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Revision as of 16:44, 19 August 2009
Writers
Ancient writers
- Homer: (fl. 9th or 8th century BCE) Greek poet, to whom is traditionally attributed the authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey. [e]
Aeschylus: (525–456 BCE) Earliest great Greek tragic dramatist; only 7 plays survive, including the trilogy the Oresteia (about the House of Atreus). [e]
Aristophanes: (ca 450 - 388? BC) Greek comic dramatist; wrote The Clouds and Lysistrata. [e]- Euripides: Greek tragic dramatist (c.480–c.406 BC), one of the three great tragedians of ancient Greece. Works include Medea, The Bacchae, Electra, and The Trojan Women. [e]
- Sophocles: (496? - 406 BC) One of the three great Greek tragedians; wrote Electra, Oedipus the King, and Antigone. [e]
- Ovid: (43BC-AD17) (Publius Ovidius Naso), Roman poet, author of Metamorphoses and Ars Amatoria. [e]
- Virgil: (70-19 BC) Roman poet; wrote the Aeneid, one of the masterpieces of world literature. [e]
Medieval writers
- Dante Alighieri: (1265-1321) Italian poet who wrote the monumental epic the Divine Comedy. [e]
Geoffrey Chaucer: (1345-1400) English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales. [e]- Gottfried von Straßburg: German poet of the early thirteenth century, considered one of the masters of the high courtly literature of the era, famous as the author of the epic poem Tristan and Isolde. [e]
- Hartmann von Aue: (c. 1160/65 – c. 1210) was a German medieval author of epic poetry, one of the three most important poets of German courtly literature of the Middle Ages (with Wolfram von Eschenbach and Gottfried von Strassburg) [e]
- Omar Khayyam: Persian mathematician, astronomer and poet who died in 1131. [e]
- Petrarch: (1304–74) Italian poet, humanist and essayist, and one of the most important intellectual figures of the early Renaissance. [e]
- Chrétien de Troyes: Add brief definition or description
- Wolfram von Eschenbach: Add brief definition or description
Children's and young adult literature
- Dr. Seuss: (Theodor Seuss Geisel, 1904-91) Extremely popular American writer of children's books, including books designed to teach reading. [e]
- Hans Christian Andersen: (1805-75) Danish author of fairy tales. [e]
- Rudyard Kipling: (1865-1936) British poet, short story writer, and novelist, though best known for his children's classics, the Just So Stories and the Jungle Books. [e]
- Lewis Carroll: The pen-name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), British mathematician and author of children's books (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, The Hunting of the Snark). [e]
- Brüder Grimm: (Brothers Grimm), Jacob and Wilhelm, German linguists, famous for their collection of fairy tales (Kinder- und Hausmärchen, 1812-1815) and their German dictionary [e]
Science-fiction writers
- Isaac Asimov: (1920-92) American chemist and prolific author, especially of science fiction. [e]
- Arthur C. Clarke: (1917-2008) British author of science fiction. [e]
- Robert A. Heinlein: (1907–88) American author of science fiction; wrote Stranger in a Strange Land. [e]
- Ursula Le Guin: (born October 21, 1929) Science-fiction author whose works address themes from sociology and anthropology. [e]
- Stanisław Lem: (1921-2006) Polish science-fiction author (Solaris) [e]
- Larry Niven: Add brief definition or description
- Jack Vance: (1916 – 2013) American writer of science fiction, fantasy, and mysteries who achieved cult-like status. [e]
- Jules Verne: (1828-1905) French author and science-fiction pioneer, some of whose novels involved travel through outer space and under water before technology had made these possible, and whose work has been widely translated and made into a number of films. [e]
New H.G. Wells: (1866–1946) English author best known for his pioneering science-fiction novels; wrote The Time Machine. [e]
- Philip K. Dick: (1928-1982) American author of science-fiction stories and novels [e]
American writers
- Washington Irving: (1783-1859) American writer, considered the first American man of letters, best known for his short stories, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. [e]
- James Fenimore Cooper: (1789-1851) The first major American novelist, most famous for his adventuresome Leather-Stocking Tales set in the American frontier. [e]
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: (1803-82) American poet, essayist, and lecturer; leading exponent of New England transcendentalism. [e]
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: (1807-82) US poet and essayist whose ballads and verses made him the best-loved American poet of the 19th century. [e]
- Henry David Thoreau: (1817-62) New England transcendentalist philosopher, naturalist, and writer; one of key inspirations for the modern conservation movement. [e]
- Nathaniel Hawthorne: (1804-64) American novelist and short story writer, best known for The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables. [e]
- Herman Melville: (1819-91) American fiction writer, author of Moby Dick, one of the masterpieces of world literature. [e]
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Louisa May Alcott: (1832-88) American writer known for the novel Little Women that has been adapted for film, television and stage many times. [e]
- Emily Dickinson: (1830-86) American poet whose poetry, exhibiting great originality in thought and form, has been a major influence on modern poetry. [e]
- Edgar Allan Poe: (1809–1849) American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist, and one of the most prominent figures in the American Romantic Movement in literature. [e]
- Mark Twain: Add brief definition or description
- Willa Cather: Add brief definition or description
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Robert Frost: Add brief definition or description
- Ernest Hemingway: Add brief definition or description
- John Steinbeck: Add brief definition or description
- William Faulkner: Add brief definition or description
- Vladimir Nabokov: Add brief definition or description
- Toni Morrision: Add brief definition or description
- Thornton Wilder: Add brief definition or description
- Arthur Miller: Add brief definition or description
- John Updike: Add brief definition or description
- Ezra Pound: Add brief definition or description
English writers
- Jane Austen: Add brief definition or description
- William Blake: Add brief definition or description
- Charlotte Brontë: Add brief definition or description
- Emily Brontë: Add brief definition or description
- Robert Browning: Add brief definition or description
- John Bunyan: Add brief definition or description
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Add brief definition or description
- Joseph Conrad: Add brief definition or description
- Charles Dickens: Add brief definition or description
- John Donne: Add brief definition or description
- T.S. Eliot: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas Hardy: Add brief definition or description
- Samuel Johnson: Add brief definition or description
- John Keats: Add brief definition or description
- Rudyard Kipling: (1865-1936) British poet, short story writer, and novelist, though best known for his children's classics, the Just So Stories and the Jungle Books. [e]
- John Milton: Add brief definition or description
- George Orwell: Add brief definition or description
- William Shakespeare: Add brief definition or description
- George Bernard Shaw: Add brief definition or description
- Percy Bysshe Shelley: Add brief definition or description
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Add brief definition or description
- Oscar Wilde: Add brief definition or description
- Virginia Woolf: Add brief definition or description
- William Wordsworth: Add brief definition or description
French writers
- Albert Camus: Add brief definition or description
- Guy de Maupassant: Add brief definition or description
- Alexandre Dumas: Add brief definition or description
- Victor Hugo: Add brief definition or description
- Jean Baptiste Moliere: Add brief definition or description
- Marcel Proust: Add brief definition or description
- Jean Racine: Add brief definition or description
- George Sand: Add brief definition or description
- Stendhal: Add brief definition or description
- Voltaire: Add brief definition or description
- Honoré de Balzac: Add brief definition or description
German writers
- Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen: Add brief definition or description
- Bertolt Brecht: Add brief definition or description
New Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Add brief definition or description
- Theodor Fontane: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas Mann: Add brief definition or description
- Heinrich Heine: Add brief definition or description
- Johann Nestroy: Add brief definition or description
- Friedrich Schiller: Add brief definition or description
- Arno Schmidt: Add brief definition or description
- Arthur Schnitzler: Add brief definition or description
- Günter Grass: Add brief definition or description
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Add brief definition or description
- Heinrich von Kleist: Add brief definition or description
- Gerhart Hauptmann: Add brief definition or description
- Rainer Maria Rilke: Add brief definition or description
- E.T.A. Hoffmann: Add brief definition or description
- Paul Celan: Add brief definition or description
Irish writers
- James Joyce: Add brief definition or description
- William Butler Yeats: Add brief definition or description
- Laurence Sterne: Add brief definition or description
- Jonathan Swift: Add brief definition or description
Japanese writers
- Ryunosuke Akutagawa: Add brief definition or description
- Kobo Abe: Add brief definition or description
- Masuji Ibuse: Add brief definition or description
- Kenzaburo Oe: Add brief definition or description
- Natsume Soseki: Add brief definition or description
- Junichiro Tanizaki: Add brief definition or description
- Yukio Mishima: Add brief definition or description
- Matsuo Bashō: Add brief definition or description
- Yasunari Kawabata: Add brief definition or description
Russian writers
- Anton Chekhov: Add brief definition or description
- Fyodor Dostoevsky: Add brief definition or description
- Nikolai Gogol: Add brief definition or description
- Maxim Gorky: Add brief definition or description
- Mikhail Lermontov: Add brief definition or description
- Boris Pasternak: Add brief definition or description
- Alexander Pushkin: Add brief definition or description
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Add brief definition or description
- Leo Tolstoy: Add brief definition or description
- Ivan Turgenev: Add brief definition or description
Scottish writers
- Robert Burns: Add brief definition or description
- Arthur Conan Doyle: Add brief definition or description
- Walter Scott: Add brief definition or description
South African writers
Spanish writers
- Miguel de Cervantes: Add brief definition or description
- Federico Garcia Lorca: Add brief definition or description
Yiddish Writers
- Isaac Bashevis Singer: Add brief definition or description
- Sholem Aleichem: Add brief definition or description
Unsorted by nationality
- Margaret Atwood: Add brief definition or description
- Henrik Ibsen: Add brief definition or description
- August Strindberg: Add brief definition or description
- Giovanni Boccaccio: Add brief definition or description
- George Eliot: Add brief definition or description
- Aldous Huxley: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas Pynchon: Add brief definition or description
- Calderón de la Barca: Add brief definition or description
- Lord Byron: Add brief definition or description
- Umberto Eco: Add brief definition or description
- Salman Rushdie: Add brief definition or description