Thomas Eugene Robbins was an American novelist. His most notable works are "seriocomedies" (also known as "comedy dramas"). Robbins lived in La Conner, Washington from 1970, where he wrote nine of his鈥�
Alice Miller was a Polish-Swiss psychologist, psychoanalyst and philosopher of Jewish origin, who is noted for her books on parental child abuse, translated into several languages. She was also a note鈥�
Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfi鈥�
Prague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as "The Metamorphosis" (1916), and posthumously published novels, including The Trial (1925), concern troubled individuals鈥�
Louis-Ferdinand C茅line, pen name of Dr. Louis-Ferdinand Destouches, is best known for his works Voyage au bout de la nuit (Journey to the End of the Night), and Mort 脿 cr茅dit (Death on the Installment鈥�
Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, philosopher, and abolitionist who is best known for Walden, a re鈥�
Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, dramatist and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry." He wrote the poems 鈥�
Constantine P. Cavafy (also known as Konstantin or Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis, or Kavaphes; Greek 螝.螤. 螝伪尾维蠁畏蟼) was a major Greek poet who worked as a journalist and civil servant. His consciously in鈥�
Born in Munich, Klaus Mann was the son of German writer Thomas Mann and his wife, Katia Pringsheim. His father was baptized as a Lutheran, while his mother was from a family of secular Jews.
Eugene Trivizas (Greek: 螘蠀纬苇谓喂慰蟼 韦蟻喂尾喂味维蟼 ) has published many books on literature and he is one of Greece's leading writers for children . He has produced more than a hundred books of enduring popula鈥�
Wilhelm Reich (24 March 1897 鈥� 3 November 1957) was a Jewish Austrian-American doctor of medicine, psychiatrist/psychoanalyst and a member of the second generation of analysts after Sigmund Freud. Aut鈥�
Irvin David Yalom, M.D., is an author of fiction and nonfiction, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, an existentialist, and accomplished psychotherapist.
Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in France for most of his adult life. He wrote in both English and French. His work offers a鈥�
The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics鈥�
Alexandros Papadiamantis (Greek: 螒位苇尉伪谓未蟻慰蟼 螤伪蟺伪未喂伪渭维谓蟿畏蟼) was an influential Greek novelist and short-story writer. He was born in Greece, on the island of Skiathos, in the western part of the Aegean 鈥�
脡douard Louis is a French writer born October 30, 1992. 脡douard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule, grew up in Hallencourt (Somme) before entering theater class at the Lyc茅e Madeleine Michelis in Amiens. Fr鈥�
D. Hunter labels himself "an ageing chav". He's the author of Chav Solidarity, a searing read that centres around his childhood of growing up underclass, drug abuse, prostitution and how the liber鈥�
