And a witty American journalist remarked over a century ago what is even more true today, `` Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning ''.

* Kate Austin ( 1864 – 1902 ), American writer, feminist and anarchist

* Mary Hunter Austin ( 1868 – 1934 ), American writer

* Phil Austin ( born 1941 ), American comedian and writer

Abdul Alhazred is a fictional character created by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.

* 1892 – Lowell Thomas, American writer ( d. 1981 )

* 1950 – Cleo Odzer, American writer

* 1983 – Dash Shaw, American writer and artist

* 1916 – Beverly Cleary, American writer

* 1949 – Scott Turow, American writer

* 1973 – J. Scott Campbell, American writer and illustrator

* 1945 – Annie Dillard, American writer

* 1874 – Charles Fort, American writer ( d. 1932 )

* 1883 – Scott Nearing, American writer and educator ( d. 1983 )

* 1968 – McG, American director, writer, and producer

* 1981 – C. C. Swiney, American actor, writer, and director

* 1983 – Elisha Yaffe, American actor, writer, and producer

* 1907 – Mary Hamman, American writer ( d. 1984 )

* 1924 – James Baldwin, American writer ( d. 1987 )

* 1819 – Herman Melville, American writer ( d. 1891 )

* 1904 – Clifford D. Simak, American writer ( d. 1988 )

* 1964 – Flannery O ' Connor, American writer ( b. 1925 )

* 1995 – Edward Whittemore, American writer ( b. 1933 )

* 1942 – Garrison Keillor, American writer and radio host

* 1964 – Anastasia M. Ashman, American writer

Krim's main attack is upon the aesthetic and the publishing apparatus of American literary culture in our day.

If one wishes to discuss a literary figure who uses folklore in his work, the first thing he must realize is that the literary figure is probably part of this ignorant American public.

The only man alive who seems qualified by his learning, his disposition and his addiction to a baroque luxuriance of language to inherit the literary mantle of Sacheverell Sitwell, Mr. Sansom writes of foreign parts with a dedication to decoration worthy of a pastry chef creating a wedding cake for the marriage of a Hungarian beauty ( her third ) and an American multimillionaire ( his fourth ).

Later in the 1960s and 1970s, Edmund Leach and his students Mary Douglas and Nur Yalman, among others, introduced French structuralism in the style of Lévi-Strauss ; while British anthropology has continued to emphasize social organization and economics over purely symbolic or literary topics, differences among British, French, and American sociocultural anthropologies have diminished with increasing dialogue and borrowing of both theory and methods.

The American literary critic Fredric Jameson says of van Vogt:

The novelist Raymond Chandler criticised her in his essay, " The Simple Art of Murder ", and the American literary critic Edmund Wilson was dismissive of Christie and the detective fiction genre generally in his New Yorker essay, " Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?

While inspired by traditional Beltane, this festival is a modern arts and cultural event ( compared by organizers to the American Burning Man festival ) which incorporates myth and drama from a variety of world cultures and diverse literary sources.

The unease and self-deception that characterized that period of colonial history would be revisited in many forms at political and social moments of crisis ( such as the Salem witch trials, which coincided with frontier warfare and economic competition among Indians and French and other European settlers ) and during lengthy periods of cultural definition ( such as the American Renaissance of the late 18th-and early 19th-century literary, visual, and architectural movements, which sought to capitalize on unique American identities ).

American counterculture exponents like William S. Burroughs ( whose literary influence on Gibson and cyberpunk in general is widely acknowledged ) and Timothy Leary were among the first to extoll the potential of computers and computer networks for individual empowerment.

Douglas Richard Hofstadter ( born February 15, 1945 ) is an American professor of cognitive science whose research focuses on consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics.

Edgar Allan Poe ( born Edgar Poe ; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849 ) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement.

Best recognized for his essays and unsigned " Notes and Comment " pieces, he gradually became the most important contributor to The New Yorker at a time when it was arguably the most important American literary magazine.

American theologian Edgar Goodspeed notes, " But the writer's Judaism is not actual and objective, but literary and academic, manifestly gained from the reading of the Septuagint Greek version of the Jewish scriptures, and his polished Greek style would be a strange vehicle for a message to Aramaic-speaking Jews or Christians of Jewish blood.

The primary literary influence on film noir was the hardboiled school of American detective and crime fiction, led in its early years by such writers as Dashiell Hammett ( whose first novel, Red Harvest, was published in 1929 ) and James M. Cain ( whose The Postman Always Rings Twice appeared five years later ), and popularized in pulp magazines such as Black Mask.

* 1921 – Wayne Booth, American literary critic ( d. 2005 )

Often, however, food writing is used to specify writing that takes a more literary approach to food, such as that of the famous American food writer M. F. K.

It was not until the " Melville Revival " in the early 20th century that his work won recognition, especially Moby-Dick, which was hailed as one of the literary masterpieces of both American and world literature.

* 1947 – David Shapiro, American poet, literary critic, and art historian

* 1866 – Gelett Burgess, American literary humorist ( d. 1951 )

Category: American literary critics

The remainder of the 19th century saw a relative period of stability, as Islamic, Druze and Maronite groups focused on economic and cultural development which saw the founding of the American University of Beirut and a flowering of literary and political activity associated with the attempts to liberalize the Ottoman Empire.

Turning to literary work as a way to overcome his losses and channel his ambitions, he began writing a series of well-received articles for a prominent New England newspaper justifying and praising the American Revolution and arguing that the separation from Britain was permanent.