Writers
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff
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- Achebe, Chinua
- Adams, Henry
- Addison, Joseph
- Aesop
- Agee, James
- Agnon, S. Y.
- Alcott, Louisa May
- Aldington, Richard
- Aleichem, Sholem
- Alger, Horatio
- Allende, Isabel
- Ambler, Eric
- Amis, Martin
- Amis, Sir Kingsley
- Andersen, Hans Christian
- Anderson, Sherwood
- Angelou, Maya
- Atwood, Margaret Eleanor
- Auchincloss, Louis
- Austen, Jane
- Bagnold, Enid
- Baldwin, James
- Balzac, Honoré de
- Barnes, Djuna
- Barrie, Sir James Matthew
- Barth, John
- Barthelme, Donald
- Bataille, Georges
- Baum, Lyman Frank
- Beauvoir, Simone de
- Beckett, Samuel
- Beerbohm, Sir Max
- Behn, Aphra
- Bellamy, Edward
- Belloc, Hilaire
- Bellow, Saul
- Benét, Stephen Vincent
- Benjamin, Walter
- Bennett, Arnold
- Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett
- Bishop, Isabella Lucy (Bird)
- Blackmore, Richard Doddridge
- Blume, Judy
- Bly, Robert
- Böll, Heinrich
- Borges, Jorge Luis
- Boswell, James
- Bowen, Elizabeth
- Bowles, Paul
- Boyle, Kay
- Bradbury, Ray
- Braine, John
- Breton, André
- Brod, Max
- Brooke, Fulke Greville
- Brookner, Anita
- Browne, Sir Thomas
- Buchwald, Art
- Buck, Pearl (Sydenstricker)
- Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanasyevich
- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton
- Bunyan, John
- Burgess, Anthony
- Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Burroughs, William Seward
- Butler, Samuel
- Byatt, A.S.
- Byron, George Gordon Noel Byron
- Cain, James Mallahan
- Caldwell, Erskine
- Caldwell, Taylor
- Calvino, Italo
- Camus, Albert
- Canetti, Elias
- Capek, Karel
- Capote, Truman
- Carey, Peter
- Carleton, William
- Carlyle, Thomas
- Carroll, Lewis
- Cary, Joyce
- Cather, Willa Sibert
- Céline, Louis Ferdinand
- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
- Chandler, Raymond Thornton
- Chateaubriand, François René, vicomte de
- Cheever, John
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
- Chesnutt, Charles Waddell
- Chesterton, Gilbert Keith
- Chopin, Kate O'Flaherty
- Chrétien de Troyes
- Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer
- Churchill, Winston
- Clarke, Arthur C.
- Coetzee, J.M.
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
- Colette
- Collins, Wilkie
- Colum, Padraic
- Compton-Burnett, Dame Ivy
- Connolly, Cyril
- Conrad, Joseph
- Cooper, James Fenimore
- Cozzens, James Gould
- Crane, Stephen
- Cronin, A.J.
- Cyrano de Bergerac, Savinien
- Dahl, Roahl
- Davies, Robertson
- Day Lewis, Cecil
- de la Mare, Walter
- De Quincey, Thomas
- Defoe, Daniel
- Dekker, Thomas
- DeLillo, Don
- DÃaz, Junot
- Dickens, Charles
- Dickey, James
- Didion, Joan
- Dinesen, Isak
- Dorfman, Ariel
- Dos Passos, John Roderigo
- Dostoyevsky, Feodor Mikhailovich
- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
- Drabble, Margaret
- Dreiser, Theodore
- Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Dumas, Alexandre
- Duras, Marguerite
- Durrell, Lawrence
- Dürrenmatt, Friedrich
- Eco, Umberto
- Edgeworth, Maria
- Eliot, George
- Ellison, Ralph
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Fast, Howard
- Faulkner, William
- Ferber, Edna
- Fielding, Henry
- Fisher, M. F. K.
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Flaubert, Gustave
- Flynn, Gillian
- Fo, Dario
- Ford, Ford Madox
- Forester, Cecil Scott
- Forster, E.M.
- Fossey, Dian
- Fowles, John
- France, Anatole
- Franklin, Benjamin
- Friel, Brian
- Frisch, Max
- Fry, Christopher
- Fuentes, Carlos
- Fuller, Margaret
- Galsworthy, John
- Gao Xingjian
- GarcÃa Lorca, Federico
- GarcÃa Márquez, Gabriel
- Gardner, Erle Stanley
- Gardner, John
- Garrick, David
- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (Stevenson)
- Gass, William H.
- Genet, Jean
- Gide, André
- Glasgow, Ellen
- Godden, Rumer
- Godwin, William
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
- Gogarty, Oliver St. John
- Gogol, Nikolai Vasilyevich
- Golding, Sir William (Gerald)
- Goldsmith, Oliver
- Gordimer, Nadine
- Gorky, Maxim
- Grahame, Kenneth
- Grass, Günter
- Graves, Robert Ranke
- Green, Henry
- Greene, Graham
- Green, John
- Gregory, Lady Augusta
- Greville, Charles Cavendish Fulke
- Grey, Zane
- Grimm, Jakob
- Haggard, Sir Henry Rider
- Hammett, Dashiell
- Hamsun, Knut
- Handke, Peter
- Hardwick, Elizabeth
- Hardy, Thomas
- Harris, Frank
- Harris, Joel Chandler
- Harte, Bret
- Hauptmann, Gerhart
- Hawkes, John
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Hazlitt, William
- Heinlein, Robert Anson
- Heller, Joseph
- Hellman, Lillian
- Hemingway, Ernest
- Herrick, Robert
- Herriot, James
- Hesse, Hermann
- Howells, William Dean
- Hoyle, Edmond
- Hugo, Victor Marie, Vicomte
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- Huxley, Aldous Leonard
- Ibsen, Henrik
- Inge, William Ralph
- Innes, Michael
- Irving, John
- Irving, Washington
- Isherwood, Christopher
- Jackson, Shirley
- James, Henry
- James, P.D.
- Jeffers, Robinson
- Jewett, Sarah Orne
- Johnson, Samuel
- Jones, James
- Jong, Erica (Mann)
- Jonson, Ben
- Joyce, James
- Joyce, William
- Kafka, Franz
- Keneally, Thomas
- Kennedy, William
- Kerouac, Jack
- Keyes, Daniel
- King, Stephen
- Kingsley, Charles
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Kleist, Heinrich von
- Knowles, John
- Kosinski, Jerzy
- Kristeva, Julia
- Kundera, Milan
- Kunitz, Stanley
- Kyd, Thomas
- Laclos, Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de
- Lamb, Charles
- Lardner, Ring
- Lawrence, D. H.
- le Carré, John
- Le Guin, Ursula Kroeber
- Lessing, Doris
- Levi, Primo
- Lewis, C.S.
- Lewis, Sinclair
- Lewis, Wyndham
- Lodge, David
- Lofting, Hugh
- London, Jack
- Lowell, Robert
- Lowry, Malcolm
- Luce, Clare Boothe
- Macaulay, Thomas Babington
- Machiavelli, Niccolò
- Macpherson, James
- Mahfouz, Naguib
- Mailer, Norman
- Malamud, Bernard
- Malory, Sir Thomas
- Mamet, David
- Mandeville, Sir John
- Mann, Thomas
- Mansfield, Katherine
- Manzoni, Alessandro
- Marlowe, Christopher
- Marsh, Dame Ngaio
- Marston, John
- Maugham, William Somerset
- Maupassant, Guy de
- Mauriac, François
- Maxwell, William, Jr.
- McCarthy, Mary Therese
- McCullers, Carson
- Melville, Herman
- Mencken, Henry Louis
- Meredith, George
- Michener, James Albert
- Middleton, Thomas
- Miller, Arthur
- Miller, Henry
- Milne, A.A.
- Mishima, Yukio
- Mitchell, David
- Mitchell, Margaret
- Mitford, Nancy
- Molière, Jean Baptiste Poquelin
- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem, seigneur de
- Montgomery, L.M.
- Moore, Brian
- Moore, George
- Morante, Elsa
- More, Sir Thomas
- Morrison, Toni
- Mowat, Farley
- Munro, Alice
- Murakami, Haruki
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Musil, Robert
- Musset, Alfred de
- Nabokov, Vladimir
- Naipaul, V.S.
- Nemerov, Howard
- Nin, Anaïs
- Norris, Frank
- O. Henry
- Oates, Joyce Carol
- O'Brien, Conor Cruise
- O'Brien, Flann
- O'Casey, Sean
- O'Connor, Flannery
- O'Connor, Frank
- Odets, Clifford
- O'Faoláin, Seán
- O'Flaherty, Liam
- O'Hara, John
- O'Neill, Eugene (Gladstone)
- Ortega y Gasset, José
- Orwell, George
- Otway, Thomas
- Oz, Amos
- Paine, Thomas
- Parker, Dorothy (Rothschild)
- Pater, Walter Horatio
- Paton, Alan
- Peacock, Thomas Love
- Percy, Walker
- Petronius
- Phaedrus
- Pinter, Harold
- Pirandello, Luigi
- Plautus
- Plutarch
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- Pohl, Frederik
- Potter, Beatrix
- Powell, Anthony
- Powys, John Cowper
- Priestley, J.B.
- Proulx, E. Annie
- Proust, Marcel
- Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeyevich
- Pynchon, Thomas
- Rabelais, François
- Racine, Jean
- Radcliffe, Ann (Ward)
- Rand, Ayn
- Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
- Remarque, Erich Maria
- Renault, Mary
- Rhys, Jean
- Rice, Elmer
- Richardson, Henry Handel
- Richler, Mordecai
- Rinehart, Mary Roberts
- Rølvaag, Ole Edvart
- Rostand, Edmond
- Roth, Philip
- Rousseau, Jean Jacques
- Runyon, Damon
- Rushdie, Salman
- Russell, George William
- Sackville-West, Vita
- Sagan, Françoise
- Saint Exupéry, Antoine de
- Salinger, J.D.
- Sand, George
- Saramago, José
- Saroyan, William
- Sarton, May
- Sartre, Jean-Paul
- Sayers, Dorothy Leigh
- Schiller, Friedrich von
- Schnitzler, Arthur
- Schulberg, Budd
- Schweitzer, Albert
- Scott, Sir Walter
- Sendak, Maurice Bernard
- Seuss, Dr.
- Sewell, Anna
- Shadwell, Thomas
- Shakespeare, William
- Shaw, George Bernard
- Sheldon, Sidney
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
- Shepard, Sam
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
- Sherwood, Robert Emmet
- Shute, Nevil
- Simenon, Georges
- Sinclair, Upton
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis
- Sitwell
- Smith, Zadie
- Smollett, Tobias George
- Snow, C.P.
- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich
- Sontag, Susan
- Sophocles
- Soyinka, Wole
- Spark, Dame Muriel
- Spyri, Johanna
- Stafford, Jean
- Steele, Wilbur Daniel
- Steffens, Lincoln
- Stein, Gertrude
- Steinbeck, John
- Stendhal
- Stephen, Sir Leslie
- Stephens, James
- Sterne, Laurence
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Stoker, Bram
- Stout, Rex
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Strindberg, Johan August
- Styron, William
- Swift, Jonathan
- Synge, John Millington
- Tarkington, Booth
- Lord Tennyson, Alfred
- Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Thompson, Hunter S.
- Thompson, Jim
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Thurber, James
- Tocqueville, Alexis de
- Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel
- Tolstoy, Leo, Count
- Toomer, Jean
- Traven, B.
- Trilling, Lionel
- Trollope, Anthony
- Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich
- Twain, Mark
- Tyler, Anne
- Tzara, Tristan
- Undset, Sigrid
- Updike, John
- Uris, Leon
- Vargas Llosa, Mario
- Verne, Jules
- Vidal, Gore
- Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Philippe Auguste Mathias, comte de
- Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de
- Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.
- Wain, John
- Walker, Alice
- Walpole, Horace
- Walton, Izaak
- Warren, Robert Penn
- Waugh, Evelyn Arthur St. John
- Webster, John
- Wells, Herbert George
- Welty, Eudora
- West, Dame Rebecca
- West, Nathanael
- Wharton, Edith Newbold Jones
- White, E.B.
- White, Edmund
- White, Patrick
- Whitehead, Colson
- Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith)
- Wilde, Oscar
- Wilder, Thornton Niven
- Williams, Tennessee
- Wilson, August
- Wilson, Edmund
- Wister, Owen
- Wodehouse, P.G.
- Wolf, Christa
- Wolfe, Thomas Clayton
- Wolfe, Tom
- Wollstonecraft, Mary
- Woolf, Virginia (Stephen)
- Wouk, Herman
- Wright, Richard
- Yamanaka, Lois-Ann
- Yan, Mo
- Yourcenar, Marguerite
- Zola, Ãmile
- Zweig, Stefan