Bengali author. He was born in Dhenkanal in Orissa, India.Passed B.A. (Honors) in Eng

Was a renowned Bengali author. He was born in Dhenkanal in Orissa, India.Passed B.A. (Honors) in English from Ravenshaw College, Cuttack, Orissa. Started his literary career in Oriya. He was a poet of Sabuja Yuga in Oriya Literature. Later he shifted his

A writer of academic and fictional works. She gained her PhD (Victoria University of Wellington) in

A writer of academic and fictional works. She gained her PhD (Victoria University of Wellington) in 1992, and worked in the Department of English with Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne before returning to New Zealand in 2003, where she is currently Professor in the Department of Film, Television and Media Studies at the University of Auckland.

Was a British poet, and Faber and Faber editor, selecting the Faber A Little Book of Modern Verse wi

Was a British poet, and Faber and Faber editor, selecting the Faber A Little Book of Modern Verse with T. S. Eliot (1941). Her Collected Poems (Carcanet Press) were published in 1994. She turned to libretto work and verse plays; it was later in life that

Was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.The daughter of

Was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.The daughter of a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England, Anne Brontë lived most of her life with her family at the remote village of Haworth on the Yorkshire moors.

Is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and a professor of Classics and comparative literature at

Is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and a professor of Classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University. Reticent about her private life, the biography publ

Was a Dutch teacher and author. In the Netherlands he became particularly famous for his novels. He

Was a Dutch teacher and author. In the Netherlands he became particularly famous for his novels. He was married to Alida Gerdina van Wermeskerken, the couple had five children. In 1972, de Vries got national recognition when his novel Bartje was made into a television series by Willy van Hemert. Bartje then became the symbol of the Dutch province Drenthe.

Was a French journalist and novelist who wrote under the pseudonyms Dominique Aury and Pauline Réag

Was a French journalist and novelist who wrote under the pseudonyms Dominique Aury and Pauline Réage.Desclos' lover and employer, Jean Paulhan, had made the remark to her that no woman was capable of writing an erotic novel. To prove him wrong, Desclos wr

Is an Australian composer and Professor of Music at the University of Sydney

Is an Australian composer and Professor of Music at the University of Sydney

Fadiman's 1997 book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down won the National Book Critics Circle Aw

Fadiman's 1997 book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Researched in California, it examined a generational Hmong family with a child with epilepsy, and their cultural, linguistic and medical struggles in America.

German diarist and victim of the Holocaus

German diarist and victim of the Holocaus

Is a French journalist of jewish origin, working for Le Figaro in the politics department since 1992

Is a French journalist of jewish origin, working for Le Figaro in the politics department since 1992. She is a specialist of French politics and in particular of French right. She wrote a book about Jacques Chirac in 1997 [1]. She was allegedly the mistress of the current French President Nicolas Sarkozy from 2005 to 2006 [2][3].

Was a Canadian author and poet.

Was a Canadian author and poet.

Is an American science fiction author best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series.Anne was educat

Is an American science fiction author best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series.Anne was educated at Stuart Hall, an all-girl boarding school in Staunton, Virginia. She then went to Montclair High School, Montclair, New Jersey, and graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College majoring in Slavonic Languages and Literature in 1947. She married in 1950 and has three children: Alec Anthony, born in 1952, Todd, born in 1956, and Georgeanne, born in 1959. She was divorced in 1970, after which she emigrated to Ireland.

Is an English television presenter and former journalist known for her assertive views and style of

Is an English television presenter and former journalist known for her assertive views and style of presenting.

A South African poet, reviewer and editor.She was born in Germiston in 1951 in what was then the Tra

A South African poet, reviewer and editor.She was born in Germiston in 1951 in what was then the Transvaal, now Gauteng, in South Africa. Her earliest work appeared in 1968 but she began writing seriously in 1975 when she met up with a group of writers associated with Lionel Abrahams who at one stage called themselves the Circle of Eight. This group gathered around Lionel Abrahams had included at various times the writers Anne Schuster, Sinclair Beilis, Basil Du Toit, Debbie Aarons, novelist, critic and editor Ivan Vladislavic, academic and publisher Shirley Pendlebury, Michael Gardiner, Francis Faller, and others. An earlier incarnation of this group had included Robert and Eva Royston, who later moved to the UK.

Commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French-speaking Swiss author living in Paris and abroad. S

Commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French-speaking Swiss author living in Paris and abroad. She influenced literary tastes in Europe at the turn of the 19th century.