List of librarians
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- Ada AdlerAda AdlerAda Sara Adler was a Danish classical scholar and librarian.She is best known for her critical, standard edition of the Suda, which she published in 5 volumes...
- Mary Eileen AhernMary Eileen AhernMary Eileen Ahern was a librarian and leader of the modern library movement.She has been selected as one of the "100 of the Most Important Leaders We Had in the 20th Century" in the American Libraries list published in 1999. She was an important influencer and early organizer of libraries in America...
(died 1938) - Henriette AvramHenriette AvramHenriette Davidson Avram was a computer programmer and systems analyst who developed the MARC format , which is the national and international data standard for bibliographic and holdings information in libraries...
(MARC standardsMARC standardsMARC, MAchine-Readable Cataloging, is a data format and set of related standards used by libraries to encode and share information about books and other material they collect...
developer) - Antoine Alexandre BarbierAntoine Alexandre BarbierAntoine Alexandre Barbier was a French librarian and bibliographer.He was born in Coulommiers . He took priest's orders, from which, however, he was finally released by the pope in 1801...
- John Davis BarnettJohn Davis BarnettJohn Davis Barnett was an early Canadian curator-librarian. Barnett collectedthe materials to create one of the significant early personal Ontario libraries and was a vocal...
(1848 - 1922 Canada) - John J. BeckleyJohn J. BeckleyJohn James Beckley was an American political campaign manager and the first Librarian of the United States Congress, from 1802 to 1807...
(First Librarian of Congress, also noted as politician) - Anastasius BibliothecariusAnastasius BibliothecariusAnastasius Bibliothecarius was Head of archives and antipope of the Roman Catholic Church.- Family and education :...
- Sanford BermanSanford BermanSanford Berman is a radical librarian known for promoting alternative viewpoints in librarianship and acting as a pro-active information conduit to other librarians around the world, mostly via public speaking, voluminous correspondence, and unsolicited "care packages" delivered via the U.S....
- James H. BillingtonJames H. BillingtonLord LeBron James Hadley Billington is an American academic. He is the thirteenth Librarian of the United States Congress.-Early years:...
(13th Librarian of Congress, also noted as historian) - Bob BerringBob BerringRobert Charles "Bob" Berring, Jr. is a noted figure in law, as a professor, librarian, scholar and researcher.-Biography:...
(notable law librarian) - Thomas BodleyThomas BodleySir Thomas Bodley was an English diplomat and scholar, founder of the Bodleian Library, Oxford.-Biography:...
(Founder of the Bodleian LibraryBodleian LibraryThe Bodleian Library , the main research library of the University of Oxford, is one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and in Britain is second in size only to the British Library...
and English diplomat; 1545 -1613) - Arna BontempsArna BontempsArnaud "Arna" Wendell Bontemps was an American poet and a noted member of the Harlem Renaissance.- Life and career :...
(author, bibliographer, and Fisk UniversityFisk UniversityFisk University is an historically black university founded in 1866 in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. The world-famous Fisk Jubilee Singers started as a group of students who performed to earn enough money to save the school at a critical time of financial shortages. They toured to raise funds to...
librarian) - Daniel J. BoorstinDaniel J. BoorstinDaniel Joseph Boorstin was an American historian, professor, attorney, and writer. He was appointed twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress from 1975 until 1987.- Biography:...
(12th Librarian of Congress, also noted as historian) - Virginia Boucher (longtime leader in both the ALA and the International Federation of Library Associations; author of library science books;)
- Wallace BreemWallace BreemWallace Breem was a British librarian and author. He was the Librarian and Keeper of Manuscripts of the Inner Temple Law Library, and wrote historical novels, including Eagle in the Snow ....
(noted novelist and law librarian) - Lee Pierce ButlerLee Pierce ButlerLee Pierce Butler was a professor at the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago. He was one of the first to use the term "library science" Lee Pierce Butler (1884 – 1953) was a professor at the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago. He was one of the first to use the...
- Andrea Crestadoro Andrea CrestadoroDr. Andrea Crestadoro was a bibliographer who became Chief Librarian of Manchester Free Library, 1864–1879. He is credited with being the first person to propose that books could be catalogued by using keywords that did not occur in the title of the book...
- Charles Ammi CutterCharles Ammi CutterCharles Ammi Cutter is an important figure in the history of American library science.Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Cutter was appointed assistant librarian of Harvard Divinity School while still a student there...
(1837 - 1903) - Mayme Agnew ClaytonMayme Agnew ClaytonMayme Agnew Clayton was a librarian, and the Founder, President & Spiritual Leader of the Western States Black Research and Education Center , the largest privately held collection of African-American historical materials in the world. The collection represents the core holdings of the Mayme A...
(1924 - 2006) - Marjorie CottonMarjorie CottonMarjorie Cotton Isherwood, best known by the name Marjorie Cotton , was the first professionally qualified children's librarian in New South Wales, Australia...
(1913 - 2003; first professionally qualified children's librarian in New South Wales, Australia) - John Cotton DanaJohn Cotton DanaJohn Cotton Dana was an American librarian and museum director whose main objective was to make the library relevant to the daily lives of the citizens and to promote the benefits of reading...
(1856 - 1931) - Lorcan DempseyLorcan DempseyLorcan Dempsey is the Vice President and Chief Strategist of the Online Computer Library Center .He is a native of Dublin, Ireland, where he worked for some years in public libraries. He writes and talks about libraries and networked information...
- Melvil DeweyMelvil DeweyMelville Louis Kossuth Dewey was an American librarian and educator, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification, and a founder of the Lake Placid Club....
- William S. DixWilliam S. DixWilliam Shepherd Dix was a scholar/librarian who had a prestigious 22-year career as Librarian at Princeton University in New Jersey without obtaining a degree in library science...
- Luther H. EvansLuther H. EvansLuther Harris Evans was an American political scientist who served as the tenth Librarian of the United States Congress.-Biography:...
(10th Librarian of Congress)
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- Johann Albert FabriciusJohann Albert FabriciusJohann Albert Fabricius was a German classical scholar and bibliographer.-Biography:Fabricius was born at Leipzig, son of Werner Fabricius, director of music in the church of St. Paul at Leipzig, who was the author of several works, the most important being Deliciae Harmonicae...
(bibliographer) - Mary Cutler FairchildMary Cutler FairchildMary Salome Cutler Fairchild was a pioneering American librarian and library educator.Mary Cutler was born in Dalton, Massachusetts. She attended Mount Holyoke College and graduated in 1875. She later taught at the college from 1876 to 1878. In 1884, she was hired by Melvil Dewey, the librarian...
(pioneer library educator, 1855 - 1921) - Elizabeth FutasElizabeth FutasElizabeth Futas was the head of the University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Library and Information Science from 1986-1995. Her text on Collection Development is widely regarded....
(1944 - 1995; Director of the University of Rhode IslandUniversity of Rhode IslandThe University of Rhode Island is the principal public research university in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Its main campus is located in Kingston. Additional campuses include the Feinstein Campus in Providence, the Narragansett Bay Campus in Narragansett, and the W. Alton Jones Campus in West...
's Graduate School of Library and Information Studies (GSLIS) - Helen Thornton GeerHelen Thornton GeerHelen Thornton Geer was a prominent author, professor, and librarian. She was the author of the 1955 Library Science classic “Charging Systems,” which detailed library circulation systems...
ALA Headquarters Librarian, Author, Consultant, and Professor - Johann Matthias GesnerJohann Matthias GesnerJohann Matthias Gesner was a German classical scholar and schoolmaster.He was born at Roth an der Rednitz near Ansbach. His father, Johann Samuel Gesner, a pastor in Auhausen, died in 1704, leaving the family in straitened circumstances...
(bibliographer) - Kenneth MacLean Glazier, Sr.Kenneth MacLean Glazier, Sr.Kenneth MacLean Glazier, Sr. was a Canadian minister and librarian.He was minister of Glenview Presbyterian Church in Toronto before working at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University...
(Canadian librarian) - Frederick R. GoffFrederick R. GoffFrederick Richmond Goff was an American rare book librarian and specialist in incunabula.-Early life and education:Goff was born in Newport, Rhode Island, on April 23, 1916...
(incunabula scholar) - Michael GormanMichael Gorman (librarian)Michael Gorman is a British-born librarian, library scholar and editor/writer on library issues noted for his traditional views. During his tenure as president of the American Library Association , he was vocal in his opinions on a range of subjects, notably technology and education...
- Jan GruterJan GruterJan Gruter was a Dutch critic and scholar.-Life:Jan Gruter was Dutch on his father's side and English on his mother's, and was born at Antwerp...
(scholar) - Camilla GryskiCamilla GryskiCamilla Gryski is a Canadian librarian and string figure enthusiast. She has a degree in English and in M.L.S., and a Montessori Primary Teaching Certificate. She works in Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children as a Therapeutic Clown....
- Peter Havard-WilliamsPeter Havard-WilliamsPeter Havard-Williams was a Welsh librarian and library educator. In the mid 1980s, he served as Chief Librarian to the Council of Europe.-Early years:Havard-Williams received degrees in Wales and Oxford...
(librarian educator) - Wolgang Herrmann (librarian - member of Nazi’s Purification Committee http://www.abebooks.co.uk/docs/Community/Featured/book-burning.shtml)
- Susan H. Hildreth (California State Librarian; http://www.library.ca.gov/html/welcome.cfm)
- Ted HinesTed HinesTheodore Christian "Ted Hines was a Washington, D.C.-born pioneer in the use of microcomputers and microcomputer programs in libraries. He attended undergraduate school at George Washington University and received his Masters of Library Science in 1958 and a PhD in 1960 both from Rutgers...
- Judith HoffbergJudith HoffbergJudith Hoffberg was a librarian, archivist, lecturer, a curator and art writer, and editor and publisher of Umbrella, a newsletter on artists' books, mail art, and Fluxus art. She received a B.A. in Political Science from UCLA in 1956. She went on to get an M.A. in Italian Language and Literature...
(art librarian) - Thomas JamesThomas JamesThomas James was an English librarian, first librarian of the Bodleian Library, Oxford.James became a fellow of New College, Oxford in 1593...
- Charles Coffin JewettCharles Coffin JewettCharles Coffin Jewett was the Librarian and Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in 1848 before becoming Superintendent of the Boston Public Library in 1858.-Early life:...
- E.J. Josey
- M S Khan - "Father of the LibraryLibraryIn a traditional sense, a library is a large collection of books, and can refer to the place in which the collection is housed. Today, the term can refer to any collection, including digital sources, resources, and services...
and Information ScienceInformation science-Introduction:Information science is an interdisciplinary science primarily concerned with the analysis, collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information...
of BangladeshBangladeshBangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...
" (http://www.balid.org/mskl.html) - Mohammad KhatamiMohammad KhatamiSayyid Mohammad Khātamī is an Iranian scholar, philosopher, Shiite theologian and Reformist politician. He served as the fifth President of Iran from August 2, 1997 to August 3, 2005. He also served as Iran's Minister of Culture in both the 1980s and 1990s...
former President of Iran, previously Head of National Library of IranIranIran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia... - Frederick Kilgour
- Judith KrugJudith KrugJudith Fingeret Krug was an American librarian and anti-censorship activist. She was appointed as the Director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom in 1967 and Executive Director of the Freedom to Read Foundation in 1969...
- Forty year leader of ALA's OIF - Nadezhda Konstantinovna KrupskayaNadezhda Konstantinovna KrupskayaNadezhda Konstantinovna "Nadya" Krupskaya was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and politician. She married the Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin in 1898. She was deputy minister of Education in 1929–1939, Doctor of Education....
(wife of Lenin) - Philip LarkinPhilip LarkinPhilip Arthur Larkin, CH, CBE, FRSL is widely regarded as one of the great English poets of the latter half of the twentieth century...
- Margaret LeiteritzMargaret LeiteritzMargaret Leiteritz was a German painter.In the 1960s and early 1970s, Leiteritz produced her 'painted diagrams', which drew heavily from the scientific articles and books in her care ....
(painter, who based her work of scientific items which she knew as a librarian) - Seymour LubetzkySeymour LubetzkySeymour Lubetzky was a major cataloging theorist and a prominent librarian. Born in Belarus as Shmaryahu Lubetzky, he worked for years at the Library of Congress. He worked as a teacher before he immigrated to the United States in 1927. He earned his BA from UCLA in 1931, and his MA from UC...
- Roderick Samson MabombaRoderick Samson MabombaRoderick Samson Mabomba was an important library leader in Malawi. He worked hard to make Information Science not only and important subject to study in Malawi but also to bring libraries to the attention of the Malawi government...
Malawian librarian - Archibald MacLeishArchibald MacLeishArchibald MacLeish was an American poet, writer, and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the Modernist school of poetry. He received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.-Early years:...
(9th Librarian of Congress, and Pulitzer Prize poet) - Patrick MagruderPatrick MagruderPatrick Magruder was the second Librarian of the United States Congress, serving from 1807 to 1815.-Biography:Magruder was born on his family’s estate, Locust Grove, near Rockville in Montgomery County, Maryland. Magruder attended Princeton College and became a lawyer...
(2nd Librarian of Congress & politician) - John Silva MeehanJohn Silva MeehanJohn Silva Meehan was an American printer and publisher. He was the fourth Librarian of the United States Congress from 1829 to 1861....
(4th Librarian of Congress) - August Molinier (French historian)
- Eric MoonEric MoonEric Edward Moon is a librarian and editor who had a shaping influence on American librarianship in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s as editor-in-chief of Library Journal, as President of the American Library Association, and as chief editor at Scarecrow Press...
(editor of Library JournalLibrary JournalLibrary Journal is a trade publication for librarians. It was founded in 1876 by Melvil Dewey . It reports news about the library world, emphasizing public libraries, and offers feature articles about aspects of professional practice...
) - Anne Carroll Moore (Pioneering Children's Librarian)
- Isadore Gilbert MudgeIsadore Gilbert MudgeIsadore Gilbert Mudge was ranked by the magazine American Libraries as one of the top 100 important leaders that libraries have had in the 20th Century. Mudge was a defining influence on what a contemporary reference librarian is and was essential for helping organize and promote reference books...
(edited Guide to Resource Works) - L. Quincy Mumford (11th Librarian of Congress)
- Ludovico Antonio MuratoriLudovico Antonio MuratoriLudovico Antonio Muratori was an Italian historian, notable as a leading scholar of his age, and for his discovery of the Muratorian fragment, the earliest known list of New Testament books....
(Italian librarian, archivist, & historian)
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- Gerhard Brandt NaesethGerhard Brandt NaesethGerhard Brandt Naeseth was an American librarian and genealogist who specialized in the field of Norwegian-American immigration.-Background and career:...
- (Norwegian-American Genealogical Center & Naeseth Library. Madison, Wisconsin) - Makoto NagaoMakoto Nagaois a Japanese computer scientist. He contributed to various fields: machine translation, natural language processing, pattern recognition, image processing and library science...
(1936 - ) (the 19th Director of National Diet LibraryNational Diet LibraryThe is the only national library in Japan. It was established in 1948 for the purpose of assisting members of the in researching matters of public policy. The library is similar in purpose and scope to the U.S...
of Japan, and a computer scientist specializing in digital library) - Gabriel NaudéGabriel NaudéGabriel Naudé was a French librarian and scholar. He was a prolific writer who produced works on many subjects including politics, religion, history and the supernatural. An influential work on library science was the 1627 book Advice on Establishing a Library...
- Bonnie NardiBonnie NardiBonnie Nardi is an anthropologist who most recent work concerns virtual worlds. Her book My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft was published by the University of Michigan Press . She is co-author Bonnie Nardi is an anthropologist who most recent work...
(information science) - Margaret Cross Norton
- Paul OtletPaul OtletPaul Marie Ghislain Otlet was an author, entrepreneur, visionary, lawyer and peace activist; he is one of several people who have been considered the father of information science, a field he called "documentation". Otlet created the Universal Decimal Classification, one of the most prominent...
- John Henry Pyle PaffordJohn Henry Pyle PaffordJohn Henry Pyle Pafford was Librarian of the University of London Library from 1945 to 1967.He acted as an editor of The Year's Work in Librarianship from 1939-1950...
(1900 - 1996) - Antonio Panizzi (Chief Librarian of the British MuseumBritish MuseumThe British Museum is a museum of human history and culture in London. Its collections, which number more than seven million objects, are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its...
library) 19th c. - Nancy PearlNancy PearlNancy Pearl is an American librarian, best-selling author, literary critic and was, until August 2004, the Executive Director of the Washington Center for the Book at Seattle Public Library...
(librarian & author) - Herbert PutnamHerbert PutnamHerbert Putnam was an American lawyer, publisher, and librarian. He was the eighth Librarian of the United States Congress from 1899 to 1939.-Biography:...
(8th Librarian of Congress) - S. R. RanganathanS. R. RanganathanShiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan was a mathematician and librarian from India. His most notable contributions to the field were his five laws of library science and the development of the first major analytico-synthetic classification system, the colon classification...
- Fremont RiderFremont RiderArthur Fremont Rider was an American writer, poet, editor, inventor, genealogist, and librarian. He studied under Melvil Dewey, of whom he wrote a biography for the ALA. Throughout his life he wrote in several genres including plays, poetry, short stories, non-fiction and an auto-biography which...
- Ralph R. Shaw (Librarian)Ralph R. Shaw (librarian)Ralph R. Shaw was a librarian, a publisher, and an innovator in library science.He married his first wife Viola Susan Leff in 1929 and married his second wife, Mary McChesney Andrews in 1969.- Scarecrow Press :...
- Jesse SheraJesse SheraJesse Hauk Shera was an American librarian and information scientist who pioneered the use of information technology in libraries and played a role in the expansion of its use in other areas throughout the 1950s, 60s, and 70s....
- Louis ShoresLouis ShoresLouis Shores was a noted librarian who worked for the promotion of the library as the center of all learning, in both public and academic institutions. Shores was recognized for his integration of audiovisual materials into library collections...
- Regina SmithJenkins Law LibraryThe Law Library Company of the City of Philadelphia was founded in 1802 by 71 attorneys, among whom were the most prominent lawyers of the time. They formed a corporation so they could jointly purchase a collection of legal materials with which to practice law...
(Jenkins Law Library) - Frances Lander SpainFrances Lander SpainDr. Frances Lander Spain was a children's librarian and an instructor of school library services. In 1960, she became the first children's librarian to ever hold the position of President of the American Library Association...
(ALA President 1960-61; 1903-1999) - Ainsworth Rand SpoffordAinsworth Rand SpoffordAinsworth Rand Spofford was an American journalist and publisher. He was the sixth Librarian of the United States Congress from 1864 to 1897.-Early years:...
(6th Librarian of Congress; 1825 - 1908) - John G. Stephenson (5th Librarian of Congress)
- SuetoniusSuetoniusGaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly known as Suetonius , was a Roman historian belonging to the equestrian order in the early Imperial era....
(Roman historian & archivist) - Peggy SullivanPeggy SullivanPeggy Sullivan, who currently resides in Chicago, IL, serves as a Library Consultant. She specializes in executive searches, primarily in public libraries...
- Friedrich SylburgFriedrich SylburgFriedrich Sylburg was a German classical scholar.The son of a farmer, he was born at Wetter near Marburg. He studied at Marburg, Jena, Geneva, and, lastly, Paris, where his teacher was Henry Estienne , to whose great Greek Thesaurus Sylburg afterwards made important contributions.Returning to...
(16th c. German scholar) - Gottfried van SwietenGottfried van SwietenGottfried, Freiherr van Swieten was a diplomat, librarian, and government official who served the Austrian Empire during the 18th century...
(Austrian Imperial librarian 1777-1803, introduced first card catalog) - Louis TimotheeLouis TimotheeLouis Timothee was a prominent Colonial American printer in the Colony of Pennsylvania, who worked for Benjamin Franklin. He was the first American librarian.-Early life:...
(first American librarian) - Arnulfo TrejoArnulfo TrejoArnulfo Duenes Trejo was a writer and Professor of Library Science at the University of Arizona. He was a leader in the movement to increase library collections of Latino literature and Spanish-language materials in the United States...
(US Hispano-American librarian) - Eva VeronaEva VeronaEva Verona was the most eminent Croatian librarian and information scientist and is well known among information scientists around the world.She was born in Trieste in 1905...
- George WatterstonGeorge WatterstonGeorge Watterston was the third Librarian of the United States Congress from 1815 to 1829.-Biography:Watterston, the son of a builder from Jedburgh, Scotland, was born on board a ship in New York Harbor. When Watterston was eight, his family moved to Washington D.C., his father attracted by the...
(3rd Librarian of Congress) - Jessamyn WestJessamyn West (librarian)Jessamyn Charity West is an American librarian and blogger, best known as the creator of librarian.net and for her unconventional views of her profession...
- Herbert S. White
- Patrick WilsonPatrick Wilson (librarian)Patrick Wilson was a noted librarian, information scientist and philosopher who served as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and as dean of the School of Library and Information Studies there...
- Justin WinsorJustin WinsorJustin Winsor was a prominent American writer, librarian, and historian.-Background and education:Winsor was born in Boston, Massachusetts, son of Nathaniel Winsor III and Ann Thomas Howland Winsor...
(Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
librarian) - Lawrence C. WrothLawrence C. WrothLawrence Counselman Wroth was an American historian and the author of The Colonial Printer, the definitive book on the American printing trade during the period of 1639 through 1800...
, at the John Carter Brown LibraryJohn Carter Brown LibraryThe John Carter Brown Library is an independently funded research library of history and the humanities located on the campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island... - Ella Gaines YatesElla Gaines YatesElla Gaines Yates is recognized in the library world as being the first African-American director of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System in Georgia....
- John Russell YoungJohn Russell YoungJohn Russell Young was an American journalist, author, diplomat, and the seventh Librarian of the United States Congress from 1897 to 1899.-Biography:...
(7th Librarian of Congress, also notable as a journalist) - ZenodotusZenodotusZenodotus was a Greek grammarian, literary critic, and Homeric scholar. A native of Ephesus and a pupil of Philitas of Cos, he was the first librarian of the Library of Alexandria...
- First superintendent of Library of AlexandriaLibrary of AlexandriaThe Royal Library of Alexandria, or Ancient Library of Alexandria, in Alexandria, Egypt, was the largest and most significant great library of the ancient world. It flourished under the patronage of the Ptolemaic dynasty and functioned as a major center of scholarship from its construction in the...
; noted scholar of the 3rd century B.C.
One-time librarians noted for other accomplishments
- Mohammad KhatamiMohammad KhatamiSayyid Mohammad Khātamī is an Iranian scholar, philosopher, Shiite theologian and Reformist politician. He served as the fifth President of Iran from August 2, 1997 to August 3, 2005. He also served as Iran's Minister of Culture in both the 1980s and 1990s...
(Iranian president and scholar) - Reinaldo ArenasReinaldo ArenasReinaldo Arenas was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright who despite his early sympathy for the 1959 revolution, grew critical of and then rebelled against the Cuban government.- Life :...
(Cuban author) - Roland BarthesRoland BarthesRoland Gérard Barthes was a French literary theorist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. Barthes' ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, existentialism, social theory, Marxism, anthropology and...
(French writer and philosopher) - Georges BatailleGeorges BatailleGeorges Bataille was a French writer. His multifaceted work is linked to the domains of literature, anthropology, philosophy, economy, sociology and history of art...
(French writer) - Ludwig BechsteinLudwig BechsteinLudwig Bechstein was a German writer and collector of folk fairy tales.He was born in Weimar, the illegitimate child of Johanna Carolina Dorothea Bechstein and Hubert Dupontreau, a French emigrant who disappeared even before the birth of the child, and Ludwig thus grew up his first nine years in...
(German author) - Hector BerliozHector BerliozHector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...
(French composer) (Librarian, Paris Conservatoire) - Thomas Berger (US novelist)Thomas Berger (US novelist)-Biography:Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Berger was in Europe with the United States Army and then studied at the University of Cincinnati, and at Columbia University. He worked as a librarian and a journalist before publishing his first novel, Crazy in Berlin, in 1958. Berger may be best known for...
- Arna BontempsArna BontempsArnaud "Arna" Wendell Bontemps was an American poet and a noted member of the Harlem Renaissance.- Life and career :...
(French artist) - Jorge Luis BorgesJorge Luis BorgesJorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo , known as Jorge Luis Borges , was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school, receiving his baccalauréat from the Collège de Genève in 1918. The family...
(author and poet) - John BraineJohn BraineJohn Gerard Braine was an English novelist. Braine is usually associated with the Angry Young Men movement.-Biography:...
(British novelist) - Laura BushLaura BushLaura Lane Welch Bush is the wife of the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush. She was the First Lady of the United States from January 20, 2001, to January 20, 2009. She has held a love of books and reading since childhood and her life and education have reflected that interest...
- CallimachusCallimachusCallimachus was a native of the Greek colony of Cyrene, Libya. He was a noted poet, critic and scholar at the Library of Alexandria and enjoyed the patronage of the Egyptian–Greek Pharaohs Ptolemy II Philadelphus and Ptolemy III Euergetes...
(poet) - Lewis CarrollLewis CarrollCharles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll , was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the...
(author) - Giacomo CasanovaGiacomo CasanovaGiacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, Histoire de ma vie , is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century...
- Isaac CasaubonIsaac CasaubonIsaac Casaubon was a classical scholar and philologist, first in France and then later in England, regarded by many of his time as the most learned in Europe.-Early life:...
- CassiodorusCassiodorusFlavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator , commonly known as Cassiodorus, was a Roman statesman and writer, serving in the administration of Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths. Senator was part of his surname, not his rank.- Life :Cassiodorus was born at Scylletium, near Catanzaro in...
- Beverly ClearyBeverly ClearyBeverly Cleary is an American author. Educated at colleges in California and Washington, she worked as a librarian before writing children's books. Cleary has written more than 30 books for young adults and children. Some of her best-known characters are Henry Huggins, Ribsy, Beatrice Quimby, her...
(the novelist) - Joanna ColeJoanna ColeJoanna Cole , is a United States author of children’s books. She is most famous as the author of The Magic School Bus series of children's books...
(children's book author & librarian) - Ina CoolbrithIna CoolbrithIna Donna Coolbrith was an American poet, writer, librarian, and a prominent figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary community...
(poet & librarian) - Frank CoombsFrank CoombsFrank Leslie Coombs was a United States Representative from California.-Life:Frank Leslie Coombs was born in Napa, Napa County, California, the son of Nathan Coombs and Maria Isabel Gordon. He attended the public schools in California and Dorchester High School in Boston, Massachusetts...
(US politician; also State Librarian of California 1898-1899) - Gratia CountrymanGratia CountrymanGratia Alta Countryman was a nationally-known librarian who led the Minneapolis Public Library from 1904 to 1936. She was the daughter of immigrant farmers Alta and Levi Countryman. She pioneered many ways to make the library more accessible and user-friendly to all of the city's residents,...
(Minneapolis librarian) - Pierre François le CourayerPierre François le CourayerPierre François le Courayer was a French Catholic theological writer, for many years an expatriate in England.-Life:Pierre François le Courayer was born at Rouen...
(18th century theologian) - John DeeJohn Dee (mathematician)John Dee was an English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occultist, navigator, imperialist and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I. He devoted much of his life to the study of alchemy, divination and Hermetic philosophy....
(Renaissance magician) - Hal DraperHal DraperHal Draper was an American socialist activist and author who played a significant role in the Berkeley, California, Free Speech Movement and is perhaps best known for his extensive scholarship on the history and meaning of the thought of Karl Marx.Draper was a lifelong advocate of what he called...
- Marcel DuchampMarcel DuchampMarcel Duchamp was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Considered by some to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Duchamp's output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art...
- Will DurantWill DurantWilliam James Durant was a prolific American writer, historian, and philosopher. He is best known for The Story of Civilization, 11 volumes written in collaboration with his wife Ariel Durant and published between 1935 and 1975...
(historian) - EratosthenesEratosthenesEratosthenes of Cyrene was a Greek mathematician, poet, athlete, geographer, astronomer, and music theorist.He was the first person to use the word "geography" and invented the discipline of geography as we understand it...
- Benjamin FranklinBenjamin FranklinDr. Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat...
- Edmund GosseEdmund GosseSir Edmund William Gosse CB was an English poet, author and critic; the son of Philip Henry Gosse and Emily Bowes.-Early life:...
- Ed GreenwoodEd GreenwoodEd Greenwood is a Canadian writer and editor who created the Forgotten Realms. He invented the Forgotten Realms as a child, as a fantasy world in which to set the stories he imagined, and later used this world as a campaign setting for his own personal Dungeons & Dragons playing group...
(author) - Francis HaymanFrancis HaymanFrancis Hayman was an English painter and illustrator who became one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768 and later its first librarian....
(English artist) - Walter A. O'BrienWalter A. O'BrienWalter A. O'Brien, Jr. was a Progressive Party politician from Boston, Massachusetts, United States in the 1940s.In 1949 O'Brien ran for mayor of Boston...
(US politician; commissioned original version of the song "Charlie on the M.T.A.") - Edward Singleton HoldenEdward Singleton HoldenEdward Singleton Holden was an American astronomer.-Early years:He was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1846 to Jeremiah and Sarah Holden. From 1862-66, he attended Washington University in St. Louis, where he obtained a B.S. degree...
(US astronomer) - David HumeDavid HumeDavid Hume was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism. He was one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment...
(philosopher) - Hypatia
- Annette Curtis KlauseAnnette Curtis KlauseAnnette Curtis Klause is an American author and librarian, specializing in young adult fiction. Annette is currently a children's materials selector for Montgomery County Public Libraries in Montgomery County, Maryland. Born in Bristol, England, she now lives in Hyattsville, Maryland with her...
, author of children's books - Stanley KunitzStanley KunitzStanley Jasspon Kunitz was an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress twice, first in 1974 and then again in 2000.-Biography:...
(former United States Poet Laureate; editor of Wilson Library Bulletin, 1927-1943) - Madeleine L'EngleMadeleine L'EngleMadeleine L'Engle was an American writer best known for her young-adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time...
(20th century novelist) - Lao Tsu
- Wilhelm LexisWilhelm LexisWilhelm Lexis was an eminent German statistician, economist, and social scientist and a founder of the interdisciplinary study of insurance....
(German economist) - Gottfried Wilhelm von LeibnizGottfried LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a German philosopher and mathematician. He wrote in different languages, primarily in Latin , French and German ....
(philosopher) - Gotthold Ephraim LessingGotthold Ephraim LessingGotthold Ephraim Lessing was a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist, and art critic, and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the development of German literature...
(German playwright & poet) - Li DazhaoLi DazhaoLi Dazhao was a Chinese intellectual who co-founded the Communist Party of China with Chen Duxiu in 1921.-Early life:...
(Chinese revolutionary politician) - Audre LordeAudre LordeAudre Lorde was a Caribbean-American writer, poet and activist.-Life:...
(20th century US poet & activist) - Archibald MacLeishArchibald MacLeishArchibald MacLeish was an American poet, writer, and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the Modernist school of poetry. He received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.-Early years:...
(author; Librarian of Congress, 1939-1944) - Mao ZedongMao ZedongMao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung , and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao , was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, Marxist political philosopher, and leader of the Chinese Revolution...
(Chinese revolutionary politician) - Alan Noel Latimer MunbyAlan Noel Latimer MunbyAlan Noel Latimer Munby was an English author, writer and librarian.Born in Hampstead, Munby was educated at Clifton College and King's College, Cambridge...
(English author) - Vaunda Micheaux NelsonVaunda Micheaux NelsonVaunda Micheaux Nelson, American author best known for her young adult books, both fiction and non-fiction. She was the winner of the 2010 Coretta Scott King Award for her book Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal....
(author and librarian) - Andre NortonAndre NortonAndre Alice Norton, née Alice Mary Norton was an American science fiction and fantasy author under the noms de plume Andre Norton, Andrew North and Allen Weston...
(Science-fiction author) - Christopher OkigboChristopher OkigboChristopher Ifekandu Okigbo was a Nigerian poet, who died fighting for the independence of Biafra. He is today widely acknowledged as the outstanding postcolonial English-language African poet and one of the major modernist writers of the twentieth century.-Early life:Okigbo was born on August...
(Nigerian poet) - Major OwensMajor OwensMajor Robert Odell Owens is a New York politician and a prominent member of the Democratic Party. He is also a former Congressman, having represented the state's 11th Congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. He retired at the end of his term in January 2007 and was...
(U.S. House of Representatives/D-NY) - Charles V. ParkCharles V. ParkCharles V. Park was a noted librarian. The Charles V. Park Library at Central Michigan University is named after him. He was born in Hill City, Kansas. His parents were Abraham and Lovina Park. He married Frances Odenheimer on September 1, 1917 in Los Angeles, California. They had a son and...
(Librarian at CMU) - Coventry PatmoreCoventry PatmoreCoventry Kersey Dighton Patmore was an English poet and critic best known for The Angel in the House, his narrative poem about an ideal happy marriage.-Youth:...
(19th century UK poet) - Kit PearsonKit PearsonKathleen Margaret Pearson is a Canadian writer and winner of numerous literature awards. Pearson is perhaps best known for her linked novels The Sky Is Falling , Looking at the Moon , and The Lights Go On Again , published in 1999 as The Guests of War Trilogy, and Awake and Dreaming which won the...
(Canadian writer; winner of the Governor General's Award for English language children's literatureGovernor General's Award for English language children's literatureThis is a list of recipients of the Governor General's Award for children's literature. An award for juvenile literature existed from 1949 to 1958, and the current award was created in 1987.-Juvenile fiction:*1949: R.S. Lambert, Franklin of the Arctic...
in 1997) - Benjamin PeirceBenjamin PeirceBenjamin Peirce was an American mathematician who taught at Harvard University for approximately 50 years. He made contributions to celestial mechanics, statistics, number theory, algebra, and the philosophy of mathematics....
(logician) - Per PettersonPer PettersonPer Petterson is a Norwegian novelist. Petterson's debut was Aske i munnen, sand i skoa , a collection of short stories. He has since published a number of novels to good reviews. To Siberia , a novel set in the Second World War, was published in English in 1998 and nominated for the Nordic...
(Norwegian author) - Charles Pickering (naturalist)Charles Pickering (naturalist)Charles Pickering was an American naturalist.Born in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, the grandson of Colonel Timothy Pickering, he grew up in Wenham, Massachusetts and received a medical degree from Harvard University in 1823...
- Marcel ProustMarcel ProustValentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental À la recherche du temps perdu...
(French author) - Philip PullmanPhilip PullmanPhilip Pullman CBE, FRSL is an English writer from Norwich. He is the best-selling author of several books, most notably his trilogy of fantasy novels, His Dark Materials, and his fictionalised biography of Jesus, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ...
(fantasy novelist) - Sima QianSima QianSima Qian was a Prefect of the Grand Scribes of the Han Dynasty. He is regarded as the father of Chinese historiography for his highly praised work, Records of the Grand Historian , a "Jizhuanti"-style general history of China, covering more than two thousand years from the Yellow Emperor to...
(Chinese historian) - Greg Dean SchmitzGreg Dean SchmitzGreg Dean Schmitz is an American online film critic known for his movie news website, Upcomingmovies.com , and its second version as Greg's Previews of Upcoming Movies as part of Yahoo! Movies...
(Online film journalist) - Lynne StewartLynne StewartLynne Irene Stewart is a former attorney who represented controversial, poor, and often unpopular defendants who was convicted on charges of conspiracy and providing material support to terrorists in 2005, and sentenced to 28 months in prison. Her felony conviction led to her being automatically...
(American lawyer) - June TaborJune TaborJune Tabor is an English folk singer.- Early years :June Tabor was inspired to sing by hearing Anne Briggs' EP Hazards of Love in 1965. "I went and locked myself in the bathroom for a fortnight and drove my mother mad. I learned the songs on that EP note for note, twiddle for twiddle. That's how I...
(British singer) - Elizabeth Taylor (novelist)Elizabeth Taylor (novelist)Elizabeth Taylor was a British novelist and short story writer.-Life and writings:...
- Edward J. ThomasEdward J. ThomasEdward Joseph Thomas was a librarian in India and author of several books on the history of Buddhism. His works, mainly concerned with Theravada Buddhism and reflecting Western scholarship, nonetheless remain widely cited for their clarity and accuracy. The Life of Buddha as Legend and History is...
(scholar of Buddhism) - Anne TylerAnne TylerAnne Tyler is an American novelist.Tyler, the eldest of four children, was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her father was a chemist and her mother a social worker. Her early childhood was spent in a succession of Quaker communities in the mountains of North Carolina and in Raleigh...
(novelist) - Angus WilsonAngus WilsonSir Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson, CBE was an English novelist and short story writer. He was awarded the 1958 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot and later received a knighthood for his services to literature.-Biography:Wilson was born in Bexhill, Sussex, England, to...
(novelist)