"Learning from the Indian," Viva: Northern New Mexico's Sunday Magazine (9 July 1972): 2; "Figments of Sancho Panza's Imagination," Viva: Northern New Mexico's Sunday Magazine (31 December 1972): 2; "Finding a Need for Nature," Viva: North...

Franz Nabl wrote some of his major works at a time when Arthur Schnitzler, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Hermann Bahr dominated the Austrian literary scene. In contrast with the impressionism of these contemporaries, he is rooted in the tradi...

Nadine Gordimer (born 1923) was the Nobel Prize-winning author of short stories and novels reflecting the disintegration of South African society. While her early works were in the tradition of liberal South African whites opposed to apart...

Nagai Kafu wrote many poetic essays as well as stories that, although infused with realism, retain their lyricism. He battled the coarseness of the world around him through the way he chose to live, continually at odds with the modernizati...

Though one of the less heralded from the Silver Age canon of authors, Evdokiia Nagrodskaia in fact merits special acclaim. Through her novels, short stories, and screenplays, she brought complex philosophies and aesthetics to a middlebrow ...

Ben no Naishi's contribution to the medieval literary corpus is the poetic memoir Ben no Naishi nikki (1246-1252), a record of events that occurred during the thirteen years she served as a personal attendant to the child emperor Go-Fukaku...

Nakagami Kenji was one of the most prolific writers of contemporary Japan. Coming from a blue-collar background and with neither college degree nor specialized training, he belonged to the tradition of writers such as Minakami Tsutomu and ...

Unlike most contemporary Quebec writers, Naim Kattan was not born in Quebec, but his cultural heritage, that of the Jewish minority in an Arab country, has made him particularly sensitive to the problems and aspirations of the French-speak...

Nancy Cunard was an important and notoriously bohemian figure in avant-garde literary, artistic, and political circles from 1916 on and throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Between 1928 and 1931 she operated the Hours Press in La Chapelle-R&eac...

Naomi James was the first woman to sail around the globe single-handedly. In June 1978, on her fifty-three-foot sloop Express Crusader, she completed her voyage after 272 days at sea, shaving two days off the record Sir Francis Chichester ...

During her long and creative life Naomi Mitchison has achieved a remarkable reconciliation between the practical everyday world and the realms of myth, remote cultures, and history. At the age of sixty she began to write about the future w...

In order to dissect the body politic, Naomi Wallace writes plays about the politics of the body. She emerged in the 1990s, first in England and later in the United States, as a poet-turned-playwright with a fierce commitment to examining i...

Valeriia Narbikova belongs to the generation of young writers whose literary debuts took place during the last years of the Soviet Union. As Soviet society was undergoing complex social, cultural, and political changes under perestroika, o...

Although no less an authority than Vissarion Grigor'evich Belinsky acknowledged him to be Russia's "first" novelist, Narezhny has been given remarkably little credit for the important pioneering role he played in the development of the nov...

The annals of medieval German literature include virtually no woman writer who composed secular works--although there were many religious women writers, such as Mechthild von Magdeburg and Gertrud the Great. This situation changed in the f...

Italian novelist, essayist, playwright, and translator, Natalia Ginzburg (née Levi; 1916-1991) was famous for her portraits of family life and for her spare style. Natalia Ginzburg was born in Palermo in 1916, the daughter of Guisep...

Nathalie Sarraute (1900-1999) was one of the seminal figures in the emergence of France's "Nouveau Roman" ("New Novel") in the 1950s. Her work included not only novels but also plays and influential essays on literary theory. Nathalie Tche...

Born in New York City, Robert Gruntal Nathan was the son of Harold Nathan and Sarah Gruntal Nathan. He was also the lineal descendant of Rabbi Gershom Seixas, one of the founders of King's College (now Columbia University) and an official ...

Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (6 September 1784-26 August 1851), though by profession a jurist and professor of law and philosophy of government at the College of William and Mary, is remembered rather for his avocation as novelist. Born at Ma...

Nathan Field, actor, writer of two plays unassisted, and collaborator in at least six others, was chiefly known and highly praised by his contemporaries for his acting. He most likely played John Littlewit in Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair,...

One of the three leading tragedians of his day, Nathaniel Lee, as J. M. Armistead observes, led the move away from "awe-inspiring characters and happy endings--typical of tragi-comedies and heroic plays of the 1660s--to the more vulnerable...

The Japanese novelist and essayist Soseki Natsume (1867-1916) was one of the greatest Japanese novelists of the modern period. In his fiction and essays he displays keen psychological insight into the personality of man undergoing the tran...

Although better known for his critical essays and richly textured stories, Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele also addresses his core concerns in his poetry. In "The Revolution of the Aged," a poem featured in The Penguin Book of Southern African V...

A writer solely by virtue of his enormous will to become one, whose output consisted chiefly of letters to his friends, Neal Cassady was one of the people most responsible for the literary and cultural movement known as the Beat Generation...

Larry Neal worked as a critic, poet, folklorist, playwright, filmmaker, editor, teacher, and administrator. His successful blending of these creative expressions, interpenetrated by a determined attempt to render the world meaningful in te...