Stanislaw Lem
Polish writer of science fiction and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism
Creator
Madame de Lafayette
French writer; she authored La Princesse de Clves, France’s first historical novel and one of the earliest novels in literature.
P. J. Kavanagh
English poet, lecturer, actor, broadcaster and columnist
Stephen King
American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels
Yasunari Kawabata
Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award
Martin Luther King Jr.
American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the American civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. King advanced civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer
John Keats
English poet prominent in the second generation of Romantic poets, with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, although his poems had been published for only four years when he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25. They were indifferently received, but his fame grew rapidly after his death
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
German-born British and American Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter
John Keegan
English military historian, lecturer, writer and journalist