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 | E. B. White (July 11, 1899 - Mount Vernon, New York - October 1, 1985) Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899, Mount Vernon, New York – October 1, 1985, North Brooklin, Maine) was a leading American essayist, author, humorist, poet and literary stylist. |
 | E. Phillips Oppenheim (October 22, 1866 - February 3, 1946) Edward Phillips Oppenheim was an English novelist, in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers. Featured on the cover of of Time magazine in 1918, he was the self-styled prince of storytellers. He composed more than a hundred novels, mostly of the suspense and international intrigue nature, as well as romances, comedies, and parables of everyday life. Perhaps Oppenheim's most enduring creation is the character of General Besserley, the protagonist of General Besserley's Puzzle Box and General Besserley's New Puzzle Box (one of his last works). |
 | E.L. Konigsburg Elaine Konigsburg was born in New York but grew up in Phoenixville and Farrell, small mill towns in Pennsylvania. She was the middle child of three daughters, her parents were business people. After graduating high-school first in her class, she worked briefly as a bookkeeper in a wholesale meat plant to earn money for college. One of the owners had a brother named David Konigsburg, who would later become her husband. |
 | Eckhart Tolle He is a contemporary spiritual teacher and writer on spirituality. Eckhart Tolle is not aligned with any particular religion or tradition. |
 | Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of the macabre and mystery, Poe was one of the early American practitioners of the short story and a progenitor of detective fiction and crime fiction. |
no image | Edgar Jepson (1863 - 1938) Edgar Alfred Jepson was an English writer, principally of mainstream adventure and detective fiction, but also of some supernatural and fantasy stories that are better remembered. He used a pseudonym R. Edison Page for some of his many short stories, collaborating at times with John Gawsworth and possibly Arthur Machen, a long-term friend. |
 | Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 - March 19, 1950) He was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan, although he also produced works in many genres. |
 | Edith Wharton (January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937) She was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Born Edith Newbold Jones to a wealthy New York family often associated with the phrase Keeping up with the Joneses, Edith combined her insiders view into America's privileged classes with a brilliant natural wit to write novels and short stories notable for their humor and incisiveness. Wharton was well acquainted with many of the great literary and public figures of her era, including Henry James and Theodore Roosevelt. |
 | Edna Ferber (August 15, 1885 - April 16, 1968) She was an American novelist, author and playwright. |
no image | Edward Blishen (1920 - 1996) Edward Blishen (1920-1996) was an English author. He is perhaps best known for two books: A Cack-Handed War (1972), a story set in the backdrop of the Second World War, and The God Beneath the Sea (1970), a collaboration with Leon Garfield that won the Carnegie Medal. |
 | Elie Wiesel A Romania-born American novelist, political activist, and Holocaust survivor of Hungarian Jewish descent. He is the author of over 40 books, the best known of which is Night, a memoir that describes his experiences during the Holocaust and his imprisonment in several concentration camps. |
 | Eliza Haywood (1693 - February 25, 1756) Eliza Haywood (1693 - February 25, 1756) (born Elizabeth Fowler) was an English writer, actress and publisher. Since the 1980s, Eliza Haywood’s literary works have been gaining in recognition and interest. Described as “prolific even by the standards of a prolific age” (Blouch, intro 7), Haywood wrote and published over seventy works during her lifetime including fiction, drama, translations, poetry, conduct literature and periodicals. Haywood is a significant figure of the long 18th century as one of the important founders of the novel in English. Today she is studied primarily as a novelist. |
no image | Elizabeth Enright (September 17, 1909 - June 8, 1968) |
 | Elizabeth Gaskell (September 29, 1810 - November 12, 1865) She is often referred to simply as Mrs. Gaskell, was an English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. She is perhaps best known for her biography of Charlotte Bronte. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, including the very poor, and as such are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. |
 | Elizabeth George Speare (November 21, 1908 - November 15, 1994) Elizabeth George Speare (November 21, 1908 – November 15, 1994) was an American children's author who won many awards for her historical fiction novels, including two Newbery Medals. She has been called one of America’s 100 most popular children’s authors and much of her work has become mandatory reading in many schools throughout the nation. |
 | Elizabeth Taylor (July 3, 1912 - November 19, 1975) She was a popular English novelist and short story writer. Elizabeth Coles was born in Reading, Berkshire in 1912. She was educated at The Abbey School, Reading, and worked as a governess, as a tutor and as a librarian. |
 | Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth Warren is the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where she teaches contract law, bankruptcy, and commercial law. Warren graduated from the University of Houston with a B.S. 1970 and received her J.D from Rutgers University in 1976. |
 | Elizabeth Wurtzel Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel (born July 31, 1967 in New York City) is an American writer and journalist famous for her work in the confessional memoir genre. She has often been compared to Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath. |
no image | Ellen Wood (January 17, 1814 - February 10, 1887) Mrs. Ellen Wood (née Price) (January 17, 1814 – February 10, 1887), was an English novelist, better known as Mrs. Henry Wood |
 | Emily Bronte (1818 - 1848) |
 | Enid Bagnold (October 27, 1889 - March 31, 1981) Enid, Lady Jones known by her maiden name as Enid Algerine Bagnold, was a British author and playwright, best known for the 1935 story National Velvet which was filmed in 1944 with Elizabeth Taylor. |
 | Eoin Colfer He is an Irish author. He is most famous for having written the Artemis Fowl series. |
 | Eric Butterworth Eric was considered a legend and spiritual icon in the Unity Movement. We will never know the countless number of lives that have been changed by applying the Spiritual Principles taught by Eric Butterworth. Eric was a highly respected New Age pioneer and innovator of New Thought, whose life was dedicated to helping people to help themselves. |
no image | Eric P. Kelly (March 16, 1884 - January 3, 1960) |
 | Eric Schlosser Eric Schlosser (born August 17, 1959) is an award-winning American journalist and author known for investigative or muckraking journalism. A number of critics have compared his work to that of Upton Sinclair |
 | Erich Maria Remarque (June 22, 1898 - September 25, 1970) Erich Paul Remark was born June 22, 1898 in Osnabruck, Germany to Peter and Maria Remark. Remark, who later changed his name to Erich Maria Remarque in order to honor his mother and French ancestry, was a studious and intellectual boy despite a modest, working-class upbringing. After completing with high honors his studies at primary and secondary schools, Remarque enrolled at the University of Munster. In 1916, however, at age 18, he was drafted into the German army and sent to fight on the western front, where he was wounded numerous times. It was while recovering from his wounds that Remarque completed his first novel, The Dream Room—a manuscript he had begun when he was 16. |
 | Erin McCarthy Bestselling author Erin McCarthy sold her first book to Kensington Brava through author Lori Foster’s website contest in 2002, much to her continued amazement. |
 | Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961) An American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Nicknamed Papa, he was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris known as the Lost Generation, as described in his memoir A Moveable Feast. He led a turbulent social life, was married four times, and allegedly had various romantic relationships during his lifetime. For a serious writer, he achieved a rare cult-like popularity during his lifetime. Hemingway received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. |
no image | Ernest Poole (January 23, 1880 - January 10, 1950) Ernest Poole was a U.S. novelist. His novel The Harbor has remained the work for which he is best known. It presents a strong socialist message, set in the industrial Brooklyn waterfront. It is considered one of the first fictional works to offer a positive view of unions. |
 | Esther Forbes (June 28, 1891 - August 12, 1968) Esther Forbes (June 28, 1891 - August 12, 1967) was an American biographer, novelist, and children's writer who received both a Pulitzer Prize and a Newbery Medal. |
 | Eva Ibbotson Eva Ibbotson (born Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner, 1925, Vienna, Austria) is a British novelist specializing in juvenile fiction. |
 | Eve Tahmincioglu 'Eve Tahmincioglu is a regular contributor to the New York Times business section and one of the lead writers on The Boss column. She has written for Business Week,Salon and Time and was a staff business reporter for UPI, the St. Petersburg Times, and Women's wear daily. |
