Norman Mailer (17/25)
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D. H. Lawrence (1/25)
Certainly one of the most colorful and controversial writers of the...
Virgina Woolf (2/25)
Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waves, Orlando. All of these...
F. Scott Fitzgerald (3/25)
Few writers conveyed the spirit of the roaring twenties as accurately...
James Joyce (4/25)
Born in Dublin, James Joyce first chose a medical career, then...
Ernest Hemingway (5/25)
A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea...
William S. Burroughs (6/25)
The genius junkie, Burroughs is the king of modern counterculture.
Bertolt Brecht (7/25)
The German poet, playwright, and theatrical reformer who developed...
George Orwell (8/25)
Considered a prophet by many, George Orwell is best known for his...
Graham Greene (9/25)
The supreme storyteller of the 30's generation whose own internal...
Dylan Thomas (10/25)
No other poet in modern history matched the rhythmic drive and verbal...
H.G. Wells (11/25)
The father of science fiction, passionate believer of socialsim and...
Raymond Chandler (12/25)
America's best loved writer of detective stories.
Angela Carter (14/25)
From the dark side of the fairy tale comes Angela Carter's magical...
James Baldwin (15/25)
This program covers Baldwin's life, from his youth in Harlem to later...
Raymond Carver (16/25)
Few contemporary writers have captured the image of "everyman" as...
Norman Mailer (17/25)
Married six times, discontent with mediocrity and never far from...
W.H. Auden (18/25)
The century's foremost poet and chronicler of the political turmoil...
William Golding (19/25)
William Golding's power to create contemporary myth is unparalleled...
V.S. Naipaul (20/25)
An elusive Trinidadian-Indian and outspoken commentator on the state...
Vladimir Nabokov (21/25)
Relatives, friends, and professional associates examine the life and...
Evelyn Waugh (22/25)
Waugh's keen observation of the priviledged world he moved in made...
Aldous Huxley (23/25)
Huxley spent most of the 1920's (and the first half of the 1930's)...
Primo Levi (24/25)
When the Italian-Jewish chemist Levi survived Auschwitz, he became...
E.M. Forster (25/25)
In this program, Forster's biographer, friends, and literary critics...