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In each author’s profile, you will find a concise sum-up of who they were and what they did and a list of articles related to them. This list and the profiles are updated regularly.
A
- Louisa May Alcott
- Dante Alighieri
- Margery Allingham
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Sherwood Anderson
- Maya Angelou
- Jean Anouilh
- Isaac Asimov
- Marcus Aurelius
- Jane Austen
B
- Francis Bacon
- James Baldwin
- Honoré de Balzac
- J. M. Barrie
- Charles Baudelaire
- L. Frank Baum
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Samuel Beckett
- William Blake
- Pierre Boulle
- Ray Bradbury
- Anne Brontë
- Charlotte Brontë
- Emily Brontë
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- William Cullen Bryant
- Mikhail Bulgakov
- John Bunyan
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Robert Burns
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Lord Byron
C
- Albert Camus
- Truman Capote
- Lewis Carroll
- Angela Carter
- Willa Cather
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Robert W. Chambers
- Raymond Chandler
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Anton Chekhov
- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
- Kate Chopin
- Agatha Christie
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Colette
- Wilkie Collins
- Carlo Collodi
- William Congreve
- Joseph Conrad
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Pierre Corneille
- Stephen Crane
- E. E. Cummings
D
- Roald Dahl
- Daniel Defoe
- Charles Dickens
- Emily Dickinson
- Denis Diderot
- E. L. Doctorow
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Frederick Douglass
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Theodore Dreiser
- Alexandre Dumas
- Alexandre Dumas fils
E
F
- William Faulkner
- Jessie Redmon Fauset
- Henry Fielding
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Gustave Flaubert
- Ian Fleming
- E. M. Forster
- Robert Frost
G
- Paul Gallico
- John Galsworthy
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Kahlil Gibran
- Allen Ginsberg
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- William Golding
- Oliver Goldsmith
- Kenneth Grahame
- Günter Grass
- Graham Greene
- Brothers Grimm
H
- Alex Haley
- Dashiell Hammett
- Thomas Hardy
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Joseph Heller
- Ernest Hemingway
- O. Henry
- Hermann Hesse
- Patricia Highsmith
- E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Homer
- Victor Hugo
- Aldous Huxley
I
J
K
L
- D. H. Lawrence
- John Le Carré
- Harper Lee
- Charlotte Lennox
- Doris Lessing
- C. S. Lewis
- Matthew Gregory Lewis
- Sinclair Lewis
- Astrid Lindgren
- Jack London
- Anita Loos
- H.P. Lovecraft
M
- Niccolò Machiavelli
- Maurice Maeterlinck
- Thomas Mann
- Katherine Mansfield
- Walter de la Mare
- Christopher Marlowe
- W. Somerset Maugham
- Guy de Maupassant
- François Mauriac
- Daphne du Maurier
- Carson McCullers
- Herman Melville
- George Meredith
- Thomas Middleton
- Arthur Miller
- A.A. Milne
- John Milton
- Margaret Mitchell
- Molière
- Michel de Montaigne
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Toni Morrison
N
O
P
- John dos Passos
- Samuel Pepys
- Charles Perrault
- Sylvia Plath
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Beatrix Potter
- Ezra Pound
- Marcel Proust
- Thomas Pynchon
R
- François Rabelais
- Jean Racine
- Ann Radcliffe
- Jean Rhys
- Samuel Richardson
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Arthur Rimbaud
- Christina Rossetti
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Edmond Rostand
S
- Rafael Sabatini
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Saki
- J.D. Salinger
- George Sand
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- Friedrich Schiller
- Sir Walter Scott
- Dr. Seuss
- Anna Sewell
- William Shakespeare
- George Bernard Shaw
- Mary Shelley
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- Sheridan Le Fanu
- Sir Philip Sidney
- Georges Simenon
- Dodie Smith
- Tobias Smollett
- Edmund Spenser
- Johanna Spyri
- Germaine de Staël
- John Steinbeck
- Stendhal
- Laurence Sterne
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Bram Stoker
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Jonathan Swift
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
- John Millington Synge
T
- Lord Alfred Tennyson
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- Henry David Thoreau
- Ludwig Tieck
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Leo Tolstoy
- P.L. Travers
- Anthony Trollope
- Ivan Turgenev
- Mark Twain
U
V
W
- Alice Walker
- Horace Walpole
- Evelyn Waugh
- H.G. Wells
- Edith Wharton
- E.B. White
- Oscar Wilde
- Thornton Wilder
- Tennessee Williams
- P.G. Wodehouse
- Thomas Wolfe
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Virginia Woolf
- William Wordsworth
Y
Z
American
- Louisa May Alcott
- Sherwood Anderson
- Maya Angelou
- Isaac Asimov
- James Baldwin
- L. Frank Baum
- Ray Bradbury
- William Cullen Bryant
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Truman Capote
- Willa Cather
- Robert W. Chambers
- Raymond Chandler
- Kate Chopin
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Stephen Crane
- E. E. Cummings
- Emily Dickinson
- E. L. Doctorow
- Frederick Douglass
- Theodore Dreiser
- Ralph Ellison
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- William Faulkner
- Jessie Redmon Fauset
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Robert Frost
- Paul Gallico
- Allen Ginsberg
- Alex Haley
- Dashiell Hammett
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Joseph Heller
- Ernest Hemingway
- O. Henry
- Patricia Highsmith
- Aldous Huxley
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Washington Irving
- Shirley Jackson
- Henry James
- Jack Kerouac
- Harper Lee
- Sinclair Lewis
- Jack London
- Anita Loos
- H.P. Lovecraft
- Carson McCullers
- Herman Melville
- Arthur Miller
- Margaret Mitchell
- Toni Morrison
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Frank Norris
- John dos Passos
- Sylvia Plath
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Ezra Pound
- Thomas Pynchon
- J.D. Salinger
- Dr. Seuss
- John Steinbeck
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Henry David Thoreau
- Mark Twain
- Alice Walker
- Edith Wharton
- E.B. White
- Thornton Wilder
- Tennessee Williams
- Thomas Wolfe
Australian
Austrian
Belgian
Canadian
Caribbean Islands
Colombian
Czech
Danish
English
- Margery Allingham
- Jane Austen
- Francis Bacon
- William Blake
- Anne Brontë
- Charlotte Brontë
- Emily Brontë
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- John Bunyan
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Lord Byron
- Lewis Carroll
- Angela Carter
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Agatha Christie
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Wilkie Collins
- William Congreve
- Joseph Conrad
- Roald Dahl
- Daniel Defoe
- Charles Dickens
- George Eliot
- Henry Fielding
- Ian Fleming
- E. M. Forster
- John Galsworthy
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- William Golding
- Graham Greene
- Thomas Hardy
- Jerome K. Jerome
- John Keats
- Rudyard Kipling
- D. H. Lawrence
- John Le Carré
- Doris Lessing
- Matthew Gregory Lewis
- Walter de la Mare
- Christopher Marlowe
- W. Somerset Maugham
- Daphne du Maurier
- George Meredith
- Thomas Middleton
- A.A. Milne
- John Milton
- George Orwell
- Samuel Pepys
- Beatrix Potter
- Ann Radcliffe
- Samuel Richardson
- Christina Rossetti
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Rafael Sabatini
- Saki
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- Anna Sewell
- William Shakespeare
- Mary Shelley
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Sir Philip Sidney
- Dodie Smith
- Edmund Spenser
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Lord Alfred Tennyson
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Anthony Trollope
- Horace Walpole
- Evelyn Waugh
- H.G. Wells
- P.G. Wodehouse
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Virginia Woolf
- William Wordsworth
French
- Jean Anouilh
- Honoré de Balzac
- Charles Baudelaire
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Pierre Boulle
- Albert Camus
- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
- Colette
- Pierre Corneille
- Denis Diderot
- Alexandre Dumas
- Alexandre Dumas fils
- Gustave Flaubert
- Victor Hugo
- Guy de Maupassant
- François Mauriac
- Molière
- Michel de Montaigne
- Charles Perrault
- Marcel Proust
- François Rabelais
- Jean Racine
- Arthur Rimbaud
- Edmond Rostand
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- George Sand
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Germaine de Staël
- Stendhal
- Paul Verlaine
- Jules Verne
- Voltaire
- Emile Zola
German
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Günter Grass
- Brothers Grimm
- Hermann Hesse
- E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Thomas Mann
- Friedrich Schiller
- Ludwig Tieck
Greek
Irish
- Samuel Beckett
- Oliver Goldsmith
- James Joyce
- Frank O’Connor
- George Bernard Shaw
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- Sheridan Le Fanu
- Laurence Sterne
- Bram Stoker
- Jonathan Swift
- John Millington Synge
- W. B. Yeats
- Oscar Wilde
Irish (Northern)
Italian
Lebanese
New Zealand
Norwegian
Roman
Russian
Scottish
- J. M. Barrie
- Robert Burns
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Kenneth Grahame
- Charlotte Lennox
- Sir Walter Scott
- Tobias Smollett
- Robert Louis Stevenson