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Best known for his novel The White Hotel (1981), which was a close runner up to Midnight's Children for the 1981 Booker Prize. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/29/dm-thomas-obituary

Prolific Irish poet Brendan Kennelly has died at age 85. Had a large presence and influence on Irish cultural life particularly in the 1980s and 1990s. His frequent appearances on national TV & radio were often watershed moments of deep import to the country and its people. Professor of...

Best known for screenplay of The Last Picture Show and Brokeback Mountain. Also, Pulitzer Prize winning novel Lonesome Dove. "....demythologized the American West with his unromantic depiction of life on the 19th century frontier.."

Belfast born, Irish lyric poet Derek Mahon. Near contemporary of Seamus Heaney. One of his best known works is the much anthologized poem A Disused Shed in Co(unty) Wexford. Deeply potent is the image of the mushrooms locked away for close to half a century, "grown beyond nature"...

If you lived in or passed through New York from 1970 through to early 2000s and read the newspapers, chances are good you came across Pete Hamill. Quintessential New Yorker, high school drop-out with a gift for words and an eye for a story. His circle of friends and acquaintances was wide and...

Primarily known as the first full-length biographer of Samuel Beckett. Unknown, youthful, with no track record in biography, Beckett agreed to her request to write his biography in the early 70s. Later biographies included de Beauvoir, Nin, Al Capone, Saul Steinberg, Jung...

Australian/British cultural commentator & accomplished all-rounder, best known as a TV personality in UK. Author of well-regarded Cultural Amnesia...

Wrote influential works on Suicide, Divorce and Poker (!!!) https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/23/al-alvarez-obituary...

Heard this recommended on Public Radio this weekend. What starts out with a scholarly reference to a Dickens-Dostoevsky meeting in 1862 London takes a curious professorial sleuth on a Nabokovian-like journey of shady authorship. Longish article but well written and well told. Worth it...