Sunday, November 15, 2015

Phil's Lists, Part 8: Writers

A list of writers to read would be endless, so I limit this one to respond to questions I've received over the years about writers in specific disciplines and of certain genres. Even though most of the writers listed cross many categories, I have placed them in the area where they've attained the greatest notoriety. For more worthwhile books, check my library.  

 Biography
Joseph Blotner
Ernle Bradford
John Lahr

 Criticism
Harold Bloom
Wayne C. Booth
Lajos Egri
James Wood

 Culture
James Baldwin
Joan Didion
Robert Hughes
William Langewiesche
George Orwell
Thomas Sowell

 Drama
Edward Albee
David Mamet
Arthur Miller
Eugene O'Neill
Harold Pinter
Yasmina Reza
Sam Shepard
Tennessee Williams

 Education
John Comenius
Lawrence Cremin
John Dewey
E. D. Hirsch
Myron Lieberman
Quintilian

 Fiction
William Faulkner
Ernest Hemingway
Nikos Kazantzakis
John Steinbeck
Kurt Vonnegut

 History
Winston Churchill
Will Durant
Shelby Foote
Stanley Karnow

 Language
Roland Barthes
S. I. Hayakawa
Mario Pei

 Poetry
Billy Collins
Emily Dickinson
Stephen Dunn
Robert Frost
W. S. Merwin
Robert Penn Warren

 Society
Albert Einstein
Viktor E. Frankl
Mahatma Gandhi
Edward T. Hall
Martin Luther King, Jr.

 Theology
Karl Barth
Martin Buber
Norman L. Geisler
Wayne Grudem
C. S. Lewis
Paul Tillich
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