Notable Writers

This list is comprised of some of the most recognizable names from the literary world. Included are novelists, poets, playwrights and essayists. However, those who are primarily considered to be philosophers or academic writers can be found on the lists of thinkers.
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NameLifespanOther Names
Enheduanna?-22xx BC
Hesiod?-c. 700 BC(Hesiodos)
Homer?-c. 700 BC
Archilochusc. 680-c. 645 BC
Alcaeus of Mytilenec. 625-c. 580 BC(Alkaios)
Sapphoc. 620-570 BC
Aesopc. 620-c. 564 BC(Aisopos)
Anacreonc. 575-c. 495 BC(Anakreon)
Simonides of Ceosc. 556-468 BC
Valmiki?-5xx BC
Aeschylus525-456 BC(Aischylos)
Pindarc. 522-443 BC(Pindaros, Pindarus)
Sophoclesc. 497-c. 406 BC
Euripidesc. 480-406 BC
Aristophanesc. 446-c. 386 BC
Menander342-291 BC
Qu Yuanc. 340-278 BC
Callimachusc. 310-c. 240 BC(Kallimachos)
Lucius Livius Andronicusc. 284-c. 204 BC
Plautus254-184 BC(Titus)
Apollonius of Rhodes?-2xx BC
Enniusc. 239-c. 169 BC(Quintus)
Cato the Elder234-149 BC
Terence195-159 BC(Publius)
Marcus Terentius Varro116-27 BC
Cornelius Neposc. 110-c. 25 BC
Catullus84-54 BC(Gaius)
Virgil70-19 BC(Publius)
Horace65-8 BC(Quintus)
Tibullus55-19 BC
Seneca the Elder54 BC-39(Lucius)
Sextus Propertiusc. 50-c. 15 BC
Gaius Helvius Cinna?-44 BC
Ovid43 BC-17(Publius)
Petroniusc. 27-66(Gaius)
Quintilian35-100(Marcus)
Lucan39-65(Marcus)
Martial40-102(Marcus)
Statiusc. 45-c. 96(Publius)
Pliny the Younger61-c. 113(Gaius)
Apuleiusc. 125-180(Lucius)
Lucian of Samosatac. 125-c. 180
Juvenal?-1xx(Decimus)
Diogenes Laertius?-2xx
Kalidasa?-4xx
Taliesin?-c. 600
Wang Wei699-759
Li Bai701-762(Po)
Du Fu712-770
Abu Nuwas al-Hasan al-Hakamic. 756-c. 814(Abu Nuwas)
Mansur al-Hallajc. 858-922(Mansour)
Ferdowsi940-1020
Ahmad ibn Fadlan?-9xx
Sei Shōnagonc. 966-c. 1017
Murasaki Shikibuc. 973-c. 1014
Omar Khayyám1048-1131(Umar)
Geoffrey of Monmouthc. 1100-c. 1155
Chrétien de Troyesc. 1135-c. 1183
Nizami Ganjavic. 1141-1209(Nezami)
Hendrik van Veldekec. 1150-c. 1184(Heinrich)
Marie de France11xx-c. 1215
Shota Rustavelic. 1160-c. 1220
Wolfram von Eschenbachc. 1170-c. 1220
Snorri Sturluson1179-1241
Shams Tabrizi1185-1248
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi1201-1274
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi1207-1273
Saadi Shirazi1210-c. 1291
Jacob van Maerlantc. 1235-c. 1300
Amir Khusrau1253-1325
Dante Alighieric. 1265-1321(Durante)
Guillaume de Machautc. 1300-1377
Petrarch1304-1374(Francesco)
Giovanni Boccaccio1313-1375
Hafezc. 1325-1390(Shams-od-Din, Mohammad)
Geoffrey Chaucer1343-1400
Christine de Pizan1364-c. 1430
Lorenzo Vallac. 1407-1457
Jami1414-1492(Nur ad-Din, 'Abd ar-Rahman)
François Villonc. 1431-c. 1463
Luigi Pulci1432-1484
Ali-Shir Nava'i1441-1501(Alisher)
Ludovico Ariosto1474-1533
Muhammad "Fuzuli" bin Suleyman1483-1556(Fuzuli)
Vittoria Colonna1490-1547
François Rabelaisc. 1494-1553
Mirabai1498-1547(Meera, Meerabai)
Wu Cheng'enc. 1500-1582
Michel de Nostredame1503-1566(Nostradamus)
Petar Zoranić1508-1569
Giorgio Vasari1511-1574
Tulsidas1511-1623
Gaspara Stampa1523-1554
Luís de Camõesc. 1524-1580
Michel de Montaigne1533-1592
Torquato Tasso1544-1595
Miguel de Cervantes1547-1616
Edmund Spenserc. 1552-1599
Cvijeta Zuzorićc. 1552-1648(Flora)
Philip Sidney1554-1586
Moderata Fonte1555-1592(Modesta)
Lope de Vega1562-1635
William Shakespeare1564-1616
Christopher Marlowe1564-1593(Kit)
Ben Jonson1572-1637(Benjamin)
Jacob Cats1577-1660
Francisco de Quevedo1580-1645
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft1581-1647
Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero1585-1618
Joost van den Vondel1587-1679
Ivan Gundulić1589-1638
Constantijn Huygens1596-1687
Pedro Calderón de la Barca1600-1681
Pierre Corneille1606-1684
John Milton1608-1674
Jan Vos1612-1667
François de La Rochefoucauld1613-1680
Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac1619-1655
Jean de La Fontaine1621-1695
Jean Baptiste Poquelin "Molière"1622-1673
Reyer Anslo1622-1669
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal1626-1696
Charles Perrault1628-1703
Samuel Pepys1633-1703
Madame de La Fayette1634-1693(Marie, Madeleine)
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux1636-1711
Jean Racine1639-1699
Matsuo Bashō1644-1694
Juana Inés de la Cruz1648-1695
Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani1658-1725
Daniel Defoec. 1660-1731
Jonathan Swift1667-1745
Alexander Pope1688-1744
François-Marie Arouet "Voltaire"1694-1778
Carlo Goldoni1707-1793(Osvaldo)
Samuel Johnson1709-1784
Cao Xueqin1710-1765
Denis Diderot1713-1784
Giacomo Casanova1725-1798
Oliver Goldsmith1728-1774
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing1729-1781
Pierre Beaumarchais1732-1799
Marquis de Sade1740-1814(Donatien, Alphonse, François)
Isabelle de Charrière1740-1805(Belle)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749-1832
Frances Burney1752-1840(Fanny)
Rhijnvis Feith1753-1824
William Blake1757-1827
Robert Burns1759-1796(Rabbie)
Friedrich Schiller1759-1805(Johann, Christoph)
Ann Radcliffe1764-1823
Nicasio Álvarez de Cienfuegos1764-1809
Germaine de Staël1766-1817
François-René de Chateaubriand1768-1848
Friedrich Hölderlin1770-1843
William Wordsworth1770-1850
Walter Scott1771-1832
Friedrich Schlegel1772-1829
Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg "Novalis"1772-1801(Novalis)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772-1834
Jane Austen1775-1817
E. T. A. Hoffmann1776-1822(Ernst, Theodor, Amadeus)
Heinrich von Kleist1777-1811
Stendhal1783-1842(Marie, Henri)
Washington Irving1783-1859
Jacob Grimm1785-1863
Bettina von Arnim1785-1859(Elisabeth)
Wilhelm Grimm1786-1859
Lord Byron1788-1824(George, Gordon)
James Fenimore Cooper1789-1851
Alphonse de Lamartine1790-1869
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792-1822
John Keats1795-1821
Mary Shelley1797-1851
Heinrich Heine1797-1856
Giacomo Leopardi1798-1837
Adam Mickiewicz1798-1855(Bernard)
Honoré de Balzac1799-1850
Aleksandr Pushkin1799-1837(Alexander)
Mihály Vörösmarty1800-1855
Victor Hugo1802-1885
Alexandre Dumas1802-1870
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803-1882
Prosper Mérimée1803-1870
George Sand1804-1876(Amandine)
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804-1864
Prudens van Duyse1804-1859(Prudentius, Joannes, Maria)
Hans Christian Andersen1805-1875
Elizabeth Barrett Browning1806-1861
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807-1882
Edgar Allan Poe1809-1849
Nikolai Gogol1809-1852
Alfred Tennyson1809-1892
Juliusz Słowacki1809-1849
Elizabeth Gaskell1810-1865(Cleghorn)
Alfred de Musset1810-1857
Harriet Beecher Stowe1811-1896
William Makepeace Thackeray1811-1863
Théophile Gautier1811-1872
Charles Dickens1812-1870
Zygmunt Krasiński1812-1859(Napoleon, Stanisław, Adam, Feliks)
Robert Browning1812-1889
Edward Lear1812-1888
Mikhail Lermontov1814-1841
Taras Shevchenko1814-1861
Lavrenti Ardaziani1815-1870
Adolf Friedrich von Schack1815-1894
Charlotte Brontë1816-1855
Henry David Thoreau1817-1862
Theodor Mommsen1817-1903
Domien Sleeckx1818-1901(Jan, Lambrecht, Dominicus)
Emily Brontë1818-1848
Ivan Turgenev1818-1883
John Ruskin1819-1900
Walt Whitman1819-1892(Walter)
Herman Melville1819-1891
George Eliot1819-1880(Mary)
Anne Brontë1820-1849
Božena Němcová1820-1862
Eduard Douwes Dekker "Multatuli"1820-1887
Anna Sewell1820-1878
Charles Baudelaire1821-1867
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821-1881
Gustave Flaubert1821-1880
Alexandre Dumas fils1824-1895
George MacDonald1824-1905
Carlo Collodi1826-1890
John Rollin Ridge1827-1867(Cheesquatalawny, Yellow Bird)
Johanna Spyri1827-1901
Ellen G. White1827-1915(Gould)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti1828-1882
Jules Verne1828-1905
Henrik Ibsen1828-1906
Leo Tolstoy1828-1910(Lev)
Paul Heyse1830-1914
Hector Malot1830-1907
Frédéric Mistral1830-1914
Emily Dickinson1830-1886
Lewis Carroll1832-1898
José Echegaray1832-1916
Louisa May Alcott1832-1888
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson1832-1910
Ludovic Halévy1834-1908
Vítězslav Hálek1835-1874
Adolf Heyduk1835-1923
Giosuè Carducci1835-1907
Mary Elizabeth Braddon1835-1915
Mark Twain1835-1910(Samuel)
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch1836-1895
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer1836-1870
Algernon Charles Swinburne1837-1909
August Šenoa1838-1881
Sully Prudhomme1839-1907
Émile Zola1840-1902
Alphonse Daudet1840-1897
Thomas Hardy1840-1928
Abraham Goldfaden1840-1908(Avram, Avrum)
Karl May1842-1912
Camille Flammarion1842-1925(Nicolas)
Stéphane Mallarmé1842-1898
Ambrose Bierce1842-c. 1914
Henry James1843-1916
Benito Pérez Galdós1843-1920
Paul Verlaine1844-1896
Anatole France1844-1924
Edward Carpenter1844-1929
Carl Spitteler1845-1924
Isidore Lucien Ducasse "Comte de Lautréamont"1846-1870
Henryk Sienkiewicz1846-1916
Edmondo De Amicis1846-1908
Bram Stoker1847-1912(Abraham)
Aleksandre Qazbegi1848-1893(Alexander)
Joris-Karl Huysmans1848-1907(Charles, Marie, Georges)
Octave Mirbeau1848-1917
August Strindberg1849-1912
Frances Hodgson Burnett1849-1924
Eugen Kumičić1850-1904
Mihai Eminescu1850-1889
Guy de Maupassant1850-1893
Robert Louis Stevenson1850-1894
Ante Kovačić1854-1889
Oscar Wilde1854-1900
Arthur Rimbaud1854-1891
L. Frank Baum1856-1919(Lyman)
H. Rider Haggard1856-1925(Henry)
George Bernard Shaw1856-1950
Karl Adolph Gjellerup1857-1919
Henrik Pontoppidan1857-1943
Ida Tarbell1857-1944(Minerva)
Joseph Conrad1857-1924
Charles Eastman1858-1939(Hakadah, Ohíye S'a, Alexander)
Josip Kozarac1858-1906
E. Nesbit1858-1924(Edith)
Selma Lagerlöf1858-1940
Vincas Kudirka1858-1899
Sholem Aleichem1859-1916
Kenneth Grahame1859-1932
Arthur Conan Doyle1859-1930
Verner von Heidenstam1859-1940
Knut Hamsun1859-1952
Vjenceslav Novak1859-1905
Anton Chekhov1860-1904
J. M. Barrie1860-1937(James, Matthew)
Lou Andreas-Salomé1861-1937
E. Pauline Johnson1861-1913(Emily, Tekahionwake)
Rabindranath Tagore1861-1941
Janko Leskovar1861-1949
Edith Wharton1862-1937
Arthur Schnitzler1862-1931
M. R. James1862-1936(Montague, Rhodes)
Maurice Maeterlinck1862-1949
O. Henry1862-1910(William, Sydney)
Gerhart Hauptmann1862-1946
Adolf Paul1863-1943(Georg)
Gabriele D'Annunzio1863-1938
Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis1863-1933(Constantine)
Louis Couperus1863-1923
Jagoda Truhelka1864-1957
Erik Axel Karlfeldt1864-1931
Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar1864-1944
Maurice Leblanc1864-1941
William Butler Yeats1865-1939
Baroness Orczy1865-1947(Emma, Emmuska, Magdolna, Rozália, Mária, Jozefa, Borbála)
Rudyard Kipling1865-1936
Romain Rolland1866-1944
Beatrix Potter1866-1943
Jacinto Benavente1866-1954
H. G. Wells1866-1946(Herbert, George)
Rubén Darío1867-1916(Félix)
Laura Ingalls Wilder1867-1957
Władysław Reymont1867-1925(Stanisław)
Luigi Pirandello1867-1936
John Galsworthy1867-1933
Tevfik Fikret1867-1915
Maxim Gorky1868-1936(Alexei)
Gaston Leroux1868-1927
Otokar Březina1868-1929(Otakar, Václav)
Eleanor H. Porter1868-1920
Stanisław Wyspiański1869-1907(Mateusz, Ignacy)
Brand Whitlock1869-1934(Joseph)
Algernon Blackwood1869-1951
Booth Tarkington1869-1946
Iulia Hasdeu1869-1888
André Gide1869-1951
Jappe Nilssen1870-1931(Jacob)
Ivan Bunin1870-1953
Viktor Car Emin1870-1963
Lesya Ukrainka1871-1913
James Weldon Johnson1871-1938
Marcel Proust1871-1922
Grazia Deledda1871-1936
Paul Valéry1871-1945(Ambroise, Toussaint, Jules)
Zane Grey1872-1939(Pearl)
Rupert Hughes1872-1956
Paul Laurence Dunbar1872-1906
Johannes V. Jensen1873-1950(Vilhelm)
Colette1873-1954(Sidonie, Gabrielle)
Marija Jurić Zagorka1873-1957
Ellen Glasgow1873-1945(Anderson, Gholson)
Willa Cather1873-1947
Lola Ridge1873-1941(Rose, Emily)
W. Somerset Maugham1874-1965(William)
Gertrude Stein1874-1946
Amy Lowell1874-1925(Lawrence)
Robert Frost1874-1963
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić1874-1938
G. K. Chesterton1874-1936(Gilbert, Keith)
Adolf Brand1874-1945(Gustav, Adolph, Franz)
Lucy Maud Montgomery1874-1942
Rafael Sabatini1875-1950
Thomas Mann1875-1955
Alice Dunbar Nelson1875-1935(Ruth)
Edgar Rice Burroughs1875-1950
Rainer Maria Rilke1875-1926(René, Karl, Wilhelm, Johann, Josef)
Jack London1876-1916(John, Griffith)
Zitkála-Šá1876-1938(Gertrude)
Vladimir Nazor1876-1949
Susan Glaspell1876-1948(Keating)
Mary Roberts Rinehart1876-1958(Ella)
Sherwood Anderson1876-1941(Berton)
Flora Thompson1876-1947(Jane)
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti1876-1944
Hermann Hesse1877-1962
Lloyd C. Douglas1877-1951(Cassel)
Muhammad Iqbal1877-1938
Endre Ady1877-1919
Carl Sandburg1878-1967(August)
Robert Walser1878-1956
Janusz Korczak1878-1942(Henryk)
Upton Sinclair1878-1968(Beall)
William Stanley Braithwaite1878-1962(Beaumont)
E. M. Forster1879-1970(Edward, Morgan)
Beatrice Hastings1879-1943(Emily, Alice)
Sarojini Naidu1879-1949
Wallace Stevens1879-1955
Vachel Lindsay1879-1931(Nicholas)
Aleksandr Blok1880-1921(Alexander)
Lytton Strachey1880-1932(Giles)
Carl Van Vechten1880-1964
Dhanpat Rai "Premchand" Srivastava1880-1936(Premchand)
Guillaume Apollinaire1880-1918
Georgia Douglas Johnson1880-1966(Blanche)
Robert Musil1880-1942
Peretz Hirschbein1880-1948
Roger Martin du Gard1881-1958
Mary Webb1881-1927(Gladys)
Lu Xun1881-1936(Shuren)
P. G. Wodehouse1881-1975(Pelham, Grenville)
Stefan Zweig1881-1942
Juan Ramón Jiménez1881-1958
Yanka Kupala1882-1942(Ivan)
Fan Noli1882-1965(Theofan, Stilian)
A. A. Milne1882-1956(Alan, Alexander)
Virginia Woolf1882-1941
James Joyce1882-1941
Anne Spencer1882-1975(Bethel)
Pádraic Ó Conaire1882-1928
Korney Chukovsky1882-1969
Jessie Redmon Fauset1882-1961(Redmona)
Willem Elsschot1882-1960(Alfons)
Sigrid Undset1882-1949
Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius1882-1954
Mina Loy1882-1966(Gertrude)
Khalil Gibran1883-1931(Kahlil)
Nikos Kazantzakis1883-1957
Jaroslav Hašek1883-1923
Franz Kafka1883-1924
William Carlos Williams1883-1963
Max Brod1884-1968
Halide Edip Adıvar1884-1964
Sara Teasdale1884-1933(Sarah, Trevor)
F. Bordewijk1884-1965(Ferdinand)
Babilina Khositashvili1884-1973
Sinclair Lewis1885-1951(Harry)
Ring Lardner1885-1933(Ringgold, Wilmer)
Karen Blixen1885-1962(Isak, Tania)
André Maurois1885-1967
Edna Ferber1885-1968
Elinor Wylie1885-1928(Morton)
D. H. Lawrence1885-1930(David, Herbert)
Alain Locke1885-1954(LeRoy)
Üzeyir Hacıbəyov1885-1948
François Mauriac1885-1970
Ezra Pound1885-1972(Weston, Loomis)
Felix Timmermans1886-1947(Leopoldus, Maximilianus)
H. D.1886-1961(Hilda)
Zoe Akins1886-1958(Byrd)
Janko Polić Kamov1886-1910
Hedd Wyn1887-1917(Ellis, Humphrey)
Saint-John Perse1887-1975
Rupert Brooke1887-1915(Chawner)
John Reed1887-1920(Jack, Silas)
Marianne Moore1887-1972(Craig)
A. de Herz1887-1936(Adolf, Edmund, George)
Fernando Pessoa1888-1935
Shmuel Yosef Agnon1888-1970
Raymond Chandler1888-1959
Frans Eemil Sillanpää1888-1964
T. S. Eliot1888-1965(Thomas, Stearns)
Katherine Mansfield1888-1923(Kathleen)
Eugene O'Neill1888-1953
Dale Carnegie1888-1955(Harbison)
Gabriela Mistral1889-1957
Anna Akhmatova1889-1966
Jean Cocteau1889-1963
Conrad Aiken1889-1973(Potter)
Waldo Frank1889-1967(David)
Mikha'il Na'ima1889-1988
Enid Bagnold1889-1981
Zalman Shazar1889-1974(Shneur)
Reşat Nuri Güntekin1889-1956
Karel Čapek1890-1938
Boris Pasternak1890-1960
Katherine Anne Porter1890-1980
H. P. Lovecraft1890-1937(Howard, Phillips)
Jean Rhys1890-1979(Ella, Gwendolyn)
Claude McKay1890-1948(Festus, Claudius)
Agatha Christie1890-1976
Mikhail Bulgakov1891-1940
Ilya Ehrenburg1891-1967
Zora Neale Hurston1891-1960
Nella Larsen1891-1964(Nellallitea, Nellie)
Pär Lagerkvist1891-1974
Nelly Sachs1891-1970
Henry Miller1891-1980
J. R. R. Tolkien1892-1973(John, Ronald, Reuel)
Edna St. Vincent Millay1892-1950(Nancy)
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa1892-1927
Djuna Barnes1892-1982
Juš Kozak1892-1964
Pearl S. Buck1892-1973(Sai, Sydenstricker, Zhenzhu)
Marina Tsvetaeva1892-1941
Ivo Andrić1892-1975
Galaktion Tabidze1892-1959
Ruth Chatterton1892-1961
Vladimir Mayakovsky1893-1930
Konstantine Gamsakhurdia1893-1975
Dorothy L. Sayers1893-1957(Leigh)
Miroslav Krleža1893-1981
John Phillips Marquand1893-1960
Dashiell Hammett1894-1961
Louis-Ferdinand Céline1894-1961(Auguste)
Paolo Iashvili1894-1937(Pavle)
Aldous Huxley1894-1963
Joseph Roth1894-1939
Saken Seifullin1894-1939
Jean Toomer1894-1967(Nathan, Pinchback)
George Schuyler1895-1977(Samuel)
Kolau Nadiradze1895-1990(Nikoloz)
Titsian Tabidze1895-1937
Ernst Jünger1895-1998
Ngaio Marsh1895-1982(Edith)
Buckminster Fuller1895-1983(Richard)
Sergei Yesenin1895-1925
Peretz Markish1895-1952(Davidovich)
Paul Éluard1895-1952
Andy Razaf1895-1973(Andriamanantena, Paul)
Noel Streatfeild1895-1986(Mary)
André Breton1896-1966
Tristan Tzara1896-1963
Dodie Smith1896-1990(Dorothy, Gladys)
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings1896-1953
Antonin Artaud1896-1948
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896-1940(Francis, Key)
Eugenio Montale1896-1981
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa1896-1957
Louis Bromfield1896-1956
Eric Knight1897-1943(Mowbray)
Thornton Wilder1897-1975(Niven)
Rudolph Fisher1897-1934(John, Chauncey)
Enid Blyton1897-1968(Mary)
Louise Bogan1897-1970
Georges Bataille1897-1962
William Faulkner1897-1962(Cuthbert)
Louis Aragon1897-1982
Bertolt Brecht1898-1956
Vicente Aleixandre1898-1984
Federico García Lorca1898-1936
Erich Maria Remarque1898-1970
Malcolm Cowley1898-1989
Mate Balota1898-1963(Mijo)
Simon Vestdijk1898-1971
C. S. Lewis1898-1963(Clive, Staples)
Vladimir Nabokov1899-1977
May Miller1899-1995
Mato Lovrak1899-1974
Aksel Sandemose1899-1965(Axel)
Elizabeth Bowen1899-1973(Dorothea)
Kawabata Yasunari1899-1972
Marita Bonner1899-1971(Marieta)
Madelon Szekely-Lulofs1899-1958
E. B. White1899-1985(Elwyn, Brooks)
Ernest Hemingway1899-1961(Miller)
Chief Dan George1899-1981(Geswanouth)
P. L. Travers1899-1996(Helen, Pamela, Lyndon)
Jorge Luis Borges1899-1986
Miguel Ángel Asturias1899-1974
Selwyn Jepson1899-1989
Noël Coward1899-1973(Peirce)
Jacques Prévert1900-1977
Seán Ó Faoláin1900-1991(John, Francis, Proinsias)
Giorgos Seferis1900-1971
Sándor Márai1900-1989
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry1900-1944
Eyvind Johnson1900-1976
James Hilton1900-1954
Margaret Mitchell1900-1949(Munnerlyn)
Anna Seghers1900-1983
Halide Nusret Zorlutuna1901-1984
Langston Hughes1901-1967(James, Mercer)
Sergiusz Piasecki1901-1964
Barbara Cartland1901-2000(Mary, Hamilton)
Salvatore Quasimodo1901-1968
Jaroslav Seifert1901-1986
André Malraux1901-1976
Nazım Hikmet1902-1963
John Steinbeck1902-1968(Ernst)
Halldór Laxness1902-1998(Kiljan)
Gwendolyn B. Bennett1902-1981
Adolf Hoffmeister1902-1973
Wallace Thurman1902-1934(Henry)
Ogden Nash1902-1971
Arna Bontemps1902-1973(Wendell)
Isaac Bashevis Singer1902-1991
Irène Némirovsky1903-1942
Georges Simenon1903-1989
Anaïs Nin1903-1977(Angela, Juana, Antolina, Rosa, Edelmira)
Manly Wade Wellman1903-1986
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Harry Martinson1904-1978
Margery Allingham1904-1966(Louise)
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Helene Johnson1906-1995
Henri Charrière1906-1973
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James A. Michener1907-1997(Albert)
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Lydia Chukovskaya1907-1996
Daphne du Maurier1907-1989
Dorothy West1907-1998
Robert A. Heinlein1907-1988(Anson)
Astrid Lindgren1907-2002
Alberto Moravia1907-1990
Rumer Godden1907-1998(Margaret)
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Ivan Yefremov1908-1972
Theodore Roethke1908-1963(Huebner)
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Winston Graham1908-2003(Mawdsley)
Richard Wright1908-1960(Nathaniel)
Harold Courlander1908-1996
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Eudora Welty1909-2001
Osamu Dazai1909-1948(Shūji)
Petar Šegedin1909-1998
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James Agee1909-1955(Rufus)
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Jean Genet1910-1986
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L. Ron Hubbard1911-1986(Lafayette, Ronald)
Sybille Bedford1911-2006(Aleid, Elsa)
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Emil Cioran1911-1995(Mihai)
Annie M. G. Schmidt1911-1995(Anna, Maria, Geertruida)
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William Golding1911-1993
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Ralph Ellison1913-1994(Waldo)
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Barbara Pym1913-1980(Mary, Crampton)
Robert Hayden1913-1980(Asa, Bundy)
Robertson Davies1913-1995
Simon Carmiggelt1913-1987
Claude Simon1913-2005
Albert Camus1913-1960
Julio Cortázar1914-1984
Dudley Randall1914-2000
William S. Burroughs1914-1997(Seward)
Bohumil Hrabal1914-1997
Octavio Paz1914-1998
Marguerite Duras1914-1996(Germaine, Marie)
Bernard Malamud1914-1986
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John Hersey1914-1993(Richard)
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Adolph Green1914-2002
Herman Wouk1915-2019
Saul Bellow1915-2005
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Bob Kane1915-1998(Robert)
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Harold Robbins1916-1997
Natalia Ginzburg1916-1991
Frank Yerby1916-1991(Garvin)
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Shirley Jackson1916-1965
Penelope Fitzgerald1916-2000
Albert Mol1917-2004
Lado Asatiani1917-1943(Vladimir)
Sidney Sheldon1917-2007
Anthony Burgess1917-1993
Leonora Carrington1917-2011
Gwendolyn Brooks1917-2000(Elizabeth)
Arthur C. Clarke1917-2008(Charles)
Heinrich Böll1917-1985
Muriel Spark1918-2006
Hella Haasse1918-2011(Hélène)
Mickey Spillane1918-2006(Frank, Morrison)
A. L. Barker1918-2002(Audrey, Lilian)
P. H. Newby1918-1997(Percy, Howard)
C. Buddingh'1918-1985(Cornelis, Kees)
Jacqueline Susann1918-1974
Madeleine L'Engle1918-2007
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn1918-2008
J. D. Salinger1919-2010(Jerome, David)
Emyr Humphreys1919-2020
Richard Scarry1919-1994
Iris Murdoch1919-1999
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Stanley Middleton1919-2009
Matilde Camus1919-2012
Doris Lessing1919-2013(May)
Frank Kermode1919-2010
Isaac Asimov1920-1992
Boris Vian1920-1959(Vernon)
D. J. Enright1920-2002(Dennis, Joseph)
Paul Scott1920-1978
Marga Minco1920-2023(Sara)
Richard Adams1920-2016
P. D. James1920-2014(Phyllis, Dorothy)
Charles Bukowski1920-1994
Ray Bradbury1920-2012
Frank Herbert1920-1986(Franklin)
Mario Puzo1920-1999
Paul Celan1920-1970
Friedrich Dürrenmatt1921-1990
Patricia Highsmith1921-1995(Mary)
Richard Wilbur1921-2017(Purdy)
Farley Mowat1921-2014(McGill)
Alex Haley1921-1992(Alexander, Murray, Palmer)
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Anne Golon1921-2017
Blaga Dimitrova1922-2003(Nikolova)
Ela Peroci1922-2001
Jack Kerouac1922-1969(Jean, Louis)
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Joseph Heller1923-1999
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Nadine Gordimer1923-2014
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Rosamunde Pilcher1924-2019
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Alison Lurie1926-2020
John Berger1926-2017
Jef Nys1927-2009(Jozef)
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George Plimpton1927-2003(Ames)
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Robert Ludlum1927-2001
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Harry Mulisch1927-2010
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Judith Krantz1928-2019(Bluma, Gittel)
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Maurice Sendak1928-2012
Jane Gardam1928-
Anita Brookner1928-2016
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Ursula K. Le Guin1929-2018
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Michael Ende1929-1995
Renate Rubinstein1929-1990(Tamar, Ida)
Mahmut Makal1930-2018
Jennifer Johnston1930-
Derek Walcott1930-2017
Ruth Rendell1930-2015(Barbara)
Derek Humphry1930-
Lorraine Hansberry1930-1965(Vivian)
Marion Zimmer Bradley1930-1999
Ivan Slamnig1930-2001
Barry Unsworth1930-2012
Frank McCourt1930-2009
Irena Vrkljan1930-2021
Dixie Browning1930-
Ivan Aralica1930-
Colin Dexter1930-2017(Norman)
Harold Pinter1930-2008
John Arden1930-2012
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Mordecai Richler1931-2001
Shirley Hazzard1931-2016
Thomas Bernhard1931-1989
Toni Morrison1931-2019(Chloe, Ardelia)
Donald Barthelme1931-1989
Tomas Tranströmer1931-2015
Etheridge Knight1931-1991
Alice Munro1931-(Ann)
Caroline Graham1931-
Fay Weldon1931-2023(Franklin)
John le Carré1931-2020(David, Moore)
Jan Terlouw1931-(Cornelis)
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Aharon Appelfeld1932-2018(Ervin)
John Updike1932-2009(Hoyer)
John Jakes1932-2023(Jay, William)
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Malcolm Bradbury1932-2000(Stanley)
Sylvia Plath1932-1963
Katherine Paterson1932-
Beryl Bainbridge1932-2010
Antun Šoljan1932-1993
Wilbur Smith1933-2021
Susan Sontag1933-2004
Gülten Akın1933-2015
Penelope Lively1933-(Margaret)
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Vine Deloria Jr.1933-2005(Victor)
David Storey1933-2017(Malcolm)
Cormac McCarthy1933-2023(Charles, Joseph)
Elise Cowen1933-1962(Nada)
Ivan Kušan1933-2012
Ingrid Jonker1933-1965
Gerald Vizenor1934-(Robert)
Audre Lorde1934-1992(Audrey, Geraldine)
N. Scott Momaday1934-(Navarre)
David Malouf1934-
Wole Soyinka1934-(Akinwande, Oluwole)
Diana Wynne Jones1934-2011
Sonia Sanchez1934-(Wilsonia, Benita)
John McGahern1934-2006
Joan Didion1934-2021
J. G. Farrell1935-1979(James, Gordon)
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Susan Cooper1935-
W. P. Kinsella1935-2016(William, Patrick)
André Brink1935-2015(Philippus)
Carol Shields1935-2003(Ann)
Françoise Sagan1935-2004(Delphine)
E. Annie Proulx1935-(Edna)
Mary Oliver1935-2019(Jane)
Thomas Keneally1935-
Ágota Kristóf1935-2011
Edward Said1935-2003
Adélia Prado1935-(Luzia)
Ismail Kadare1936-
Mario Vargas Llosa1936-
Reginald Hill1936-2012(Charles)
Ivo Brešan1936-2017
Larry McMurtry1936-2021(Jeff)
Enn Vetemaa1936-2017
Richard Bach1936-
Lucille Clifton1936-2010(Thelma)
A. S. Byatt1936-(Antonia, Susan)
Imme Dros1936-(Emmy, Theodora)
Václav Havel1936-2011
Don DeLillo1936-(Donald, Richard)
David Seidler1937-
J. Bernlef1937-2012(Henk)
Jilly Cooper1937-
Lois Lowry1937-
Jill Paton Walsh1937-2020(Gillian)
Nélida Piñon1937-2022
Florjan Lipuš1937-
Thomas Pynchon1937-(Ruggles)
Colleen McCullough1937-2015
Anita Desai1937-
Hunter S. Thompson1937-2005(Stockton)
Peter van Gestel1937-2019
Jackie Collins1937-2015(Jacqueline, Jill)
Bertrice Small1937-2015
John Kennedy Toole1937-1969
Eduard Uspensky1937-2018
Judy Blume1938-(Judith)
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Francine Pascal1938-
Raymond Carver1938-1988(Clevie)
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Arsen Dedić1938-2015(Arsenije)
Frederick Forsyth1938-
Mirko Kovač1938-2013
Germaine Greer1939-
Jane Yolen1939-(Hyatt)
Seamus Heaney1939-2013
Jason Miller1939-2001(John, Anthony)
Maureen Jennings1939-
Burkhard Driest1939-2020
Amos Oz1939-2018
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss1939-2007(Erin)
Robert James Waller1939-2017
Breyten Breytenbach1939-
Paula Gunn Allen1939-2008(Marie)
Margaret Atwood1939-(Eleanor)
Michael Moorcock1939-(John)
Gao Xingjian1940-
Seamus Deane1940-2021
J. M. Coetzee1940-(John, Maxwell)
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J. M. G. Le Clézio1940-(Jean, Marie, Gustave)
Sue Grafton1940-2017(Taylor)
Angela Carter1940-1992(Olive)
Peter Benchley1940-2006
Joseph Brodsky1940-1996
Hovik Vardoumian1940-
Annie Ernaux1940-
James Welch1940-2003(Phillip)
Zdena Tomin1941-2020
Spalding Gray1941-2004(Rockwell)
John Edgar Wideman1941-
Kees van Kooten1941-(Cornelis, Reinier)
Anne Rice1941-2021(Howard, Allen, Frances)
Pierrette Fleutiaux1941-2019
Anne Tyler1941-
Susan Hill1942-
Josephine Hart1942-2011
John Irving1942-
Rachel Billington1942-
Rupert Sheldrake1942-(Alfred)
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Isabel Allende1942-
C. J. Cherryh1942-(Carolyn, Janice)
Bernard MacLaverty1942-
Donna Leon1942-
Michael Crichton1942-2008
Peter Handke1942-
Janet Evanovich1943-
Louise Glück1943-
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