Writer/journalist Famous Names Starting with Letter K

Was an Algerian writer notable for his novels and plays, both in French and Algerian Arabic language

Was an Algerian writer notable for his novels and plays, both in French and Algerian Arabic language, and his advocacy of the Algerian national cause.

Is an American feminist poet, essayist and critic.Pollitt is best-known for her column "Subject to D

Is an American feminist poet, essayist and critic.Pollitt is best-known for her column "Subject to Debate" in The Nation magazine, but has also published in numerous other periodicals, including The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Ms. magazine and The New York Times.

Was an American publisher. She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, for more than two de

Was an American publisher. She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, for more than two decades, overseeing its most famous period, the Watergate coverage that eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Her memoir, Personal History, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998.

Was an Australian author and co-founding member of the Communist Party of Australia.Prichard moved w

Was an Australian author and co-founding member of the Communist Party of Australia.Prichard moved with her husband, war hero Hugo "Jim" Throssell, VC, to Greenmount, Western Australia, in 1920 and lived at 11 Old York Road for much of the rest of her life. She wrote most of her novels and stories in a self-contained weatherboard workroom near the house. While Prichard was visiting the Soviet Union in 1933 Throssell committed suicide when his business failed during the Great Depression. They had one son, Ric Throssell, later a diplomat and writer. In her personal life she always referred to herself as Mrs Hugo Throssell. Her friends called her Katie.

Couric was born in Arlington, Virginia, the daughter of Dersima (née Hene), a homemaker and part-

Couric was born in Arlington, Virginia, the daughter of Dersima (née Hene), a homemaker and part-time writer, and John Martin Couric Jr., a public relations executive and news editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the United Press in Washington, D.C. Couric was raised Presbyterian, though her mother was Jewish. Couric's maternal grandparents, Berthold B. Hene and Clara L. Froshin, were the children of Jewish immigrants from Germany.

An Australian writer.[1] She was born in the Dodoma Region of Tanzania where her parents were Englis

An Australian writer.[1] She was born in the Dodoma Region of Tanzania where her parents were English missionaries, and spent most of her childhood there before moving to England and then Tasmania.[2]Scholes is the author of the international bestsellers Make Me An Idol, The Rain Queen and The Stone Angel. She has also written several children's books including the acclaimed Peacetimes, The Boy and the Whale and a young adult novel The Blue Chameleon, which won a New South Wales State Literary Award. All of her books have been translated into numerous languages. Katherine also works in the film industry. She currently lives in Tasmania with her filmmaker husband Roger Scholes and their two sons.

In 1994, Kate Heyhoe co-founded the electronic Gourmet Guide (aka The eGG), one the first websites d

In 1994, Kate Heyhoe co-founded the electronic Gourmet Guide (aka The eGG), one the first websites dedicated to food and cooking. In 1995 she developed food sites for America Online and in 1996 launched The Global Gourmet website at www.globalgourmet.com. The electronic Gourmet Guide merged into the Global Gourmet in 1998. She is currently Executive Editor of The Global Gourmet and writes a monthly food column about culinary topics.

Is a Moroccan-born French novelist. Katherine Pancol moved from Casablanca to France when she was fi

Is a Moroccan-born French novelist. Katherine Pancol moved from Casablanca to France when she was five. She studied literature and initially became a French and Latin teacher, before turning to journalism. While working for Paris-Match and Cosmopolitan, she is noticed by an intuitive publisher who encourages her to begin writing. Following the success of her first novel Moi D'abord (Me First) in 1979,

Was a British poet, critic and independent scholar writing in particular on William Blake and W. B.

Was a British poet, critic and independent scholar writing in particular on William Blake and W. B. Yeats.She was educated at County High School, Ilford, and then read natural sciences and psychology on an Exhibition at Girton College, Cambridge, receivin

Was an Australian novelist, playwright, short-story writer, critic, biographer and historian.Tennant

Was an Australian novelist, playwright, short-story writer, critic, biographer and historian.Tennant was born in Manly, New South Wales; she was educated at Brighton College and Sydney University, though she left without graduating. She was a publicity officer for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, as well as working as a journalist, union organiser, reviewer (for The Sydney Morning Herald), a publisher's literary adviser and editor, and a Commonwealth Literary Fund lecturer. She married L. C. Rodd in 1933; they had two children (a daughter, Benison, in 1946 and a son, John Laurence, in 1951).

Was an Irish - Australian novelist.Kathleen was born in Tipperary, Ireland, daughter of William de V

Was an Irish - Australian novelist.Kathleen was born in Tipperary, Ireland, daughter of William de Vere Hunt, and was related to Aubrey de Vere, the poet. She was educated by English and German governesses and moved to London when about 21 years of age. She trained as a nurse and married in 1879 Stephen Mannington Caffyn, a medical practitioner, and went with him to Sydney in 1880.

Is an American poet.Kathleen Peirce was born in Moline, Illinois. She graduated from the Iowa Writer

Is an American poet.Kathleen Peirce was born in Moline, Illinois. She graduated from the Iowa Writer's Workshop in 1988. Peirce has won many awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the William Carlos Williams Award. She currently teaches at Texas Sta

Was an American author, best known for the romance novel Forever Amber.Winsor was born October 16, 1

Was an American author, best known for the romance novel Forever Amber.Winsor was born October 16, 1919 in Olivia, Minnesota but raised in Berkeley, California. At the age of 18, Winsor made a list of her goals for life. Among those was her hope to write a best-selling novel. Winsor graduated in 1938 from the University of California, Berkeley. During her school years, she married a fellow student, All-American college football player Robert Herwig. In 1937, she began writing a thrice-weekly sports column for the Oakland Tribune. Although that job only lasted a year, Winsor later returned to the newspaper to work as a receptionist. She was fired in 1938 when the newspaper chose to trim their workforce.

An Australian writer, born in Lismore, New South Wales.Heyman is the author of four novels: The Brea

An Australian writer, born in Lismore, New South Wales.Heyman is the author of four novels: The Breaking (1997), Keep Your Hands on the Wheel (1999), The Accomplice (2003) and most recently Captain Starlight's Apprentice (2006). She is also a playwright for theatre and radio and has held a number of creative writing fellowships in the UK and Australia. Her short stories have appeared in a number of collections and also on radio.Heyman's first novel, The Breaking, was longlisted for the Orange Prize, and shortlisted for the Scottish Writer of the Year Award. Her third, The Accomplice, won an Arts Council England Writer's Award and was shortlisted for the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards. The Accomplice is a fictional account of the wreck of the Dutch flagship the Batavia off the Australian coast in the 17th century. As a meditation on complicity with evil it has been compared with the work of Joseph Conrad and William Golding.[1]

Is an English journalist and currently a co-presenter on GMTV.A year later, she moved to Central New

Is an English journalist and currently a co-presenter on GMTV.A year later, she moved to Central News as a production journalist, reporter and news presenter. It was during her time there that she was 'talent-spotted' by Meridian Broadcasting's head of ne

Was an American experimental novelist, prose stylist, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and sex-po

Was an American experimental novelist, prose stylist, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer. One of the leading experimental writers of her generation[citation needed], she was strongly influenced by the Black Mountain School, William S. Burroughs, David Antin, French critical theory, philosophy, and pornography.

A Japanese journalist who is well known for his coverage of the Nanking Massacre. During the 1970s h

A Japanese journalist who is well known for his coverage of the Nanking Massacre. During the 1970s he wrote a series of articles on the atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers during World War II (including the Nanjing Massacre) called "Chugoku no Tabi" (????, "Travels in China"). The series appeared in the Asahi Shimbun.Honda was a war correspondent in Vietnam from December 1966 through 1968. He published a book on the Vietnam War entitled Vietnam War: A Report through Asian Eyes in 1972. [1]

A Japanese writer. He received a degree in Japanese Literature from Waseda University in Tokyo.

A Japanese writer. He received a degree in Japanese Literature from Waseda University in Tokyo.

Was the sixth Peethadhipathi of Sri Viswa Viznana Vidya Adhyatmika Peetham in Pithapuram, India. He

Was the sixth Peethadhipathi of Sri Viswa Viznana Vidya Adhyatmika Peetham in Pithapuram, India. He succeeded his father Mohiddin Badusha I.

Was an Indian poet writing in the Gujarati language. He was the father of Nanalal Dalpatram Kavi.Dal

Was an Indian poet writing in the Gujarati language. He was the father of Nanalal Dalpatram Kavi.Dalpatram, who knew no English, was a significant figure in Gujarati literature in the second half of the 19th century.[1]He was encouraged to pursue literature by Alexander Kinlock Forbes, the magestrate in Ahmedabad who wanted to see Gujarati literature develop, and who had helped found the Gujarat Vernacular Society.[1]

A Japanese writer. She made her first debut as “Yamada Hiromi” in NW-SF #16, edited by Yamano Ko

A Japanese writer. She made her first debut as “Yamada Hiromi” in NW-SF #16, edited by Yamano Koichi and Yamada Kazuko, in 1980 with the story So-shimoku (“Diptera”), and also helped edit some early issues of NW-SF in the 1970’s. She reinvented herself as a writer and made her second debut in mainstream literature in 1994. Since then she has become one of the most popular writers in Japan.

Was a Japanese researcher of Japanese popular culture.

Was a Japanese researcher of Japanese popular culture.

, was an award-winning writer, educator, and political activist.The granddaughter of a publisher, Ka

, was an award-winning writer, educator, and political activist.The granddaughter of a publisher, Kay Boyle grew up in several cities but principally in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her father was a lawyer but her greatest influence came from her mother Katherine Evans, a literary and social activist who believed that the wealthy had an obligation to help the less well off. As such, in later years, Kay Boyle championed integration and civil rights. She also advocated banning nuclear weapons, and American withdrawal from the Vietnam War.

Is an American clinical psychologist and writer who is one of the foremost experts on bipolar disord

Is an American clinical psychologist and writer who is one of the foremost experts on bipolar disorder, having suffered from the disorder since her early-mid twenties. She is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and is an Honorary Professor of English at the University of St Andrews.

Is an American poet and educator. She will be the sixteenth Poet Laureate of the United States.Ryan

Is an American poet and educator. She will be the sixteenth Poet Laureate of the United States.Ryan was born in San Jose, California and was raised in several areas of the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert.