The old, decaying turn-of-the-century hunting estate known as Flambards lay before twelve-year-old Christina after her long journey. Recently orphaned, the young girl finds herself living in an unfamiliar social world with relatives she do...

Kaik Takeshi was an extraordinary writer who expressed his thoughts with sincerity, discipline, and rigorous honesty. As a leading literary figure from the late 1950s until his death in 1989, he was a prolific novelist, short-story writer,...

In her review of Kaja Silverman's The Threshold of the Visible World (1996), feminist theorist Mieke Bal observed that Silverman "is in the habit of raising questions that remain unanswered, and devoting her next book to them." Silverman's...

James Otis Kaler, a popular and prolific writer of boys' adventure stories in the late nineteenth century, is remembered today as the author of Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus (1881), a work which has gone through some thirty editi...

Kamo no Chmei (or Nagaakira) claims an eminent place in the history of Japanese letters despite his relatively small oeuvre. He was a respected poet at a fairly early age; wrote a valuable treatise on poetry, poetics, and poetic lore; and ...

Yoram Kaniuk has been praised at home and abroad as, in the words of American reviewer Joshua Henkin, "one of Israel's pre-eminent novelists" (The New York Times, 4 June 1989). Kaniuk was born in Tel Aviv on 2 May 1930, one of a generation...

In her fiction Johanna Kaplan explores the Jewish experience in America, especially as it has been lived in New York City. Her concern is with the fully integrated, Americanized generation that grew up in the 1940s and 1950s. Jewishness an...

Vasilii Vasil'evich Kapnist achieved fame with a single masterpiece, the satiric five-act verse comedy Iabeda (Chicanery, 1798). A work of adroit rhymes and ingenious stagecraft, Iabeda continuously attracted audiences into the 1850s, when...

Karel Capek is regarded as the most important Czech writer before World War II. He worked in many capacities: he was a man of the theater, a translator, a journalist, an essayist, a fiction writer, and an organizer of cultural activities. ...

The German-born American psychoanalyst Karen Danielsen Horney (1885-1952) was a pioneer of neo-Freudianism. She believed that every human being has an innate drive toward self-realization and that neurosis is essentially a process obstruct...

While the Nobel Prize in literature in most instances confirms the career of an author already prominent, in the case of Karl Gjellerup it marked the end of a lifelong struggle for artistic recognition. In spite of his prolific output in m...

Although Karl Emil Franzos has been largely forgotten, during the last two decades of his life he was an imposing figure on the Austro-German and central European literary scenes. His novellas, novels, and travelogues were translated into ...

Karl Kraus, widely regarded as one of the greatest satirists of the twentieth century, was primarily a prose writer who produced thousands of critical essays and aphorisms. He also wrote a considerable amount of poetry that was collected i...

The German philosopher, radical economist, and revolutionary leader Karl Marx (1818-1883) founded modern "scientific" socialism. His basic ideas--known as Marxism--form the foundation of socialist and communist movements throughout the wor...

Hardly any eighteenth-century German writer was as confusingly prolific as Karl Philipp Moritz, the author of novels; poems-he was one of the few Germans to be praised by Frederick II for his poetry; a playlet; psychological and moral work...

In an essay first published in The Writer's Experience (1964) Karl Shapiro recalled a woman who came up to him just before a lecture he was about to give on anarchism and said crisply: "I don't believe a word you are going to say, and I do...

Karl Wilhelm Ramler is one of the background figures on the literary stage of eighteenth-century Germany. He is known as a fine poetic craftsman, an editor and anthologist, a translator of Horace, and a composer of heroic odes in praise of...

Anna Louisa Karsch, called "die Karschin" and "die deutsche Sappho" (the German Sappho) by her contemporaries, received international acclaim during her lifetime and was viewed as a social and intellectual phenomenon. Born near Schwiebus, ...

Marie Luise Kaschnitz is one of the few women writers to have received considerable respect from the predominantly male West German critical establishment: she was the only woman Horst Bienek apparently thought worthy of including in his 1...

Post--World War II Croatian poetry finds its roots in the works of two poets: Jure Kastelan and Vesna Parun. These two writers broke with the prewar generation and set the stage for what was to come--a freer, more flexible poetic expressio...

Kate Atkinson gained sudden prominence as an important contemporary British novelist when her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the prestigious Whitbread Book of the Year Award in 1995, overcoming formidable competition tha...

Kate Douglas Wiggin, who is remembered for her achievement in writing children's books and popular sentimental novels for adults, for helping to establish the first free kindergarten west of the Rockies, and for spending many years in the ...

Author and sculptor Kate Millett (born 1934) was one of the leading theorists of the feminist movement of the second half of the 20th century. Katherine Murray Millett was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 14, 1934, the second of t...

Once known as the "first lady of American socialism," Kate Richards O'Hare embodies the rise and fall of socialist publishing and organizing in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. She was a powerful orator, a prolific w...

In the history of Russian culture it would be difficult to find a figure more enigmatic than Pavel Katenin. A member of a secret revolutionary society, the Soiuz Spaseniia (Union of Salvation), he remained a "Decembrist without December," ...