In her 2016 New York Times obituary, this author was said to have "gained a reputation as a literary Garbo"
A 1984 trip to Normandy inspired this journalist to write a book that popularized a term for an era of Americans
At age 26 in April 1917, she passed the assistant's exam for London's Society of Apothecaries
At the start of his writing career, his wife told him, if it didn't work out, at 6'4", he could be a reacher in a supermarket
In an 1833 story by her, an alchemist's assistant drinks a potion giving eternal life but ends up seeing all he loves die
Following his unexpected death in 2001, he was referred to as the "Monty Python of science fiction"
For much of the 1920s, he lived on Eddy Street in San Francisco's Tenderloin District
"Love" is within the titles of 3 of his most famous books; a fourth, "The Rainbow", calls love "the flower of life"
When asked if she was the inspiration for the wife in a 1922 novel, this woman replied, "No. She was much fatter"
After his death his son Michel reworked & published manuscripts like one about a meteor made of gold heading for Earth
At age 9 in 1883 she moved west, where she met Annie Pavelka, a young pioneer on whom she would later model a title character
In 1960 Jean-Paul Sartre wrote of this man's "victorious attempt... to snatch every instant of his existence from his future death"
In the 1950s The New York Times said this author "is writing about all lust" & his lecherous narrator "is all of us"
Early in her career she translated romance novels into Spanish, often changing the dialogue to make the heroines smarter
Reversing the story of this heroine she created, Patricia MacLachlan was born on the prairie but spent much of her life in New England
Featuring a statue of a man escaping his grave, his tomb in Amiens contrasts with the title of his 1864 adventure novel
While working for British naval intelligence during World War II, he was code-named 17F
These 2 men who both died in Boston in the mid-20th century each won 4 Pulitzers, one man for Poetry & the other for Drama
He has studied Cordon Bleu cooking, but is known for his 1981 creation of a character with unconventional taste in cuisine
In addition to knowing many languages & making up his own, he also taught language at the universities of Leeds & Oxford
Horrified by the 1964 movie musical from her work, she okayed a U.K. stage version as long as "no Americans" were involved
On this woman's passing in 2019, Oprah Winfrey called her "a magician with language, who understood the power of words"
Publishers Weekly has dubbed this former middle school English teacher turned bestselling author "Storyteller of the Gods"
2 events figure prominently in her 2003 memoir: a coup in Chile on September 11, 1973 & the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001
Now in her 70s, this author splits her time between Paris & San Francisco, often writing 20 to 22 hours a day on an old typewriter
In 2016 the OED celebrated his 100th birthday by adding words connected to his writings, including scrumdiddlyumptious
In 1947 she testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee on how the film "Song of Russia" was Communist propaganda
This author & illustrator who won the 1964 Caldecott Medal was dubbed the "Picasso of children's books"
An award for works of horror, dark fantasy & psychological suspense honors this author who came to fame with a 1948 short story
"I am making myself liable to Articles 30 & 31 of the law of 29 July 1881 regarding the press, which make libel a punishable offense"
Born in 1866, he has been called "the Shakespeare of science fiction"
One of her circle described her as "a lacy sleeve with a bottle of vitriol concealed in its folds"
The first novelist on Forbes' list of billionaires, this author fell off in 2012 after giving an estimated $160 mil. to charity
After this woman's death, her daughter wrote, "As far as we in the family are concerned, the alphabet now ends at Y"
Whitman said this man's poetry has "a propensity toward nocturnal themes, a demoniac undertone behind every page"
In his 1958 essay "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose", he compared a writing technique to a jazz musician's style
A prefatory poem he wrote to one of his novels tells of "the dream-child moving through a land of wonders wild and new"
In 1929 Georgia O'Keeffe painted the tree in New Mexico under which this British-born author used to write
This Pulitzer winner changed his first name to that of an Irish king, avoiding associations with a famous ventriloquist's dummy
"The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots", written by her in 1914, was first published in 2016
His tombstone in a Hampshire churchyard reads, "Knight, patriot, physician & man of letters" & "22 May 1859-7 July 1930"
His official website says, "It is forty years since I hung up my cloak and dagger"
Asked if he read novels, philosopher Gilbert Ryle said, "Yes, all six, every year", referring to this British author
In 1948 he wrote he had an idea for a novel in which 2 guys hitchhike to California "in search of something they don't really find"
A critic said that this bestselling author "makes me wish there were more than 26 letters"
This children's author considered using the anagrams Edgar Cuthwellis & Edgar U.C. Westhill for his pen name
The author of his own dystopian classic in 1932, this man taught a young George Orwell at Eton
In 1990 he said, "I would like to do what Faulkner did; carve out a little piece of Mississippi territory & claim it for my own"
This woman who passed away in 2015 wrote what is billed as Australia's "Gone with the Wind"
In addition to her novels, she also wrote a children's book about Sun Yat-sen & an "Oriental Cookbook"