Writer/journalist Famous Names Starting with Letter D

Is an American author best known for his novels, which paint detailed portraits of American life in

Is an American author best known for his novels, which paint detailed portraits of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He currently lives outside of New York City.

Is an American journalist currently anchoring the primetime weekend version of CNN Newsroom. CNN New

Is an American journalist currently anchoring the primetime weekend version of CNN Newsroom. CNN Newsroom is based at CNN world headquarters in Atlanta. Lemon joined CNN in September 2006.

Was an American humorist, journalist, and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, cartoonist, new

Was an American humorist, journalist, and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, cartoonist, newspaper columnist, and playwright. He is best remembered for creating the characters "Archy" and "Mehitabel", supposed authors of humorous verse.

Is an award-winning Canadian poet, editor, and educator.McKay was educated at the University of West

Is an award-winning Canadian poet, editor, and educator.McKay was educated at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Wales, where he earned his PhD in 1971. He taught creative writing and English for 27 years in universities including the

Is a Scottish poet, writer and musician.Paterson was born in Dundee. He won an Eric Gregory Award in

Is a Scottish poet, writer and musician.Paterson was born in Dundee. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 1990 and his poem A Private Bottling won the Arvon Foundation International Poetry Competition in 1993. He was included on the list of 20 poets chosen for

Was a prolific music arranger, composer, and producer, working for four decades in the Hollywood stu

Was a prolific music arranger, composer, and producer, working for four decades in the Hollywood studio system in films, television, and pop recordings.On the bongos Ralke collaborated with versatile flute and reed instrumentalist, Buddy Collette on "Jazz Heat", "Bongo Beat". Warner Bros. hired him for "Gershwin with Bongos" and "The Sensuous and the Savage", which is widely regarded as one of the best jungle exotica albums of that era. He worked with Warren Barker on the music for 77 Sunset Strip and did the heavy musical lifting when Edd "Kookie" Byrnes, one of the show's stars, became a teen idol and recorded his one hit, "Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb". Ralke performed similar duties for "Hawaiian Eye" star Connie Stevens when she recorded "Sixteen Reasons". Other recordings include Jewel Akens' "The Birds and the Bees", and five other gold records. Ralke also recorded two hits by Ty Wagner: "I'm a No Count" as well as "Slander". In the late 1960s he created his own record company. He collaborated with sound engineer Brad Miller on the hugely successful strings-with-environmental sounds creation, the Mystic Moods Orchestra.

Is a Canadian adventurer, diarist and author. He had a difficult childhood including an abusive fath

Is a Canadian adventurer, diarist and author. He had a difficult childhood including an abusive father, four and a half years in an orphanage, and later with a foster family in North Kildonan. He took up canoeing in his teens and at age 17 was named Most

Is an American composer, pianist and improviser in the jazz and classical genres

Is an American composer, pianist and improviser in the jazz and classical genres

As a U.S. writer of novels, short stories, and non-fiction about the outdoors. His novels consist mo

As a U.S. writer of novels, short stories, and non-fiction about the outdoors. His novels consist mostly of paperback originals, principally spy fiction but also crime fiction and Westerns. He is best known for his long-running Matt Helm series (1960-1993), which chronicles the adventures of an undercover counter-agent/assassin working for a secret American government agency. The noted critic Anthony Boucher wrote: "Donald Hamilton has brought to the spy novel the authentic hard realism of Hammett; and his stories are as compelling, and probably as close to the sordid truth of espionage, as any now being told."

Was an American poet who sentimentalized warm climates and was sometimes described as "poet laureate

Was an American poet who sentimentalized warm climates and was sometimes described as "poet laureate of Hawaii". He was also known as a journalist, author of prose, and speaker.

The author, playwright, weight-training coach and composer, was born in Cape Town in 1934.He studied

The author, playwright, weight-training coach and composer, was born in Cape Town in 1934.He studied at Wynberg Boys' High School (1944–1950) including Music (piano) as a subject and attended University of Cape Town in 1951 but dropped out after 3 months due to psychological problems. Instead he studied speech and drama at the Maas-Phillips Studio and attained the Associate and Licentiate diplomas in speech and drama of Trinity College, London, extra-murally.

An Australian poet, and is considered by many as one of the most influential Australian poets.Until

An Australian poet, and is considered by many as one of the most influential Australian poets.Until he went to University on a teaching scholarship in 1954, he worked as a clerk in various firms, and as a sales assistant, an office-boy in an advertising agency, and as a copy-boy at Melbourne newspapers Truth and Sun. He also worked as a labourer in the Public Works Department as a tailer-out in various Melbourne saw-mills, and as a farm-hand in the Cam River valley.

Was one of the original African American novelists to write in the "street" tradition of Robert Beck

Was one of the original African American novelists to write in the "street" tradition of Robert Beck (Iceberg Slim).onald Goines was addicted to heroin at various points in his life. Goines accomplished an amazing feat by churning out 16 books in just five years.

Was a U.S. poet, essayist, social and literary critic, and author. He is best known as a founding me

Was a U.S. poet, essayist, social and literary critic, and author. He is best known as a founding member of the Nashville circle of poets known as the Fugitives and of an overlapping group, the Southern Agrarians.

Is an American poet and the 14th U.S. Poet Laureate.Hall began writing even before reaching his teen

Is an American poet and the 14th U.S. Poet Laureate.Hall began writing even before reaching his teens, beginning with poems and short stories, and then moving on to novels and dramatic verse. Hall continued to write throughout his prep school years at Exeter, and, while still only sixteen years old, attended the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, where he made his first acquaintance with the poet Robert Frost. That same year, he published his first work. While an undergraduate at Harvard, Hall served on the editorial board of The Harvard Advocate, and got to know a number of people who, like him, were poised with significant ambitions in the literary world, amongst them John Ashbery, Robert Bly, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, and Adrienne Rich, whom he dated briefly.[citations needed]During his senior year, he won the Glascock Prize that Koch had won 3 years earlier.

An Australian journalist, writer, social critic, and academic

An Australian journalist, writer, social critic, and academic

Is an American business magnate, television and radio personality, and author. He is the Chairman an

Is an American business magnate, television and radio personality, and author. He is the Chairman and CEO of the Trump Organization, a US-based real-estate developer. Trump is also the founder of Trump Entertainment Resorts, which operates numerous casinos and hotels across the world. Trump's extravagant lifestyle and outspoken manner have made him a celebrity for years, a status which was only amplified by the success of his NBC reality show, The Apprentice (of which he serves as host and executive producer). He is the son of Fred Trump who was a wealthy real estate developer based in New York City.

Was an American poet and teacher of writing. He graduated from the University of Miami and went on t

Was an American poet and teacher of writing. He graduated from the University of Miami and went on to teach for many years at Iowa Writers' Workshop, the nation's first graduate program in creative writing. Some of his students there included Mark Strand,

Davis was born in Anaheim, California. He took an early interest in music — he learned how to

Davis was born in Anaheim, California. He took an early interest in music — he learned how to play the trumpet at the age of 9 (perhaps an explanation for his wide use of brass throughout his cues), and began to write short pieces at the age of 12.Throughout early life, he found himself interested mainly in the jazz and rock genres. After graduating from high school, Davis enrolled at UCLA. He continued his study of musical composition with tutor Henri Lazarof. Additionally,

Was a French aristocrat, revolutionary and novelist. His novels were philosophical and sadomasochist

Was a French aristocrat, revolutionary and novelist. His novels were philosophical and sadomasochistic, exploring such controversial subjects as rape, bestiality and necrophilia. He was a proponent of extreme freedom (or at least licentiousness), unrestra

Is an author of children's and young adult books, as well as a prominent linguist who has worked in

Is an author of children's and young adult books, as well as a prominent linguist who has worked in syntax, phonetics, phonology, morphology, historical and comparative linguistics, Romance studies, structure of Japanese, structure of American Sign Language, poetics, writing for ESL students, and mathematical and linguistic analysis of folk dance.

A best-selling author, artist, singer-songwriter, screenwriter and sculptor diagnosed with autism af

A best-selling author, artist, singer-songwriter, screenwriter and sculptor diagnosed with autism after being assessed as a psychotic infant in 1965 at age two,[1] tested multiple times for deafness and labeled disturbed throughout childhood, before treatment for gut, immune and sensory perceptual disorders in adulthood.Williams' first book was the autobiographical Nobody Nowhere: The Extraordinary Autobiography of an Autistic Girl.[2] It was an international bestseller with fifteen weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List.[3] It was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Prize for Literacy in 1992.[4

Is one of the most renowned of Scottish Gaelic poets and formed an integral part of one of the golde

Is one of the most renowned of Scottish Gaelic poets and formed an integral part of one of the golden ages of Gaelic poetry in Scotland during the 18th century. He is best known for his poem about Ben Doran; "Moladh Beinn Dòbhrainn" ( English: "Praise of

Is a Romanian novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist.She is the daughter of Viorica (b.

Is a Romanian novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist.She is the daughter of Viorica (b. Pop) and of Eugen Voicu, both teachers. She graduated Decebal College in Deva (1964), and the Faculty of Letters of the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj (1969). College professor of Romanian language in Alba Iulia and Deva, then researcher at the Institute of Linguistics and Literary History in Cluj; since 1990, she works as editor at the local Radio Station of Cluj, where she realizes successful broadcastings on topics of Romanian language and literature. Debut with poetry in the literary magazine Steaua (1972); editorial debut in the collective volume Alpha '84, published in 1984 at Dacia Publishing House. She publishes poetry and prose in literary magazines such as Tribuna, Steaua, Contrapunct, Apostrof, Contemporanul-Ideea europeana, România literara, Viata româneasca, Poesis, Familia, and Vatra. She also signs interviews in several cultural magazines.

Was the first Croatian female composer.Dora Pejacevic was a daughter of an excellent Croatian pianis

Was the first Croatian female composer.Dora Pejacevic was a daughter of an excellent Croatian pianist and singer Lilla Pejacevic, who gave her her first music lessons. Dora began to compose when she was only 12. She studied music in Zagreb, Dresden and Münich. She married in 1921. Although she led a lonely life, she met many eminent musicians and writers, and was friends with Austrian journalist and writer Karl Kraus and Czech aristocrat and culture patron Sidonie Nádherná.