One of the most widely discussed and renowned twentieth-century authors, D. H. Lawrence remains intriguing and problematic in terms of his biography, his writings, and his prophetic role. In his relatively short life, he was a prolific aut...

Dorothy Kathleen Broster's writing career spanned the period from just before World War I until just after World War II, and this turbulent period of uncertainty and conflict may well have influenced the attitudes encoded in her work. Her ...

Robert Daborne, a minor Jacobean play-wright and clergyman, is of interest today mainly because of his series of letters to theatrical entrepreneur Philip Henslowe, which show Henslowe's relations with the dramatists in his employ and whic...

In Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry in Traditional Forms (1986) editors Philip Dacey and David Jauss provide an overview of the continuing presence of formal poetry in contemporary writing. Strong Measures brought Dacey and hi...

Like many poets writing since World War II, Peter Dale works in both formal and free verse. Seeking clarity above all else, Dale stands ready to use whatever is appropriate, and often his best writing is done while he is poised between the...

Caroline Healey Dall, known as the most able writer in the women's movement in the 1850s and 1860s, was a second-generation Transcendentalist and a memorialist of the Transcendentalist movement and its major figures. Reformer, lecturer, an...

Though he experienced success as a novelist and a screenwriter, Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976) is best known as a member of a group he would have preferred never existed-the "Hollywood Ten." After refusing to cooperate during the House Committe...

Although he is credited with the creation of the genre of hard-boiled detective fiction, Carroll John Daly is a largely forgotten writer. During his prime, however, the news that a particular pulp magazine carried one of Daly 's works coul...

As a learned lady in the late seventeenth century, Damaris Cudworth, Lady Masham imbued contemporary philosophical issues with personal significance and made them meaningful in the everyday life of a gentlewoman such as herself. Masham's t...

Damon Knight's contributions to the field of science fiction as author, editor, critic, illustrator, and translator represent several decades of commitment to making sense of the literature while defending its existence as a serious enterp...

Dan De Quille was the chronicler of the Comstock Lode and one of the most talented authors of the Old West. He lived in the Comstock Lode region of western Nevada and eastern California forty years, from 1857 to 1897, and wrote about it no...

About Dan Michel of Northgate little is known, and much of what is known about him comes from his only work, which was completed in 1340. The Ayenbite of Inwyt (remorse of conscience, or, literally, again-biting of inner wit) is not an ori...

The son of Samuel and Mary Danforth and the younger brother of John Danforth, Samuel Danforth II was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Like his father and elder brother, he began writing poetry at Harvard, graduating in 1683, and entered the...

The American sociologist Daniel Bell (born 1919) greatly influenced American political and economic thought through his books The End of Ideology and The Coming of the Post-Industrial Society. Born in Brooklyn in 1919 to Jewish immigrant p...

Daniel Defoe's modern literary reputation is based almost entirely on the series of prose narratives that he wrote from 1719 to 1724. In April of 1719 Robinson Crusoe was published; with the success of that work, he went on to write a sequ...

Although Daniel Georg Morhof is not considered one of the premier poets of the seventeenth century, his importance cannot be denied. He was a noted teacher of the literatures of the era; a precursor of modern-day librarians; a developer of...

American historian Daniel J. Boorstin (born 1914) was a scholar with broad interests, best known as an advocate of a conservative, "consensus" interpretation of American history. He became Librarian of Congress in 1975. Daniel J. Boorstin ...

Iulii Daniel' is best remembered as the codefendant of the more celebrated and outspoken author and critic Andrei Siniavsky in one of the most sensational trials of the 1960s in the Soviet Union. Between September 1965 and February 1966 th...

Jim Daniels's rapidly expanding list of credits may well point to a burgeoning collective taste for rapidly moving, plain, and direct poetry such as his, a poetry remarkably clear of the usual tricks of poets. His device may be said to be ...

Since her first two plays were produced in 1981, Sarah Daniels has become one of Britain's leading feminist playwrights. Her success has, however, been tinged by controversy and, often, by extreme critical backlash. Apart from the storm cr...

Danilo Kis is the most important writer to emerge in Serbia and Yugoslavia since the 1960s. After Ivo Andric and Milos Crnjanski, Kis can be regarded as the most important Serbian writer of the twentieth century within the modernist and po...

A poet who has not yet received the critical acclaim of some of her contemporaries, Margaret Danner has nonetheless made substantial contributions to the development of Afro-American literature. Author of five volumes, editor of two, and r...

Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti, who assumed the professional name Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was born 12 May 1828 at No. 38 Charlotte Street, Portland Place, London, the second child and eldest son of Gabriele Rossetti (1783-1854) and Frances...

Allison Danzig began covering sports for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in 1921. For the next forty-seven years, forty-five of them at The New York Times, he specialized in writing about lawn tennis and indoor racket sports such as court tennis,...

Any biographical note on Daphne Marlatt seems especially slight because her published work gives so much of herself. Marlatt's reader will find not only the vital statistics, for example that her son Christopher Alan (Kit) was born 3 May 1...