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Born

February 19, 1941 (age 85) • Orange • New Jersey

Notable Works

“A Man of Little Evils” • “Black Dog, Red Dog” • “Cemetery Nights” • “Cold Dog Soup” • “Common Carnage” • “Concurring Beasts” • “Dancer with One Leg” • “Eating Naked” • “Griffon” • “Heat Death” • “Is Fat Bob Dead Yet?” • “Saratoga Fleshpot” • “Saratoga Longshot” • “Saratoga Snapper” • “Saratoga Strongbox” • “The Church of Dead Girls” • “The Day’s Last Light Reddens the Leaves of the Copper Beech” • “The Porcupine’s Kisses” • “The Two Deaths of Senora Puccini” • “The Wrestler’s Cruel Study” • “Winter’s Journey”

Master of the macabre

Edgar Allan Poe

American writer

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Metta Victoria Fuller Victor

American author

Herman Melville

Herman Melville

American author

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

American author

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Tillie Olsen

American author

Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser

American author

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

American author

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

Alice Walker smiling and wearing glasses, a beaded necklace, and a burgundy velvet top at the opening of The Color Purple in New York City.

Alice Walker

American writer

Percival Everett, 2012

Percival Everett

American author

Rita Dove

Rita Dove

American author

Wendell Berry, wearing a tan suit and patterned tie, smiles while seated among other attendees at a conference, holding papers in his hand.

Wendell Berry

American author

Stephen Crane

Stephen Crane

American writer

John G. Neihardt

John G. Neihardt

American poet

Sherman Alexie, 2007

Sherman Alexie

American author

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Richard Brautigan

American author

Paul Auster

Paul Auster

American author

Ha Jin

Ha Jin

Chinese American writer

John Updike

John Updike

American author

Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver

American author and activist

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines

Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

A Study of Poetry

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

Famous Poets and Poetic Form