Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.

This retelling by Louis Zara of the brief, anguished life of Stephen Crane -- poet and master novelist at 23, dead at 28 -- is in novelized form but does not abuse its tragic subject.

* 1869 – Levon Shant, Armenian playwright, novelist and poet ( d. 1951 )

* Adrian Mitchell ( 1932 – 2008 ), English poet, novelist and playwright

It was formerly the residence of historical novelist and poet, Walter Scott.

* 1771 – Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet ( d. 1832 )

* 1880 – Radclyffe Hall, English poet, novelist, and activist ( d. 1943 )

* 1937 – Walter Dean Myers, American novelist and poet

Anne Brontë (; 17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849 ) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.

Charlotte Brontë (; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855 ) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood, whose novels are English literature standards.

The historical novelist and poet Maurice Hewlett published a series of articles in the literary journal John O ' London's Weekly, in which he concluded: " And knowing children, and knowing that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has legs, I decide that the Miss Carpenters have pulled one of them.

* 1860 – Amanda McKittrick Ros, Irish novelist and poet ( d. 1939 )

* 1922 – Iakovos Kambanelis, Greek poet, playwright, lyricist, and novelist

* 1969 – José María Arguedas, Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist ( b. 1911 )

30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848 ) was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her solitary novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC ( 25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873 ), was an English politician, poet, playwright, and novelist.

* 1903 – Raymond Queneau, French poet and novelist ( d. 1976 )

Five years later, Verdi reworked his " Libera Me " section of the Rossini Requiem and made it a part of his Requiem Mass, honoring the famous novelist and poet Alessandro Manzoni, who had died in 1873.

In France, Henri Langlois called Hawks " the Gropius of the cinema " and Swiss novelist and poet Blaise Cendrars said that the film " definitely marked the first appearance of contemporary cinema.

Herman Melville ( August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891 ) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet.

A leading champion of Melville's claims as a great American poet was the poet and novelist Robert Penn Warren, who issued a selection of Melville's poetry prefaced by an admiring and acute critical essay.

* John-James Ford ( born 1972 ), Canadian foreign service officer who gained notability as poet, short story writer and novelist ; winner of 2006 Ottawa Book Award

* 1842 – François Coppée, French poet and novelist ( d. 1908 )

* 1936 – Nancy Willard, American author, poet, and novelist

* 1597 – Vincent Voiture, French poet ( d. 1648 )

* 1892 – Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet ( d. 1950 )

* 1898 – Stephen Vincent Benét, American poet and novelist ( d. 1943 )

Homosexuals were predominantly male, although figures such as poet Edna St. Vincent Millay and social host Mabel Dodge were known for their affairs with women and promotion of tolerance of homosexuality.

* 1648 – Vincent Voiture, French poet ( b. 1597 )

This visual contrast of forested slopes sweeping down to the sea has been summed up by American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay of Rockland and Camden, Maine in " Renascence ":

Early twentieth-century American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay also wrote most of her sonnets using the Italian form.

* Prof. Vincent O ' Sullivan, Emeritus Professor, poet

* May 26 – Vincent Voiture, French poet ( b. 1597 )

* February 24 – Vincent Voiture, French poet ( d. 1648 )

American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote a book-length verse play on the massacre, The Murder of Lidice, which was printed in its entirety in the 19 October 1942, edition of Life magazine and published as a book that same year by Harper.

* Vincent Voiture 1597 – 1648, poet and prose writer

Important precursors of Expressionism were: the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche ( 1844-1900 ), especially his philosophical novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra ( 1883-92 ); the later plays of the Swedish dramatist August Strindberg ( 1849-1912 ), including the trilogy To Damascus 1898-1901, A Dream Play ( 1902 ), The Ghost Sonata ( 1907 ); Frank Wedekind ( 1864-1918 ), especially the " Lulu " plays Erdgeist ( Earth Spirit ) ( 1895 ) and Die Büchse der Pandora ( Pandora's Box ) ( 1904 ); the American poet Walt Whitman ( 1819-92 ): Leaves of Grass ( 1855-91 ); the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky ( 1821-81 ); Norwegian painter Edvard Munch ( 1863-1944 ); Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh ( 1853-90 ); Belgian painter James Ensor ( 1860-1949 ); Sigmund Freud ( 1856-1939 ).

Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet, lived at Steepletop, a more than property that had previously been a farm.

Vincent Voiture ( 24 February 1597 – 26 May 1648 ), French poet, was the son of a rich merchant of Amiens.

* October 19-Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet

Notable Vassar alumni include first black graduate Anita Florence Hemmings ( 1897 ), poet Edna St. Vincent Millay ( 1917 ), computer pioneer Grace Hopper ( 1928 ), poet Elizabeth Bishop ( 1934 ), physician Beatrix Hamburg ( 1944 ), politician and activist Frances Farenthold, psychiatrist Bernadine P. Healy ( 1965 ), actress Meryl Streep ( 1971 ), CBS News Chief White House Correspondent Chip Reid ( 1977 ), television personality Andrew Zimmern ( 1984 ), actress Lisa Kudrow ( 1985 ), actress Hope Davis ( 1986 ), musician Mark Ronson, journalist Evan Wright ( 1988 ), writer-director Noah Baumbach ( 1991 ), Flickr founder Caterina Fake ( 1991 ), What Not to Wear host Stacy London ( 1991 ), Survivor: Africa winner Ethan Zohn ( 1996 ), actress Lecy Goranson.

* Stephen Vincent Benét, poet

* Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet

Stephen Vincent Benét ( July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943 ) was an American author, poet, short story writer, and novelist.

Priest, philosopher and poet Father Vincent McNabb was also born in Portaferry.

Honorary degrees have been received by many famed individuals including former President of the United States Bill Clinton, former President of Ireland Mary McAleese, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, poet Seamus Heaney, writers Seamus Deane, Brian Friel, Frank McGuinness and Colm Tóibín, activists May Blood and Aung San Suu Kyi, actors Amanda Burton and Ewan McGregor, racehorse trainer Vincent O ' Brien, bishops Seán Brady, Robin Eames, James Mehaffey, Edward Daly and Desmond Tutu, singers Enya, Van Morrison and Tommy Makem, politician John Hume, biotechnologist Charles Hamner, politicians and writers Garrett Fitzgerald and Conor Cruise O ' Brien, US lawyer John Connorton, US diplomat Jim Lyons, Gaelic football player Peter Canavan, rugby player David Humphreys, golfers Darren Clarke and Graeme McDowell, last governor of Hong Kong Chris Patten and triple jumper Jonathan Edwards.

Her literary career began in 1935 when her book of poetry, Theory of Flight, based on flying lessons she took, was chosen by the American poet Stephen Vincent Benét for publication in the Yale Younger Poets Series.