Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic
biographer
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic
Stephen Jay Gould
American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science
Gunter Grass
German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.He was born in the Free City of Danzig . As a teenager, he served as a drafted soldier from late 1944 in the Waffen-SS and was taken as a prisoner of war by U.S. forces at the end of the war in May 1945. He was released in April 1946. Trained as a stonemason and sculptor, Grass began writing in the 1950s. In his fiction, he frequently returned to the Danzig of his childhood
Lucy Grealy
Irish-American poet and memoirist who wrote Autobiography of a Face in 1994. This critically acclaimed book describes her childhood and early adolescent experience with cancer of the jaw, which left her with some facial disfigurement
Penelope Fitzgerald
Booker Prizewinning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer from Lincoln, England
Esther Forbes
American novelist, historian and children’s writer who received the Pulitzer Prize and the Newbery Medal
George MacDonald Fraser
British author and screenwriter
Elizabeth Gaskell
English novelist, biographer and short story writer
Loren Eiseley
American anthropologist, educator, philosopher, and natural science writer, who taught and published books from the 1950s through the 1970s. He received many honorary degrees and was a fellow of multiple professional societies