Baquet's Guide to the World's Classics: Journalism

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C. P. Cavafy, Egyptian Greek Poet and Journalist
(1863-1933)

Just the Facts:

Name: Constantine Peter Cavafy
Known as: C. P. Cavafy
Birth: April 29, 1863, Alexandria, Egypt
Death: April 29, 1933, Alexandria, Egypt
Language: Greek
Who he was: Egyptian Greek poet and journalist best known for Ithaca
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

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Annie Dillard, American Writer
(1945 - )

Just the Facts:

Name: Annie Dillard
Birth: April 30, 1945, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Language: English
Who she is: American writer; Pilgrim at Tinker Creek; Holy the Firm; For the Time Being; An American Childhood; The Maytrees; Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1975)

E. Annie Proulx, American Writer
(1935 - )

Just the Facts:

Name: Edna Ann Proulx
Known as: E. Annie Proulx
Birth: August 22, 1935, Norwich, Connecticut, USA
Language: English
Who she is: American novelist, short story writer, and journalist; Postcards; The Shipping News; Close Range: Wyoming Stories includes "Brokeback Mountain"; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1994)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombian Writer
(1927-2014)

Just the Facts:

Name: Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez
Known as: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Birth: March 6, 1927, Aracataca, Colombia
Death: April 17, 2014, Mexico City, Mexico
Language: Spanish
Who he was: Colombian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist; One Hundred Years of Solitude; The Autumn of the Patriarch; Love in the Time of Cholera; Chronicle of a Death Foretold; Nobel Prize in Literature (1982)
Included in lists (What's This?): LRP; Bloom; GC

George Orwell, English Writer
(1903-1950)

Just the Facts:

Name: Eric Arthur Blair
Known as: George Orwell
Birth: June 25, 1903, Motihari, India
Death: January 21, 1950, London, England, UK
Language: English
Who he was: English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic; Animal Farm; Nineteen Eighty-Four
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990) (+10YP); LRP; Bloom; GC

Ernest Hemingway, American Writer
(1899-1961)

Just the Facts:

Name: Ernest Hemingway
Birth: July 21, 1899, Oak Park, Illinois, USA
Death: July 2, 1961, Ketchum, Idaho, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American novelist, short story writer, and journalist; novels The Sun Also Rises; A Farewell to Arms; For Whom the Bell Tolls; The Old Man and the Sea; non-fiction Death in the Afternoon; Green Hills of Africa; short stories "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"; "Fifty Grand"; "Hills Like White Elephants"; "The Killers"; "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"; "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1953); Nobel Prize in Literature (1954)
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom; GC

Isaac Babel, Russian Writer
(1894-1940)

Just the Facts:

Name: Isaac Babel
Birth: July 13, 1894, Odessa, Ukraine
Death: January 27, 1940, Butyrka prison, Moscow, Russia
Language: Russian
Who he was: Russian journalist, playwright, and short story writer; Red Cavalry; Story of My Dovecote; Tales of Odessa
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

G. K. Chesterton, English Writer
(1874-1936)

Just the Facts:

Name: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Known as: G. K. Chesterton
Birth: May 29, 1874, Kensington, London, England, UK
Death: June 14, 1936, Beaconsfield, England, UK
Language: English
Who he was: English poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, lay theologian, biographer, and critic; novels The Napoleon of Notting Hill and The Man Who Was Thursday; the Father Brown stories; theological works Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom; GC

Rudyard Kipling, English Writer
(1865-1936)

Just the Facts:

Name: Joseph Rudyard Kipling
Known as: Rudyard Kipling
Birth: December 30, 1865, Mumbai, India
Death: January 18, 1936, London, England, UK
Language: English
Who he was: English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist; The Jungle Book; Just So Stories; Kim; Captains Courageous; "If—"; "Gunga Din"; "The White Man's Burden";; Nobel Prize in Literature (1907)
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 1); Bloom; GC

Lincoln Steffens, American Writer
(1866-1936)

Just the Facts:

Name: Lincoln Steffens
Birth: April 6, 1866, San Francisco, California, USA
Death: August 9, 1936, Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American writer; The Shame of the Cities; Boy on Horseback (part of his Autobiography)
Included in lists (What's This?): CA

Futabatei Shimei, Japanese Author and Critic
(1864-1909)

Just the Facts:

Name: Hasegawa Tatsunosuke
Known as: Futabatei Shimei
Birth: April 4, 1864, Tokyo, Japan
Death: May 10, 1909, Bay of Bengal
Language: Japanese
Who he was: Japanese author and critic; Ukigumo (Drifting Clouds)

Joel Chandler Harris, American Journalist
and Folklorist (1848-1908)

Just the Facts:

Name: Joel Chandler Harris
Birth: December 9, 1848, Eatonton, Georgia, USA
Death: July 3, 1908, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American journalist and folklorist; the Uncle Remus series

Ambrose Bierce, American Writer
(1842-c. 1914?)

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Name: Ambrose Bierce
Birth: June 24, 1842, Meigs County, Ohio, USA
Death: Unknown Date, 1914?, Chihuahua, Mexico
Language: English
Who he was: American journalist, short story writer, and satirist; "Chickamauga"; "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"; "The Death of Halpin Frayser"; "The Moonlit Road"; In the Midst of Life; The Devil's Dictionary
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom; GC

Horace Greeley, American Newspaperman
(1811-1872)

Just the Facts:

Name: Horace Greeley
Birth: February 3, 1811, Amherst, New Hampshire, USA
Death: November 29, 1872, Pleasantville, New York, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American newspaperman; The American Conflict; Glances at Europe; numerous short pieces

Charles Fletcher Lummis, American Character
(1859-1928)

Just the Facts:

Name: Charles Fletcher Lummis
Birth: March 1, 1859, Lynn, Massachusetts, USA
Death: November 24, 1928, Los Angeles, California, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American journalist, historian, ethnographer, archaeologist, poet, librarian, and museum founder; Land of Sunshine (magazine, later called Out West); Some Strange Corners of Our Country; The Spanish Pioneers and the California Missions; Flowers Of Our Lost Romance; A Tramp Across the Continent; The Land of Poco Tiempo
Included in lists (What's This?): CA; SW

Jack London, American Writer
(1876-1916)

Just the Facts:

Name: John Griffith Chaney
Known as: Jack London
Birth: January 12, 1876, San Francisco, California, USA
Death: November 22, 1916, Glen Ellen, California, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American novelist, short story writer, journalist, and activist; novels The Call of the Wild; White Fang; The Sea Wolf; stories "To Build a Fire"; "An Odyssey of the North"; "Love of Life"; "The Pearls of Parlay"; "The Heathen"; non-fiction The People of the Abyss
Included in lists (What's This?): CA; GC

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian Writer
(1821-1881)

Just the Facts:

Name: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Birth: November 11, 1821, Moscow, Russia
Death: February 9, 1881, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Language: Russian
Who he was: Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher; Poor Folk; Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; Demons; The Brothers Karamazov; Notes from Underground
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (+10YP); GGB (+PGR 2); LRP; HCF; Bloom; GC

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Norman Mailer, American Writer
(1923-2007)

Just the Facts:

Name: Norman Mailer
Birth: January 31, 1923, Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
Death: November 10, 2007, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American novelist, essayist, playwright, and journalist; The Naked and the Dead; The Executioner's Song; The Armies of the Night; Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, (1969); Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, (1980)
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

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Dorothy Day, American Journalist and Activist
(1897-1980)

Just the Facts:

Name: Dorothy Day
Birth: November 8, 1897, Bath Beach, New York City, New York, USA
Death: November 29, 1980, New York City, New York, USA
Language: English
Who she was: American journalist and activist; autobiography The Long Loneliness

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Albert Camus, French Philosopher and Author
(1913-1960)

Just the Facts:

Name: Albert Camus
Birth: November 7, 1913, Dréan, Algeria
Death: January 4, 1960, Villeblevin, France
Language: French
Who he was: French philosopher, author, and journalist; The Stranger; The Plague; The Myth of Sisyphus; Nobel Prize in Literature, (1957)
Included in lists (What's This?): LRP; Bloom; GC

Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
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