Known for his blend of black humor and slightly off-kilter characters, T. Coraghessan Boyle has garnered a reputation for inserting verbal pyrotechnics and a bizarre mix of subjects in his novels and story collections. Boyle finds humor an...

The British soldier and author Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888-1935), known as Lawrence of Arabia, coordinated the Arab Revolt against the Turks with British military operations. He became a legendary figure, and it is difficult to assess his...

A pioneering political journalist, T. H. White (1915-1986) gained prominence for his indepth coverage of American political campaigns. His book The Making of the President--1960 helped to alter the style and character of presidential campa...

T. M. Aluko is one of the most productive, though most undervalued, of modern Nigerian novelists, and his seven novels offer a distinctive insight into Nigerian society during the middle decades of the twentieth century. As early as the 19...

Joseph-Charles Taché was one of the most vigorous founders of the Patriotic School of Quebec, the literary movement which transformed writing from a sporadic occurrence into a distinctive French-Canadian tradition. His activities ex...

Cornelius Tacitus was perhaps the greatest historian that the Roman world produced. Though his Annales (Annals, after A.D. 116) and Historiae (Histories, ca. A.D. 100-110) are among the most remarkable works of Latin prose, their extraordi...

Tadeusz Konwicki belongs to that group of prominent contemporary Polish writers who since the early 1970s have gained unprecedented popularity abroad. With his works widely read in both Europe and America, Konwicki's success is mainly owin...

Pia Tafdrup is one of the finest Danish poets of the 1980s and 1990s. Her poetry collections have inspired readers and critics in Denmark and Scandinavia as well as at poetry festivals and readings all over the world. From London, Toronto,...

Although Genevieve Taggard's poetry was well known in her time to both literary and popular audiences, her work as a poet is now largely forgotten, and she is best known as the author of The Life and Mind of Emily Dickinson (1930). A passi...

Dimitur Talev is one of the most significant Bulgarian novelists in the years after World War II, a writer who provided a profound and many-sided portrait of the Macedonian people by evoking their complex and tragic history, their way of l...

In her first published book (1982), a study of John Updike's erotic fictional heroes, Elizabeth Tallent comments that "any rhythm is, at some level, an attempt to stave off uncertainty, to fortify oneself against those things in the world ...

Tama Janowitz's collection of short stories, Slaves of New York (1986), thrust her into the celebrity spotlight. Prior to its publication she had written one book, American Dad (1981), which received little critical attention. The appearan...

Dezso Tandori is one of the most original voices within contemporary Hungarian literature. His works include poems, novels, detective fiction, children's books, and essays on literature and the fine arts. Responsible for initiating a parad...

Tankred Dorst is a West German author who presents various aspects of postwar German society in his novels and in his plays, many of which have been shown on German television. He has also adapted works by Denis Diderot, Thomas Dekker, Lud...

Daniel Taradash's gifts are adaptation and adaptability. He has over fifteen screenplays to his credit, and all but two were first stories, novels, or plays written by others. There is no one style or sort of film with which he is identifi...

Barry Targan has published a significant body of distinguished fiction. His first novel, Kingdoms (1980), won the Associated Writing Programs Award in the Novel, and Surviving Adverse Seasons (1979), a collection of short fiction, received...

Booth Tarkington , novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, best known for his fiction depicting middle-class life in the American Midwest during the early decades of the twentieth century, was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the son o...

Veno Taufer is one of the founders of Slovene literary modernism, which began flourishing in the 1950s and the 1960s; he is also a precursor of postmodernism. He is a persistent innovator who has cultivated an intellectual, hermetic poetic...

Ivan Tavcar was born on 28 August 1851 in the village of Poljane, located in a scenic farming valley near the medieval town of Skofja Loka in the province of Carniola. This region of steep hills dominated by Mount Blegos is the setting for...

Bert Leston Taylor began writing a humorous column for the Chicago Journal in 1899. The column soon moved to the Tribune, where it attracted a large and devoted audience. Among newspaper people, especially in Chicago, his initials--B. L. T...

Henry Splawn Taylor was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, to Thomas Edward and Mary Splawn Taylor. His father owned and operated a large family farm and was an educator, a high school principal, as well. Taylor attended the Loudoun County ...

Edwin Way Teale can be credited with introducing nature writing to many Americans of the mid twentieth century. He appeared on television as spokesman for the environment and environmental writing, and he was known as a kind of neighborhoo...

Musician, surrealist painter (he was hailed by André Breton as the "only Afro-American surrealist"), world traveler, and poet, Ted Joans has been curiously neglected by many standard anthologies of both American and Afro-American li...

The subjects and imagery of Ted Kooser's poetry unmistakably bear the influence of his environment, the Great Plains, but Kooser insists he is not a regionalist writer. However, until the University of Pittsburgh Press published Sure Signs...

Great Britain has a long tradition of fantasy and science fiction, but for most of British literary history these have been (and continue to be) categories in which authors work who are not necessarily defined (by themselves or others) as ...