Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Known primarily for her poetry, Plath also wrote a semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. T鈥�
Kate Chopin was an American novelist and short-story writer best known for her startling 1899 novel, The Awakening. Born in St. Louis, she moved to New Orleans after marrying Oscar Chopin in 1870. Les鈥�
Juan Villoro is Mexico's preeminent novelist. Born in Mexico City in 1956, he is the author of half a dozen prize-winning novels and is also a journalist. In 2004, he received the Herralde Prize for h鈥�
Radwa Ashour (Arabic: 乇囟賵賶 毓丕卮賵乇) was an Egyptian writer and scholar. Ashour had published 7 novels, an autobiographical work, 2 collections of short stories and 5 criticism books. Part I of her 骋谤补苍鈥�
Naguib Mahfouz (Arabic author profile: 賳噩賷亘 賲丨賮賵馗) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He published over 50 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and鈥�
Kahlil Gibran (Arabic: 噩亘乇丕賳 禺賱賷賱 噩亘乇丕賳) was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer. Born in the town of Bsharri in modern-day Lebanon (then part of Ottoman Mount Lebanon), as a young man he鈥�
Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian journalist, fiction writer, and a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Kanafani died at th鈥�
