Authors

August Strindberg

1849 – 1912

Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg’s...

Edgar Allan Poe

1809 – 1849

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the mac...

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

1810 – 1865

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, includi...

Emily Brontë

1818 – 1848

Emily Jane Brontë was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature.

Ernest Hemingway

1899 – 1961

Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while hi...

F. Scott Fitzgerald

1896 – 1940

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and short-story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess...

Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher, described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th...

Franz Kafka

1883 – 1924

Franz Kafka was a German-speaking Bohemian writer of novels and short stories, regarded by critics as one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. Kafka strongl...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was a Russian novelist, philosopher, and essayist. His literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritu...

H.P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American writer of weird and horror fiction, who is known for his creation of what became the Cthulhu Mythos.

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau was an American essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in n...

Herman Melville

1819 – 1891

Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. His best known works include Typee, a romantic account of his exp...

Hjalmar Söderberg

1869 – 1941

Hjalmar Söderberg was a Swedish author, playwright, and journalist. He is best known for his novels and plays, which often explore themes of love, jealousy, and the human c...

James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, teacher, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as...

Jane Austen

Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th ce...

Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer of children's fiction, notably Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel T...

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little

Marcel Proust

1871 – 1922

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost...

Mary Shelley

1797 – 1851

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. She also edited and promoted the works of her husban...

Michel Houellebecq

Michel Houellebecq is a French author, filmmaker, and poet. Having written poetry and a biographical essay on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, he published his first nove...

Oscar Wilde

1854 – 1900

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwri...

Victoria Benedictsson

1850 – 1888

Victoria Benedictsson was a Swedish author, playwright, and feminist. She is best known for her novels and plays, which are characterized by their naturalistic style and th...

Virginia Woolf

1882 – 1941

Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and also a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness a...

William Shakespeare

1564 – 1616

William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist.