People Profiles Completed, December 2005

A. R. Gurney; profile by Arvid Sponberg, Valparaiso University, Indiana
A. S. Byatt; profile by Richard Todd, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Abraham Cowley; profile by Robert Cummings, University of Glasgow
Abraham Lincoln; profile by Christopher Hager, Northwestern University
Achy Obejas; profile by Marta Caminero-Santangelo, University of Kansas
Adalbert Stifter; profile by Catriona Macleod, University of Pennsylvania
Adam Smith; profile by David Williams, University of Sheffield
Aelfric; profile by Stuart Lee, University of Oxford
Aemilia Lanyer; profile by Susanne Woods, Wheaton College
Aeschylus; profile by John Lewis, Ashland University
Agatha Christie; profile by Chris Willis, London Metropolitan University
Agha Shahid Ali; profile by Muneeza Shamsie, Independent scholar
Ahmed Ali; profile by Muneeza Shamsie, Independent scholar
Alan Duff; profile by Otto Heim, University of Hong Kong
Alan Garner; profile by Charles Butler, University of the West of England
Alan Moore; profile by Bernice Murphy, Trinity College, Dublin
Albert Einstein; profile by Robert Clark, University of East Anglia
Albert Frederick Pollard; profile by Mark Nixon, University of Stirling
Albert Wendt; profile by Paul Sharrad, University of Wollongong
Aldous Huxley; profile by Joe Nordgren, Lamar University
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin; profile by A.D.P. Briggs, University of Bristol
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; profile by Robert Porter, University of Glasgow
Alexander Gray; profile by J. Derrick McClure, University of Aberdeen
Alexander Kanengoni; profile by Ranka Primorac, University of New York in London
Alexander Kanengoni; profile by Ranka Primorac, University of New York in London
Alexander of Hales; profile by Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona
Alexander Pope; profile by I. R. F. Gordon, Emeritus Anglia Polytechnic University
Alexander Scott; profile by J. Derrick McClure, University of Aberdeen
Alexis de Toqueville; profile by Maire F. Cross, University of Sheffield
Alfred Doblin; profile by Juan-Fadrique Fernández, University of Seville
Alfred Domett; profile by Jenny Robin Jones, Independent Scholar
Alfred Hitchcock; profile by Charles Barr, University of East Anglia
Alfred, Lord Tennyson; profile by Marion Shaw, Loughborough University
Algernon Charles Swinburne; profile by Margot Louis, University of Victoria, British Columbia
Alice Childress; profile by Terry Novak, Johnson & Wales University
Alice Munro; profile by Robert James McGill, University of East Anglia
Alice Walker; profile by Yvonne Johnson, Central Missouri State University
Alistair MacLean; profile by Chris Willis, London Metropolitan University
Alistair MacLeod; profile by Colin Nicholson, University of Edinburgh
Allegra Goodman; profile by Ranen Omer-Sherman, University of Miami
Allen Curnow; profile by Mark Williams, University of Canterbury, NZ
Allen Ginsberg; profile by Alastair Wisker, Ruskin College
Alyse Gregory; profile by Barbara Ozieblo, University of Malaga
Ama Ata Aidoo; profile by Femi Nzegwu, Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies, Dakar
Ambrose Bierce; profile by Herbie Butterfield, University of Essex
Amitav Ghosh; profile by John Thieme, South Bank University
Amy Clampitt; profile by Celeste Goodridge, Bowdoin College
Amy Tan; profile by Bella Adams, University of Sunderland
An Collins; profile by W. Scott Howard, University of Denver
Anatolii Gladilin; profile by Boris Lanin, Russian Academy of Education, Moscow
Andre Brink; profile by Sue Kossew, University of New South Wales
Andre Dubus; profile by Elizabeth Grubgeld, Oklahoma State University
Andrei Platonov; profile by Philip Ross Bullock, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London
Andrei Siniavsky; profile by Neil Cornwell, University of Bristol
Andrei Voznesensky; profile by Michael Pushkin, University of Birmingham
Andrew Marvell; profile by Claire Warwick, University College London
Angela Carter; profile by Linden Peach, University of Gloucestershire
Angus Shaw; profile by Ranka Primorac, University of New York in London and Stephen Chan, SOAS
Ann Petry; profile by A. Yemisi Jimoh, University of Arkansas
Ann-Marie MacDonald; profile by Shelley Scott, University of Lethbridge
Anna Barbauld; profile by Mary Waters, University of California, Davis
Anna Seghers; profile by Jean E. Godsall-Myers, Widener University and Jennifer Marston William, Purdue University
Anna Seward; profile by Harriet Jump, Edge Hill
Anne Carson; profile by Ian Rae, University of British Columbia
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea; profile by Jennifer Donald, University of Glasgow
Anne Grant; profile by Pam Perkins, University of Manitoba
Anne Michaels; profile by Marita Grimwood, University of Newcastle
Anne Rice; profile by Gwendolyn Morgan, Montana State University
Anne Tyler; profile by Cecilia Donohue, Madonna University
Annie Proulx; profile by Aliki Varvogli, University of Dundee
Anthony Burgess; profile by Rob Spence, Edge Hill College of Education
Anthony Trollope; profile by Andrew Maunder, University of Hertfordshire
Anton Chekhov; profile by John Reid, University of the West of England
Antonia White; profile by Louise Harrington, Cardiff University
Aphra Behn; profile by Jennifer Donald, University of Glasgow
Apirana Taylor; profile by Otto Heim, University of Hong Kong
Aristotle; profile by John Phillips, National University of Singapore
Arnold Bennett; profile by Neil Cartlidge, University College Dublin
Arnold Wesker; profile by Anne Etienne, University College Cork
Arthur Hugh Clough; profile by Jane Wright, University of Leeds
Arthur Kenneth Nortje; profile by Craig McLuckie and Ross Tyner, Okanagan University College
Arthur Schnitzler; profile by Petra Rau, University of Portsmouth
Arthur Schopenhauer; profile by Rodney F. Taylor, Truman State University
Arthur Young; profile by The Editors
Arun Joshi; profile by Pier Paolo Piciucco, University of Turin
Asser; profile by Gabriella Corona, University of York
Athol Fugard; profile by Craig McLuckie, Okanagan University College
Attia Hosain; profile by Muneeza Shamsie, Independent scholar
August von Kotzebue; profile by John Osborne, University of Warwick
Augustine of Canterbury; profile by Hugh Magennis, Queen's University Belfast
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet; profile by David Rachels, Virginia Military Institute
Ayn Rand; profile by John Lewis, Ashland University
B. S. Johnson; profile by Phil Tew, University of Central England
Bapsi Sidhwa; profile by Muneeza Shamsie, Independent scholar
Barbara Frischmuth; profile by Pamela S. Saur, Lamar University
Barbara Gowdy; profile by Dana Medoro, University of Manitoba
Barbara Kingsolver; profile by Kimberly Koza, Central College, Iowa
Barry Unsworth; profile by Nicolas Tredell, University of Sussex
Basil Bunting; profile by Glyn Pursglove, University College of Wales, Swansea
Bede; profile by Scott De Gregorio, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Ben Jonson; profile by Matthew Steggle, Sheffield Hallam University
Ben Okri; profile by Robert Fraser, Open University
Benedictus de Spinoza; profile by Rodney F. Taylor, Truman State University
Benjamin Britten; profile by Jeremy Tambling, University of Hong Kong
Benjamin Disraeli; profile by Marjorie Bloy, Independent Scholar
Benjamin Franklin; profile by Alberto Lena, University of Exeter
Bernadette Mayer; profile by Rodney Phillips, Librarian, University of Arizona Poetry Center
Bernard de Mandeville; profile by E. J. Hundert
Bernard MacLaverty; profile by Liam Harte, University of Manchester
Bertolt Brecht; profile by Steven W. Lawrie, University of Aberdeen
Bessie Head; profile by Hershini Bhana, University of California Riverside
Betty Lambert; profile by Rosalind Kerr, University of Alberta
Biyi Bandele; profile by Thomas Martinek, University of Vienna
Blaise Pascal; profile by The Editors
Bliss Carman; profile by Thomas Hodd, University of Ottawa
Bob Dylan; profile by Richard Marggraf Turley, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Boris Pasternak; profile by Neil Cornwell, University of Bristol
Bram Stoker; profile by Valerie Pedlar, Open University
Brander Matthews; profile by Lawrence Oliver, University of Texas A & M
Bret Harte; profile by Axel Nissen, University of Oslo
Bruce Chatwin; profile by Richard Utz, University of Northern Iowa
Buchi Emecheta; profile by Femi Nzegwu, Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies, Dakar
Byrhtferth of Ramsey; profile by Stewart Brookes, King’s College
C. K. Ogden; profile by The Editors
C. K. Stead; profile by Allan Phillipson, Workers’ Educational Association
C. S. Forester; profile by Sanford Sternlicht, Syracuse University
C. S. Lewis; profile by Peter Schakel, Hope College
Caedmon; profile by Paul Cavill, University of Nottingham
Calixthe Beyala; profile by Claudia Martinek, University of Cergy-Pontoise, University of Vienna
Capability Brown; profile by Caroline Holmes, Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge
Captain James Cook; profile by Carol Percy, University of Toronto
Caradoc Evans; profile by Chris Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University
Carl Gustav Jung; profile by James Patrick Carney, University College Cork
Carl Muller; profile by Charles Sarvan, University of Bahrain
Carlo Goldoni; profile by Laura Favero Carraro, University of Padua
Carol Ann Duffy; profile by Angelica Michelis, Manchester Metropolitan University
Carol Bolt; profile by Shelley Scott, University of Lethbridge
Carol Shields; profile by Wendy Roy, University of Saskatchewan
Caroline M. Kirkland; profile by Nancy A. Walker, Vanderbilt University
Carson McCullers; profile by Sue B. Walker, University of South Alabama
Caryl Churchill; profile by Elaine Aston, Lancaster University
Caryl Phillips; profile by Paul Smethurst, Hong Kong University
Catharine Maria Sedgwick; profile by Jenifer Elmore, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University
Catharine Parr Traill; profile by Shelley Boyd, McGill University
Catharine Trotter; profile by Anne Kelley, Independent Scholar
Catherine Lim; profile by Amy Lai, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Catullus; profile by Mandy Green, University of Durham
Cecil Sharp; profile by David Atkinson, Independent Scholar
Cesar Franck; profile by Mark E. Bell, Lake Erie College
Cesare Beccaria; profile by the Editors
Chang-rae Lee; profile by The Editors
Charlemagne; profile by Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona
Charles Baudelaire; profile by Barbara Wright, Trinity College Dublin
Charles Bukowski; profile by Gary Blohm, Independent Scholar
Charles Darwin; profile by Francis O'Gorman, University of Leeds
Charles Dickens; profile by Grahame Smith, University of Stirling
Charles F. Lummis; profile by Robert E. Fleming, University of New Mexico
Charles Harding Firth; profile by Mark Nixon, University of Stirling
Charles Kingsley; profile by Robert Fraser, Open University
Charles Lamb; profile by Joseph Riehl, University of Louisiana
Charles Mungoshi; profile by Ranka Primorac, University of New York in London
Charles Murray; profile by J. Derrick McClure, University of Aberdeen
Charles Reznikoff; profile by Ranen Omer-Sherman, University of Miami
Charles-Louis de Secondat Montesquieu; profile by David Williams, University of Sheffield
Charlotte Bronte; profile by Judy Giles, College of Ripon and York
Charlotte Lennox; profile by Amanda Gilroy, University of Groningen
Charlotte Perkins Gilman; profile by Denise Knight, State University of New York, Cortland
Charlotte Smith; profile by Antje Blank, University of Glasgow
Charlotte Yonge; profile by Ellen Jordan, Newcastle University, Australia
Charmian Clift; profile by Karen Brooks, University of the Sunshine Coast
Cheikh Anta Diop; profile by Herbert Ekwe Ekwe, Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies, Dakar
Chenjerai Hove; profile by Ranka Primorac, University of New York in London
Chinua Achebe; profile by Herbert Ekwe Ekwe, Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies, Dakar
Chitra Fernando; profile by Yasmine Gooneratne, Emeritus Professor, Macquarie University, NSW
Christina Rossetti; profile by Vanessa Warne, University of Manitoba
Christina Stead; profile by Anna Snaith, Anglia Polytechnic University
Christoph Hein; profile by David Clarke, University of Bath
Christopher Isherwood; profile by James J. Berg, Lake Superior College
Christopher John Koch; profile by Jean-François Vernay, University of New Caledonia, Noumea
Christopher Marlowe; profile by Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University
Christopher Okigbo; profile by Herbert Ekwe Ekwe, Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies, Dakar
Christopher Reid; profile by M. Hunter Hayes, Texas A&M University
Cicely Hamilton; profile by Jean Chothia, University of Cambridge
Claude-Arien Helvetius; profile by Robert Clark, University of East Anglia
Clemens Brentano; profile by Claudia Stockinger, University of Goettingen
Colette; profile by Alison Fell, University of Lancaster
Conor McPherson; profile by Mark Schreiber, International University Bremen
Conrad Aiken; profile by David Garrett Izzo, Fayetteville State University, North Carolina
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer; profile by Gunter H. Hertling, Professor Emeritus, University of Washington
Constance Fenimore Woolson; profile by Leonardo Buonomo, University of Trieste
Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury; profile by Daniel Floyd, University of Aberdeen
Cotton Mather; profile by Alan J. Silva, Hamline University
Craig Raine; profile by M. Hunter Hayes, Texas A&M University
Cristina Garcia; profile by Marta Caminero-Santangelo, University of Kansas
D. H. Lawrence; profile by Ivan Phillips, University of Hertfordshire
D. M. Thomas; profile by Bran Nicol, University College Chichester
Dambudzo Marechera; profile by Ranka Primorac, University of New York in London
Dame Daphne Du Maurier; profile by Sue Zlosnik, Manchester Metropolitan University and Avril Horner, Kingston University
Dame Edith Sitwell; profile by Richard Greene, University of Toronto
Dame Muriel Spark; profile by Val Scullion, Open University
Damien Wilkins; profile by Tim Corballis, Independent Scholar
Daniel Defoe; profile by Robert Clark, University of East Anglia
Daniil Kharms; profile by Neil Cornwell, University of Bristol
Dashiell Hammett; profile by Lee Horsley, University of Lancaster
David Ballantyne; profile by Bryan Reid, Independent Scholar
David Bradley; profile by Helen Lock, University of Louisiana
David Fennario; profile by Robert Nunn, Brock University
David Foster; profile by Narelle Shaw, University of Tasmania
David Friedrich Strauss; profile by Marion Spies, Bergische Universität-GHS Wuppertal
David Hare; profile by Aleks Sierz, Independent Scholar
David Hume; profile by Robert Mankin, Université de Paris VII
David Jones; profile by Christine Pagnoulle, Université de Liège
David Lodge; profile by Merritt Moseley, University of North Carolina
David Unaipon; profile by Benjamin Miller, University of New South Wales
Delmore Schwartz; profile by Stephen Hahn, William Paterson University
Denis Diderot; profile by David J. Adams, Manchester University
Denise Giardina; profile by Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt, Shepherd College
Dennis Cooley; profile by Craig Mcluckie and Alexis Ratz, Okanagan University College
Dennis Vincent Brutus; profile by Craig McLuckie, Okanagan University College
Derek Jarman; profile by John Mepham, Kingston University
Derek Walcott; profile by Sarah Fulford, University of Durham
Dinah Craik; profile by Sarah Brown, University of Cambridge
Djuna Barnes; profile by Deborah Parsons, University of Birmingham
Don DeLillo; profile by Stephen Burn, Northern Michigan University
Donald Barthelme; profile by William Warde, University of North Texas
Donna Tartt; profile by Lindsay Sullivan, Cardiff University
Doris Lessing; profile by Val Scullion, Open University
Dorothy L. Sayers; profile by Chris Willis, London Metropolitan University
Dorothy Livesay; profile by Peggy Kelly, University of Ottawa
Dorothy Osborne; profile by Kenneth Parker, (Emeritus) University of East London
Dorothy Richardson; profile by Zoë Kinsley, Liverpool Hope University College
Dorothy West; profile by A. Yemisi Jimoh, University of Arkansas
Dorothy Wordsworth; profile by John R WIlliams, University of Greenwich
Douglas Oliver; profile by Paul March-Russell, Kent University
Douglas Young; profile by J. Derrick McClure, University of Aberdeen
Duncan Campbell Scott; profile by Shelley Hulan, University of Waterloo
Dylan Thomas; profile by Ivan Phillips, University of Hertfordshire
E. D. Morel; profile by Robert Clark, University of East Anglia
e. e. cummings; profile by Misty McGinnis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
E. M. Forster; profile by Peter Childs, University of Gloucestershire
E. T. A. Hoffmann; profile by Petra Rau, University of Portsmouth
Ebenezer Cook; profile by Richard J. Ring, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University
Ed Dorn; profile by Alastair Wisker, Ruskin College
Ed McBain; profile by The Editors
Edith Wharton; profile by Claire Preston, University of Cambridge
Edmond Halley; profile by The Editors
Edmund Blunden; profile by Carol Acton, St Jerome's University
Edmund Burke; profile by David Williams, University of Sheffield
Edmund Curll; profile by Peter Heaney, Staffordshire University
Edmund Husserl; profile by Roy Elveton, Carleton College
Edmund Spenser; profile by Matthew Woodcock, University of East Anglia
Edmund Waller; profile by Glyn Pursglove, University College of Wales, Swansea
Edmund White; profile by Tony Purvis, University of Sunderland
Edna St Vincent Millay; profile by Joel Van Valin, Independent Scholar
Eduard Limonov; profile by Andrei Rogatchevski, University of Glasgow
Eduard Morike; profile by Raleigh Whitinger, University of Alberta
Edward Albee; profile by Lincoln Konkle, The College of New Jersey
Edward Alleyn; profile by The Editors
Edward Augustus Freeman; profile by Mark Nixon, University of Stirling
Edward Bond; profile by Anthony Vivis, University of East Anglia
Edward Bulwer-Lytton; profile by Juliet John, University of Liverpool
Edward Dahlberg; profile by Herbie Butterfield, University of Essex
Edward Gibbon; profile by Robert Mankin, Université de Paris VII
Edward Lear; profile by James Williams, University of Cambridge
Edward Pusey; profile by Marion Spies, Bergische Universität-GHS Wuppertal
Edward Said; profile by Bill Ashcroft, University of New South Wales
Edward Taylor; profile by Jane D. Eberwein, Oakland University
Edward Tregear; profile by Kerry Howe, Massey University
Edward Ward; profile by Alison O’Byrne, University of York
Edwin Morgan; profile by Colin Nicholson, University of Edinburgh
Edwin Thumboo; profile by Chitra Sankaran, National University of Singapore
Elfriede Jelinek; profile by Linda C. DeMeritt, Allegheny College
Elias Canetti; profile by Dagmar C. G. Lorenz, University of Illinois at Chicago
Elinor Glyn; profile by Louise Harrington, Cardiff University
Eliza Fletcher; profile by Dorothy McMillan, University of Glasgow
Elizabeth Barrett Browning; profile by Mary Pollock, Stetson University
Elizabeth Bowen; profile by Petra Rau, University of Portsmouth
Elizabeth Carter; profile by Judith Hawley, Royal Holloway University of London
Elizabeth Gaskell; profile by Josie Billington, University of Liverpool
Elizabeth Hamilton; profile by Pam Perkins, University of Manitoba
Elizabeth Inchbald; profile by Mary Waters, University of California, Davis
Elizabeth Melville; profile by Deanna Evans, Bemidji State University
Elizabeth Montagu; profile by Natasha Aleksiuk Duquette, Taylor University College
Elizabeth Moody; profile by Mary Waters, University of California, Davis
Elizabeth Robins; profile by Sowon Park, University of Cambridge
Elizabeth Smart; profile by Andrew Lesk, University of Toronto
Ellen Glasgow; profile by Catherine Rainwater, St. Edward's University
Else Lasker-Schuler; profile by Nina Berman, Ohio State University
Emily Bronte; profile by Steven Vine, University of Swansea
Emily Carr; profile by Angela Smith, University of Stirling
Emily Dickinson; profile by Margaret H. Freeman, Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts
Emma Lazarus; profile by Ranen Omer-Sherman, University of Miami
Emma Tennant; profile by Gina Wisker, Anglia Polytechnic University
Emmanuel Levinas; profile by Emily Brooker Langston, St John’s College, Annapolis
Enda Walsh; profile by Mark Schreiber, International University Bremen
Erasmus Darwin; profile by Matthew J. A. Green, University of Nottingham
Eric Ambler; profile by R. Gordon Kelly, University of Maryland
Erich Fried; profile by Steven W. Lawrie, University of Aberdeen
Erich Fromm; profile by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
Erich Maria Remarque; profile by Alfred D. White, University of Cardiff
Ernest Buckler; profile by Andrew Lesk, University of Toronto
Ernest Hemingway; profile by Robert E. Fleming, University of New Mexico
Ernst Cassirer; profile by Roger Stephenson, Paul Bishop, Stephanie Hoelscher, University of Glasgow
Ernst Junger; profile by Marcus Bullock, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Errol Hill; profile by The Editors
Ethel Smyth; profile by Val Scullion, Open University
Ethel Wilson; profile by Peggy Martin, University of Saskatchewan
Eudora Welty; profile by Carol Ann Johnston, Dickinson College
Eugene O'Neill; profile by Jean Chothia, University of Cambridge
Eugenia Stanhope; profile by Christopher Mayo, Adelphi University
Evelyn Waugh; profile by Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex
Evgenii Evtushenko; profile by Michael Pursglove, formerly University of Bath
Evgenii Popov; profile by David Gillespie, University of Bath
Ezra Pound; profile by Peter Wilson, London Metropolitan University
F. S. Flint; profile by The Editors
F. Scott Fitzgerald; profile by Anne M Daniel, Princeton University
F. W. J. Schelling; profile by Joseph P. Lawrence, College of the Holy Cross
Farrukh Dhondy; profile by Florence Dsouza, University of Lille III
Ferdinand Raimund; profile by Pamela S. Saur, Lamar University
Ferrol Sams; profile by Steven Zani, Lamar University
Finley Peter Dunne; profile by John Lowe, Louisiana State University
Flann O'Brien; profile by Carol Taaffe, Trinity College Dublin
Flannery O'Connor; profile by Robert James McGill, University of East Anglia
Flora Nwapa; profile by Femi Nzegwu, Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies, Dakar
Florence Nightingale; profile by Janet Todd, University of Aberdeen
Ford Madox Ford; profile by Sara Haslam, Open University
Frances Brooke; profile by Laura Moss, University of British Columbia
Frances Burney; profile by Justine Crump, King's College, Cambridge
Frances Harper; profile by Terry Novak, Johnson & Wales University
Frances Power Cobbe; profile by Marion Spies, Bergische Universität-GHS Wuppertal
Frances Sheridan; profile by Conrad Brunstrom, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Francesco Algarotti; profile by Laura Favero Carraro, University of Padua
Francesco Petrarch; profile by Gerhart Hoffmeister, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara
Francis Bacon; profile by Julie Robin Solomon, American University
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher; profile by Sandra Clark, Birkbeck College, University of London
Francis Hutcheson; profile by Daniel Floyd, University of Aberdeen
Francois Rabelais; profile by Max Gauna, University of Sheffield
Francoise Loranger; profile by Louise Forsyth, University of Saskatchewan
Frank Marshall Davis; profile by John Edgar Tidwell, University of Kansas
Frank Norris; profile by Jude Davies, King Aflred's College
Frank O'Hara; profile by Daniel Kane, University of East Anglia
Franz Fuhmann; profile by Dennis Tate, University of Bath
Franz Grillparzer; profile by Dagmar C. G. Lorenz , University of Illinois at Chicago
Franz Kafka; profile by William J. Dodd, University of Birmingham
Franz Werfel; profile by Marc J. Schweissinger, University of Cardiff
Fred Chappell; profile by Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt, Shepherd College
Frederic Harrison; profile by Mark Nixon, University of Stirling
Frederic William Farrar; profile by Marion Spies, Bergische Universität-GHS Wuppertal
Frederic William Maitland; profile by Mark Nixon, University of Stirling
Frederick Albion Ober; profile by Peter Hulme, University of Essex
Frederick Lonsdale; profile by Hélène Catsiapis, Ecole Centrale de Lille
Frederick Philip Grove; profile by Colin Hill, University of Toronto
Frederick the Great; profile by Gerhart Hoffmeister, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara
Frederick William Faber; profile by Marion Spies, Bergische Universität-GHS Wuppertal
Frederick York Powell; profile by Mark Nixon, University of Stirling
Friedrich Durrenmatt; profile by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock; profile by Kevin Hilliard, St. Peter's College, Oxford
Friedrich Holderlin; profile by Karin Schutjer, University of Oklahoma
Friedrich Nietzsche; profile by Peter Sedgwick, University of Cardiff
Friedrich Schiller; profile by Steven D. Martinson, University of Arizona
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky; profile by Richard Peace, University of Bristol
G. K. Chesterton; profile by James Bridges, Independent Scholar
G. W. M. Reynolds; profile by Stephen Carver, Fukui University
Gabriel Josipovici; profile by Monika Fludernik, Universitaet Freiburg
Gabrielle Roy; profile by Lorna Hutchison, McGill University and Sophie Marcotte, Concordia University
Gaetano Donizetti; profile by Jeremy Tambling, University of Hong Kong
Gamel Woolsey; profile by Barbara Ozieblo, University of Malaga
Gary Snyder; profile by Patrick D. Murphy, University of Central Florida
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; profile by Stephen Morton, University of Southampton
Geoffrey Chaucer; profile by Gillian Rudd, University of Liverpool
Geoffrey Hill; profile by Andrew M Roberts, University of Dundee
Geoffrey of Monmouth; profile by Judith Weiss, University of Cambridge
Georg Buchner; profile by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
Georg Lukacs; profile by Esther Leslie, Birkbeck College, University of London
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; profile by Patricia Simpson, Montana State University
George Barker; profile by Robert Fraser, Open University
George Bernard Shaw; profile by Jean Chothia, University of Cambridge
George Catlin; profile by Joshua Bellin, La Roche College
George Darley; profile by Michael Bradshaw, Manchester Metropolitan University
George Eliot; profile by Nathan Uglow, Trinity and All Saints, Leeds
George Fitch; profile by David Rachels, Virginia Military Institute
George Gissing; profile by David Grylls, University of Oxford
George Heath; profile by Patrick Regan,
George Henry Borrow; profile by George Hyde, University of East Anglia
George Henry Lewes; profile by Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi, University of East Anglia
George Herbert; profile by David Reid, University of Stirling
George Meredith; profile by Sue Zlosnik, Manchester Metropolitan University
George Moore; profile by Elizabeth Grubgeld, Oklahoma State University
George Orwell; profile by Chris Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University
George Sand; profile by Felicia Gordon, Cambridge
Georges Bataille; profile by Paul Hegarty, University College, Cork
Georges Bizet; profile by Jeremy Tambling, University of Hong Kong
Georgette Heyer; profile by Diana Wallace, University of Glamorgan
Geraldine Jewsbury; profile by Joanne Wilkes, University of Auckland
Gerard Manley Hopkins; profile by Frank Fennell, Jr., Loyola University Chicago
Gerhard Roth; profile by Pamela S. Saur, Lamar University
Gerhart Hauptmann; profile by Raleigh Whitinger, University of Alberta
Gertrud Kolmar; profile by Dagmar C. G. Lorenz , University of Illinois at Chicago
Gertrude Stein; profile by Karen Leick, Northwestern University
Giacomo Puccini; profile by Jeremy Tambling, University of Hong Kong
Gilbert Frankau; profile by Alyson Pendlebury, University of Southampton
Gildas; profile by Hugh Magennis, Queen's University Belfast
Gioacchino Rossini; profile by Jeremy Tambling, University of Hong Kong
Giuseppe Verdi; profile by Jeremy Tambling, University of Hong Kong
Goldwin Smith; profile by Mark Nixon, University of Stirling
Gordon Bottomley; profile by James Bridges, Independent Scholar
Gordon Pinsent; profile by David Gardner, University of Toronto
Gore Vidal; profile by Chris Bryant, Independent Scholar
Gottfried von Strassburg; profile by Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; profile by Pauline Phemister, University of Liverpool
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing; profile by Eva Parra Membrives, University of Seville
Graham Greene; profile by Joe Nordgren, Lamar University
Graham Swift; profile by Wendy Wheeler, University of North London
Grant Allen; profile by Lyssa Randolph, University College Worcester
Gunter de Bruyn; profile by Dennis Tate, University of Bath
Gunter Grass; profile by Sigrid Mayer, Professor Emerita, University of Wyoming
Gustav Mahler; profile by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
Guy de Maupassant; profile by Peter Cogman, University of Southampton
Guy Vanderhaeghe; profile by Sue Sorensen, University of Winnipeg
Gwen Pharis Ringwood; profile by Moira Day, University of Saskatchewan
Gwendolyn Brooks; profile by A. Yemisi Jimoh, University of Arkansas
H. G. Wells; profile by Patrick Parrinder, University of Reading
H.L. Davis; profile by Martin Kich, Wright State University
H. L. Mencken; profile by Karen Leick, Northwestern University
H. P. Lovecraft; profile by Bernice Murphy, Trinity College, Dublin
Hanif Kureishi; profile by Bart Moore-Gilbert, University of London
Hannah Arendt; profile by Kelsey Wood, College of the Holy Cross
Hannah Cowley; profile by Antje Blank, University of Glasgow
Hannah Crafts; profile by R. J. Ellis, Birmingham University
Hans-Georg Gadamer; profile by Kelsey Wood, College of the Holy Cross
Harold Bloom; profile by Graham Allen, University College Cork
Harold Pinter; profile by Andrew Wyllie, University of the West of England
Harriet Martineau; profile by Valerie Sanders, University of Hull
Harriet Wilson; profile by R. J. Ellis, Birmingham University
Harriett Jacobs; profile by Terry Novak, Johnson & Wales University
Harry Crews; profile by Martin Kich, Wright State University
Hart Crane; profile by Ernest J. Smith, University of Central Florida
Hartmann von Aue; profile by Maria Dobozy, University of Utah
Heiner Muller; profile by John Milfull, University of New South Wales
Heinrich Boll; profile by Hannelore G. Mundt, University of Wyoming
Heinrich Heine; profile by Paul Reitter, Ohio State University
Heinrich Mann; profile by Stephen Grollman, Concordia College
Heinrich van Veldeke; profile by Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona
Heinrich von Kleist; profile by William C. Reeve, Queen's University, Canada
Helen Hunt Jackson; profile by Mary Briscoe, University of Pittsburgh
Helen Maria Williams; profile by Natasha Aleksiuk Duquette, Taylor University College
Helene Cixous; profile by Morag Shiach, Queen Mary, University of London
Helga Novak; profile by Amy Kepple Strawser, Otterbein College
Henry Adams; profile by William Merrill Decker, Oklahoma State University
Henry Clay Lewis; profile by Edwin T. Arnold, Appalachian State University
Henry David Thoreau; profile by Richard Schneider, Wartburg College, Iowa
Henry Edward Manning; profile by Marion Spies, Bergische Universität-GHS Wuppertal
Henry Fielding; profile by Thomas R. Cleary, University of Victoria, British Columbia
Henry Green; profile by Elizabeth Barry, University of Warwick
Henry James; profile by Kate Campbell, University of East Anglia
Henry James Sr.; profile by Robert CLark, University of East Anglia
Henry Mackenzie; profile by Jim Owen, Columbus State University
Henry Mayhew; profile by Anne Humpherys, City University of New York
Henry Miller; profile by James M. Decker, Illinois Central College
Henry Morton Stanley; profile by Robert Clark, University of East Anglia
Henry Purcell; profile by Roger Savage, University of Edinburgh
Henry Roth; profile by Stacy Mulder, Ball State University, Davenport University and University of Phoenix
Henry Thomas Buckle; profile by Mark Nixon, University of Stirling
Henry Vaughan; profile by Glyn Pursglove, University College of Wales, Swansea
Henry William Herbert; profile by Stephen E. Meats, Pittsburg State University
Herbert Marcuse; profile by Kelsey Wood, College of the Holy Cross
Herman Melville; profile by A. Robert Lee, Nihon University, Japan
Herman Voaden; profile by Anton Wagner, York University, Canada
Hermann Broch; profile by Paul Michael Lützeler, Washington University
Hermann Hesse; profile by Gunther Gottschalk, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara
Hildegard of Bingen; profile by Constant J. Mews, Monash University
Hincmar of Rheims; profile by Gabriella Corona, University of York
Hiromi Goto; profile by Sally Chivers, Trent University
Homer; profile by Martin Mueller, Northwestern University
Horace McCoy; profile by John Koontz, Drew University
Horace Walpole; profile by Paul Baines, University of Liverpool
Horatio Alger; profile by Gary Scharnhorst, University of New Mexico
Horatio Nelson; profile by Roger Knight, Greenwich Maritime Institute, University of Greenwich
Howard Brenton; profile by Steven Barfield, University of Westminster
Hubert Jr. Selby; profile by Martin Kich, Wright State University
Huey Long; profile by Cecilia Donohue, Madonna University
Hugh MacDiarmid; profile by Kirsten Matthews, University of Glasgow
Hugh MacLennan; profile by Colin Hill, University of Toronto
Hugh Miller; profile by Lyndsay Lunan, University of Glasgow
Hugo von Hofmannsthal; profile by Thomas A. Kovach, University of Arizona
Humphry Repton; profile by Caroline Holmes, Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge
I. A. Richards; profile by John Constable, Magdalene College, Cambridge
Iain Banks; profile by Lucie Armitt, University College of Wales
Iain Sinclair; profile by David Cunningham, University of Westminster
Ian McEwan; profile by Peter Childs, University of Gloucestershire
Ignatius Sancho; profile by Brycchan Carey, Kingston University
Immanuel Kant; profile by Kelsey Wood, College of the Holy Cross
Ina Coolbrith; profile by Gary Scharnhorst, University of New Mexico
Increase Mather; profile by Alan J. Silva, Hamline University
Ingeborg Bachmann; profile by Sara Lennox, University of Massachusetts
Irvine Welsh; profile by Peter Childs, University of Gloucestershire
Isaac Asimov; profile by Donald M. Hassler, Kent State University
Isaac Bashevis Singer; profile by James A. Lewin, Shepherd University
Isaac Rosenberg; profile by Steven Connor, Birkbeck College
Isabella Valancy Crawford; profile by Cecily Devereux, University of Alberta
Ishmael Reed; profile by Samuel Ludwig, University of Berne
Iurii Trifonov; profile by David Gillespie, University of Bath
Ivan Turgenev; profile by Richard Peace, University of Bristol
Ivor Novello; profile by Hélène Catsiapis, Ecole Centrale de Lille
J. D. Salinger; profile by John Wenke, Salisbury University
J. G. Ballard; profile by Jeannette Baxter, University of East Anglia
J. G. Farrell; profile by John McLeod, University of Leeds
J.H. Prynne; profile by Paul March-Russell, Kent University
J. L. Austin; profile by Siobhan Chapman, University of Liverpool
J. M. Barrie; profile by Andrew Nash, Institute of English Studies
J. M. Coetzee; profile by Dominic Head, Brunel University
J.M.R. Lenz; profile by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
J. M. Synge; profile by George Cusack, Auburn University Montgomery
J. M. W. Turner; profile by David Mannings, University of Aberdeen (Retired)
J. R. R. Tolkien; profile by Brian Rosebury, University of Central Lancashire
Jack Mapanje; profile by Fiona Johnson Chalamanda, University of Stirling
Jackie Kay; profile by David Ian Paddy, Whittier College
Jacques Derrida; profile by Timothy Clark, University of Durham
Jacques Lacan; profile by Charles Shepherdson, State University of New York, Albany
Jacques Offenbach; profile by Jeremy Tambling, University of Hong Kong
Jamaica Kincaid; profile by Emilia Ippolito, University of Strasbourg
James Agee; profile by Jeffrey J. Folks, Doshisha University, Kyoto
James Anthony Froude; profile by Mark Nixon, University of Stirling
James Baldwin; profile by Magdalena J. Zaborowska, University of Michigan
James Boswell; profile by Ian McGowan, University of Stirling
James Clarence Mangan; profile by Derek Littlewood, University of Central England
James Elroy Flecker; profile by James Bridges, Independent Scholar
James Fenimore Cooper; profile by Leonardo Buonomo, University of Trieste
James Goonewardene; profile by Prashani Rambukwella, Independent Scholar
James Hogg; profile by Gillian Hughes, University of Stirling
James I, King of Scots; profile by J. Derrick McClure, University of Aberdeen
James Joyce; profile by Dirk Van Hulle, James Joyce Centre - University of Antwerp
James K. Baxter; profile by Mark Williams, University of Canterbury, NZ
James Leoni; profile by The Editors
James Macpherson; profile by Dafydd Moore, University of Plymouth
James Merrill; profile by Timothy Materer, University of Missouri
James Purdy; profile by Martin Kich, Wright State University
James Redpath; profile by John Koontz, Drew University
James Schuyler; profile by Rodney Phillips, Librarian, University of Arizona Poetry Center
James Still; profile by Ted Olson, East Tennessee State University
James T. Farrell; profile by Susan Rochette-Crawley, University of Northern Iowa
James Thomson; profile by Michelle Hawley, California State University, Los Angeles
James Thomson; profile by Michelle Hawley, California State University, Los Angeles
James VI, King of Scots; profile by J. Derrick McClure, University of Aberdeen
James Welch; profile by Joseph L. Coulombe, Rowan University
James Weldon Johnson; profile by Robert E. Fleming, University of New Mexico
Jane Austen; profile by Robert Clark, University of East Anglia
Jane Rogers; profile by Rob Spence, Edge Hill College of Education
Jane Welsh Carlyle; profile by Nathan Uglow, Trinity and All Saints, Leeds
Janet Frame; profile by Jenny Lawn, Massey University
Janice Mirikitani; profile by Masami Usui, Doshisha University, Japan
Jean Arasanayagam; profile by Harshana Rambukwella, University of Hong Kong
Jean Rhys; profile by Peter Hulme, University of Essex
Jean-Jacques Rousseau; profile by Robin Howells, Birkbeck College
Jean-Paul Sartre; profile by Andrew Leak, University College London
Jeanette Winterson; profile by Katharine Cox, University of Hull
Jeremy Bentham; profile by Robert Clark, University of East Anglia
Jeremy Taylor; profile by Aali A. Rehman, Rajshahi University
Jerzy Kosinski; profile by Martin Kich, Wright State University
Jessica Anderson; profile by Dorothy Jones, University of Wollongong
Jessie Mackay; profile by Jenny Robin Jones, Independent Scholar
Jimmy Carter; profile by David C. Dougherty, Loyola College in Maryland
Joan Didion; profile by Krista Comer, Rice University
Joan Riley; profile by Wendy Rountree, North Carolina Central University
Joanna Baillie; profile by Natasha Aleksiuk Duquette, Taylor University College
Joe Orton; profile by Kate Dorney, University of Sheffield
Johann Georg Hamann; profile by John R. Betz, Loyola College in Maryland
Johann Gottlieb Fichte; profile by Rodney F. Taylor, Truman State University
Johann Kaspar Lavater; profile by Matthew J. A. Green, University of Nottingham
Johann Nepomuk Nestroy; profile by Pamela S. Saur, Lamar University
Johannes Brahms; profile by Mark E. Bell, Lake Erie College
Johannes Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen; profile by Alfred D. White, University of Cardiff
Johannes Kepler; profile by Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona
John Addington Symonds; profile by Howard J. Booth, University of Manchester
John Alexander Lee; profile by James Smithies, University of Canterbury
John Ashbery; profile by Daniel Kane, University of East Anglia
John Bale; profile by Nicoletta Caputo, University of Florence
John Banville; profile by Pietra Palazzolo, University of Essex
John Barbour; profile by J. Derrick McClure, University of Aberdeen
John Barth; profile by Elzbieta Foeller-Pituch, Northwestern University
John Berger; profile by Duncan O’Connor, University of Cambridge
John Berryman; profile by Ernest J. Smith, University of Central Florida
John Bunyan; profile by Roger Pooley, University of Keele
John Bury; profile by Mark Nixon, University of Stirling
John Calvin; profile by Adrian Streete, Queen's University Belfast
John Charles Fremont; profile by Douglas J Canfield, University of Arizona
John Clare; profile by Eric Miller, University of Victoria, British Columbia
John Cleland; profile by Peter Byrne, University of California, Irvine
John Coulter; profile by David Gardner, University of Toronto
John Donne; profile by David Reid, University of Stirling
John Drinkwater; profile by James Bridges, Independent Scholar
John Eliot; profile by Kathryn Napier Gray, University of Glasgow
John Fletcher; profile by Sandra Clark, Birkbeck College, University of London
John Ford; profile by Charles Barr, University of East Anglia
John Ford; profile by Charles Barr, University of East Anglia
John Fowles; profile by William Stephenson, Chester College of Higher Education
John Foxe; profile by Adrian Streete, Queen's University Belfast
John Galsworthy; profile by Sanford Sternlicht, Syracuse University
John Galt; profile by Hans B. de Groot, University of Toronto
John Gauden; profile by Joad Raymond, University of East Anglia
John Gay; profile by I. R. F. Gordon, Emeritus Anglia Polytechnic University
John Glenday; profile by Christine McPhee, Independent Scholar
John Hawkes; profile by Rita Ferrari, independent scholar
John Henry Newman; profile by Marion Spies, Bergische Universität-GHS Wuppertal
John Herbert; profile by Robert Wallace, York University, Canada
John Heywood; profile by Nicoletta Caputo, University of Florence
John Home; profile by Jim Owen, Columbus State University
John Irving; profile by Leon Lewis, Appalachian State University
John Keats; profile by Sarah Wootton, University of Durham
John Keble; profile by Marion Spies, Bergische Universität-GHS Wuppertal
John Le Carre; profile by Lynn-Dianne Beene, University of New Mexico
John Lehmann; profile by Petra Rau, University of Portsmouth
John Lent; profile by Craig McLuckie, Okanagan University College
John Locke; profile by Mark Goldie, University of Cambridge
John Lydgate; profile by Claire Sponsler, University of Iowa
John Lyly; profile by Leah Scragg, University of Manchester
John Marston; profile by David Stymeist, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
John Masefield; profile by James Bridges, Independent Scholar
John McGahern; profile by Liam Harte, University of Manchester
John Milton; profile by Joad Raymond, University of East Anglia
John Moore; profile by Pam Perkins, University of Manitoba
John Morley, first Viscount Morley of Blackburn; profile by Mark Nixon, University of Stirling
John Muir; profile by Michael P. Branch, University of Nevada, Reno
John Murrell; profile by James Dugan, University of Calgary
John O'Hara; profile by Martin Kich, Wright State University
John of Salisbury; profile by Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona
John Oliver Hobbes; profile by Ariel Gunn, The University of Florida
John Oliver Killens; profile by Harish Chander, Shaw University
John Osborne; profile by Andrew Wyllie, University of the West of England
John Peale Bishop; profile by Herbie Butterfield, University of Essex
John Rastell; profile by Janette Dillon, University of Nottingham
John Richard Green; profile by Mark Nixon, University of Stirling
John Rollin Ridge; profile by James W. Parins, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
John Seely; profile by Mark Nixon, University of Stirling
John Skelton; profile by Karen Elaine Smyth, University of Nottingham
John Smith; profile by Alan J. Silva, Hamline University
John Steinbeck; profile by Cecilia Donohue, Madonna University
John Stuart Mill; profile by G. F. Scarre, University of Durham
John Thelwall; profile by Andrew McCann, University of Melbourne
John Updike; profile by Marshall Boswell, Rhodes College
John Webster; profile by Martin Wiggins, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham
John Wesley; profile by Deborah Madden, Lincoln College, Oxford
John Woolman; profile by Michael Heller, Roanoke College
Jon Hassler; profile by Deanna Evans, Bemidji State University
Jonathan Carroll; profile by Steffen Hantke, Sogang University
Jonathan Swift; profile by Paul Baines, University of Liverpool
Jorge Luis Borges; profile by Gerardo Pina, University of East Anglia
Joseph Brodsky; profile by Arina Volgina, The Linguistic University of Nizhny Novgorod
Joseph Conrad; profile by Peter Childs, University of Gloucestershire
Joseph McElroy; profile by Steffen Hantke, Sogang University
Joseph Roth; profile by Pamela S. Saur, Lamar University
Josephine Herbst; profile by Angela E. Hubler, Kansas State University
Joshua Sylvester; profile by Frances M. Malpezzi, Arkansas State University
Joyce Carol Oates; profile by Martin Kich, Wright State University
Judith Butler; profile by Catherine Rottenberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Judith Ortiz Cofer; profile by Rafael Ocasio, Agnes Scott College
Judith Sargent Murray; profile by Terry Novak, Johnson & Wales University
Judith Thompson; profile by Robert Nunn, Brock University
Julia A. Moore; profile by David Rachels, Virginia Military Institute
Julia Kavanagh; profile by Amanda J. Collins, University of Sydney
Julia Kristeva; profile by Margaret Atack , University of Leeds
Julia Ward Howe; profile by Leonardo Buonomo, University of Trieste
Julian Barnes; profile by Merritt Moseley, University of North Carolina
Julian of Norwich; profile by Elizabeth Spearing, Independent Scholar
Juliana Horatia Ewing; profile by Jenny Litster, University of Edinburgh
Jurek Becker; profile by David Clarke, University of Bath
Jurgen Habermas; profile by Andrew Edgar, University of Cardiff
Justin McCarthy; profile by Mark Nixon, University of Stirling
Kaiser Haq; profile by Mohammad Quayum, International Islamic University Malaysia
Kamala Markandaya; profile by Claire Chambers, Leeds Metropolitan University
Karl Kraus; profile by Andrea Kunne, Vrije University Amsterdam
Karl Marx; profile by Kelsey Wood, College of the Holy Cross
Karl May; profile by Nina Berman, Ohio State University
Karl Schonherr; profile by Pamela S. Saur, Lamar University
Kate Atkinson; profile by Kevin P. Smith, Sheffield Hallam University
Kate Chopin; profile by Val Scullion, Open University
Kate O'Brien; profile by Louise Harrington, Cardiff University
Katharine Burdekin; profile by Debra Benita Shaw, University of North London
Katherine Anne Porter; profile by Darlene Harbour Unrue, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Katherine Mansfield; profile by Angela Smith, University of Stirling
Katherine Philips; profile by Frances M. Malpezzi, Arkansas State University
Kathy Acker; profile by Diane Marie Faire, University of Central Lancashire
Ken Kesey; profile by Bennett Huffman, Concordia University
Ken Saro-Wiwa; profile by Craig McLuckie, Okanagan University College
Kenneth Koch; profile by Jordan Sanderson, University of Southern Mississippi
Khushwant Singh; profile by Aali A. Rehman, Rajshahi University
Kingsley Amis; profile by Gavin Keulks, Western Oregon University
Konrad von Wurzburg; profile by Maria Dobozy, University of Utah
Konstantin Stanislavsky; profile by Nick Moseley, Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts
L. M. Montgomery; profile by Jenny Litster, University of Edinburgh
Lady Anne Barnard; profile by Dorothy McMillan, University of Glasgow
Lady Anne Halkett; profile by Suzanne Trill, University of Edinburgh
Lady Augusta Gregory; profile by George Cusack, Auburn University Montgomery
Lady Caroline Lamb; profile by Paul Douglass, San Jose State University
Lady Grisell Baillie; profile by Natasha Aleksiuk Duquette, Taylor University College
Lady Mary Anne Barker; profile by Jenny Robin Jones, Independent Scholar
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu; profile by Alison Winch, University of Liverpool
Laetitia Elizabeth Landon; profile by Alison Chapman, University of Glasgow
Lascelles Abercrombie; profile by James Bridges, Independent Scholar
Laura Goodman Salverson; profile by Daisy Neijmann, University College of London
Laura Riding; profile by David Reid, University of Stirling
Laurence Sterne; profile by Carol Watts, Birkbeck College, University of London
Lawrence Durrell; profile by Grove Koger, Boise Public Library, Idaho
Lawrence Ferlinghetti; profile by Alastair Wisker, Ruskin College
Lee Smith; profile by Linda J. Byrd Cook, Sam Houston State University
Leopold Senghor; profile by Herbert Ekwe Ekwe, Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies, Dakar
Les Murray; profile by Steven Matthews, Oxford Brookes University
Leslie Scalapino; profile by Laura Hinton, City College of New York
Leslie Silko; profile by Rebecca Tillett, University of East Anglia
Leslie Stephen; profile by Mark Nixon, University of Stirling
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy; profile by A.D.P. Briggs, University of Bristol
Lewis Spence; profile by J. Derrick McClure, University of Aberdeen
Lion Feuchtwanger; profile by Ian Wallace, Emeritus Professor of German, University of Bath
Lloyd Fernando; profile by Mohammad Quayum, International Islamic University Malaysia
Lola Lemire Tostevin; profile by Shelley Boyd, McGill University
Lope de Vega; profile by Elaine Canning, University of Wales, Swansea
Lord Acton; profile by Mark Nixon, University of Stirling
Lord Byron; profile by Malcolm Kelsall, University of Cardiff
Lord Francis Jeffrey; profile by Pam Perkins, University of Manitoba
Louis Bromfield; profile by Jayne Waterman, University of Leeds
Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon; profile by The Editors
Louis Dudek; profile by Medrie Purdham , McGill University
Louis MacNeice; profile by Michael O'Neill, University of Durham
Louis Zukofsky; profile by Leon Lewis, Appalachian State University
Louisa May Alcott; profile by Helena Maragou, American College of Greece
Louise Erdrich; profile by Susan Forsyth, independent scholar
Louise Labe; profile by the Editors
Lucas Malet; profile by Talia Schaffer, Queen's College, CUNY
Luci Tapahonso; profile by Rebecca Tillett, University of East Anglia
Ludwig Anzengruber; profile by Pamela S. Saur, Lamar University
Ludwig van Beethoven; profile by Ruth Starkman, University of San Francisco
Ludwig Wittgenstein; profile by David E. Cooper, University of Durham
Luis de Camoes; profile by Thomas Earle, Oxford University
Luther Standing Bear; profile by Michelle Raheja, University of California, Riverside
Lynn Coady; profile by Lorna Hutchison, McGill University
Lytton Strachey; profile by Barry Spurr, University of Sydney
M. H. Holcroft; profile by James Smithies, University of Canterbury
Madame de Stael; profile by Gerhart Hoffmeister, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara
Mahatma Gandhi; profile by Satish Aikant, Garhwal University
Maki Kureishi; profile by Muneeza Shamsie, Independent scholar
Malcolm Lowry; profile by Christine Pagnoulle, Université de Liège
Mandell Creighton; profile by Mark Nixon, University of Stirling
Marcel Proust; profile by Marion Schmid, University of Edinburgh
Marcus Clarke; profile by Andrew McCann, University of Melbourne
Marcus Tullius Cicero; profile by Abdool-Hack Mamoojee, Lakehead University
Margaret Atwood; profile by Faye Hammill, Cardiff University
Margaret Drabble; profile by Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt, Shepherd College
Margaret Laurence; profile by Tanya Butler, Queen's University
Margaret Oliphant; profile by Lis Jay, Oxford Brookes University
Marge Piercy; profile by Sue B. Walker, University of South Alabama
Margery Allingham; profile by Chris Willis, London Metropolitan University
Margery Kempe; profile by Sarah Salih, University of East Anglia
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington; profile by Harriet Jump, Edge Hill
Mariama Ba; profile by Femi Nzegwu, Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies, Dakar
Marianne Moore; profile by Peter Wilson, London Metropolitan University
Marie Corelli; profile by Annette Federico, James Madison University
Marie de France; profile by Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona
Marie-Claire Blais; profile by Louise Forsyth, University of Saskatchewan
Marie-Jean Condorcet; profile by David Williams, University of Sheffield
Marina Carr; profile by Catherine Rees, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Marina Tsvetaeva; profile by Alexandra Smith, University of Canterbury
Marjorie Bowen; profile by Frances M. Malpezzi, Arkansas State University
Mark O'Rowe; profile by Mark Schreiber, International University Bremen
Mark Ravenhill; profile by Aleks Sierz, Independent Scholar
Mark Twain; profile by Louis J. Budd, Duke University
Marquis de Quesnay; profile by Stewart Crehan, Manchester Metropolitan University
Martha Gellhorn; profile by Kate McLoughlin, Balliol College, Oxford
Martha Ostenso; profile by Alison Calder, University of Manitoba
Martin Amis; profile by Richard Todd, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Martin Buber; profile by Ruth Starkman, University of San Francisco
Martin Crimp; profile by Aleks Sierz, Independent Scholar
Martin Heidegger; profile by Timothy Clark, University of Durham
Martin Luther; profile by Albert Labriola, Duquesne University
Martin McDonagh; profile by Catherine Rees, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Martin Wylde Carter; profile by Anita Patterson, Boston University
Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck; profile by Natasha Aleksiuk Duquette, Taylor University College
Mary Astell; profile by Jennie Batchelor, University of Kent
Mary Austin; profile by Mark T. Hoyer, St Mary's College, California
Mary Baker Eddy; profile by Marion Spies, Bergische Universität-GHS Wuppertal
Mary Chesnut; profile by Stephen E. Meats, Pittsburg State University
Mary Coleridge; profile by Simon Avery, University of Hertfordshire
Mary Davys; profile by Martha F. Bowden, Kennesaw State University
Mary Elizabeth Braddon; profile by Chris Willis, London Metropolitan University
Mary Hays; profile by Mary Waters, University of California, Davis
Mary Pix; profile by Anne Kelley, Independent Scholar
Mary Renault; profile by Diana Wallace, University of Glamorgan
Mary Robinson; profile by Claire Brock, University of Warwick
Mary Shelley; profile by Graham Allen, University College Cork
Mary Wesley; profile by Chris Willis, London Metropolitan University
Mary Wollstonecraft; profile by Antje Blank, University of Glasgow
Mason Locke Weems; profile by Richard J. Ring, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University
Mathilde Blind; profile by Simon Avery, University of Hertfordshire
Matthew Arnold; profile by Jennifer Wallace, University of Cambridge
Matthew Lewis; profile by Stuart Sim, University of Sunderland
Maude Gonne; profile by George Cusack, Auburn University Montgomery
Maurice Blanchot; profile by Timothy Clark, University of Durham
Maurice Gee; profile by Peter Beatson, Massey University, New Zealand
Max Frisch; profile by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
Max Horkheimer; profile by Kelsey Wood, College of the Holy Cross
Max Planck; profile by Robert Clark, University of East Anglia
Max von der Grun; profile by Steven W. Lawrie, University of Aberdeen
Max Weber; profile by Ruth Starkman, University of San Francisco
May Sinclair; profile by Leigh Wilson, University of Westminster
Medbh McGuckian; profile by Patrick Early, Independent Scholar
Mervyn Peake; profile by G Peter Winnington, University of Lausanne
Michael Chekhov; profile by Adam J. Ledger, University of Hull
Michael Cook; profile by Craig Walker, Queen's University, Canada
Michael Donaghy; profile by William Thompson, Troy University
Michael Drayton; profile by Angus Vine, University of Cambridge
Michael Field; profile by Simon Avery, University of Hertfordshire
Michael Ondaatje; profile by Peter Easingwood, University of Dundee
Michael Roberts; profile by Michael Whitworth, Oxford University
Michael Wigglesworth; profile by A.M.E. Morris, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
Michel de Montaigne; profile by Max Gauna, University of Sheffield
Michel Foucault; profile by Andrew Thacker, University of Ulster at Jordanstown
Michel Marc Bouchard; profile by Scott Duchesne, University of Guelph
Michele Roberts; profile by Rosemary White, University of Northumbria at Newcastle
Miguel Angel Asturias; profile by Anahí Ramírez, University of East Anglia
Mikhail Bakhtin; profile by Simon Dentith, University of Gloucestershire
Mikhail Lermontov; profile by Robert Reid, Keele University
Mikhail Zoshchenko; profile by A. B. Murphy, Professor Emeritus, University of Ulster
Mitsuye Yamada; profile by Masami Usui, Doshisha University, Japan
Moliere; profile by Julia Prest, Yale University
Monika Maron; profile by Jennifer Marston William, Purdue University
Mordecai Richler; profile by Linda Morra , University of British Columbia
Mrs Henry Wood; profile by Andrew Maunder, University of Hertfordshire
Mrs Humphry Ward; profile by Gillian Boughton, University of Durham
Mudrooroo; profile by Maureen Clark, University of Wollongong
N. A. Nekrasov; profile by Michael Ransome, Bristol Grammar School
N. Scott Momaday; profile by Kathryn Napier Gray, University of Glasgow
Nadine Gordimer; profile by Dominic Head, Brunel University
Nahum Tate; profile by Brian Corman, University of Toronto
Nancy Mitford; profile by Maroula Joannou, Anglia Polytechnic University
Naomi Mitchison; profile by Diana Wallace, University of Glamorgan
Nash Candelaria; profile by Heiner Bus , Universität Bamberg
Nathanael West; profile by Alastair Wisker, Ruskin College
Nathaniel Hawthorne; profile by Robert Daly, SUNY, Buffalo
Neil Gaiman; profile by Bernice Murphy, Trinity College, Dublin
Neil Gunn; profile by Kirsten Matthews, University of Glasgow
Nellie McClung; profile by Cecily Devereux, University of Alberta
Nelly Sachs; profile by Amy Kepple Strawser, Otterbein College
Nelson Algren; profile by James A. Lewin, Shepherd University
Nennius; profile by Hugh Magennis, Queen's University Belfast
Niccolo Machiavelli; profile by Andrew Mousley, De Montfort University
Nicholas Udall; profile by Nicoletta Caputo, University of Florence
Niels Bohr; profile by Robert Clark, University of East Anglia
Nikolai Karamzin; profile by Michael Pursglove, formerly University of Bath
Noam Chomsky; profile by Neil Smith, University College London
Noel Coward; profile by Hélène Catsiapis, Ecole Centrale de Lille
Norm Foster; profile by Ed Mullaly, University of New Brunswick
Norman Douglas; profile by Grove Koger, Boise Public Library, Idaho
Norman Mailer; profile by Martin Kich, Wright State University
Northrop Frye; profile by Darrell Dobson, University of Toronto
Novalis; profile by Dennis F. Mahoney, University of Vermont
Nuha al-Radi; profile by Muneeza Shamsie, Independent scholar
Ol'ga Berggol'ts; profile by Katharine Hodgson, University of Exeter
Olaudah Equiano; profile by Vincent Carretta, University of Maryland
Olga Masters; profile by Dorothy Jones, University of Wollongong
Olive Schreiner; profile by Carolyn Burdett, University of North London
Oliver Goldsmith; profile by Paul Baines, University of Liverpool
Oliver Hillhouse Prince; profile by David Rachels, Virginia Military Institute
Oliver Wendell Holmes; profile by Bryce Traister, University of Western Ontario
Oscar Wilde; profile by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway University of London
Oswald von Wolkenstein; profile by Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona
Otto von Bismarck; profile by Gerhart Hoffmeister, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara
Ousmane Sembene; profile by Femi Nzegwu, Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies, Dakar
Ovid; profile by Mandy Green, University of Durham
P. D. James; profile by Lindsay Sullivan, Cardiff University
P. K. Page; profile by Medrie Purdham , McGill University
Paracelsus; profile by Urs Leo Gantenbein, The Zurich Paracelsus Project
Pat Barker; profile by Anne Whitehead, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Patrice Nganang; profile by Claudia Martinek, University of Cergy-Pontoise, University of Vienna
Patricia Cornwell; profile by Sarah Dauncey, University of Warwick
Patricia Joudry; profile by Anton Wagner, York University, Canada
Patrick Hamilton; profile by John Mepham, Kingston University
Patrick Suskind; profile by Jeffrey T. Adams, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Patrick White; profile by Brian Kiernan, University of Sydney
Paul Bowles; profile by David Espey, University of Pennsylvania
Paul Celan; profile by Derek Hillard, Kansas State University
Paul Grice; profile by Siobhan Chapman, University of Liverpool
Paul Laurence Dunbar; profile by Jonathan Daigle, University of Wisconsin
Paul Muldoon; profile by Ivan Phillips, University of Hertfordshire
Paul Ricoeur; profile by Michael O'Sullivan, University College Cork
Paul Scott; profile by Peter Childs, University of Gloucestershire
Paul Verlaine; profile by Alan English, St Patrick's College, Drumcondra
Pearl S. Buck; profile by Peter Conn, University of Pennsylvania
Penelope Aubin; profile by Marina Filgueira, University of Corunna
Percy Bysshe Shelley; profile by Mark Sandy, University of Durham
Peter Ackroyd; profile by Paul Smethurst, Hong Kong University
Peter Altenberg; profile by Pamela S. Saur, Lamar University
Peter Brook; profile by Bernhard