Danish author (1960-). Writes fantasy for children.

Sites providing information on Erich Kästner (1899-1974), German journalist, novelist, poet, and screenwriter. In English-speaking countries, he is probably best-known today for his children's book Emil and the Detectives.

John B. Keane, dramatist, novelist, poet, short story writer and raconteur was born on July 21, 1928, in Listowel, Co Kerry where he still resides in his much frequented public house. Big Maggie was penned in 1969 and gave theatre audiences one of its strongest characters, Big Maggie Polpin. Moll, a comedy, was written in 1971 and was another box office smash. His first play, Sive was presented by the Listowel Drama Group and won the All Ireland Drama Festival in 1959. This folk tale with its haunting characters made an enormous impact on the national psyche. It was followed in 1960 by Sharon's Grave, another love story twisted around a local legend. His next plays dealt with elements of change in rural Ireland at that time. Many Young Men of Twenty (1961) was a musical which tackled the issue of emigration and provided Keane with a hit single. The Man From Clare followed in 1962, Hut 42 in 62 and the Year of The Hiker in 1963. The Field came in 1965 and was subsequently adapted for the screen by Noel Pearson in 1996 with Richard Harris playing Bull McCabe. Next came The Crazy Wall in 1974 and another musical, The Buds of Ballybunion in 1976. One play, written in 1991, remains unproduced and unpublished, The Vigilante. It deals with the thorny issue of the ban on young men playing 'foreign games' they were already playing GAA. John B. Keane is member of Aosdana and the recipient of numerous awards and honours, including honorary doctorates from Trinity College, and Marymount, Manhattan College and Limerick University.

This category is for listings of websites dealing with or related to the British Romantic poet John Keats and his work.

Stetson Kennedy was born in Jacksonville, Florida in 1916. As a teenager he began collecting Cracker and African-American folksay material while he was collecting 'dollar down and dollar a week' accounts for his father, a furniture merchant. He left the University of Florida in 1937 to join the WPA Florida Writers' Project, and at the age of 21, put in charge of folklore, oral history, and ethnic studies. Slowly, he became one of the pioneer folklore collectors during the first half of the twentieth century.

For sites dealing specifically with Etgar Keret and his works.

The American writer Jack Kerouac, b. Jean Louis Kerouac, Lowell, Mass., Mar. 12, 1922, d. Oct. 21, 1969, became the leading chronicler of the beat generation, a term that he coined to label a social and literary movement in the 1950s. After studying briefly at Columbia University, he achieved fame with his spontaneous and unconventional prose, particularly the novel On the Road (1957). After the success of this work Kerouac produced a series of thematically and structurally similar novels, including The Dharma Bums and The Subterraneans (both 1958), Doctor Sax (1959), Lonesome Traveler (1960), and Big Sur (1962). His loosely structured, autobiographical works reflect a peripatetic life, with warm but stormy relationships and a deep social disillusionment assuaged by drugs, alcohol, mysticism, and biting humor.

Growing up in the heartland of America, Haven Kimmel found much in herself and her surroundings to remember with affection and humor when she wrote her debut memoir, "A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana" (2001). The book quickly went to the top of national best-seller lists.

Kimmel's "The Solace of Leaving Early" (2002) and "Something Rising (Light and Swift)" (2004) are the first two novels in a planned "trilogy of place" set in Indiana.

This category is for sites relating to American author Barbara Kingsolver.

Category for pages on writer, critic and publisher John Kinsella.

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay on the 30th December 1865. He was the son of John Lockwood Kipling, a talented artist and Alice one of the gifted MacDonald sisters. In 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first and youngest English writer of this award. Hilton Brown one of Kipling's biographers wrote in 1936 " there died a man whose name had once resounded through the temple of English literature and the explosion of whose genius had rocked its walls....No great writer was so near the hearts of his readers; no great writer had been, perhaps, since Dickens "

This category contains sites pertaining to the American author William Kittredge (b. 1932).

Journalist and author, born in Montreal in 1970.

American writer, author and theorist.

This category is dedicated to the Austrian writer Karl Kraus. His most famous works are the play "The Last Days of Mankind" and the magazine "The Torch" (Die Fackel).

Hanif Kureishi is a British writer with roots in Pakistan. He is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in second generation South Asian literature. His novels include "The Buddha of Suburbia" and "Intimacy"; he's also written the screenplays for films such as "My Beautiful Laundrette" and "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid."

Peter Kurth was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1953. He is a graduate of the University of Vermont, where he earned departmental honors in English and Theatre. His first book, Anastasia: The Riddle of Anna Anderson (Little, Brown 1983), was an international bestseller and made into an NBC television miniseries. Kurths biography of anti-fascist journalist Dorothy Thompson, American Cassandra, also published by Little, Brown, was a bestseller in trade paperback and won the Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award as the best book about American journalism of 1990. In 1995-1996 Kurth was the author of Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra and co-author (with Eleanor Lanahan and Jane S. Livingston) of Zelda: An Illustrated Life: The Private World of Zelda Fitzgerald (Abrams). He has appeared on numerous television documentaries as an expert in Russian, royal, and literary history. In 1989 Kurth was diagnosed with HIV infection, an event that unavoidably changed his life and altered the direction of his writing. His commentary on AIDS issues has been heard on National Public Radio, and in 1997 he became "Lazarus" columnist for POZ magazine.