William Bliss Carman was a Canadian poet who lived most of his life in the United States, where he achieved international fame. He was acclaimed as Canada's poet laureate during his later years.
Boccace, de son nom complet en français Jean Boccace, né en 1313 à Certaldo, dans la république de Florence où il est mort le 21 décembre 1375, est un écrivain florentin du XIVe siècle, qui a connu une célébrité précoce grâce à son recueil de nouvelles en toscan, le Décaméron.
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, commonly known as Boethius, was a Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, historian, and philosopher of the Early Middle Ages. He was a central figure in the translation of the Greek classics into Latin, a precursor to the Scholastic movement, and, along with Cassiodorus, one of the two leading Christian scholars of the 6th century. The local cult of Boethius in the Diocese of Pavia was sanctioned by the Sacred Congregation of Rites in 1883, confirming the diocese's custom of honouring him on the 23 October. He is venerated as Saint Severinus Boethius or simply Saint Boethius in the Eastern Orthodox Church and in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pavia
Bolesław Leśmian, pierwotnie Bolesław Lesman – polski poeta i prozaik żydowskiego pochodzenia, czołowy przedstawiciel literatury dwudziestolecia międzywojennego, krytyk literacki.
Aleksander Głowacki, better known by his pen name Bolesław Prus, was a Polish novelist, a leading figure in the history of Polish literature and philosophy, as well as a distinctive voice in world literature.
Bolesław Prus – polski pisarz, prozaik, nowelista i publicysta okresu pozytywizmu, współtwórca polskiego realizmu, kronikarz Warszawy, myśliciel i popularyzator wiedzy, działacz społeczny, propagator turystyki pieszej i rowerowej. Jeden z najwybitniejszych i najważniejszych pisarzy w historii literatury polskiej.
Bonaventure des Périers, né vers 1510, probablement à Arnay-le-Duc en Bourgogne, mort en 1543 ou 1544 à Lyon, est un auteur de poésie, de dialogues et de contes français, ainsi qu'un traducteur et un éditeur.
Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elite. Washington was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants. They were newly oppressed in the South by disenfranchisement and the Jim Crow discriminatory laws enacted in the post-Reconstruction Southern states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Newton Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1921). He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead. In the 1910s and 1920s he was considered the United States' greatest living author. Several of his stories were adapted to film.
