Abbey, Edward
Author of The Monkey Wrench Gang
Famous Writers
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Achebe, Chinua
The Nigerian author of 1958's Things Fall Apart -
Adams, Douglas
The author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -
Adamson, Joy
Author of Born Free -
Aeschylus
"The father of Greek tragedy" -
Aesop
The fabulist credited with "The Tortoise and the Hare" -
Agee, James
The author of 'A Death in the Family' -
Alcott, Louisa May
The author of Little Women -
Aldiss, Brian
The author of 'Frankenstein Unbound' -
Alexie, Sherman
The author of 'The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian' -
Alger, Horatio
The 19th century author of "rags to riches" books -
Angelou, Maya
The author of I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings -
Arendt, Hannah
The author of 1951's The Origins of Totalitarianism -
Arkin, Alan
The foul-mouthed grandpa in Little Miss Sunshine -
Armstrong, Karen
Author of A History of God -
Atwood, Margaret
The author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Blind Assassin -
Auden, W. H.
The Anglo-American poet who wrote "The Age of Anxiety" -
Auel, Jean M.
The author of The Clan of the Cave Bear -
Austen, Jane
The author of Pride and Prejudice -
Avi
The author of The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle -
Bainbridge, Beryl
The author of An Awfully Big Adventure -
Baldwin, James
Author of Go Tell It On The Mountain -
Ballard, J.G.
The author of Empire of the Sun and Crash -
Banks, Iain
The author of The Wasp Factory -
Banks, Russell
Author of The Sweet Hereafter -
Banville, John
The Irish novelist who won the Booker Prize for The Sea -
Baraka, Amiri
Author of the 1964 play Dutchman -
Barnes, Julian
The author of Flaubert's Parrot and The Sense of an Ending -
Barry, Dave
Goofy humor columnist for The Miami Herald, 1983-2005 -
Baumbach, Noah
The director of 'The Squid and the Whale and 'Marriage Story' -
Beach, Sylvia
The Paris bookstore owner who published 'Ulysses' -
Beckett, Samuel
Irish-French author of Waiting for Godot -
Behn, Aphra
17th century English writer -
Bellow, Saul
Author of Henderson, The Rain King and Seize the Day -
Benchley, Robert
1930s New Yorker theater critic and witty essayist -
Benét, Stephen Vincent
He wrote "The Devil And Daniel Webster" -
Bergerac, Cyrano de
Long-nosed literary hero -
Bierce, Ambrose
Author of A Fiend's Delight -
Bird, Isabella
The author of A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains -
Bishop, Elizabeth
Poet Laureate of the United States, 1949-50 -
Bloom, Harold
The literary critic who wrote 1973’s The Anxiety of Influence -
Blume, Judy
The author of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret -
Bly, Robert
The poet who wrote the man book Iron John -
Blyton, Enid
The author of the Noddy and Famous Five books -
Bogdanovich, Peter
Director of The Last Picture Show -
Bong Joon Ho
The Oscar-winning director of Parasite -
Borges, Jorge Luis
Author of the short story collection Ficciones -
Bourne, Randolph
The author of Youth and Life -
Bouton, Jim
The author of "Ball Four" -
Bradbury, Ray
Author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles -
Bradstreet, Anne
America's first poet -
Brautigan, Richard
Author of Trout Fishing in America -
Breslin, Jimmy
Pugnacious New York City newspaper columnist of the 1960s-2000s -
Broadwell, Paula
The biographer who had an affair with Gen. David Petraeus -
Bronte, Emily
The author of Wuthering Heights -
Brontë, Charlotte
Author of Jane Eyre -
Brooks, Gwendolyn
The first African American to win a Pulitzer for poetry -
Brothers Grimm, The
Authors of Grimm's Fairy Tales -
Brott, Armin
The author of the parenting book The Expectant Father -
Brown, Dan
Author of The Da Vinci Code -
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Author of Aurora Leigh and wife of Robert Browning -
Browning, Robert
Victorian poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett -
Brown, Pierce
The author of the Red Rising YA book series -
Buck, Pearl S.
The Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner who wrote The Good Earth -
Bukowski, Charles
The guy who wrote the movie Barfly -
Bulfinch, Thomas
The author of Bulfinch's Mythology -
Bunyan, John
Author of The Pilgrim's Progress -
Burns, Robert
Scotland's most famous poet -
Burroughs, William S.
The author of Naked Lunch -
Busey, Brook
The former blogger and stripper who wrote the movie Juno -
Butler, Octavia
The African-American feminist science fiction author who won a MacArthur "genius" grant -
Cain, James M.
Author of The Postman Always Rings Twice -
Camus, Albert
Nobel-winning author of The Stranger -
Capote, Truman
Author of In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's -
Carey, Peter
The author of True History of the Kelly Gang -
Carson, Rachel
The author of Silent Spring -
Carter, Asa Earl
Author of The Education of Little Tree -
Cartland, Barbara
The very British "Queen of the Romance Novel" -
Carver, Raymond
American short-story writer -
Cassady, Neal
The basis for Dean Moriarity in Jack Kerouac's On the Road -
Castaneda, Carlos
Author of The Teachings of don Juan -
Cather, Willa
Author of O Pioneers! and My Ántonia -
Cavett, Dick
The quick-witted TV talk show host from the late 1960s -
Cervantes, Miguel de
Author of Don Quixote -
Chabon, Michael
The author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay -
Chandler, Raymond
The creator of detective Philip Marlowe -
Chaucer, Geoffrey
The author of The Canterbury Tales -
Chekhov, Anton
Author of The Cherry Orchard -
Childress, Alice
The author of A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich -
Chomsky, Noam
Creator of the theory of generative grammar -
Chopin, Kate
Author of The Awakening -
Chopra, Deepak
Author of Ageless Body, Timeless Mind -
Christie, Agatha
Author of Murder on the Orient Express -
Clancy, Tom
The "techno-thriller" author who wrote The Hunt for Red October -
Clarke, Arthur C.
The author of 2001: A Space Odyssey -
Clark, Mary Higgins
The author of Where Are the Children? and other suspense stories -
Cleary, Beverly
The author of the Ramona books for children -
Cleaver, Eldridge
The Black Panther who wrote Soul on Ice -
Cleese, John
The tall guy from Monty Python's Flying Circus -
Clooney, Nick
The silver-haired host of movie channel AMC -
Coates, Ta-Nehisi
The 'Atlantic' writer who also does 'Black Panther' comics -
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
The author of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner -
Colfer, Chris
The former Glee star who writes fantasy novels for kids -
Collins, Joan
Ageless star of TV's Dynasty -
Collins, Suzanne
The author of The Hunger Games -
Collodi, Carol
The creator of Pinocchio -
Comfort, Alex
The uninhibited author of The Joy of Sex -
Conrad, Joseph
Author of Heart of Darkness -
Cook, Robin
The author of Coma -
Cooper, James Fenimore
The American novelist who wrote The Last of the Mohicans -
Cornwell, Patricia
The best-selling author of the Kay Scarpetta series -
Crane, Hart
Suicidal poet of The Bridge -
Crichton, Michael
The author of Jurassic Park -
Crowley, Aleister
Author of Magick in Theory and Practice -
Cummings, E. E.
The experimental poet who spelled his name without capitals -
Cunningham, Michael
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours -
Curtis, Jamie Lee
The Halloween star who won an Oscar in 2023 for Everything Everywhere All at Once -
Dahl, Roald
The author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory -
Dante
The author of The Divine Comedy -
Darwin, Charles
The naturalist who came up with the theory of evolution -
Da Silveira, José
The founder of "Formism" -
Dass, Ram
The LSD guy from the 1960s who wrote 'Be Here Now' -
Davies, Robertson
Author of Fifth Business -
Davis, Angela
The black feminist/communist on the Most Wanted list in 1970 -
Dean, John
Nixon's lawyer who squealed about Watergate -
Dee, Ruby
Veteran actress and wife of Ossie Davis -
Defoe, Daniel
The author of Robinson Crusoe -
Delany, Samuel R.
Author of Dhalgren and Babel-17 -
DeLillo, Don
The author of White Noise and Underworld -
De Quincey, Thomas
Author of Confessions of an English Opium Eater -
Desai, Kiran
The author of the novel The Inheritance of Loss -
de Saint Exupéry, Antoine
Author of The Little Prince -
De Vere, Edward
17th Earl of Oxford and maybe the real Shakespeare -
Dickens, Charles
The author of A Christmas Carol -
Dickinson, Emily
The poet called "The Belle of Amherst" -
Dick, Philip K.
The mind-bending sci-fi author of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" -
Diderot, Denis
Enlightenment editor of Encyclopédie -
Didion, Joan
The author of Slouching Toward Bethlehem -
Dixon, Jeane
Popular astrologer and psychic -
Dobson, James
The founder and host of Focus on the Family -
Doctorow, E.L.
The author of the 1975 novel Ragtime -
Dostoevsky, Fedor
The author of Crime and Punishment -
Dove, Rita
U.S. Poet Laureate, 1993-95 -
Dowd, Maureen
Tart-tongued New York Times columnist -
Doyle, Arthur Conan
The creator of Sherlock Holmes -
Drudge, Matt
The muckraking "citizen journalist" who runs The Drudge Report -
Du Bois, W.E.B.
Author of The Souls of Black Folk -
Duffy, Carol Ann
The first female poet laureate in British history -
Dumas, Alexandre (the Elder)
The author of The Three Musketeers -
Dworkin, Andrea
Author of Woman Hating -
Dyson, Michael Eric
The author of the 2007 book Know What I Mean: Reflections on Hip-Hop -
Díaz, Junot
The author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao -
Eco, Umberto
The author of The Name of the Rose -
Eddy, Mary Baker
Founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist -
Eliot, George
The author of Middlemarch -
Eliot, T.S.
Author of The Waste Land -
Ellis, Bret Easton
The author of Less Than Zero -
Ellison, Harlan
The author of "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream" and 'A Boy and His Dog' -
Ellison, Ralph
Author of Invisible Man -
Ephron, Nora
The writer and director of Sleepless In Seattle -
Erasmus
The humanist scholar who wrote The Praise of Folly -
Erdrich, Louise
The author of The Plague of Doves -
Espada, Martín
The Latino poet who wrote "Alabanza" and "Floaters" -
Fadiman, Anne
Author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down -
Fadiman, Clifton
Host of the radio quiz show Information Please -
Faulkner, William
American author of As I Lay Dying -
Fauset, Jessie Redmon
The "midwife" of the Harlem Renaissance and editor of 'The Crisis' -
Fennell, Emerald
The Oscar-winning writer, director and producer of Promising Young Woman -
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
Beat poet/publisher and co-founder of City Lights Books -
Fey, Tina
The star of TV's 30 Rock -
Fielding, Helen
The author of Bridget Jones's Diary -
Fielding, Henry
The author or Tom Jones -
Fisher, Carrie
Princess Leia in Star Wars -
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
The author of The Great Gatsby -
Flanagan, John
Author of the Ranger's Apprentice series of children's books -
Flaubert, Gustave
The author of Madame Bovary -
Fleming, Ian
The creator of James Bond 007 -
Flynn, Gillian
The author of Gone Girl -
Fontana, D.C.
Scripter and story editor for the original 'Star Trek' -
Foote, Horton
Oscar-winning screenwriter of To Kill A Mockingbird -
Ford, Richard
The author of Independence Day and The Sportswriter -
Forester, C.S.
The author of the Horatio Hornblower series of novels -
Fort, Charles
Researcher and reporter of anomalous phenomena -
Fossey, Dian
The author of Gorillas in the Mist -
Frank, Anne
Author of The Diary of Anne Frank -
Franklin, Benjamin
The Founding Father who wrote Poor Richard's Almanac -
Franzen, Jonathan
Author of The Corrections -
Friedan, Betty
The author of 'The Feminine Mystique' -
Frost, Robert
The poet who wrote "The Road Not Taken" -
Fuentes, Carlos
The author of 'The Old Gringo' and 'The Death of Artemio Cruz' -
Fuller, Margaret
The feminist who wrote 'Woman in the Nineteenth Century' -
Gaiman, Neil
Author of the Sandman comics -
Garland, Alex
The author of The Beach and director of Ex Machina -
Gates, Henry Louis Jr.
The Harvard professor and African-American scholar who was arrested for disorderly conduct in 2009 -
Gibson, William
The author who created "cyberpunk" -
Gilligan, Vince
The creator of the TV series Breaking Bad -
Ginsberg, Allen
The Beat-era poet who wrote Howl -
Giovanni, Nikki
The poet who wrote "Ego-Tripping" -
Glück, Louise
The Nobel Prize winning poet who wrote “Mock Orange” -
Golding, William
The Nobel-winning author of Lord of the Flies -
Goldman, Emma
The anarchist-feminist who founded 'Mother Earth' monthly -
Goldman, William
The writer of The Princess Bride and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid -
Gordimer, Nadine
The Nobel-winning South African author who wrote July's People -
Gorky, Maxim
Russian writer known for his socialist realism -
Gorman, Amanda
The National Youth Poet Laureate who read at Joe Biden's inauguration -
Grafton, Sue
Author of the "alphabet" series of Kinsey Millhone mystery novels -
Graves, Robert
Author of I, Claudius -
Greene, Graham
Author of The Honorary Consul and The Third Man -
Green, John
The author of The Fault in Our Stars -
Grey, Zane
Author of Riders of the Purple Sage -
Grisham, John
Author of The Client and The Firm -
Grodin, Charles
Robert DeNiro's co-star in 'Midnight Run' and the dad in 'Beethoven' -
Groening, Matt
Creator of The Simpsons -
Haggard, H. Rider
Author of King Solomon's Mines -
Haley, Alex
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the book Roots -
Hall, Donald
The New England poet who wrote Ox-Cart Man -
Hammett, Dashiell
The author of "The Maltese Falcon" -
Handler, Chelsea
TV Host and author of Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea -
Handler, Daniel
Pseudonymous author of A Series of Unfortunate Events -
Hansberry, Lorraine
The author of A Raisin in the Sun -
Hardy, Thomas
The author of Tess of the d'Urbervilles -
Harris, Charlaine
The author of the Sookie Stackhouse True Blood books -
Harris, Thomas
The author of 'The Silence of the Lambs' -
Havel, Václav
The dissident who became the first president of the Czech Republic -
Hawkins, Paula
The author of 'The Girl on the Train' -
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The author of The Scarlet Letter -
Hearst, Patty
The kidnapped heiress who turned bank robber -
Hecht, Ben
The prolific Hollywood screenwriter who did The Front Page -
Heinlein, Robert A.
The author of Stranger in a Strange Land -
Held Evans, Rachel
The LGBT-friendly Christian blogger who died tragically at 37 -
Heller, Joseph
The author of Catch-22 -
Hemingway, Ernest
The famously manly author of For Whom the Bell Tolls -
Henry, Buck
The screenwriter of 'The Graduate' -
Herbert, Frank
Author of the novel Dune -
Hersh, Seymour
The journalist who broke the story of the My Lai Massacre -
Highsmith, Patricia
The author of The Talented Mr. Ripley and Carol -
Hijuelos, Oscar
The author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love -
Hillenbrand, Laura
Author of Seabiscuit: An American Legend -
Hill, Joe
The author of Heart-Shaped Box and NOS4A2 -
Hinton, S.E.
Author of The Outsiders -
Hitchens, Christopher
The author of God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything -
Hobbes, Thomas
English philosopher who wrote Leviathan -
Hoffman, Abbie
The yippie who wrote Steal This Book -
Holmes, Oliver Wendell Sr.
Author of The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table -
Holmes, Rupert
The guy who wrote "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" -
Homer
The author of the Iliad and the Odyssey -
hooks, bell
Black feminist critic of "white supremacist capitalist patriarchy" -
Hornby, Nick
The author of High Fidelity -
Hotchner, A.E.
The writer who befriended Ernest Hemingway and Paul Newman -
Howe, Julia Ward
The abolitionist who wrote The Battle Hymn of the Republic -
Hoyle, Edmond
The originator of Hoyle's rules for playing cards -
Hubbard, L. Ron
Sci-fi author and founder of Scientology -
Hughes, Langston
Author of The Weary Blues (1926) -
Hughes, Ted
The English poet who was married to Sylvia Plath -
Hugo, Victor
The author of Les Misérables -
Hurston, Zora Neale
Author of Their Eyes Were Watching God -
Huxley, Aldous
The author of Brave New World -
Ibsen, Henrik
The Norwegian "Father of Modern Drama" -
Imus, Don
The host of the radio show Imus In the Morning -
Irving, Clifford
Author of the fake Howard Hughes biography -
Irving, John
The author of 'The World According to Garp' -
Irving, Washington
Author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" -
Isaacson, Walter
The journalist/historian who wrote 'Steve Jobs' the bio -
Isherwood, Christopher
The author of 'Goodbye to Berlin,' which became 'Cabaret' -
Ishiguro, Kazuo
The Nobel-winning author of The Remains of the Day -
James, E.L.
The author of the sensual bestseller 50 Shades of Grey -
James, Henry
Author of The Ambassadors -
James, P.D.
The "queen of crime" who wrote the Adam Dagliesh mystery novels -
Jelinek, Elfriede
2004 Nobel-winning Austrian novelist -
Jenkins, Beverly
The author of African-American romances such as 'Through the Storm' -
Jenkins, Jerry B.
Co-author of the Left Behind book series -
Johnson, Denis
The author of 'Tree of Smoke' and 'Jesus' Son' -
Johnson, Samuel
Author of 1755's A Dictionary of the English Language -
Jones, Gayl
The author of 'Eva's Man' and 'The Healing' -
Jones, Terry
A founding member of Monty Python's Flying Circus -
Joyce, James
Author of Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake -
Kafka, Franz
Author of The Trial and The Metamorphosis -
Kauffmann, Stanley
The film reviewer for The New Republic, 1958-2013 -
Keats, John
The Romantic poet who wrote "Ode to a Nightingale" -
Keillor, Garrison
The host of radio's A Prairie Home Companion -
Kennedy, Caroline
The oldest child of John and Jackie Kennedy -
Kerouac, Jack
Beat-era author of On The Road -
Kesey, Ken
Author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -
Keyes, Daniel
The author of Flowers for Algernon -
Key, Francis Scott
The attorney who wrote "The Star Spangled Banner" -
Kingsolver, Barbara
The author of Pigs in Heaven and Prodigal Summer -
King, Stephen
The author of scary bestsellers -
Kinney, Jeff
The author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books -
Kipling, Rudyard
The author of The Jungle Book -
Konigsburg, E.L.
The author of The View From Saturday -
Koontz, Dean
The horror novelist who wrote Watchers -
Kunitz, Stanley
U.S. Poet Laureate, 2000-01 -
Kwan, Kevin
The author of 'Crazy Rich Asians' -
LaDuke, Winona
Native American activist who was a vice presidential candidate in 1996 and 2000 -
LaHaye, Tim
Minister and co-author of Left Behind -
L'Amour, Louis
Author of many westerns, including Hondo -
Landers, Ann
Syndicated newspaper advice columnist -
Larsson, Stieg
The author of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo -
Laurie, Hugh
The grumpy-but-brilliant doctor in TV's House -
Lawrence, D.H.
Author of Lady Chatterly's Lover -
Lazarus, Emma
Author of the poem on the Statue of Liberty -
Lear, Edward
The author of The Owl and the Pussycat -
Lear, Norman
The TV producer behind 'All in the Family' and 'Sanford and Son' -
Leary, Timothy
The drug-taking professor who said "Turn on, tune in, drop out" -
Le Carré, John
The author of The Spy Who Came In From the Cold -
Lee, Harper
The author of To Kill a Mockingbird -
Lee, Stan
The leader of Marvel Comics and co-creator of Spider-Man -
Le Guin, Ursula K.
The sci-fi author of The Earthsea Trilogy -
Lehman, Ernest
The guy who wrote Hitchcock's North by Northwest -
Leigh, Mike
The filmmaker who did Secrets and Lies and Vera Drake -
Lem, Stanislaw
The author of Solaris -
L'Engle, Madeleine
The author of A Wrinkle in Time -
Leonard, Elmore
The author of Get Shorty and other funny crime novels -
Lessing, Doris
The author of The Golden Notebook -
Lethem, Jonathan
Author of The Fortress of Solitude -
Levertov, Denise
The politically-active poet who wrote With Eyes at the Back of our Heads -
Levy, Dan
The creator and star of 'Schitt's Creek' -
Lewis, C.S.
Author of The Chronicles of Narnia -
Lewis, Sinclair
The author of Babbitt and Elmer Gantry -
Lindgren, Astrid
The author of Pippi Longstocking -
Lister, Anne
The 19th century diarist who inspired TV's 'Gentleman Jack' -
Liu Cixin
The author of 'The Three-Body Problem' -
Liu Xiaobo
The Chinese writer who won 2010's Nobel Peace Prize -
Locke, Alain LeRoy
The African-American editor called "the father of the Harlem Renaissance" -
London, Jack
Author of Call of the Wild -
Lonergan, Kenneth
The director of 'You Can Count on Me' -
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
The American poet who wrote "Paul Revere's Ride" -
Lorca, Federico Garcia
Spanish dramatist/poet who wrote Poet in New York -
Lovecraft, H.P.
The horror writer who came up with Cthulhu -
Lowell, Robert
The "confessional" poet with the collection Life Studies -
Lowry, Lois
Author of The Giver -
Lowry, Malcolm
The author of Under the Volcano -
Luce, Clare Boothe
Socialite, playwright, ambassador and wife of publisher Henry Luce -
Mackay, Charles
Author of 1841's Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds -
Mailer, Norman
Pugnacious author of The Naked and the Dead -
Malick, Terrence
The Oscar-nominated director of The Thin Red Line -
Mamet, David
The playwright who wrote Glengarry Glen Ross -
Mantel, Hilary
The author of Wolf Hall -
Marling, Brit
Star of the TV series 'The OA' -
Marsh, Ngaio
New Zealand's "Queen of Crime" mystery novelist -
Martel, Yann
The author of Life of Pi -
Martin, George R. R.
The author of A Game of Thrones -
Martin, Steve
Comic star of The Jerk and Saturday Night Live -
Martí, José
The "Father of Cuban Independence" -
Matheson, Richard
The author of I Am Legend -
Matthiessen, Peter
The author of At Play in the Fields of the Lord -
Maugham, W. Somerset
The author of Of Human Bondage -
McCarthy, Cormac
Author of All the Pretty Horses -
McCullers, Carson
Author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter -
McDonagh, Martin
The playwright who made the film The Banshees of Inisherin -
McMurtry, Larry
The author of Lonesome Dove -
McPhee, John
The creative non-fiction legend who wrote 'Annals of the Former World' -
Melville, Herman
The author of Moby-Dick -
Mencken, H.L.
Famously acerbic columnist for the Baltimore Sun -
Merwin, W. S.
The author of the collection The Carrier of Ladders -
Meyer, Stephenie
The author of the teen vampire romance Twilight -
Michaels, Lorne
Creator of TV's Saturday Night Live -
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
The poet of the 1920s who wrote "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver" -
Miller, Arthur
The author of Death of a Salesman -
Miller, Frank
The comics artist who did Batman: The Dark Knight Returns -
Miller, Henry
Author of Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn -
Miller, Joaquin
"The Poet of the Sierras" -
Milne, A.A.
Creator of Winnie the Pooh -
Milton, John
The author of the epic poem Paradise Lost -
Mitchell, David
The author of Cloud Atlas -
Mitchell, Joseph
The author of "Joe Gould's Secret" -
Mitchell, Margaret
The author of Gone With the Wind -
Miéville, China
The author The City & The City and Perdido Street Station -
Moore, Alan
Writer of the graphic novel V for Vendetta -
Moore, Marianne
Tricorn hat-wearing modernist poet -
Moore, Michael
The director of Roger & Me and Bowling for Columbine -
More, Sir Thomas
The author of Utopia -
Morrison, Toni
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved -
Mossberg, Walter
Creator of the Wall Street Journal column "Personal Technology" -
Mowat, Farley
The author of Never Cry Wolf -
Mo Yah
The Chinese author of Red Sorghum Clan -
Muir, John
Naturalist and founder of the Sierra Club -
Munro, Alice
Canadian writer of The Love of a Good Woman stories -
Murakami, Haruki
The Japanese author of Norwegian Wood -
Myers, Mike
Star of the Austin Powers movies -
Márquez, Gabriel García
The author of One Hundred Years of Solitude -
Nabokov, Vladimir
Author of the novel Lolita -
Naipaul, V.S.
Nobel-winning author of A House for Mr. Biswas -
Nash, Ogden
Author of the funny poem "The Lama" -
Neruda, Pablo
The Chilean poet who won the 1971 Nobel Prize -
Nin, Anais
Diarist and lover of Henry Miller -
Niven, David
Dapper British star of Around the World in 80 Days -
Oates, Joyce Carol
The author of Bellefleur and Them -
O'Brien, Conan
Host of The Tonight Show, 2009-2010 -
O'Connor, Flannery
Southern author of "A Good Man is Hard to Find" -
Odets, Clifford
The author of the play Waiting for Lefty -
O'Donoghue, Michael
Writer / performer on Saturday Night Live -
O'Hara, Catherine
The mom in Home Alone -
O. Henry
American short story writer -
Oliver, Mary
The poet who wrote 'American Primitive' -
Omarr, Sydney
Syndicated horoscope columnist from Los Angeles -
O'Neill, Eugene
The author of the play Long Day's Journey Into Night -
Orwell, George
The author of Nineteen eighty-four -
Ovid
Roman author of Metamorphoses -
Owen, Wilfred
English poet of World War I -
Oxford, Kelly
The author of Everything is Perfect When You're a Liar -
Paglia, Camille
The professor-author of 1990’s Sexual Personae -
Paine, Thomas
The author of Common Sense -
Parker, Alan
The director of 'Midnight Express' and 'Angel Heart' -
Parker, Dorothy
The oft-quoted female wit of the Algonquin Round Table -
Patten, Gilbert
The writer of the Frank Merriwell dime novels in the early 20th century -
Patterson, James
The author of all those Alex Cross mysteries -
Paul, Caroline
Author of Fighting Fire -
Paulsen, Gary
The author of Hatchet -
Paz, Octavio
The Mexican poet who wrote 'Piedra de sol' ('Sun Stone') -
Pepys, Samuel
Author of Samuel Pepys' diaries -
Perelman, S.J.
Humorist for The New Yorker and Marx Bros. writer -
Perry, Tyler
Madea in his film Diary of a Mad Black Woman -
Piaget, Jean
Swiss psychologist who studied childhood cognition -
Pinter, Harold
The Nobel-winning author of The Homecoming -
Pirandello, Luigi
The author of Six Characters in Search of An Author -
Pirsig, Robert
Author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance -
Pitts, Leonard Jr.
Author of "We'll Go Forward From This Moment" -
Plath, Sylvia
Poet and author of The Bell Jar -
Pliny the Elder
The author of Natural History -
Poe, Edgar Allan
The author of the poem "The Raven" -
Pohl, Frederik
The sci-fi author of The Space Merchants and Gateway -
Poincaré, Henri
The French mathematician who wrote Science and Hypothesis -
Pope, Alexander
Author of 1733's Essay on Man -
Porter, Katherine Anne
Short story writer and the author of Ship of Fools -
Portis, Charles
The author of the book True Grit -
Post, Emily
Mid-20th century American expert on etiquette -
Pound, Ezra
The early-20th-century poet who wrote The Cantos -
Poundstone, Paula
The stand-up comedian who was accused of child endangerment -
Price, Roger
The creator of Droodles and Mad Libs -
Proulx, Annie
The author of The Shipping News -
Proust, Marcel
Author of Remembrance of Things Past -
Puig, Manuel
The author of Kiss of the Spider Woman -
Pullman, Philip
The author of the His Dark Materials trilogy -
Pushkin, Alexander
The author of the verse novel 'Eugene Onegin' -
Pynchon, Thomas
Reclusive author of Gravity's Rainbow -
Raven, Simon
The author of the Alms for Oblivion novels -
Rebeck, Theresa
The playwright who created the TV show Smash -
Reed, Nikki
Co-writer of Thirteen and co-star of Twilight -
Reiner, Carl
Creator of TV's The Dick Van Dyke Show -
Remarque, Erich Maria
Author of All Quiet on the Western Front -
Rice, Anne
Author of Interview With The Vampire -
Rich, Adrienne
The feminist-lesbian poet who wrote Diving Into the Wreck -
Robbe-Grillet, Alain
The "anti-novel" guy who wrote the film Last Year at Marienbad -
Robbins, Harold
The author of The Betsy -
Roberts, Nora
Author of the romantic MacGregor series -
Roethke, Theodore
The Michigan poet who wrote "Elegy for Jane" -
Rooney, Sally
The Irish author of 'Normal People' -
Roth, Philip
The author of Portnoy's Complaint -
Rowlandson, Mary
Early American colonist and captive whose memoir was a 17th century hit -
Rowling, J.K.
The creator of the fictional wizard Harry Potter -
Roy, Arundhati
The author of the 1997 novel The God of Small Things -
Rumi, Jalal Al-Din
Founder of the Whirling Dervishes -
Rushdie, Salman
Author of The Satanic Verses -
Ryan, Kay
The 16th Poet Laureate consultant to the Library of Congress -
Ryūsuke, Hamaguchi
The director of the 2021 film Drive My Car -
Sacks, Oliver
The author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat -
Safire, William
Political columnist for The New York Times, 1973-2005 -
Salinger, J.D.
The author of The Catcher In the Rye -
Sandburg, Carl
Author of the poem Chicago -
Sand, George
The unconventional 19th century French author of 1 July 1804 -
Sanmao
The Chinese author of 'Stories of the Sahara' -
Say, Allen
Illustrator of The Boy of the Three-Year Nap -
Sayers, Dorothy
The creator of Lord Peter Wimsey -
Schmich, Mary
The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist who wrote the "Wear Sunscreen" e-mail essay -
Schwartz, Sherwood
The creator of Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch -
Scott, Sir Walter
The author of Ivanhoe -
Sebald, W.G.
Author of the memoir Austerlitz -
See, Lisa
Author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan -
Sendak, Maurice
The illustrator who created Where the Wild Things Are -
Seneca
Stoic philospher and playwright of the first century -
Senghor, Leopold
The French poet who was Senegal's first president -
Service, Robert W.
The England-born, Scotland-raised poet who wrote "The Cremation of Sam McGee" -
Sexton, Anne
Confessional American poet of the 1960s and '70s -
Shakespeare, William
The famed author of Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet -
Shatner, William
Captain James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise -
Shaw, George Bernard
The author of Pygmalion -
Sheldon, Sidney
The author of The Other Side of Midnight -
Shelley, Mary
The author of Frankenstein -
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
19th century romantic poet -
Shepard, Sam
The actor/playwright who wrote 'Fool for Love' and 'True West' -
Sherwood, Robert E.
The playwright who wrote the movie The Best Years of Our Lives -
Shriver, Lionel
The author of 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' -
Simenon, Georges
Prolific author of the Detective Maigret novels -
Simon, Neil
The Broadway legend who wrote The Odd Couple -
Sinclair, Upton
Socialist author of 1906's The Jungle -
Singleton, John
The writer and director of Boyz N the Hood -
Sitwell, Edith
The eccentric poet who wrote 1941's "Still Falls the Rain" -
Slocum, Joshua
The first person to sail around the world alone -
Smiley, Tavis
Host of The Tavis Smiley Show on TV and radio -
Smith, Dodie
The author of The Hundred and One Dalmations -
Smith, Patti
The poet-rocker who wrote the memoir 'Just Kids' -
Smith, Tracy K.
U.S. Poet Laureate named in 2017 -
Smith, Zadie
The author of White Teeth -
Snyder, Gary
Pulitzer-winning Beat poet who wrote Turtle Island -
Solnit, Rebecca
The author of 'The Faraway Nearby' and 'Men Explain Things to Me' -
Sophocles
Greek dramatist who wrote Oedipus Tyrannus -
Spock, Dr.
The author of Baby and Child Care -
Stafford, William
The poet who wrote "Traveling Through the Dark" -
Steel, Danielle
Author of the romance novels Jewels and Crossings -
Steinbeck, John
The author of The Grapes of Wrath -
Steinem, Gloria
The feminist who co-founded Ms. magazine -
Stein, Gertrude
Ex-patriate author of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas -
Stevenson, Robert Louis
The author of Treasure Island -
Stevens, Wallace
The poet and insurance man who wrote "The Emperor of Ice Cream" -
Stine, R.L.
Author of the Goosebumps series of books -
St. Jerome
The medieval scholar behind the Latin translation of the Bible -
Stoker, Bram
The author who wrote Dracula -
Stopes, Marie
The UK birth control pioneer who wrote 'Married Love' -
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin -
Straub, Peter
The author of Ghost Story -
Strayed, Cheryl
The author of the memoir Wild -
Strieber, Whitley
The alien-abductee novelist who wrote Communion -
Strout, Elizabeth
The author of 'Olive Kitteredge' -
Sturgeon, Theodore
The science fiction author of 'More Than Human' -
Styron, William
Author of Sophie's Choice -
Swift, Jonathan
The satirical Irish author of Gulliver's Travels -
Tan, Amy
Author of The Joy Luck Club -
Tartt, Donna
Author of The Goldfinch -
Tennsyon, Lord Alfred
The Victorian poet who wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade" -
Theroux, Justin
The film director in David Lynch's Mulholland Dr. -
Thomas, Dylan
The Welsh poet who wrote "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Nght" -
Thompson, Emma
The writer and star of 1995's Sense and Sensibility -
Thompson, Hunter S.
Author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas -
Thompson, Jim
The author of The Killer Inside Me -
Thoreau, Henry David
Author of Walden -
Tolkien, J.R.R.
The author of The Lord of the Rings -
Travers, P.L.
The author of the Mary Poppins novels -
Trethewey, Natasha
The Pulitzer-winning poet who wrote Native Guard -
Trumbo, Dalton
The blacklisted screenwriter who wrote Johnny Got His Gun -
Twain, Mark
The author of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn -
Updike, John
The author of the 1960 novel Rabbit, Run -
Uris, Leon
The author of Exodus -
Vance, J.D.
The author of 'Hillbilly Elegy' -
VanderMeer, Jeff
The author of the 'Southern Reach' trilogy -
Van Sant, Gus
Director of Good Will Hunting -
Vardalos, Nia
Star and writer of My Big Fat Greek Wedding -
Verne, Jules
Author of Around the World in Eighty Days -
Vidal, Gore
The smart and sassy author of Burr and Myra Breckinridge -
Virgil
Author of the Aeneid -
Voltaire
Witty playwright and author of Candide -
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr.
The author of Slaughterhouse-Five -
Wagner, Richard
German composer of Der Ring des Nibelungen -
Walker, Alice
The author of The Color Purple -
Wallace, David Foster
The author of the novel Infinite Jest -
Watts, Alan
The author of 'The Way of Zen' -
Webb, Jim
The Marine and Senate veteran who wrote Fields of Fire -
Webster, Noah
The man behind 1828's An American Dictionary of the English Language -
Wells, H. G.
Author of The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds -
Welty, Eudora
Author of Delta Wedding -
Werber, Bernard
Author of Empire of the Ants -
West, Mae
Early Hollywood sex symbol -
West, Rebecca
Critic, journalist, novelist and literary celebrity -
Wharton, Edith
Author of Ethan Frome and The Age of Innocence -
Wheatley, Phillis
The poet who was the first published black woman in America -
Wheaton, Wil
Wesley Crusher from Star Trek: The Next Generation -
Whitehead, Colson
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Underground Railroad' -
Whitman, Walt
The poet who wrote Leaves of Grass -
Wiesel, Elie
Author of the Holocaust classic Night -
Wiesenthal, Simon
The Nazi hunter who nabbed Adolf Eichmann -
Wilde, Oscar
The author of The Importance of Being Earnest -
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Author of the Little House on the Prairie books -
Williams, Stanley Tookie
Co-founder of the Crips street gang -
Williams, Tennessee
Pulitzer-winning author of A Streetcar Named Desire -
Williams, William Carlos
Author of the poetic epic Paterson -
Willis, Connie
Sci-fi author of The Doomsday Book -
Wilson, August
Pulitzer-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson -
Wilson, E.O.
The ant expert who wrote 1978's On Human Nature -
Wilson, Owen
Vince Vaughn's co-star in Wedding Crashers -
Wilson, Robert Anton
Co-author of the Illuminatus! Trilogy -
Wolfe, Thomas
The author of Look Homeward, Angel -
Wolfe, Tom
The author of 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test' and 'The Bonfire of the Vanities' -
Wolff, Tobias
Author of the memoir This Boy's Life -
Wollstonecraft, Mary
The author of 'A Vindication for the Rights of Woman' -
Woolf, Virginia
Author of A Room Of One's Own -
Wordsworth, William
The author of the poem "Tintern Abbey" -
Wright, Charles
The U.S. Poet Laureate, 2014-2015 -
Wright, Richard
Author of Native Son -
Yanagihara, Hanya
The author of A Little Life -
Yeats, William Butler
Irish poet and playwright -
Yep, Laurence
Author of the 1975 book Dragonwings -
Yukio, Mishima
Seppuku-committing Japanese author -
Zola, Emile
The author of "J'Accuse"