Jeanne Robert Foster was the pen named used by the American poet, fashion model, teacher, social reformer and journalist. She spent much of her life in the north eastern area of the United States having originated from the Adirondack Mountains region of upstate New York and she wrote at length about life in the mountains. She was born Julia Elizabeth Oliver on the 10th March 1879 in Johnsburg, ...
Jessie Redmon Fauset was an African American writer, literary editor and teacher. During the 1920s she was one of the first to present a true record of African American history through her poetry and essays, introducing characters who were of the professional class. Writers before her, and sometimes since, had focused on the downtrodden, the disadvantaged, the enslaved. Along with others of ...
Jean Antoine de Baïf was a translator of Roman and Greek and poet in classics16th century France.He was a member of the small group of French Renaissance poets who called themselves La Pléiade, other leading members being Joachim du Bellay and Pierre de Ronsard. He was born on the 19th February 1532 in Venice, the son of the French Ambassador at that ...
James Devaney was an Australian poet and novelist. He was an occasional journalist over a twenty-year period from 1924, writing a nature column for the Brisbane Courier and also served as a teacher in both Australia and New Zealand. He was born James Martin Devaney on the 31st May 1890 in the Victorian town of Bendigo, the son of Irish immigrants. While attending the Catholic boarding ...
James Edwin Campbell was a 19th century African-American poet whose life was tragically cut short by pneumonia. His output of poetry only ran to two volumes but it was said that the second collection, called Echoes from the Cabin and Elsewhere, contained some of the best poems written in the Gullah dialect to be found anywhere in the 19th century. He also ...
