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John Davidson
Poet, translator, novelist, and man of letters, John Davidson spent the first part of his life as a..
Keith Douglas
Keith Douglas (January 24, 1920 - June 9, 1944), was an English poet of World War II.
He was born..
Mark Doty
Mark Doty (born 1953 in Maryville, Tennessee) is an American poet. He earned his Bachelor of Arts fr..
Rita Dove
Rita Dove, an exceptional poet, story writer, and script writer, started seriously making her career..
John Donne
John Donne was born in London into an old Roman Catholic family at a time when anti-Catholic feeling..
James Dickey
Dickey was born in Atlanta, Georgia. After serving as a pilot in the Second World War, he attended V..
Carol Ann Duffy
Poet, playwright and freelance writer Carol Ann Duffy was born on 23 December 1955 in Glasgow and re..
Michael Donaghy
Michael Donaghy (May 24 1954 -September 16 2004) was born into an Irish family and grew up in the Br..
Norman Dubie
Norman Dubie (born 1945) is an American poet. Born in Barre, Vermont, Dubie is the author of over tw..
Mark van Doren
Of all the stars in the long line of distinguished teachers at Columbia College, none have shone mor..
Alan Dugan
Alan Dugan’s book Poems (1961) won the Yale Younger Poets Prize. This book was also awarded the Nati..
Mahmoud Darwish
Mahmoud Darwish was born in 1942 in Barwa, Palestine (now Israel), into a land-owning Sunni Muslim f..
John Dryden
Dryden was educated first at Westminster School and then at Trinity College, Cambridge. His first po..
Hilda Doolittle
Born on September 10, 1886, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Hilda Doolittle was the daughter of an astro..
Roald Dahl
His parents were from Norway, but he was born in Wales, 1916. The family used to spend the summer ho..
Robert Duncan
Duncan, Robert, 1919–88, American poet, b. Oakland, Calif. He was a leading poet of the San Francisc..
William Dunbar
William Dunbar, was born around the time of 1460, he has left vivid images of Scotland in the reign..
William Drummond
William Drummond was born at Hawthornden Manor into a wealthy Scots family. He attended Edinburgh Un..
Regina Derieva
Regina Derieva is an acclaimed Russian poet and writer who have been described by The Guardian as a..
Robert Desnos
Robert Desnos, the son of a café owner, was born on July 4, 1900, in Paris.
He attended commerci..
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