C. D. Wright has published seven collections of poetry, the first in 1976 and the most recent in 1992. Her poems have appeared in Field, Ironwood, the New Yorker, the Paris Review, and TriQuarterly, among many other magazines and journals....

For thirty years C. H. Herford worked diligently and broadly in Continental as well as English literature, earning a reputation for his discernment and breadth of knowledge. His longtime collaborator on The Man and His Work, Ben Jonson (19...

Charles Kenneth Williams was born in Newark, New Jersey. He was educated at Bucknell University and at the University of Pennsylvania, where he took the B.A. in 1959. Since 1972 he has been a contributing editor for American Poetry Review....

After the publication of the three volumes of his selected writings--The Future in the Present (1977), Spheres of Existence (1980), and At the Rendezvous of Victory (1984)--reviewers across the political spectrum were unanimous in their pr...

C. S. Forester is best known for his series of eleven historical novels about the early-nineteenth-century British naval officer Horatio Hornblower. A prolific writer, Forester had produced twenty-four books before he conceived the nautica...

Comer Vann Woodward (born 1908), American historian, is one of the leading interpreters of southern history and race relations. Comer Vann Woodward was born in Vanndale, Arkansas in 1908. He graduated from Emory University in 1930, earned ...

Mildred Cable, Evangeline French, and Francesca French traveled across China for the China Inland Mission--a Bible society established in 1865 to convert the people of China to Christianity. From the time of Evangeline French's arrival in ...

The American botanist and politician Cadwallader Colden (1688-1776), a diverse thinker whose scholarship encompassed natural history, the nature of the universe, and medicine, was also lieutenant governor of New York. Cadwallader Colden wa...

George M. Cain labeled himself a "scorpio"; no other precise information about his early life is available except that he was born in 1943 and grew up in Harlem, where he attended both public and private schools. He entered Iona College in...

Aleksandrs Caks's poetry is a meditation on the drama of twentieth-century history as well as on the human soul. His poetic vision is effectively rendered by a blending of inspirations drawn from both Latvian and European literary traditio...

Ben Caldwell, Harlem-born dramatist, artist, and, currently, essayist, was an active participant in the black arts movement of the 1960s, the most clearly defined period in black American letters since the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. ...

The Irish novelist Mary Rose Callaghan focuses primarily on the relationships women have with their mothers, with their siblings, and with each other, as well as those with men—fathers, brothers, lovers, and husbands. Unlike more expl...

The Greek poet Callimachus (ca. 305-240 BC) is regarded as the most characteristic representative of Alexandrian poetry. Learning, polish, and contemporaneity characterize his work, which had enormous influence on the Roman elegiac poets. ...

The English statesman George Calvert 1st Baron Baltimore (ca. 1580-1632), was the founder of the colony of Maryland in America. George Calvert was born in Yorkshire about 1580, the son of Leonard and Alice Crossland Calvert. He matriculate...

Calvin Trillin is an important literary journalist whose most acclaimed work to date is Remembering Denny (1993), his rumination on the meaning of the life of a classmate at Yale who appeared destined for great things but whose life ended ...

Definitely a subject for further study is the poet George Frederick Cameron, much of whose work not only is unpublished at present but never was in print even during his lifetime. In fact the only volume of Cameron's poetry ever to appear,...

Peter Cameron established himself as a craftsman of the short-story form with the publication of two short-story collections: One Way or Another (1986) and Far-flung (1991). Written in the spare, lean prose style sometimes called minimalis...

A novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist of the generation that came on the literary scene after World War I, Camil Petrescu was an avant-gardist whose influence on Romanian fiction has been exceptional. He was an extraordinarily sensiti...

Although Camilo Pessanha published only one collection, Clepsidra (1920), he is considered a leading figure in the world of Portuguese poetry. The well-known modernist poet Fernando Pessoa considered Pessanha a master of modern thought. Hi...

Ferdinando Camon belongs to the generation of Italians whose early childhood occurred during World War II. His writings are intensely concerned with issues that have tormented and excited his contemporaries: the horrors of living through a...

James Dykes Campbell's biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1894) is a landmark in the history of the genre in that it defines the standards of scholarship, accuracy, documentation, and impartiality by which every biographer of Coleridge ...

Wilfred Campbell was a late-Victorian and Edwardian Canadian poet who is frequently linked with Charles G. D. Roberts and Bliss Carman of New Brunswick, and with Archibald Lampman and Duncan Campbell Scott of Ontario. Like these two Ontari...

David Campton's theatrical career has been long and prolific. Although he has never received the national recognition that some of his contemporaries have enjoyed, his plays have continued to appeal to audiences through a series of changes...

While certainly not prolific, having published only two novels and two collections of short fiction in more than two decades of writing, Candas Jane Dorsey has gained a reputation as one of Canada's most important science-fiction writers, ...

A historical novelist of the Hispanic people of New Mexico, Nash Candelaria has brought a special perspective to Chicano literature. His trilogy Memories of the Alhambra (1977), Not by the Sword (1982), and Inheritance of Strangers (1985) ...