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
Creator
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
Crockett Johnson
Pen name of the American cartoonist and children’s book illustrator David Johnson Leisk
Carolyn Keene
Pseudonym of the authors of the Nancy Drew mystery stories and The Dana Girls mystery stories, both produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate
Samuel Johnson
English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer
Garret Keizer
American author, writer and essayist