Who has received attention from from literary critics in recent years, Shirley Jackson or Edwidge Danticat?
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Edwidge Danticat Edwidge Danticat (] ; born January 19, 1969) is a Haitian-American novelist and short story writer.
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Shirley Jackson Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American writer. She was popular during her life, and her work has received increased attention from literary critics in recent years. She has been cited as an influence on a diverse set of authors, including Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Nigel Kneale, Joanne Harris and Richard Matheson.
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Carole Satyamurti Carole Satyamurti (born 1939) is a British poet, sociologist, and translator known for her modern retelling of the Mahabharata.
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Don Shirley Donald Walbridge Shirley (January 29, 1927April 6, 2013) was an American-Jamaican jazz pianist and composer.
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Walter Scott Prize The Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction is a British literary award founded in 2010. At £25,000, it is one of the largest literary awards in the UK. The award was created by the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, whose ancestors were closely linked to Scottish author Sir Walter Scott, who is generally considered the originator of historical fiction with the novel "Waverley" in 1814.
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Danyel Smith Danyel Smith (born June 23, 1965) is an American magazine editor and journalist. Smith is a 2014 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. She is also writing a history of African-American women in pop music. Smith is also the former editor of "Billboard" and the first African-American editor of the magazine. Also, she is the former chief content officer of Vibe Media Group and former editor-in-chief of "Vibe" and vibe.com. She was the first African-American, and first female editor of "Vibe".
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Lionel Snell Ramsey Dukes is the current and most well-known pen name of Lionel Snell, a contemporary English magician, publisher and author on magic and philosophy. He has also under the pen names Lemuel Johnston. Angerford and Lea, Adamai Philotunus and Per Anum Ad Astra. His regular satirical column "The Satanist's Diary" was published in the magazine "Aquarian Arrow" during the 1980s and early 1990s under the pen name The Hon Hugo C StJ l'Estrange and included a multitude of other pen names as contributors.
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Cheryl Dumesnil Cheryl Dumesnil (born 1969) is an American author, poet and editor. She is a frequent contributor to "The Huffington Post". Her poems and essays have appeared in "Indiana Review", "Barrow Street", "Calyx", and "Literary Mama". She frequently writes about suburbia, parenthood, and lesbian issues.
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Michael Snediker Michael D Snediker is a well-known poet and a scholar of American literature and disability theory. He was a Queens National Scholar and Associate Professor of American Literature at Queen’s University, in Kingston, Ontario. His poetry has appeared in "The Cortland Review",1 The Paris Review,2 "Blip Magazine", "The Beloit Poetry Journal", "Blackwarrior Review", "Court Green", "Crazyhorse", "Jubilat", "Margie", "Pleiades". He has been nominated twice for the prestigious Pushcart Prize. His widely reviewed book "Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions" (University of Minnesota Press, 2008). offers new readings of the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Hart Crane, Elizabeth Bishop, and Jack Spicer. He is currently at work on a new book, on “The Aesthetics of Disability: American Literature and Figurative Contingency.” He received his Ph.D in English from The Johns Hopkins University. He currently teaches at the University of Houston.
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Naomi Lewis Naomi Lewis (3 September 1911 – 5 July 2009) was a British poet, essayist, literary critic, anthologist and reteller of stories for children. She is particularly noted for her translations of the Danish children's author, Hans Christian Andersen, as well as for her critical reviews and essays.
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Victoria Lancelotta Victoria Lancelotta is an editor for the "Georgetown Review". Lancelotta has written two books. Her fiction has also appeared in "Glimmer Train", "The Threepenny Review", the Mississippi Review Web, and other magazines. She has been a resident of the MacDowell Colony and the Djerassi Resident Artists' Program and was a visiting scholar at the 1997 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
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Don D'Ammassa Donald Eugene D'Ammassa (born April 24, 1946) is an American fantasy, science fiction and horror reviewer and author. He is chiefly known for his numerous reviews, written over a period of more than thirty years. He writes as Don D'Ammassa.
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Melvin Jules Bukiet Melvin Jules Bukiet is an author and literary critic. He has written a number of novels, including "Sandman's Dust", "After", "While the Messiah Tarries", "Signs and Wonders", "Strange Fire", and "A Faker's Dozen". He edited the collections "Neurotica: Jewish Writers on Sex", "Nothing Makes You Free", and "Scribblers on the Roof". He won the 1992 Edward Lewis Wallant Award.
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Sam Stone Sam Stone is a British author of gothic, horror, fantasy, science fiction and more recently a playwright for film and stage. She is the commissioning editor of Telos Publishing imprint Telos Moonrise. Stone's debut novel "Gabriele Caccini" (authored as Paigan Stone) won the silver award for best horror novel 2007 with "ForeWord" in the USA. She was shortlisted for the August Derleth Award for Best Novel in the British Fantasy Awards for her second novel, "Futile Flame". This book was also a finalist in "ForeWord"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Book of the Year Awards in 2009 and the third book in the series, "Demon Dance", was also a finalist for the 2010 Foreword magazine Awards and won the August Derleth Award for Best Novel in the British Fantasy Awards 2011. This made her the first female writer to win the Award since Tanith Lee did so in 1980. However, after the awards were announced, there was controversy over the voting and so Stone publicly returned the Award, not wishing to be associated with something which might have been awarded erroneously. The BFS then declared that the voting was valid, but then in a later statement announced that the Best Novel would be declared a 'No Award' for that year. Stone was not consulted in this decision. She also won the Best Short Story Award in the British Fantasy Awards in the same year.
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Janet Adam Smith Janet Buchanan Adam Smith OBE (9 December 1905 – 11 September 1999) was a writer, editor, literary journalist and champion of Scottish literature. She was active from the 1930s through to the end of the century and noted for her elegant prose, her penetrating judgement, her independence of mind – and her deep love of mountains and mountaineering.
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Major Jackson Major Jackson (born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American poet and professor. He is the author of four collections of poetry: Roll Deep (W.W. Norton, 2015), Holding Company (W.W. Norton, 2010) and Hoops (W.W. Norton, 2006), finalist for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature-Poetry, and Leaving Saturn (University of Georgia, 2002), winner of the 2000 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Award Circle.
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Patti Webster Patti Webster (June 18, 1964 – September 13, 2013) was an American entertainment publicist, author, and minister. As the CEO of W&W Public Relations, a company she founded in 1991, Webster represented notable recording artists, athletes, and actors, including Janet Jackson, Alicia Keys, Usher, Halle Berry, Chris Paul and Holly Robinson Peete.
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Joanne Harris Joanne Michèle Sylvie Harris, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 3 July 1964) is an English author, known for her award-winning novel "Chocolat". It was later turned into the 2000 film "Chocolat".
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Bill Emmott Bill Emmott (born August 6, 1956) is an English journalist and consultant best known for his period (1993-2006) as Editor-in-Chief of The Economist. In April 2016 the Government of Japan awarded him the "Order of the Rising Sun Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon". He has also written 12 books and worked on two documentary feature films, on Italy and the European Union, and co-founded an educational charity, The Wake Up Foundation, dedicated to raising awareness of the dangers facing Western societies and their values through film, debates and school courses, which launched a Wake Up Europe! initiative in October 2015. His next book, "The Fate of the West", will be published in April 2017 by Profile Books in the UK, in May 2017 by Public Affairs in the US, and June 2017 by Nikkei Publishing in Japan.
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Shirley Hazzard Shirley Hazzard (30 January 1931 – 12 December 2016) was an Australian-American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She was born in Australia and also held United States citizenship.
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Dan Roodt Daniel Francois Roodt (born 26 May 1957) is a South African activist, literary critic and writer.
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William Dean Howells William Dean Howells ( ; March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920) was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of "The Atlantic Monthly", as well as for his own prolific writings, including the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day" and the novels "The Rise of Silas Lapham" and "A Traveler from Altruria".