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William Rose Benet
William Rose Benét was born on February 2, 1886, in Brooklyn, New York, but was raised in the Pennsy..
John Burnside
Poet and novelist John Burnside was born on 19 March 1955 in Dunfermline, Scotland. He studied Eng..
Edgar Bowers
Edgar Bowers was born in 1924 in Rome, Georgia, where his father ran a plant nursery. During World W..
John Betjeman
John Betjeman was born on August 28th, 1906, near Highgate, London. His father was Ernest Betjemann,..
William Bronk
Willian Bronk was an American poet, born 17 February 1918, died 22 February 1999.
William M Bronk..
D. C. Berry
David Chapman Berry, Jr., was born on July 23, 1942, in Vicksburg, Mississippi (Bellande 2) to David..
Laurence Binyon
Laurence Robert Binyon, (August 10, 1869 - March 10, 1943) was a British poet and scholar.
He is..
Anne Bronte
Anne Bronte was born on January 17th 1820 at Thornton, Bradford in Yorkshire, the youngest of the si..
Joseph Brodsky
BRODSKY, Joseph (1940-96), Russian-born poet and Nobel laureate, born in Saint Petersburg (then know..
Imamu Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka, born in 1934, in Newark, New Jersey, USA, is the author of over 40 books of essays, po..
Bertolt Brecht
original name EUGEN BERTHOLD FRIEDRICH BRECHT
(b. Feb. 10, 1898, Augsburg, Ger.--d. Aug. 14, 1956,..
Rupert Brooke
English poet Rupert Chawner Brooke was born in 1887. The son of the Rugby School’s housemaster, Broo..
Anne Bradstreet
Anne Bradstreet was born in 1612 to a nonconformist former soldier of Queen Elizabeth, Thomas Dudley..
Stephen Vincent Benet
Stephen Vincent Benét was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, into an army family. His father, Colonel..
Richard Brautigan
Born on January 30th, 1935 in Tacoma, Washington, little is known of his childhood but it is rumored..
Lord Byron
Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) was the son of Captain John Byron, and Catherine Gordon of Gigh..
Charles Baudelaire
"Charles Baudelaire was one of the greatest French poets of the 19th century. His work has been a ma..
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
MRS. BROWNING was born in London, England, in 1809, and she died at Casa Guidi, Florence, June 29, 1..
Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski, born in 1920, began writing at a young age and was first published in the 1940s. T..
Robert Bly
Robert Bly was born in western Minnesota in 1926 to parents of Norwegian stock. He enlisted in the N..
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