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Hamilton, Patrick
Patrick Hamilton was an English playwright and novelist, notable for his capture of atmosphere and the Cockney......
Handke, Peter
Peter Handke is an avant-garde Austrian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist, one of the most original German-language......
Hansberry, Lorraine
Lorraine Hansberry was an American playwright whose A Raisin in the Sun (1959) was the first drama by an African......
Hardy, Alexandre
Alexandre Hardy was a playwright, the first Frenchman known to have made his living as a dramatist, who claimed......
Hare, David
David Hare is a British playwright, screenwriter, and director noted for his deftly crafted satires examining British......
Harishchandra
Harishchandra was an Indian poet, dramatist, critic, and journalist, commonly referred to as the “father of modern......
Harrigan, Edward
Edward Harrigan was an American actor, producer, and playwright, half of the comedy team of Harrigan and Hart.......
Harrison, Tony
Tony Harrison is an English poet, translator, dramatist, and filmmaker whose work expressed the tension between......
Harsdörfer, Georg Philipp
Georg Philipp Harsdörfer was a German poet and theorist of the Baroque movement who wrote more than 47 volumes......
Hart, Moss
Moss Hart was one of the most successful U.S. playwrights of the 20th century. At 17 Hart obtained a job as office......
Harte, Bret
Bret Harte was an American writer who helped create the local-colour school in American fiction. Harte’s family......
Hartleben, Otto Erich
Otto Erich Hartleben was a German poet, dramatist, and short-story writer known for his Naturalistic dramas that......
Hartog, Jan de
Jan de Hartog was a Dutch-American novelist and playwright who wrote adventure stories in both Dutch and English.......
Hartzenbusch, Juan Eugenio
Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch was one of the most successful of the Spanish romantic dramatists, editor of standard......
Hasenclever, Walter
Walter Hasenclever was a German Expressionist poet and dramatist whose work is a protest against bourgeois materialism......
Hauch, Johannes Carsten
Johannes Carsten Hauch was a Danish poet, dramatist, and novelist whose works expressed his high moral seriousness......
Hauptmann, Gerhart
Gerhart Hauptmann was a German playwright, poet, and novelist who was a recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature......
Havel, Václav
Václav Havel was a Czech playwright, poet, and political dissident who, after the fall of communism, was president......
Hawkes, John
John Hawkes was an American author whose novels achieve a dreamlike (often nightmarish) intensity through the suspension......
Hazlitt, William
William Hazlitt was an English writer best known for his humanistic essays. He was a major figure of the Romanticism......
Heaney, Seamus
Seamus Heaney was an Irish poet whose work is notable for its evocation of Irish rural life and events in Irish......
Heavysege, Charles
Charles Heavysege was a British-born Canadian self-taught working-class poet who took Shakespeare and the Bible......
Hebbel, Friedrich
Friedrich Hebbel was a poet and dramatist who added a new psychological dimension to German drama and made use......
Hecht, Ben
Ben Hecht was an American novelist, playwright, and film writer who, as a newspaperman in the 1920s, perfected......
Hedayat, Sadeq
Sadeq Hedayat was an Iranian author who introduced modernist techniques into Persian fiction. He is considered......
Heiberg, Gunnar
Gunnar Heiberg was a dramatist, exponent of Expressionism, considered the most noteworthy Norwegian playwright......
Heiberg, Johan Ludvig
Johan Ludvig Heiberg was a playwright, poet, literary historian, and critic whose romantic idealism in a sense......
Heiberg, Peter Andreas
Peter Andreas Heiberg was a Danish poet, playwright, and militant spokesman for the radical political ideas generated......
Heijermans, Herman
Herman Heijermans was a Dutch author and playwright, both naturalistic and didactic, who in his work attacked all......
Heinrich Julius
Heinrich Julius was a duke of Brunswick, a representative of early Baroque culture who was important in the development......
Heinsius, Daniël
Daniël Heinsius was a Dutch poet, famous in his day as a classical scholar. At Leiden, Heinsius produced classical......
Heller, Joseph
Joseph Heller was an American writer whose novel Catch-22 (1961) was one of the most significant works of protest......
Hellman, Lillian
Lillian Hellman was an American playwright and motion-picture screenwriter whose dramas forcefully attacked injustice,......
Heminge, John
John Heminge was an English actor who, with Henry Condell, prepared and oversaw the First Folio (1623), a collection......
Hemingway, Ernest
Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist and short-story writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature......
Henley, Beth
Beth Henley is an American playwright of regional dramas set in provincial Southern towns, the best known of which,......
Henshaw, James Ene
James Ene Henshaw was a Nigerian playwright of Efik affiliation whose simple and popular plays treating various......
Herczeg, Ferenc
Ferenc Herczeg was a novelist and playwright, the leading literary exponent of conservative-nationalist opinion......
Herne, James A.
James A. Herne was an American playwright who helped bridge the gap between 19th-century melodrama and the 20th-century......
Hernández, Miguel
Miguel Hernández was a Spanish poet and dramatist who combined traditional lyric forms with 20th-century subjectivity.......
Herodas
Herodas was a Greek poet, probably of the Aegean island of Cos, author of mimes—short dramatic scenes in verse......
Hertz, Henrik
Henrik Hertz was a dramatist and poet, once among the most popular Danish dramatists. Orphaned early, Hertz took......
Hervieu, Paul
Paul Hervieu was a French novelist and playwright, most of whose dramas were tragedies centring on family conflicts......
Heyward, DuBose
DuBose Heyward was an American novelist, dramatist, and poet whose first novel, Porgy (1925), was the basis for......
Heywood, John
John Heywood was a playwright whose short dramatic interludes helped put English drama on the road to the fully......
Heywood, Thomas
Thomas Heywood was an English actor-playwright whose career spans the peak periods of Elizabethan and Jacobean......
Hill, Aaron
Aaron Hill was an English poet, dramatist, and essayist whose adaptations of Voltaire’s plays Zaïre (The Tragedy......
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von
Hugo von Hofmannsthal was an Austrian poet, dramatist, and essayist. He made his reputation with his lyrical poems......
Holberg, Ludvig, Friherre Holberg
Ludvig Holberg, Baron Holberg was the outstanding Scandinavian literary figure of the Enlightenment period, claimed......
Holcroft, Thomas
Thomas Holcroft was an English dramatist, novelist, journalist, and actor. The son of a peddler, Holcroft worked......
Holtei, Karl von
Karl von Holtei was an author who achieved success by his “vaudevilles,” or ballad operas, and by his recitations.......
Home, John
John Home was a Scottish dramatist whose play Douglas, according to the poet Thomas Gray, “retrieved the true language......
Hong Shen
Hong Shen was a pioneering Chinese dramatist and filmmaker. Educated in Beijing and at Harvard University in the......
Hooft, Pieter Corneliszoon
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft was a Dutch dramatist and poet, regarded by many as the most brilliant representative......
Hook, Theodore Edward
Theodore Edward Hook was a prolific English playwright and novelist, best remembered as a founder of the “silver-fork”......
Hopkins, Pauline
Pauline Hopkins was an African-American novelist, playwright, journalist, and editor. She was a pioneer in her......
Horváth, Ödön Edmund Josef von
Ödön Edmund Josef von Horváth was a Hungarian novelist and playwright who was one of the most promising German-language......
Housman, Laurence
Laurence Housman was an English artist and writer who reached his widest public with a series of plays about the......
Hovey, Richard
Richard Hovey was a U.S. poet, translator, and dramatist. After graduating from Dartmouth in 1885, Hovey studied......
Howard, Bronson
Bronson Howard was an American journalist, author of successful comedies and dramas about life in the United States......
Howard, Elizabeth Jane
Elizabeth Jane Howard was a British writer of novels and shorter fiction who was praised for her deft characterizations......
Howard, Sidney
Sidney Howard was an American playwright who helped to bring psychological as well as theatrical realism to the......
Howard, Sir Robert
Sir Robert Howard was an English dramatist, remembered chiefly for his dispute with John Dryden on the use of rhymed......
Howe, Julia Ward
Julia Ward Howe was an American author and lecturer best known for her “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Julia Ward......
Hrosvitha
Hrosvitha was regarded as the first German woman poet. Of noble birth, Hrosvitha spent most of her life as a nun......
Hughes, Langston
Langston Hughes was an American writer who was an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance and made the African......
Hughes, Richard
Richard Hughes was a British writer whose novel A High Wind in Jamaica (1929; filmed 1965; original title The Innocent......
Hugo, Victor
Victor Hugo was a poet, novelist, and dramatist who was the most important of the French Romantic writers. Though......
Huneker, James Gibbons
James Gibbons Huneker was an American critic of music, art, and literature, a leading exponent of impressionistic......
Hurston, Zora Neale
Zora Neale Hurston was an American folklorist and writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance who celebrated......
Hutchinson, Alfred
Alfred Hutchinson was a writer and teacher noted for his imaginative experiments with language. His autobiography,......
Hwang, David Henry
David Henry Hwang is an American playwright, screenwriter, and librettist whose work, by his own account, concerns......
Hébert, Anne
Anne Hébert was a French Canadian poet, novelist, and playwright noted as an original literary stylist. She lived......
Ibsen, Henrik
Henrik Ibsen was a major Norwegian playwright of the late 19th century who introduced to the European stage a new......
Icaza, Jorge
Jorge Icaza was an Ecuadorean novelist and playwright whose brutally realistic portrayals of the exploitation of......
Idrīs, Yūsuf
Yūsuf Idrīs was an Egyptian playwright and novelist who broke with traditional Arabic literature by mixing colloquial......
Iffland, August Wilhelm
August Wilhelm Iffland was a German actor, dramatist, and manager, a major influence on German theatre. Destined......
Ihimaera, Witi
Witi Ihimaera is a Māori author whose novels and short stories explore the clash between Māori and Pākehā (white,......
Illyés, Gyula
Gyula Illyés was a Hungarian poet, novelist, dramatist, and dissident, a leading literary figure in Hungary during......
Immermann, Karl Leberecht
Karl Leberecht Immermann was a dramatist and novelist whose works included two forerunners in German literary history:......
Inchbald, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Inchbald was an English novelist, playwright, and actress whose successful prose romances, A Simple Story......
Inge, William
William Inge was an American playwright best known for his plays Come Back, Little Sheba (1950; filmed 1952); Picnic......
Ionesco, Eugène
Eugène Ionesco was a Romanian-born French dramatist whose one-act “antiplay” La Cantatrice chauve (1949; The Bald......
Ireland, William-Henry
William-Henry Ireland was an English forger of Shakespearean works. Ireland was the son of Samuel Ireland, a respected......
Isherwood, Christopher
Christopher Isherwood was a British-American novelist and playwright best known for his novels about Berlin in......
Ivanov, Vsevolod
Vsevolod Ivanov was a Soviet prose writer noted for his vivid naturalistic realism, one of the most original writers......
Izumi Kyōka
Izumi Kyōka was a prolific Japanese writer who created a distinctive, often supernatural, fictional world. Kyōka......
Jacobs-Jenkins, Branden
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is an American playwright best known for his plays that deal with matters of identity and......
James, Henry
Henry James was an American novelist and, as a naturalized English citizen from 1915, a great figure in the transatlantic......
Jarry, Alfred
Alfred Jarry was a French writer mainly known as the creator of the grotesque and wild satirical farce Ubu roi......
Jay, Ricky
Ricky Jay was an American magician, actor, author, and historian, widely regarded as the most gifted sleight-of-hand......
Jelinek, Elfriede
Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian novelist, playwright, and poet noted for her controversial works on gender relations,......
Jerome, Jerome K.
Jerome K. Jerome was an English novelist and playwright whose humour—warm, unsatirical, and unintellectual—won......
Jerrold, Douglas William
Douglas William Jerrold was an English playwright, journalist, and humorist. Jerrold achieved success in the theatre......
Joaquin, Nick
Nick Joaquin was a Filipino novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, and biographer whose works present the diverse......
Jochumsson, Matthías
Matthías Jochumsson was an Icelandic poet, translator, journalist, dramatist, and editor whose versatility, intellectual......
Jodelle, Étienne
Étienne Jodelle was a French dramatist and poet, one of the seven members of the literary circle known as La Pléiade,......
John, Errol
Errol John was a Trinidadian-born actor and playwright who wrote Moon on a Rainbow Shawl (1958), for which he won......
Johnson, Colin
Colin Johnson was an Australian novelist and poet who depicted the struggles of modern Aboriginals to adapt to......

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