Bodo Uhse's career as a writer was marked by the rise of National Socialism in Germany; by exile in France, Spain, the United States, and Mexico; and by the division of postwar Germany into two political and cultural entities. While Uhse w...

Julio G. Arce, who wrote as Jorge Ulica, was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco. He was the son of a prominent surgeon, Fortunato G. Arce. Although he studied pharmacy he had a preference for journalism. He founded two student newspapers, El hij...

B. George Ulizio's copy of the first edition of Sister Carrie (1900) bears Theodore Dreiser's inscription citing the collector's "vigorous and forthright approach to life." Dreiser indulged in understatement. Ulizio's capacity to dominate ...

Ulrich Plenzdorf suddenly became a household name in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1972-1973, the years during which his Die neuen Leiden des jungen W. (1973; translated as The New Sufferings of Young W., 1979) was produced on se...

Ulrich von Liechtenstein is by far the best-documented author of the high courtly period of medieval German literature. What is known about his life, however, seems not at all compatible with what one learns about him from his work. His ma...

Ambiguity or duality could be the dominant character of Umberto Saba's life and poetry. Even in his concept of a poet (stated in Scorciatoie e raccontini [Shortcuts and Small Tales. 1946]) Saba posits a duality of child/man, ever present a...

Uno Chiyo's career spanned four imperial eras, more than seventy years. Celebrated in her youth as a daring Jezebel, she came to be recognized in her later years for the skillful crafting and evocative depth of her narratives. Her stories ...

John Boyd was born Boyd Bradfield Upchurch in Atlanta, Georgia. Commissioned into the U.S. Navy in 1940, he served in the Philippines, Russia, Japan, and England. On 26 January 1944 he married Fern Gillaspy, and he took a degree in history...

Upton Sinclair was a writer whose main concerns were politics and economics. His ideas about literature—his own, written over more than six decades, and that of others—were inseparable from his dreams of social justice. Consequ...

The writing of Milo Urban has been acknowledged by many literary critics and historians as a unique type of expressionism and the highlight of literary realism. His works are among the most frequently read and published Slovak literature o...

A keen delight in language characterizes the work of Alurista, considered by many the poet laureate of Chicano letters. Possessing a noteworthy agility in English, Spanish, Náhuatl, and Maya, Alurista is equally at ease with both st...

Luis Alberto Urrea made a strong debut in 1993-1994 with two books brought out by mainstream commercial publishers. His sustained naturalism, exciting imagery, and confessional tone appear in a variety of genres, including essays, long and...

In addition to achieving great fame as a poet, José Coronel Urtecho was a prose writer, essayist, playwright, historian, and disseminator of Nicaraguan culture. His work is extensive, although much of it remains uncollected in book ...

Gleb Uspensky was highly politicized during the Soviet era as Vladimir Lenin's favorite narodnik (Populist), but in the West and in post-Soviet Russia he is one of the most neglected and least studied nineteenth-century Russian Realist wri...

When Mutmaßungen uber Jakob (translated as Speculations about Jakob, 1963), Uwe Johnson's first published novel, appeared in 1959, Johnson immediately became one of the most discussed and most controversial German authors. The novel ...