He has also produced short stories, essays, plays and books of nonfiction.
There, in addition to writing poetry, essays, plays, and stories, he continued work on his semi-autobiographical "Pentagonía," a passionate indictment of tyranny consisting of five novels.
For Ms. Sontag, whose wide-ranging writing career has encompassed fiction, essays, plays and films, standards have evolved for the historical novel as a form of literature.
She wrote short stories and essays, played piano, loved all things music, and read a wide variety of literature though she was partial to Jane Austen.
Gore Vidal, the author, playwright, politician and commentator whose novels, essays, plays and opinions were stamped by his immodest wit and unconventional wisdom, has died in Los Angeles.
Over 45 years he has written essays, plays, novels, short stories and children's cartoon strips, and he chronicled Prague's two decades in the Soviet empire, under Gustav Husak.
Born in St. Lucia, in the West Indies, Mr. Walcott is the author of essays, plays and poems, including the work "Omeros," and is one of the world's most celebrated poets.
From literary beginnings as an avant-garde radical in the 1960's, when he was known as LeRoi Jones, his essays, plays and poetry about jazz and urban life began to appear in college textbooks during the 1980's.
The other work I have taken on - university teaching, reviewing, translation, essays, plays and short stories, editing and broadcasting - has been largely congenial, as well as continuous with my central preoccupation with writing poems.
