| Kalfus, Ken Ken Kalfus's most recent book is a novel, The Commissariat of Enlightenment. He is also the author of two short story collections, Thirst and Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies. |
| Kalman, Maira Maira Kalman is an award-winning artist, illustrator, and product designer. She lives in New York. |
| Kalmanoff, Martin Martin Kalmanoff was born in New York in 1920. He wrote numerous hit songs which went on to be performed by singers including Dean Martin and Elvis Presley. ..... |
| Keech, Pamela Pamela Keech is an artist, curator, and collector. She regularly haunts flea markets and antique shops in search of period furnishings for museums and historic houses. ..... |
| Keller, Alex Alex Keller started off wanting to be an archaeologist, but he found that being stuck in a ditch in the rain all day wasn't as glamorous as he thought. ..... |
| Keller, Helen Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama. At nineteen months, she suffered from a mysterious illness, perhaps scarlet fever, that left her deaf and blind. ..... |
| Kelly, Geoff Despite some early discouragement, Geoff Kelly has been drawing funny pictures every day for the last 20 years. His work can be found on billboards and T-shirts, in supermarkets and magazines and in books for children. ..... |
| Kemp, Jane Jane Kemp has worked together with Clare Walters in the parenting market for many years, most recently as deputy editor and features editor of the respected babycare magazine Practical Parenting. ..... |
| Kempis, Thomas à A german monk, Thomas was born in Kempen, Germany around 1380. He was schooled at Deventer, in the Netherlands, the center of the Brothers of the Common Life founded by Gerard Groote. ..... |
| Kenrick, Paul Paul Kenrick is a researcher in the Palaeontology Department of the Natural History Museum, London. |
Ker Wilson, Barbara Barbara Ker Wilson is a well-known reviewer, writer and publisher, with a long-standing interest in folklore. She now lives in Australia. |
| Kerman, Joseph Joseph Kerman is emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley. He began writing music criticism for The Hudson Review in the 1950s, and is a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books and many other journals. ..... |
| Kerven, Rosalind Rosalind Kerven trained as an anthropologist and has edited and reviewed children's books for a number of years. She has written many collections of myths and legends, and several children's novels. ..... |
| Keswick, Maggie Maggie Keswick first went to China when she was 4 years old. She was educated in Shanghai and Hong Kong and, in Britain, at Oxford University and the Architectural Association, London. ..... |
Khanna, Sudarshan Professor Sudarshan Khanna heads the Toy Centre for research, evaluation and documentation at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. ..... |
Kidd, Richard Richard Kidd, artist and writer, born June 22 1952; died July 21 2008, studied painting at Newcastle University before taking up a scholarship at the British School at Rome. ..... |
| Kierkegaard, Soren |
| Kilmartin, Terence Terence Kilmartin (1922-1991) was the literary editor of The Observer from 1952 until 1987. |
Kilpatrick, Jane Jane Kilpatrick studied History at Oxford and then tried a number of different occupations, among them antiquarian bookselling, before working for several years at a children's safety charity. ..... |
| Kimpton, Diana Diana Kimpton is a writer of books, stories and articles for children and adults. She also administers the Word Pool website. ..... |
| King, Michael Michael King is a distinguished garden designer, writer and photographer. He has contributed many articles to magazines for both amateur gardeners and professional landscape architects. ..... |
King, Peter Peter King is a distinguished author and editor who has been involved in the publication of over 30 books. He has written on a variety of topics, including the expeditions of lady travellers, the travel writings of George Nathaniel Curzon, Shackleton’s South and Scott’s Last Journey (Duckworth, 1999). ..... |
| King, Stephen Michael Stephen Michael King has always drawn pictures. At primary school he was a misfit - quiet, solitary, escaping into the world of his imagination, isolated by a hearing problem that went undiagnosed for many years. ..... |
| Kingsbury, Noel Noel Kingsbury is a leading exponent of contemporary naturalistic planting design. He contributes regularly to The Garden, Homes and Gardens, Hortus and the English Garden and writes occasional pieces for many other magazines and newspapers including the Financial Times and Country Life. To find out more about Noel Kingsbury click here |
| Kipling, Rudyard Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865. In 1871 he was brought home from India and spent five unhappy years with a foster family in Southsea. ..... |
| Kirk, Robert Robert Kirk (1644–1692) was the seventh son of James Kirk, Minister of Aberfoyle. He studied at Edinburgh and St. Andrews, became Minister of Balquhidder in 1644, and succeeded his father at Aberfoyle in 1685. ..... |
| Kirkbride, Pat Pat Kirkbride has three great passions in life - hill walking, her two collie dogs and a love of good food. Pat grew up on a traditional hill farm in Wensleydale, and developed a natural understanding of the connection between the landscape and the different breeds that land will support. ..... |
| Kitchen, Bert Bert Kitchen was born in Liverpool and studied Textile design, drawing and painting at the Central School of Art in London. ..... |
| Knapp, Sandra A botanist at the Natural History Museum in London, Sandra Knapp has spent many years collecting plants in tropical Central and South America. ..... |
| Knight, Cassie Cassie Knight lived and worked in Congo Brazzaville from 2001–2003, managing a humanitarian aid program after the 1999 civil war. ..... |
Knox, Belinda Belinda Knox, author and photographer, is a lifelong lover of the countryside. She has always enjoyed capturing on camera some of the most stunning views in the world which present themselves in the British Isles. ..... |
Knox, James James Knox wrote the acclaimed biography of cult 1930s travel writer, Robert Byron, published by John Murray in 2003, which was hailed by Patrick Leigh Fermor as "surpassing all expectations." Byron was a contemporary and friend of Lancaster's and their social worlds overlapped. ..... |
| Koestenbaum, Wayne Wayne Koestenbaum has published five books of critical prose, including The Queen’s Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; and three books of poetry, including Ode to Anna Moffo and Other Poems. ..... |
| Kogan, Gabriela Gabriela Kogan is a graphic designer based in Buenos Aires specializing in book design. Her studio has recently published Surtido, 268 images of the Argentine Soul; Buenos Aires Populares; Surtido P. ..... |
| Kojo, K.P. Raised in Cape Coast and Accra, in Ghana, K.P. Kojo grew up hearing stories from his parents, his blind grandmother, orange-sellers, teachers and a rag-bag of friends with whom he ran wild. ..... |
| Kolatkar, Arun Arun Kolatkar (1932-2004) was born in the town of Kolhapur in the western Indian state of Maharashtra and attended the JJ School of Art in Bombay, the city in which he was to pursue a long and successful career as an art director in advertising. ..... |
| Komisar, June Diana Dr June Diana Komisar, BA, Clark University; MArch, Yale University; Ph.D University of Michigan; RA, AIA, RAIC |
| Kooluris Dobbs, Linda Linda Kooluris Dobbs began her photographic record of the Vatican Gardens in 1981 with a very old and trustworthy Nikon F2. ..... |
Koralek, Jenny Jenny Koralek's books include The Song of Roland Smith, Mabel's Story, The Boy and the Cloth of Dreams and A Treasury of Stories from the Brothers Grimm. |
| Korn, Larry |
| Kosztolanyi, Dezso Dezso Kosztolányi (1885-1936) made his name as a poet. His first novel, Nero, The Bloody Poet, won him the admiration of Thomas Mann. |
| Krauss, Ruth Ruth Krauss was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1911. She attended the Peabody Institute of Music in Baltimore and received a BA from the Parson’s School of Applied Art in New York City. ..... |
| Krudy, Gyula Gyula Krúdy (1878-1933) was born in Nyíregyháza in northeastern Hungary. His mother had been a maid for the aristocratic Krúdy family, and she and his father, a lawyer, did not marry until Gyula was seventeen. ..... |
| Krueger, Michael Michael Krüger's successful career as a poet and novelist has been paralleled by his long and distinguished record as head of the German publishing house Hanser Verlag and editor of the influential journal Akzente. ..... |
| Krzhizhanovsky, Sigizmund Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (1887—1950) was an ethnically Polish Ukrainian-born short-story writer whose work was largely unpublished, though he was active among Moscow’s literati in the 1920s. ..... |
| Kudlinski, Kathleen V Kathleen Kudlinski is the author of over twenty books for young readers, including Rachel Carson: Pioneer of Ecology and Earthquake! A Story of Old San Francisco. ..... |
