December 8, 1894 Columbus, OH

James Grover Thurber

d. November 2, 1961

humor, fiction; contemporary of Robert Benchley

at Pathfinder

in Wikipedia

b. June 24, 1842 Meigs County, Ohio

Ambose Gwinnett Bierce

d. 1914? Mexico?

humor, satire,war

Ambose Bierce Appreciation Society

A Must read: The Devil's Dictionary.

at Wikipedia

b. January 30th, 1935 Tacoma, Washington

Richard Brautigan

d. September? October 25?, 1984 Bolinas?, CA

poetry, fiction, surreal, humor

The Brautigan Pages

A fitting poem for cyber-environmentalists: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace by Richard Brautigan

Free poems.

Postcards

at Wikipedia

b. July 16, 1928 NY, NY

Robert Sheckley

d. December 9,2006 Vassar Hospital, Poughkeepsie, NY

sci-fi, short story, novel

Official home page

Sheckley has been writing creative and humorous science fiction since the Golden Age in the 50's. If you find most science fiction formulaic, and devoid of emotion, try Sheckley.

Although widely respected among fellow SF writers, and nominated for a Hugo (1959, Best Novel, 'Time Killer'), and several Nebulas (1965, Best Novellette, 'Shall we'; 1972, Best Short Story, 'Zhirn'; 1975, Best Novel, 'Options'; 1976, Best Short Story, 'Never Ending Western Movie'), the only award he has won is a Jupiter (1973). Who can explain the mysteries of life?

I first discovered him through a re-broadcast of the old time radio show, X Minus one, featuring "Skulking Permit". You can find this story in Galaxy, Dec. 1954
also in Citizen in Space, (Ballantine, 1955);
The Wonderful World of Robert Sheckley (Bantam, 1979).

b. April 9, 1821 France

Charles Baudelaire

d. August 31, 1867

French, Poet, critic, literary legend.

at Wikipedia

Baudelaire

b. February 5, 1914

William Seward Burroughs

d. August 2, 1997 Lawrence, KS

Revolutionized literature.

The William S. Burroughs Files

b. June 3, 1926 Newark, New Jersey

Allen Ginsberg

d. April 5, 1997 East Village, New York City

Revolutionary poet, beat, activist

from Citylights

b. January 29, 1927 Indiana, Pennsylvania

Edward Paul Abbey

d. March 14, 1989 "Fort Llatikcuf", near Tucson, Arizona

fiction, non-fiction, activist, environmentalist

Rabble-rouser, curmudgeon, and eloquent speaker for the beauty of the Earth, or at least the American southwest desert.

Abbey's Web. (If his writings make you feel guilty about abusing the Earth, consider what you can do .

b. September 19, 1932 Chicago, IL

Mike Royko

d. April 29, 1997, Chicago, IL

newspaper columnist, realist, humor, satire

The voice of Chicago, and people everywhere.

Some of his columns

FBI files .

at Wikipedia

b. 23 January? November 18? 1930 Shanghai, China

J. G. Ballard James Graham Ballard

Still kickin'

Science fiction, bizarre

J. G. Ballard official web site.

at Wikipedia

b.March 23, 1923

Bob Elliot Robert Brackett Elliott

'Bob' of 'Bob and Ray'

at Wikipedia

b. March 20, 1922

Ray Goulding

d. March 24, 1990

'Ray' of 'Bob and Ray'

Bob and Ray

at Wikipedia