Kay Thompson
American author, singer, vocal arranger, vocal coach, composer, musician, dancer, actress, and choreographer
American author, singer, vocal arranger, vocal coach, composer, musician, dancer, actress, and choreographer
American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher
American cartoonist, author, humorist, journalist, playwright, and celebrated wit
American writer known for his works of speculative fiction
Homesteader in Wyoming, and a memoirist who between 1909 and 1914 wrote letters describing her life there to a former employer in Denver, Colorado
American writer noted for his detective fiction
American novelist and poet
American biographer, cultural administrator, and critic
American biographer, cultural administrator, and critic
American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work.Styron was best known for his novels, including:
Lie Down in Darkness , his acclaimed first work, published when he was 26;
The Confessions of Nat Turner , narrated by Nat Turner, the leader of an 1831 Virginia slave revolt;
Sophie’s Choice , a story “told through the eyes of a young aspiring writer from the South, about a Polish Catholic survivor of Auschwitz and her brilliant but psychotic Jewish lover in postwar Brooklyn”.In 1985, he suffered from his first serious bout with depression