Writer/journalist Famous Names Starting with Letter D

Was a noted food critic, author, and columnist who wrote extensively about the arts and Filipino cui

Was a noted food critic, author, and columnist who wrote extensively about the arts and Filipino cuisine.

Is a Romanian poet, essayist, journalist, and dissident. A resident of the United States since 1985,

Is a Romanian poet, essayist, journalist, and dissident. A resident of the United States since 1985, he has authored more than fifteen books of poetry, essays, and interviews.

Is a retired Broadway and film performer, dance instructor and author. She is also the last survivin

Is a retired Broadway and film performer, dance instructor and author. She is also the last surviving Ziegfeld girl.Eaton Travis began performing onstage as a young child, and made her Broadway debut at the age of 13. A year later, in 1918, she joined the Ziegfeld Follies as the youngest Ziegfeld Girl ever cast in the show. She continued to perform in stage productions and silent films throughout the 1920s and early 1930s.

Is an award-winning American author and historian. Kearns was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew u

Is an award-winning American author and historian. Kearns was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Rockville Centre, New York. She received her B.A. degree from Colby College, Maine in 1964. She later earned a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University.

British writer, author of works such as the novels The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook.

British writer, author of works such as the novels The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook.

Is a British writer, author of works such as the novels The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook

Is a British writer, author of works such as the novels The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook.Lessing was born to Captain Alfred Tayler and Emily Maude Tayler (née McVeagh), who were both English and of British nationality. Her father, who had lost a leg during his service in World War I, met his future wife, a nurse, at the Royal Free Hospital where he was recovering from his amputation.[6]

An Australian author. She is best known for her 1996 book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, a story of

An Australian author. She is best known for her 1996 book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, a story of three Aboriginal girls, among them Pilkington's mother Molly Craig, who escaped from the Moore River Native Settlement in Western Australia and travelled for nine weeks to return to their family. It is considered a powerful example of the mistreatments endured by the Stolen Generation. Her follow-up book, Under the Wintamarra Tree, details her own escape from Moore River. In the three books, Caprice, a Stockman's Daughter, Follow the Rabbit-proof Fence and Under the Wintamarra Tree Pilkington was to document three generations of women in her family.[1]

Is a German journalist and the fourth wife of the former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder. Magazi

Is a German journalist and the fourth wife of the former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder. Magazines she has worked for include Bild and Focus.

Is considered to be one of the most important songwriters in Brazilian popular music. The son of an

Is considered to be one of the most important songwriters in Brazilian popular music. The son of an Italian immigrant and a black Bahian woman, he has a distinctive style of his own and is the writer of many classic songs. The sambas, such as O Samba Da Minha Terra, have become standards of Música Popular Brasileira. He also wrote ballads celebrating the fearless fishermen of Bahia, including Promessa de Pescador and O Vento.

Is a Polish writer and journalist.Maslowska was born July 3, 1983 in Wejherowo, and grew up there. S

Is a Polish writer and journalist.Maslowska was born July 3, 1983 in Wejherowo, and grew up there. She applied for the University of Gdansk's faculty of psychology and was accepted, but left the studies for Warsaw, where she joined the culture studies at the Warsaw University. She first appeared in the mass-media when her debut book Wojna polsko-ruska pod flaga bialo-czerwona (translated to English as either White and Red in the UK or Snow White and Russian Red in the US; literally means Polish-Russian War under White-Red Flag) was published. Largely controversial, mostly because of the language seen by many as vulgar, cynical and simple,

Was an Australian feminist poet, novelist, librettist, and playwright

Was an Australian feminist poet, novelist, librettist, and playwright

Was an Australian poet.Porter's awards include The Age Book of the Year for poetry, the National Boo

Was an Australian poet.Porter's awards include The Age Book of the Year for poetry, the National Book Council Award for The Monkey's Mask and the FAW Christopher Brennan Award for poetry. Two of her verse novels were shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award: What a Piece of Work in 2000 and Wild Surmise in 2003. In 2000, the film The Monkey's Mask was made of her verse novel of the same name. In 2005 her libretto, The Eternity Man, co-written with composer Jonathan Mills, was performed at the Sydney Festival.[2]

Was an American librettist and lyricist.She wrote over 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films. Al

Was an American librettist and lyricist.She wrote over 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films. Along with Ann Ronell, Dana Suesse, Bernice Betkere, and Kay Swift, she was one of the first successful Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley female songwriters.

An Australian novelist.Johnston trained as a teacher at the University of Melbourne and later worked

An Australian novelist.Johnston trained as a teacher at the University of Melbourne and later worked as a researcher in the education field.[1] She has lived in Canberra since 1979.

Was an English author, poet and diarist. She was the sister of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth,

Was an English author, poet and diarist. She was the sister of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and the two were close for all of their lives. Dorothy Wordsworth did not set out to be an author, and her writings comprise a series of letters, diary en

Was an American journalist and television game show panelist known nationally for her coverage of th

Was an American journalist and television game show panelist known nationally for her coverage of the Sam Sheppard trial, her syndicated newspaper column, The Voice of Broadway, and her role as panelist on the television game show What's My Line?.

Was an American writer and poet, best known for her caustic wit, wisecracks, and sharp eye for 20th

Was an American writer and poet, best known for her caustic wit, wisecracks, and sharp eye for 20th century urban foibles.From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary output in such venues as The New Yorker and as

Is an American crime fiction writer.

Is an American crime fiction writer.

Was a novelist and short story writer who was part of the Harlem Renaissance. She is best known for

Was a novelist and short story writer who was part of the Harlem Renaissance. She is best known for her novel The Living Is Easy, about the life of an upper-class black family.

Was an American novelist and historian. His most famous work, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970) d

Was an American novelist and historian. His most famous work, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970) details the violent relationship between Native Americans and American expansionism.

Was an aviator and writer. Born in Romania in a Jewish family, Doru Davidovici became one of the mos

Was an aviator and writer. Born in Romania in a Jewish family, Doru Davidovici became one of the most loved Romanian fiction writers in the 1980s. During the communist years, his books gave an unusual sense of liberty and new horizons by describing the experience of flying, and the closeness it forged - both between pilots, and between pilots and their machines. The plane is seen by Davidovici not simply as a machine that enables one to fly but as an actual character, with its own personality and almost with its own soul. His work is influenced by writers like Ray Bradbury, Radu Tudoran and Bertold Brecht. The titles include The Horses of Voronet (1974), The Colour of the Sky (1981), Silver Wings (1983) and Rise and Walk (1989).

Is a Scottish poet, academic, and critic. He currently lives in Scotland.Dunn was born in Inchinnan,

Is a Scottish poet, academic, and critic. He currently lives in Scotland.Dunn was born in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire. He was educated at the Scottish School of Librarianship, and worked as a librarian before he started his studies in Hull. After graduating w

Was an American author, explorer, and cleric. He is best known for his claims to have discovered mor

Was an American author, explorer, and cleric. He is best known for his claims to have discovered more than 40 lost cities in Peru.Born in Bellingham, Washington, and serving as a navy gunner during World War II, he rose to prominence in the 1960s for leading a number of expeditions into the dense Peruvian jungle. Known as the "real Indiana Jones,"[1] Savoy was credited with finding four of Peru's most important archaeological sites, including Vilcabamba, the last refuge for the Incas before the Spanish conquistadors took over. He followed this up a year later in 1965 by being one of the first people to visit another site he called Gran Pajaten.[2] Archaeologists have criticised his claims, eg his claim that King Solomon acquired gold and precious stones from Peru (Ophir) and have pointed out that finding the ruins in Peru “is about as hard as finding elephants in a zoo.”[3] His claims to discoveries of Vilcabamba and Gran Pajaten and other sites are disputed.[4] His claims for King Solomon's visits to Peru and white Chachapoyans are rejected by archaeologists. Many archaeologists considered him a charlatan who damaged sites, attracted looters, and appropriated the work of others.[5] Archaeologist Keith Muscott said "Savoy's involvement in the Chachapoya saga clouds the scientific issues, attracts a lot of crackpots and scares off serious researchers who don't want to constantly have to deal with Savoy's tedious legacy of lost cities/El Dorado fantasies and delusions."[6]

Was a Canadian and Australian poet, fiction writer, essayist, and artist.published poetry was in the

Was a Canadian and Australian poet, fiction writer, essayist, and artist.published poetry was in the Halifax Morning Post and Parliamentary Reporter, where his work appeared under the pseudonym 'Eugene'. [1] In the early 1840s, he began regularly contributing poetry, short fiction, and essays to the literary magazine Amaranth, published in Saint John, New Brunswick. His novel, Argimou: A Legend of the Micmac, was serialized in Amaranth in 1842 and was first published in book form in 1847. In the late 1840s he moved to England, where he published a three-volume novel, Nomades of the West; or, Ellen Clayton (1850), and then immigrated to Australia on the Lady Peel in 1852.[2] In 1853 he became a clerk in the Office of Mines in the Ballarat goldfields, where he witnessed the Eureka Stockade revolt of 1854. His watercolor, "The Eureka Stockade," is exhibited at the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery. He continued working as a civil servant in Ballarat and Graytown, his last post being at the Department of Mines in Melbourne. He died July 24, 1891.

Was a major twentieth century Australian poet, as well as short story writer, essayist and literary

Was a major twentieth century Australian poet, as well as short story writer, essayist and literary editor. He published 13 collections of poetry, 5 verse plays, including the well-known Fire on the Snow, many short stories and critical essays, and biographies of Norman Lindsay and Kenneth Slessor. He also edited several poetry anthologies.His greatest contribution to Australian literature came from his 20 years as literary editor of The Bulletin, his 10 years as a publishing editor with Angus and Robertson, and his lifetime support of Australian writers.[1] Geoffrey Serle, literary critic, has described Stewart as "the greatest all-rounder of modern Australian literature".[citation needed]