Who is both a poet and a novelist, Tim O'Brien or Lavinia Greenlaw?
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Tim O'Brien (author) William Timothy "Tim" O'Brien (born October 1, 1946) is an American novelist. He best known for his "The Things They Carried" (1990), a collection of linked short stories. These semi-autobiographical stories were inspired by O'Brien's experiences in the Vietnam War. In 2010 the "New York Times" described O'Brien's book as a Vietnam classic. In addition, he is known for his war novel, "Going After Cacciato" (1978), also about wartime Vietnam, and later novels about postwar lives of veterans.
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Lavinia Greenlaw Lavinia Greenlaw (born 30 July 1962) is an English poet and novelist. Her most recent work is "A Double Sorrow: A Version of Troilus and Criseyde", which was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award in 2014.
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Thomas McCarthy (poet) Thomas McCarthy (born 1954) is an Irish poet, novelist, and critic, born in Cappoquin, Co. Waterford, Ireland. He attended University College Cork where he was part of a resurgence of literary activity under the inspiration of John Montague. Among his contemporaries, described by Thomas Dillon Redshaw as "that remarkable generation," there were Theo Dorgan poet and memoirist, Sean Dunne, poet, Greg Delanty, poet, Maurice Riordan poet and William Wall, novelist and poet. McCarthy edited, at various times, The Cork Review and Poetry Ireland Review. He has published seven collections of poetry with Anvil Press Poetry, London, including " The Sorrow Garden", "The Lost Province", "Mr Dineen's Careful Parade", "The Last Geraldine Officer" ("a major achievement", in the view of academic and poet Maurice Harmon)and "Merchant Prince", described as "an ambitious and substantive book". The main themes of his poetry are Southern Irish politics, love and memory. He is also the author of two novels; "Without Power" and "Asya and Christine". He is married with two children and lives in Cork City where he works in the City Libraries. He won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 1977. His monograph "Rising from the Ashes" tells the story of the burning of the Carnegie Free Library in Cork City by the Black and Tans in 1920 and the subsequent efforts to rebuild the collection with the help of donors from all over the world.
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Pat Ingoldsby Pat Ingoldsby (born 1942) is an Irish poet and TV presenter. He has hosted children's TV shows, written plays for the stage and for radio, published books of short stories, and been a newspaper columnist. Since the mid-1990s, he has withdrawn from the mass media, and is most widely known for his collections of poetry, and his selling of them on the streets of Dublin (usually on Westmoreland Street or College Green).
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Sam Enthoven Sam Enthoven is a children's author who was born in 1974 and lives in North London. He is a graduate of the University of Manchester. He worked for ten years as a bookseller before writing "The Black Tattoo". His second book is "TIM Defender of the Earth", and his third book, "Crawlers", was entered for the Bolton book award 2011. In 2012, Barrington Stoke published My Name Is O, a thriller for reluctant readers.
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Rona Randall Rona Shambrook, née "Green" (born 16 June 1911 in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England), was a British writer of over 50 gothic, romance novels, and some non-fiction books, under the pseudonym of Rona Randall from 1942 to 2001. She also used her married name Rona Shambrook and the pseudonym of Virginia Standage. In 1970, her novel "Broken Tapestry" won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
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Felipe Alfau Felipe Alfau (1902–1999) was a Spanish-born American novelist and poet. Like his contemporaries Luigi Pirandello and Flann O'Brien, Alfau is considered a forerunner of later postmodern writers such as Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, Donald Barthelme, and Gilbert Sorrentino.
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Lola Lemire Tostevin Lola Lemire Tostevin (born June 15, 1937 in Timmins, Ontario) is a Canadian poet and novelist. Although not widely known among the general public, she is one of Canada's leading feminist writers, and a prominent figure in Canadian literary analysis.
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Stewart O'Nan Stewart O'Nan (born February 4, 1961) is an American novelist.
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Laurie Lee Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee, MBE (26 June 1914 – 13 May 1997) was an English poet, novelist and screenwriter, who was brought up in the village of Slad. His most famous work is the autobiographical trilogy "Cider with Rosie" (1959), "As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning" (1969), and "A Moment of War" (1991). The first volume recounts his childhood in the Slad Valley. The second deals with his leaving home for London and his first visit to Spain in 1935, and the third with his return to Spain in December 1937 to join the Republican International Brigades.
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Glenn O'Brien Glenn O'Brien (March 2, 1947 – April 7, 2017) was an American writer who focused largely on the subjects of art, music and fashion. He was featured for many years as "The Style Guy" in "GQ" magazine, and published a book with that title.
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Mina Loy Mina Loy (born Mina Gertrude Löwy; 27 December 1882 – 25 September 1966), was a British artist, writer, poet, playwright, novelist, futurist, feminist, designer of lamps, and bohemian. She was one of the last of the first generation modernists to achieve posthumous recognition. Her poetry was admired by T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Basil Bunting, Gertrude Stein, Francis Picabia and Yvor Winters, among others.
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John Burnside John Burnside (born 19 March 1955) is a Scottish writer, born in Dunfermline. He is one of only two poets (the other being Sean O'Brien) to have won both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize for the same book ("Black Cat Bone").
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Nick Burbridge Nick Burbridge (born 1954) is a British novelist, poet, dramatist, journalist, short story and song writer. He suffers from chronic depression, and his writing often concerns itself with the dispossessed, those at the margins of society. In fRoots, Jerry Gilbert described him as "a second-generation Irishman with a high intellect and an angry disposition."
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Menna Elfyn Menna Elfyn {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 1952) is a Welsh poet, playwright, columnist, and editor.
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Timothy L. O'Brien Timothy L. O'Brien (born 1961) is an American journalist.
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Christopher Buckley (novelist) Christopher Taylor Buckley (born September 28, 1952) is an American political satirist known for writing "God Is My Broker", "Thank You for Smoking", "Little Green Men", "The White House Mess", "No Way to Treat a First Lady", "Wet Work", "Florence of Arabia", "Boomsday", "Supreme Courtship", "Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir" and, most recently, "The Relic Master: A Novel". He is the son of writer William F. Buckley Jr. and socialite Patricia Buckley.
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Alan Noel Latimer Munby Alan Noel Latimer ('Tim') Munby (1913–1974) was an English author, writer and librarian.
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Philip Mitchell Philip Mitchell is an English author, playwright, poet and translator. Born in Manchester, England he is an established author with BBC Radio Drama and was a question-setter on the UK game show "Bacha Hi O'Ma!" (the Welsh equivalent of "Blind Date") but is perhaps best known for his acclaimed translation of Caradog Prichard's Welsh language novel "Un Nos Ola Leuad", as "One Moonlit Night" (ISBN  ).
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Lee Wardlaw Lee Wardlaw (born 20 November 1955) is the author of several children's books, such as "101 Ways to Bug Your Teacher", "101 Ways to Bug Your Parents", and "See You In September". In 2015, Wardlaw will publish "Won Ton and Chopstick" with illustrator Eugene Yelchin, a sequel to their "Won Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku".
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Fred Wah Frederick James Wah, OC, (born January 23, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, scholar and former Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate.
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Timothy Ogene Timothy Ogene (born March 3, 1984) is a Nigerian poet and novelist. He is the author of "Descent & Other Poems" (Deerbrook Editions, 2016) and "The Day Ends Like Any Day" (Holland House, 2017). Of his poetry, Felicity Plunkett writes: