Generally recognized as one of the best essayists of the twentieth century, E. B. White was also a major force in the success of The New Torker magazine, a writer of some of the best children's stories of our time, an inspiring advocate of...

More than a quarter century of publications testify to a diversity of concerns on the part of E. D. Hirsch, Jr. These manifold concerns include theory of interpretation, nature and development of hermeneutics, Romantic historical scholarsh...

E. G. Squier was a journalist, diplomat, and archaeologist whose extensive travels in Latin America resulted in important and definitive contributions to the study of archaeology in Central America and Peru. An authority on Central America...

Few poets can be said to occupy a more secure position in the literary history of their countries than that held by E. J. Pratt. Often hailed in his own lifetime as Canada's unofficial poet laureate, Pratt has become, since his death in 19...

An impressive figure in children's literature, E. L. Konigsburg has the distinction of being the first and possibly only author to have had two books on the Newbery Honor list at the same time. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Fran...

Best known as the author of such children's novels as The Railway Children and The Story of the Treasure-Seekers, the English writer E. Nesbit (1858-1924) also authored fiction, drama, and poetry for adults. In addition she was active in p...

While William LeQueux was the father of the espionage novel, E. Phillips Oppenheim made the genre his own. Like LeQueux, Edgar Wallace, and many other mystery novelists of his generation, E. Phillips Oppenheim was a prolific writer. The au...

E. W. Howe's importance in the development of American realism rests on his first and best book, The Story of a Country Town (1883). Howe's autobiographical novel, depicting midwestern drabness and neurotic failure, anticipates the early w...

E. W. Scripps, the Illinois farm boy who grew up to build the first major newspaper chain in the United States and to found what later became United Press International, was a paradox. He based his success on his support for the working cl...

Earl Russell Browder (1891-1973) was the head of the Communist party of the United States during its most influential and prosperous period, 1930-1945. He was the best-known native-born Communist in American history. Earl Browder was born ...

Among the many letters (in the Lovelace Archives in Port of Spain) documenting Earl Lovelace's public-service record is a letter labeled "Memorandum Presented to the Right Honorable Dr. Eric Williams, Prime Minister, on Behalf of the Rio C...

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Alice Morse Earle wrote eighteen books and more than thirty articles on the cultural life of the early English settlements in the New World. These works played a key role in the turn-of...

The career of Carol Eastman--writing as Adrien Joyce--has been characterized primarily by sparsity--sparsity of biographical information, sparsity of output (four films in nine years), and sparseness in the style of her work. The sister of...

During an interview in 1979, Eavan Boland renounced "the evasion out of fear from some realities, and the folly of that evasion, because the realities catch up with you." Appropriately, she spoke of reality in the plural, for in her five v...

Ebenezer Jones--clerk, poet, and political writer--was born in Canonbury Square, Islington, a suburb of London; he was the third child of Robert and Hannah Sumner Jones. His father was of Welsh extraction; his mother came from a long-estab...

When her first novel, Sie warten auf Antwort (They Are Waiting for an Answer), appeared in 1954, Jeannie Ebner immediately won critical acclaim and was praised as the representative of a reborn Austrian literature. This accolade did not tr...

Edward Dorn, one of the poets that emerged from legendary Black Mountain College in the 1950s, was born in Villa Grove, Illinois. He attended the University of Illinois and Eastern Illinois University before going to Black Mountain in 1951...

Inger Edelfeldt was aptly described by the Swedish writer and critic Göran Hägg in 1990 as "denna märkliga korsning mellan Astrid Lindgren och Franz Kafka" (that remarkable cross between Astrid Lindgren and Franz Kafka). Lik...

Benjamin Edes, one of the most influential political writers and newspaper publishers of the period of the American Revolution, published the Boston Gazette and Country Journal for forty-three years with his partner, John Gill. The Gazette...

Edgar Ansel Mowrer was born on 8 March 1892 in Bloomington, Illinois, to Rufus and Nell Scott Mowrer. He was the younger brother of Paul Scott Mowrer, the first Pulitzer Prize winner for foreign correspondence. As Edgar recalled the relati...

Born in New York City, Edgar Pangborn studied at Harvard from 1924 to 1926 before proceeding to the New England Conservatory of Music in 1927. After farming in Maine, he settled in Voorheesville, New York, with his sister Mary, where he li...

A leading exponent of American Personalism, Edgar Sheffield Brightman (1884-1953) was an eminent philosopher of religion. His provocative idea of a God limited in power was a unique effort to solve the problem of suffering and evil. Born i...

The name Edgar Wallace too often suggests the sensational thriller, with dark deeds on darker nights, which is easily parodied or dismissed. What is overlooked is the fact that this prodigious writer was one of the most popular writers of ...

The reputation of Edgell Rickword as poet has been overshadowed to some extent by his better-known achievements as critic and editor. It has been limited too, no doubt, by the relative shortness of his poetry-writing career. His first coll...

Although the classification is difficult and imprecise, the first Chinese American writer to publish fiction and journalism is conventionally understood to be Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton). At a time when few other writers of Asian ances...