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Famous Authors
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jane Addams | American Author of "Twenty Years at Hull House" "The Second Twenty Year at Hull House" First American woman to win Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 |
| Joseph Addison | English auther fo "An Ode for St. Cecilia's Day" "To Mr. Dryden" |
| Alfred Adler | Austrain author of THe Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology |
| Aeschylus | Greek author of "Prometheus Bound" "The Suppliants" "The Persians" "Seven Against Thebes" "Orestreia Trilogy" |
| James Agee | AMerican author of "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" "African Queen"-film Script "A Death in the Family" |
| Edward Albee | American author "Zoo Story" "The Sand Box" "The Death of Bessie Smith" "The American Dream" "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" "Tiny Alice" "A Delicate Balance" "Quotations from Chariman Mao Tse0Tung" "All Over" "Seascape" "The Lady of Dubuque" "Occupant" |
| Louisa May Alcott | American author of "Moods" "Hospital Sketches" "Flowers Fables" "Little Woman" "An Old-Fashioned Girl" "Little Men" "Work" "Eight Cousins" "Under the Liacs" "Jo's Boys" |
| Horatio Alger Jr. | American author of "Ragged Dick"-Series "Luck and Pluck"-Series "Tattered Tom"-series "Rag to Riches"-concert |
| Nelson Algren | American author fo Sombody in the Boot" "Never Come Mornign" "The Neon Wilderness" "The Man With the Golden Arm" "Chicago City on the Make" "A Walk on the Wilde Side" |
| Hans Christian Andersen | Danish Author of "Tales, Told for Children" "including "The Red Shoes" "The Ugly Duckling" "The Little Mermaid" "The Emperor's Clothes" "The Snow Queen" "Little Claus and Big Claus" "THe Shepherdess and the Sweep" "The Improvisatore" "The Fir Tree" ect |
| Maxwell Anderson | American play write of "What a Price Glory" "Both Your Houses" "Winterset" "Knickerbocker Holiday" "Key Largo" "Anne of the Thousand Days" |
| Sherwood Anderson | American author of "Winesburg, Ohio"-book of short stories "The Triumph of the Egg" "Death in the Woods" |
| Maya Angelou | American author of "Iknow Why the Caged Bird Sings" "Gather Together in My Name" "All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes" "I Shall not be Moved" "On the Pulse of Morning" "THe Heart of a Woman" "Even the Stars Look Lonesome" |
| Jean Anouilh | French play writer of "Antigone" "Lark "Becket" |
| St. Thomas Aquias | Italian Summa Theologia |
| Aristophanes | Greek play write fo "THe Clouds" "The Wasps" "THe BIrds" "Lysistrata" "The Frogs" |
| Aristotle | Greek philosopher and author of "Categories" "On Interpretation" "Metaphysics" "Physics" "Politics" Ethics" "Rhetoric" "Poetics" |
| Issac Asimov | Russian-American author of "I, Robot" "The Intellectual Man's Guide to Science" "Opus 100" Opus 200" "Foundation" "Foundation and Empire" "Second Foundation" "Foundation's Edge" "Robots of Dawn" "History of Physics" |
| W.H. Auden | American author of "On This Island" "For the Time Being" "The Age of Anxiety"-poem |
| John James Audubon | American author "THe Birds of America" "Ornithological Biography" "The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America" |
| St. Augustine | Roman Catholic author of "Confessions" "On the Trinity" "The City of God" "On the Nature of Grace" "Retractions" |
| Jane Austen | English author best know for "Sense and Sensibility" "Pride and Prejudice" "Mansfield Park" "Emma" "Persuasion" "Norhanger Abbey" |
| Richard Bach | American author fo "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" |
| Francis Bacon | English author of "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral" "THe Advancement of Learning"-treatise "Novum Organum"-treatise "The New Atlantis"-Utopian Novel |
| Roger Bacon | English author fo "Opus Majus" "Opus Minor" "Opus Tertium" |
| Enid Bagnold (Lady Roderic Jones) | "The CHalk Garden"-play |
| James Baldwin | American author of works such as "Go Tell it on the Mountain" "Notes of a Native Son" "Giovanni's Room" "Nobody Knows My Name" "Another Country" "THe Fire Next Time" "Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone" "If Beale Street Could Talk" |
| Honore de Balzac | French author Eugenie Grandet, The Human Comedy-47 volumes |
| George Bancroft | American Author "Life of Washington" "History of United States"-10 volumes known as "Father of American History" |
| Lyman Frank Baum | American qutor best known for his work "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" as well as "Mother Goose in Prose" "Ozama of Oz" "The Scarecrow of Oz" |
| Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais | French Play write notable works include "The Barber of Seville" "The Marriage of Figaro" |
| Simon de Beauvoir | French author of works such as "All Men ar Mortatal" "The Blood of Others" "The Seconds Sex" "The Marquis de Sade" "The Mandarins" |
| Samuel Beckett | French Novelist and playwrite winner of 1969 Novel Prize in Literature wrote; "Waiting fro Godot"-play "Three Novels"-triolgy "Molloy" "Malone Dies" "The Unnamable" "Endgame"-play |
| Saint Bede | Ecclesiastical History of the English People |
| Edward Bellamy | American autheor of "Looking Backward: 2000-1887"- Utopian romance in the year 2000 "Equality"-Sequal to Looking Backward" |
| Saul Bellow | Canadian-Ameican author of "The Viticm" "The Adventures of Augie March" "Henderson the Rain King" "Herzog" "Mr. Sammler's Planet" "Humboldt's Gift"-Pulitzer Prize Nobel Prize for Literature 1976 "THe Dean's December" "The Actual" "Ravelstein" |
| Peter Benchley | American author of "Jaws" and "The Deep" "The Island" "The Benchley Roundup" "Pluck and Luck" "Beast" "White Shark" "Creature" "Shark Trouble" |
| Stephen Vicent Benet | American author and poet "John Brown's Body" "Thirteen O'clock" "THe Devil and Daniel Webster" "Freedom's A Hard-Brought Thing" "Western Star" |
| Ambrose Gwinett Bierce | "American author of "An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge" "The Devil's Dictioanry" "CHicamauga" "The Mocking-Bird" "One Kind of Officer" "Killed at Resaca" |
| Rickhard Doddridge Blackmore | English author "Lorna Doone" |
| Sir William Blackstone | English author of "Commentaries on the Laws fo England (basis of English Law)" |
| William Blake | English writer of "The Book of Thel" "The Lamb"-poem "The Tiger"-poem Song of Experience |
| Judy Blume | American Children author of such works as "Are You There God? It's Me Margaret" "Iggie's House" "Freckle Juice" "Then Again Maybe I Won't" "Otherwise Known As: Sheila the Giant" "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" "It's the End of the World" "Deenie" |
| Giovanni Boccaccio | Italian "The Decameron"-collection of 100 tales |
| James Boswell | Scottish author "Account of Cosica" "The Life of Samuel Johnson" |
| Ray Bradbury | American short story and novel writer known for "All Summer in a Day" "The Martian Chronicles" "The Illustrated Man" "Fahrenheit 451" "Dandelion Wine" "R is for Rocket" "S is for Space" "I Sing the Body Electric" "A Graveyard for Lunatics" |
| William Bradford | American author of "History of Plimouth (sic) Pantation |
| Anne (Dudley)Bradstreet | American poet works include "The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America"-volume of poetry "Several Poems"-contains "Contemplation" |
| Joseph Brodsky | Russian-American author and poet "Selected Poem" "A Part of Speech" "Less than One: Selected Essay won Nobel Price in Literature in 1987 "To UKrania" "So Forth" "Of Grief and Reason |
| Anne Bronte (Acton Bell) | English auhtor of Anges Grey" "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" |
| Charlotte Bronte (Currer Bell) | English writer of "Janer Eyre" "SHirley" "Villette" "The Professor" |
| Emily Bronte (Ellis Bell) | English author of "Wuthering Heights" |
| Gwendolyn Brooks | American author fo "A Street in Bronzeville" "Annie Allen"-Pulitzer Prize "Maud Martha"-Novelette "In the Mecca"-poems |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | English author of "The Seraphim and Other Poems" "The Cry of the Children" "Lady Geraldine's Courtship" "How do I Love Thee?" "Aurora Leigh" "Sonnets from the Portuguese" |
| Robert Browning | English poet of "Pippa Passes: "My Last Duchess" "The Pied Peper of Hamelin" "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" "Fra Lippo LIppi" "The Ring and the Book" |
| Jean de Brunhoff | French author of "The Story of Babar, The Little Elephant" |
| William Cullen Bryant | American poet known for "The Embargo" "To a Waterfowl" "The Yellow Violet" "Thanatopsis" "Inscription for the Entrence to a Wood", translated the Illiad and the Oddyssey |
| Pearl Sydenstricker Buck | American and first Ameican woman to win Nobel Prize for Literature for "Dragon Seed" author of "East Wind-West Wind" "The Home of Earth" "Teh Good Earth" "Sons" "A House Divided" |
| John Bunyan | English authero of "Pilgrim's Progress" |
| Eugene Burdick | AMerican author also known as Harvey Wheeler and author fo "Failsafe" |
| Anthony Burgess | Pen name for English author John Burgess Wilson best know for his novel "A Clock work Orange" also wrote "Honey for the Bears" and "The Ugly AMerican" "Earthly Powers" |
| Edmund Burke | English author of "On American Taxation"-Speech "On Conciliation with the COlonies"-Speech "Relfelctions of the French Revolution" |
| Frances Hodgson Burnett | American p;ay wrrite and author of "Esmeralds"-play "Little Lord Fauntleroy" "Sara Crewe" "THe Secret Garden" |
| Robert Burns | Scotish poet and song writer "To a Mouse" "The Holy Fair" "The Cotter's Saturday Night" "Auld Lang Syne"-song "Tam o'Shanter" "Flow Gently, Sweet Afton" "A Red, Red Rose"-song "Comin' Thro' the Rye"-song "Wha Hae Scots" |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | American Author of "Tarzan of the Apes" and sequals "Tarzand at teh Earth's Core" adn "The Monste Men" |
| Sir Richard Burton | Englsih explorer who found Lake Tanfanyika in Africa and authored "First Footsteps in East Africa" and "City of Saints"-a story of the Mormons on their trip to Salt Lake City) |
| Leo F. Buscaglia | American author of "Love" "Loving Each Other" "Bus Nine to Paradise" "Papa My Father" and "BOrn for Love: Reflections on Loving" |
| Samuel Butler | English author and Satirist "Erehewon" "Erewhon Revisted" "The Way of All Flesh" |
| Lord George Gordon Noel | English poet wrote "Childe Harold"-Cantos I&II "The Bride of Abydos" "Lara" "The COrsair" "The Destruction of Sennacheriib' "Shel Walks in Beauty" "The Siege of Corinth" "Parisina" "Manfred" "The Prisoner fo Chillon" "Prometheus" "Don Juan" "Beppo" |
| George Washington Cable | American author of "Old Creole Days" "The Grandissimes (A Story of Creole Life)" "The Silent South" "Negro Question" |
| Gaius Julius Caesar | dictator of Rome wrote the "Commentaries on the Gallic War" |
| James Mallahan Cain | American author of "The Postman Always Rings Twice" "Double Indemnity" "Mildred Pierce"" "The Magician's Wife and "Rainbow's End" |
| Randolph Caldecott | entlish Illustrator of "Old Christmas" "THe House That Jack Built" "Aesop's Fables" |
| Erskine Caldwell | American Author of "Tobacco Road" "God's Little Acre" "This Very Earth" "Summertime Island" |
| John Calvin | French author of "Instutes of the Christioan Religion" in which he created "Protestant Ethics" |
| Albert Camus | French author and playwrite of "The Myth of Sisyphus" "THe Stranger" "Caligula"-play "The Plague" "The Fail"-won Nobel Prize in Literature "The First Man" |
| Truman Capote | American author of works such as "Other Voices, Oher ROoms" "The Grass Harp" "Breakfast at Tiffany's" "In Cold Blood" |
| Thomas Carlyle | English author of "The Fench Revolution and "Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches" |
| Andrew Carnegie | American businessman who authored "The Gospel of Wealth" "Triumphant Democracy" |
| Dale Carnegie | American author of "How to Win Friends and Influence People" |
| Lewis Carrol | English author best known for his work "Alice and Wonderland" as well as "Through the Looking Glass" "Jabberwocky" The Hunting of the Shark" "Eulic and His Modern Rivals" |
| Rachel Carson | AMerican author of "Under the Sea Wind" "The Sea Around Us" "The Edge of the Sea" "Silent Spring" |
| Willa Sibert Cather | American author of novesl and short stories such as "O Pioneers" "The Songs of the Lark" "My Antionia" "Youth and the Bright Medusa" "One of Ours" "A Lost Lady" "THe Professor's House" "My Mortal Enemy" "Death Comes from the Archbishop"Shadows on the Rock |
| Bruce Catton | American author of historical works including "The War Lords of Washington" "Army of the Potomac"-triolgy including "Mr. Lincoln's Army" "Glory Road" "A Stillness at Appomattox"(won Pulitzer 1954)- "This Hallowed Ground" "Grant Moves South" |
| William Cazton | English Author of "The Reculuyell of the Histoyes of Troy"- the first book to be printed in English- "Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophers"-first dated book printed in England |
| Miguel Cervantes | Sapnaish author of "Don Quixote" |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | English author and poet whose works include "Book of the Duchess"-poem "Canterbury Tales" "The House of Frame" "The Parliament of Fowls"-poem "Troilus and Criseyde"-poem "The Legend of Good Women"-unfinished poem |
| Paddy Chayefsky | American play write and screen writer also known as Sidnye Aaron works include "Marty"-play "THe Americanization of Emily"-Movie screen play "THe Hospital"-won Academy Award "The Network"-won Academy Award "Alterd States"-novel |
| John Cheever | AMrican author fo "The Wapshot Chronicle" "The Wapshot Scandal" "Bullet Park" "Falconer" |
| Anton Pavlovich Chekhov | Russian play writer of works such as "Ivanov" "A Dreary Story" "The Seagull" "THe Three Sisters" "The Cherry Orchard" |
| G.K. Chesterton | English author often called "Price of Paradox" author of "The Napoleon of Notting Hill" "The Man who Was THursday" "The Innocence of Father Brown" "The Man Who Knew Too Much" |
| Katherine Chopin | American author of "Bayou Folk" "A Night in Acadie" "THe Awakening (about Cajun Life)" |
| Agatha Christie (Mary Clarissa Miller) (Mary Westmacott) | English author and creater of Miss Jane Marple and Hecule Poirot wrote "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" "MMurder on the Orient Express" "And Then There Were None" "Evil Under the Sun" "A Murder is Announced" "Mousetrap"-play "Witness for the Prosecution-play |
| Sir Winston Churchill | English prime minister and author of "While England Slept"-speech "The Second World War" 6volumes- won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 "A History of the English Speaking People" |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | Roman orator considered to be the greatest "Philippics" (fourteen orations attacking Anthony) |
| Tom Clancy | American author of political/military novels including "Hunt for Red October" "Patriot Games" "The Cardinal of the Kremlin" "Clear and Present danger" "The Suma of All Fears" "Without Remorse" "Submarine" "Debt of Honor" "Op Center" "Executive Order" |
| Walter van Tilburg | American Author of "THe Ox Bow Incident" "The City of Trembling Leaves" "The Track of a Cat" "THe Watchful Gods" |
| Arthur Charles Clarke | American author of science fiction "2001:A Space Odyssey" "2010:Odyssey Two" "2061:Odyssey Three" "3001: The Final Odyssey" |
| James Clavell | American author of such works as "King Rat" "Tai-Pan" "Shogun" Nobel House" "The Childeren's Story" "The Little Samuriai Thump-O-Moto" "Whirlwind" "Gai-Jin" "THe Great Escape"-film script "To Sir With Love"-film script |
| Sameuel Taylor Coleridge | English author of works such as "Kubla Khan"-poem "The Rime of the Acient Mariner"-epic "Lyrical Ballads"-with William Wordsworth "Dejection: An Ode" "Christabel" |
| Carlo Collodi | Italian author of "The Adventures of Pinocchio" |
| Confucius | anecdotes and sayings he did not write |
| Joseph Conrad | pen name of Josef Korzeniowski wrote novels typically dealing with the sea and sailing best known for his work "The Heart of Darkness" also offered "Almayer's Folly" "An Outcast of the Islands" "The Nigger of Narcissus" "Lord Jim" "Typhoon" "Nostromo" |
| James Fenimore Cooper | American author fo works such as "The Spy" "The Pilot"-first American Sea Novel "The Leatherstocking Tales"-"The Pioneers" *"The Last of the Mochicans" "The Praire" "The Pathfinder" "The Deerslayer" |
| Pierre Corneille | French author of plays such as "Melite" "Medee" "Le Cid (or El Cid- THe Cid) |
| Bill Cosby | American actor and author of such works as "Fatherhood" "Time Flies" "Love adn Marriage" "The Meanest Thing to Say" "The Big Lies" |
| Sir Noel Coward | English play writer "The Young Idea" "Hay Fever" "Fallen Angels" "Private Lives" "Design for Living" "Pomp and Circumstance"-book "Mad Dogs and Enlightenmen"-short story |
| Stephen Crane | American author of "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" "The Red Badge of Courage" "The Black Rider" "THE Open Boat" "War is Kind"-poem |
| Micheal Crichton | Known also as Jeffrey Hudson and Jon Lang American author of "A Case of Need" "The Andromeda Strain" "The Great Train Robbery" "THe Terminal Man" "Congo" "Sphere" "Five Patients" "Travels" "Eaters of the Dead" "Rising Sun" "Jurassic Park" "Disclosure" |
| Archibald J. Cronin | Scottish author fo "THe Hatter's Castle" "The Cidadel" "Teh Keys to the Kingdom" "The Green Years" "Shannon's Way" "Pocketful of Rye" |
| E.E. Cummings | American writer of poetry, plays novels and short stories "THe ENormous Room"-fictional prose "Tulips and Chimneys" "XLI"-poems "Is 5" "Him" "I sing of olaf glad and big" "Santa Claus, A Morality"-play "Fairy Tales" "95 Poems |
| Richard Henry Dana | American author of "Two Years Before the Mast" The Seaman's Friend"-on Maritime Law |
| Dante | Italiam author of the Divine Comedy which includes "Inferno"-hell "Purgatorio"-purgatory "Paradiso"-heaven |
| Charles Robert Darwin | English biologist know for his theory of evolution authored "On the Origin of the Species"-from time spent in gallopogus Island and "The Descent of Man" |
| Daniel Defoe | English author best known for novel "Robinson Crusoe" as well as "Moll Flanders" "The Journal of the Plague Year" |
| Demosthenes | Greek orator and author "Philippics"-orations "On Peace" "On the Crown"-defendign his career |
| John Dewey | American author fo "The School and Society" "Democracy and Education" |
| Charles Dickens | Englsih author of novels and stories such as "Oliver Twist" "A Tale of Two Cities" "A Christmas Carol" "Sketes by Boz" "Pickwick Papers" "Nicholas Nickleby" "Old Curiosity Shop" "Barnaby Rudge" "AMerican Notes" "Martin Chuzzlewit" "David Copperfield" |
| James Dickey | American Author of "Buck dancer's Choice"-poetry "Deliverance" "Alhilam" "To the White Sea" |
| Emily Dickinson | American author "A Bird came down the walk" "Because I could Not stop for Death" "I like to see it lap the Miles" "I taste as Liquor never brewed" "Success is counted sweetest" |
| Isak Dinesen | Baroness Karen Blixern Danish authro of "Seven Gothic Tales" "Out of Africa" "Winters Tale" "Anecdotes of Destiny" |
| Edward Laurence Doctorow | American author of "Welcom to the Hard Times" "The Book of Daniel" "Ragtime" "Loon Lake" "World's Fair" "Billy Bathgate" "The Waterworks" "City of God" "Reporting to the Universe" |
| Mary Mapes Dodge | American author of Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates" |
| John Donne | English Metaphysical poet of "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions" 'Foure Sermosn" "Holy Sonnest" "A Baledicton: Forbiddign Mourning" "Death Be Not Proud" Hym of Catch a Falling Star" "Biathanatos" |
| Dos Possos, John Rodergo | American author of "Three Soldiers" "USA-trilogy" "The 42nd Parallel" "1919" "THe Big Money" District of Columbia-second Trilogy "Adventures of a Young Man" "Number One" "THe Grand Design" |
| Fydor Dostoyvsky | Russian author of "Insulted and Injured" "THe House of teh Dead" "Notes from the Underground" "Crime and Punishment" "The Gambler" "The Idiot" "Teh Possesed" "Brothers Karamazov" |
| Fredric Douglass | American writer and publisher of North Star newspaper |
| Rita Dove | American poet author of Ten Poems" "Thomas and Beulah"- won Pulitzer Prize-first African-American to become Poet Laureate of U.S. "Mother Love" |
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | English novelist best know for his character Sherlock Holmes books include "Study in Scarlet" "The Sign of the Four" "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" "The Hound of Baskervilles" "The Valley of Fear" "His Last Bow" |
| Theodore Dreiser | AMerican author of "Sister Carrie" "Jenny Gerhardt" "The Finacier" "THe Titan" "The Genius" "An American Tragedy" "Th Bulwark" "The Stoic" |
| Allen Stuart Drury | AMerican author and Pulitzer Prize winner for his work "Advise and Consent" |
| John Dryden | English poet "Heroic Stanzas"-on the death of Oliver Cromwell" "Upon the Death of Lord Hastings" "Astraea Redux" "Annus Mirabilis" "All fro Love or the world well Lost" "Absalom and Arhitophel" "ALexander's Feast" "Fables Ancient and Modern" |
| W.E.B. Du Bois | American civil rights leader who helped found the NAACP wrote works such as "The Souls of Black Folks" "The Negro" "Black Reconstruction in America" "Color and Democracy" "The World and Africa' |
| Alxandre Dumas | French author of "The Three Musketeers" "THe Count of Monte Cristo" "Camile"-play |
| Daphine Du Maurier | English author of "Jamacia Inn" "Rebecca" "My Cousin Rachel" "Don't Look Now" |
| Paul Lawrence Dunbar | American authro of Oak and Ivy" "Majors and Minors" "Folks from Dixie" "The Sport of the Gods" "Lyrics of Lowly Life" "We WEar the Mask" "Little Brown Baby" |
| Mary Baker Eddy | American founder of The Christian Science Monitor newspaper |
| Walter Edmonds | American author of "Drums Along the Mohawk" |
| Johnathan Edwards | American pastor notable for serman "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" and author of "Life of the Later Reverend Mr. David Brained" |
| George Elliot | pen Name of Mary Ann Evans notable works include "Adam Bede" "The Mill on the Floss" "Silas Marner" "Middlemarch" "Daniel Deronda" |
| Thomas Sterns (T.S.) Eliot | Poet and play write of notable works such as "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" "Portrait of a Lady" "The Hippopotamus" "THe Waste Land" "THe Metaphusical Poet" "THe Howllow Men" "Murder in the Cathedral"-play "The Family Reunion"-play |
| Ralph Ellison | American author of "Invisible Man" "Judeteeth" |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | American author and Transendalist writer works include "Sage of Concord" "The American Scholar" "Nature" "Concord Hymn" "Divinity School Adress" "Hymn Sung at the Compeletion of the Battle Monument, Concord" "Self Reliance" |
| Desiderius Erasmus | Dutch author of "The Praise of Folly" also edited the New Testament in Greek and Latin |
| Euripides | Greek play write plays include "Alcestis" "Medea" "Hippolytus" "Hecuba" "Electra" "The Trojan Women" "Iphigenia in Tauris" "Ion" "Helena" "THe Phoenician Women" "Orestes" "The Bacchae" "Iphigenia in Aulus" |
| James Thomas Farell | American author of Studs Lonigan trilogy- "Young Lonigan" "The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan" "Judgement Day"- and the Danny O'Neil pentology-"A World I Never Made" "No Star is Lost" "Father and Son" "My Days of Anger" "The Face of Time" |
| William Faulkner | Amerian southern gothic writer "The Marble Faun" "Soldier's Pay" "THe Sound and The Fury" "As I Lay Dying" "Light in August" 'Absalom, Absalom" "THe Unvanquished" "Knight's Gambit"-trilogy "THe Hamlet" "The Town" "The Mansion"- "Go Down Moses"-Nobel Prize |
| Edna Ferber | American author of "The Girls" "So Big" "Show Boat" "Cimarron" "Saratoga Trunk" "Giant" "Ice Palace" Wrote as series of plays with George William Kaufman "The Royal Family" "Dinner at Eight" "Stage Door" |
| Eugene Fields | American poet from St.Louis called "The Children's Poet" poems include "Wynken Blynken and Nod" "The Duel" "Little Boy Blue" |
| Henry Fielding | English authro of "Tom Thumb" "Joesph Andrews" "Jonathan Wild" "Tom Jones" "Amelia" |
| Edward Fitzgerald | English author who translated "Tubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald (Fransis Scott Key Fitzgerald) | American author best known for his novel "The Great Gatsby" also authored "Tales of the Jazz Age" "The Beautiful and the Damned" "Tender is the Night" "The Last Tycoon" |
| Gustave Flaubert | French author of "Madame Bovary" ' |
| Ian Fleming | English author and creater of James Bond works include "Casino Royale" "Live and Let Die" "Moonraker" "Diamonds are Forever" "From Russia with Love' "Dr. No" "Goldfinger" "Four Your Eyes Only" "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" "Man With the Golden Gun" |
| Dario Fo | Italian play write "Trumpets and Rasberries" "Tricks of the Trade" "Mister Buffo, or Comic Mysteries" "Accicental Death of an Anarchist" "Can't pay, won't pay" "The Pope and the Witch" "The Devil with Boobs" Nobel Prize in Literature 1997 |
| Ester Forbes | American author of "Johnny Tremain" |
| C.S. (Cecil Scott) Forester | English author of "Payment Deferred" "The African Queen" "Horation Hornblower" "The Good Shepherd" |
| Edward Morgan (E.M.) Forster | English writer of "Wher Angels Fear to Tread" "The Longest Journey" "A Room With A View" "Howard's End" "A Passage to India" |
| Benjamin Franklin | American author inventor and political philospher authored "Poor Richard's Almanac" |
| Philip Frenau | American poet known as "The Poet of the Revolution" wrote "American Liberty" "General Gage's Soliloquy" "Gerneral Gage's Confession" "The British-Prison Ship, a Poem in Four Cantos" "The Wild Honey Suckle" "The Indian Burying Ground" |
| Sigmund Freud | Austrian Physicain know for contributions to psychology in best known for dream analysis works published "The Interpretations of Dreams" "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" "The Ego and the Id" "Civilization and its Discontents" |
| Betty Naomi Friedan | American author best known for "The Feminine Mystique" "The Second Age" and "The Foundation of Age" |
| Erich Fromm | American author of "The Art of Loving" |
| Robert Lee Frost | American poet and author won 4 nobel prizes in, 1924, 1931,1937,1943 works include "A Boy's Will" "Death of Hired Hand" "Home Burial" "North of Boston" "Mending Wall" "After Apple-Pickng" "Birches' "The Road Not Taken" "Mountain Interval" |
| Carlos Fuentes | Mexican author best known for for "The Death of Artemio Cruz" "Terra Nostra" "Distant Relations" "The Old Gringo" "THe Campaign" "THe Buried Mirror" "The Years with Laura Diaz" |
| John Kenneth Galbraith | American author of "American Capitalism" "THe Great Crash" "The Affluent Society" "The Culture of Contentment" |
| John Galsworthly | English author of The Forest Saga- "The Man of Property" "In Chancery" "To Let" A Modern Comedy-"THe White Monkey" "THe Silver Spoon" "Swan Song" End of the Chapter- "Maid In Waiting" "Flowering Wilderness" "One More RIder" |
| Earle Stanly Gardner | American Author of "The Case of the Velvet Claws" (Perry Mason) |
| William Lloyd Garrison | American newspaper writer known for the Liberator an anti Slabery News paper 1831-1965 |
| John Gay | English play write "The Begger's Opera" "Polly" "Fables" |
| Allen Ginsberg | American poet of the Beat generation works include "Howl" "Kaddish and other Poems" "The Fall of America: Poems of the States"-won National Book Award Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems -volume of poetry |
| Henry George | American author of "Progress and Poverty" |
| Edward Gibbon | English author of "THe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"-6 volumes |
| Andre Gide | French author of "The Immoralist" "Strait is the Gate" won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947 |
| Johann Wolfgang Goethe | German author and Poet whose works include "The Sorrows fo Young Werther" "Faust"-[parts I and II] "THe Erlking" "Prometheus" |
| Nikolai Vasilyevish Gogol | Russian author of "Diary of a Madman" "The Inspector-General" "The Overcoat" "Dead Souls" |
| Sir William (Gerald) Golding | English author best known for novel "Lord of the Flies" also authored "Mirgorod" "The Spire" "Rites of Passage" "The Paper Man" "Close Quarters" won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987 |
| Oliber Goldsmith | Irish author and poet works include "Ode on Distand Prospect of Eton College" "Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Ricahrd West" "Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tib of God Fishes" "Pindaric Odes" "TH Citizen of the World" |
| Nadien Gordimer | South African author of "THe Late Bourgeois World" "THe Conservationist" "My Son's Story" Nobel Pize in Literature in 1991 |
| Sue Gafton | American author of the alphebet series of Kinsey Millhone "A is for Alibi" "B is for Burglar" "C is for Corpse" "D is for Dead" "E is for Evidence" "F is for Fugitive" "G si for Gumshoe" "H is for Homicide" "I is for Innocence" "J is for Judgement' |
| Kenneht Grahame | English author of "The Golden Age" "THe Wind in the Willows" |
| Gunter Grass | English author of "The Tin Drums" "Dog Years" "The Too Far Afield" "Crabwalk" |
| Thomas Gray | English author of "The Fatal Sisters" "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" "The Bard" "The Progress of Poesy" "The Descent of Odin" |
| Henry Graham Greene | English author works include "The Man Within" "Brighton Rock" "The Power and the Glory" "The Heart of fthe Matter" "The End of the Affair" "The Comedian" "Teh Honorary Consul" |
| John Grisham | American author known for his legal novels as well as some none legal fiction writings include "A Time to Kill" "The Firm" "The Pelican Brief" "Runaway Jurry" "A Painted House" "Skipping Christmas" "The King of Torts" "Bleachers" "The Last Juror" |
| Zane Grey | American author known for his western tales including "The Last of the Plainsmen" "Riders of the Purple Sage" "The Tales of Fishing"- nonfiction |
| Jakob Ludwig and Wilhelm Carl Grimm | German brothers known for their colaberation of German fairy tales into "Grimm's Fairy Tales |
| John Gunther | American author of "Death Be No Proud" a memior of his son |
| Alfred Bertram A.B. Guthrie | author of trilogy "The Big Sky" "The Way West" "These Thousand Hills" |
| Alexander Hamilton | American politician and leader of early Federalist Party one of three authors of The Federalist Papers |
| Sameul Dashiell Hammett | American creater of detectives Nick Charles and Sam Spade "The Maltese Falcon" "The Glass Key" "The Thin Man" |
| Lorraine Hansberry | American author of "A Raisin in the Sun"-fist paly to reach broadway by an African-American "The SIgn is Sidney Brustein's Window" "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" |
| Thomas Hardy | English author of "Desperate Temedies' 'Under the Greenwood Tree" "A Pair of Blue Express" "Far From the Madding Crowd" "The Return of the Native" "The Mayor of Casterbridge" "Tess of D'Urbervilles" "Jude the Obscure" "The Dynasts"-play |
| Joel Chandler Harris | American author fo "Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings" "The Tar Baby" "Uncle Remus and Br'er Rabbit" |
| Moss Hart | American author of plays with Geroge S. Kaufman including "You Can't Take It With You" "I'd Rather be Right" "The Man Who Came to Dinner" "George Washington Slept Here" "Gentleman's Agreement" "Act One" |
| Vaclav Havel | Czech author of "THe Garden Party" "THe Memorandum" "Largo Desolato" |
| Stephen Hawking | English physisist and author of "A Brief History of Time" "Superspace and Supergravity" "The Early Universe" "The Nature of Space and Time" |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | American author best known for his novel "The Scarelet Letter" "THe Ambitious Guest" 'Twise Told Tales" "Rappaccini's Daughter" "The House of Gables" "The Blithedale Romance" "Tanglewood Tales' "The Marble Faun" |
| Seamus Heaney | Irish author of "Selected Poems" "Death of a Naturalist" "Winterign Out" "North" won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 |
| Robert Anson MacDonald Heinlein | Author of "Methuselah's Children" "Starship Troopers" "Stranger in a Strange Land" "THe Past Through Tomorrow" "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" |
| Joseph Heller | American author best know for "Catch 22" "We Bombed in Hew Haven" "Something Happended" "Something Happened" "Good as Gold" "God Knows" "Closing Time" "Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here" "Catch as Catch Can" |
| Lilian Hellman | American play write known for works such as "The Children's Hour" "The Little Foxes" "Watch on the Rhine" "The Scoundrel Wind" "Scoundrel Time" |
| Ernes Hemingway | American authors best known for |
| Ernest Hemingway | American author best know for his novels "A Farewell to Arms" "For Whom the Bell Tolls" "Teh Old Man and the Sea" "In our Times" "Th Sun Also Rises" "The Torrents of Spring" "Men Without Women" "Death in the Afternoon" "Winner Take Nothing" |
| Frank Herbert | American author of "Dune" "Dune Messiah" "THe Children of Dune" "God Emperor of Dune" "HEretics of Dune" |
| Robert Herrick | English author of "To Virgin's, to Make Much of Time" "To Daffodils" "Hesperides" |
| John Hersey | American author of "A Bell for Adano" "HIroshima" "The Wall" "The Child Buyer" "Key West Tales" |
| Herman Hesse | German author of "Demian" "Siddhartha" "Steppenwolf" "Magister Lude" "The Jackdaw" winner of Nobel Prize in Literature 1946 |
| Thor Heyerdahl | Norwegian, Kon Tiki, "Sea Routes to Polynesia" "The Ra Expeditions" "The Tigris Expedition" "Easter Island: The Mystery Solved" |
| James Hilton | English author of Lost Horizon "Goodbye Mr. Chips" "Random Harvest" |
| S.E. Hinton | American auther best known for her work "The Outsiders" other works include "That was Then, This is Now" "Rumblefish" "Tex" "Taming the Star Runner" |
| Adolf Hitler | Austrian born German dictator and leader of Nazi party authored "Mein Kampf" (My Struggle) while in German jail |
| Thomas Hobbes | English author of "Leviathan (or the Matter, Form and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civil) |
| Richard Hofstadter | American author of "The Age of Reform"-won Pulitzer Prize 1955 "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life" |
| Oliver Wendel Holmes Sr. | American poet noteble works include "Old Ironsides" "The Last Leaf" "The Wonderful One-Horse Shay" "The Chambered Nautilus" "THe Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" "The Deacon's Masterpiece" |
| Homer | Greek poet and play writer composed the epic Poems the Illiad and the Odyssey as well as "Batrachomyomaschia" (Battle of Frogs and Men) |
| Horace | Roman poet known for his "Satires" "THe Epodes" "Odes" "Epistle" "The Art of Poetry" "Ars Poetica" |
| Alfred Edward (A.E.) Housman | English Poet and author "A Shropshire Lad" "Last Poems" latter includes "When I was One-and-Twenty" "To an Athlete Dying Young" "With Rue my Heart is Laden" "Far in the Western Brookland" |
| William Dean Howells | American author of the book "The Rise of Silas Lapham" |
| William Henry Hudson | English author works include "Green Mansions" "Faraway and Long Ago" |
| Langston Hughes | American poet and novel writer works include "THe Weary Blues" "Not Without Laughter"-novel "The Way of White Folks" "Mulatto"-play "THe Big Sea"-autobiography "Shakespeare in Harlem" "One-Way Ticket" "Simple Speaks His Mind" "THe Best of Simple" |
| Thomas Hughes | American author of "Tom Brown's School Day" "Tom Brown in Oxford" |
| Victor Hugo | French author works include most notably "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" "Contemplations"-volume of Poetry "Les Miserables" |
| James Hutton | Scottish author of "The Theory of the Earth" |
| Aldous Leonard Huxley | English author best known for Utopian novel "Brave New Worls" and "Brave New World Revisited" as well as short story "THe Giaconda Smile" and novels "Point Counter Point" "After the Summer Dies the Swan" |
| Henrik Ibsen | Norwegian play write "Catilinia" "Love's Comedy" "Brand" "Peer Gynt" "A Doll's House" "Ghosts" "AN Enemy of the People' "THe Wild Duck" "Hedda Gabler |
| Washington Irving | American author of "Salmagundi Papers" 'A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the Endo of th Dutch Dynasty" "THe Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon" "THe Legend of Sleepy Hollow" "Rip Van Winkle" "The Legends of Athambra" |
| Helen Hunt Jackson | American feminist author of "A Century of Dishonor" and "Ramona' |
| Shirley Jackson | American childrens and young adults author notatble works include "Witchcraft in Salem Village" "The Lottery" "THe Hoaunting of Hill House" "We have Always Lived in the Castle" |
| Henry James Jr. | American author of "The American" "Daisy Miller" "Th Portrait of a Lady" "Washington Square" "THe Bostonians" "The Turn of the Screw" "THe Awkard Age" "THe Golden Bowl" |
| James William | American psychologist known as the "Father of Psychology" authored "The Priciples of Psychology" |
| Randall Jarrell | American poet and authored one Novel "Pictures from an Institution" "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" "Little Friendm Littel Friend" "THe Woman at the Washington Zoo" "The Bat-Poet" |
| Sameuel Johnson | English author of "The Vanity of Human Wishes" "Dictioanry of the English Language" 'Lives of the Poets" |
| James Jones | American Author of Army life in Hawaii trilogy which includes "From Here to Eternity" "Some Came Running" "Whistle" other works include "The Thin Ted Line" "A Touch of Danger" "Viet Journal" |
| Ben Johnson | English author of "The Alchemist" "To Celia"-song first line "Drink to me only with thine eyes" "Barholomew Fair" |
| James Joyce | Irish author works include "Dubliners" "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" "Ulysses" "Finnegan's Wake" |
| Carl Gustave Jung | Swiss psychologist expanded and reject some Freudian ideas of the unconscous mind authored "Psychology of the Unconscious" "Memories, Dreams and Reflections' |
| Franz Kafka | Austrian author of "The Metamorphosis" "A Hunger Artist" "The Castle" "Amerika" "The Trail" |
| Immanuel Kant | German outhor of "Critique of Pure Reason" "Critique of Practical Reason" and "Critique of Judgment" |
| MacKinlay Kantor | American author whose works include the screen play "The Best Years of Our Lives" and the Pulitzer Prize winning novel "Andersonvile" |
| John Keats | English poet author of "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" "O Solitude: Endymion" "Hyperion" "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" "To Autumn" "The Eve of St. Agnes" "Ode to Melancholy" "Ode to Psyche" "Ode to a Nightingale" "Isabella or the Pot of Basil" |
| Hellen Keller | American deaf blind and mute authored the books "THe Story of My Life" "The World I live in" |
| John Fitzgeralad Kennedy | American politicain and youngest President ever Elected to the office authored "Why England Slept" and "Profiles of Courage" latter won Pulitzer Prize 1956 |
| Jack Kerouac | American author fo "On the Road" "Big Sur" |
| Ken Elton Kesey | American Author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and Sometimes a Great Notion" |
| Joseph Kesselring | American play writer of "Arsenic and Old Lace" |
| John Locke | English philosopher and author of "An Essay Concernign Human Understanding" "Two Treatises on Government" |
| Jack London | pen name of Americn author of "The Call of the Wild" "White Fang" "THe Road" "The Iron Heel" "Martin Eden" "Burning Daylight" "John Barley Corn" "The Sea Wolf" |
| Henry Wadworth Longfellow | American author of Hyperion and the Poems "A Psalm of Life" "The Wreck of the Hesperus" "The Village Blacksmith" "Evangeline a Tale of Acadie" "The Building of a Ship" "The Golden Legend" "Song of Hiawatha" "My Lost Youth" "The Children's Hour" |
| Richard Loveless | English poet whose nobable works include "To Althea From Prison" "To Lucasta, going beyond the Seas" "To Lucasta Going to the wars" |
| Amy Lowell | American author of "A Dome of Many Colored Glass" "Some Imaginst Poets" "Waht O'Clock"-winner of Pulitzer Prize "Collected Poems" "Patterns" "Lilacs" |
| James Russell Lowell | American autor of such works as "Lord Weary's Castle-Winner of Pultizer Prize 1946 The Dolphin-winner of Pulitzer Prize 1973 Day by Day |
| St. Ignatius of Loyola | Spanish author of Exercitia |
| Clare Booth Luce | American author and managing editor of Vanity Fair in 1930's wrote the plays "THe WOmen" "Kiss the Boys Goodbye" "Margin for Error" |
| Henry R. Luce | American writer founder of such things as Time, Fortune, Life , and Sports Illustrated magazines |
| Robert Ludlum | American author best known for creating the Bourne series other works include "Teh Gemini Contenders, The Holocroft Covenatn "The Aquitained Progression" "The Matarese Circle" "The Osterman Weekend" "This is America's Story" "The Matlock Papers'" |
| Martin Luther | German religious philosopher credited as being the founder of Protestantism translated the Bible from Latin to German as well as authored "Ninety-Five Theses"-critizing the Catholic Church |
| John McCrae | Canadian author of "In Flanders Field"-a volumer of his work that included the poem "In Flanders Field" |
| Lula Carson Smith McCullers | American author of such works as "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" "Reflections in a Golden Eye" The Ballad of Sad Cafe" "THe Member of the Wedding Party" "The Square Root of Evil"-play "Clock Without Hands" "The Mortaged Heart" |
| William Holmes McGuffey | American author of the first school book series Eclectic Reader in 1836 |
| Niccolo Machiavelli | Italian authored "The Prince"-treatise "THe Discourses-on the fist ten books of Livy and "The Madrake" |
| Archibald MacLeish | American author and winner of four Pulitzer prizes of works such as "The Naked Dead"* "Advertisements for Myself" "THe Presidential Papers" "An American Dream" "The Armies of the Night" "The Armies of the Night"* Miami and the Seige of Chicago |
| Bernard Malamud | American Author of works including "The Natural" "THe Assistant" "The Fixer"-winner of Pulitzer Prize 1966 "Dublin Lives" |
| Malcolm X | American civil rights figure authored book "The Autobiography of Malcom X" with Alex Haley |
| Bernard Malamud | American Author of works including "The Natural" "THe Assistant" "The Fixer"-winner of Pulitzer Prize 1966 "Dublin Lives" |
| Malcolm X | American civil rights figure authored book "The Autobiography of Malcom X" with Alex Haley |
| Sir Thomas Malory | English author of "Le Morte D'Arthur" (The Death of Arthur) |
| Robert Thomas Malthus | English author, scientist and political theologist works included "An Essay on the Principal of Population"-dealing with over population "Principles of Political Economy" |
| Sir Thomas Malory | English author of "Le Morte D'Arthur" (The Death of Arthur) |
| Katherine Mansfield (Beuchamp) | English author whose works include "In a German Pension" "Bliss and Oher Stories" "A Dill Pickle"-short story "The Garden Party" "The Dove's Nest" |
| Robert Thomas Malthus | English author, scientist and political theologist works included "An Essay on the Principal of Population"-dealing with over population "Principles of Political Economy" |
| Katherine Mansfield (Beuchamp) | English author whose works include "In a German Pension" "Bliss and Oher Stories" "A Dill Pickle"-short story "The Garden Party" "The Dove's Nest" |
| Gabreil-Garcia Marques | Colombian author of such works as "One Hundred Years of Solitude" "The Autumn of the Patriarch" "Chronicles of a Death Foretold" Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1982 Love in the TIme of CHolera" 'THe Gerneral and His Labyrinth News of a Kidnapping |
| Thomas Mann | German author of "Beddenbrooks" "Tristan" "Tonio Kroger" "Felix Krull" "Death in Venice" "A Man and His Dog" "Magic Mountain" won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929 "Joseph adn His Brothers" "Doctor Faustus" |
| Karl Marx | German socialist and considered by many to be the father of Communism authored most notably the Communist Manifesto along with Friedrich Engels as well as Das Kapital- translated the Capital |
| Katherine Mansfield (Beuchamp) | English author whose works include "In a German Pension" "Bliss and Oher Stories" "A Dill Pickle"-short story "The Garden Party" "The Dove's Nest" |
| John Edward Masefield | English author of "Salt-Water Ballads"-including "Sea Fever" "Cargoes" both poems. "Reynard the Fox"- long Narrative Poem |
| Christopher Marlow | English play write works include "Tamburlaine the Great" "The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus" "The Jew of Malta" as well as the unfinished poem "Hero and Leaders" which was finished by George Chapman after Marlow's death |
| Edgar Lee Masefield | American author of such works as "A book of Verses" "Spoon River Anthology" "Starved Rock" "Mitch Miller" "Domesday Book"-collection of poems "Across Spoon River Anthology"-autobiography "Licoln, the Man" "Pomes of the People" "Illinois Poems" " |
| John Edward Masefield | English author of "Salt-Water Ballads"-including "Sea Fever" "Cargoes" both poems. "Reynard the Fox"- long Narrative Poem |
| Gabreil-Garcia Marques | Colombian author of such works as "One Hundred Years of Solitude" "The Autumn of the Patriarch" "Chronicles of a Death Foretold" Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1982 Love in the TIme of CHolera" 'THe Gerneral and His Labyrinth News of a Kidnapping |
| Edgar Lee Masefield | American author of such works as "A book of Verses" "Spoon River Anthology" "Starved Rock" "Mitch Miller" "Domesday Book"-collection of poems "Across Spoon River Anthology"-autobiography "Licoln, the Man" "Pomes of the People" "Illinois Poems" " |
| Richard Mather | author ot the first book ever bound in America, The Bay Psalm Book |
| William Henry Mauldin | American author of "Up Front" "Brass Ring" winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1939 and 1943 |
| Margrret Mead | American author of "Coming of Age in Soma" "Frowing up in New Guinea" |
| H.L. Menchen | American author of "The American laguage", known as the "Sage of Baltimore |
| Herman Melville | American author best known for his novel "Moby Dick"-not recieved horrible reviews upon release today is considered one of the all time great American novels by some. also authored "Typee" "Omoo" "Mardi" "Redburn" "White Jacket" "Pierre" |
| Karl Marx | German socialist and considered by many to be the father of Communism authored most notably the Communist Manifesto along with Friedrich Engels as well as Das Kapital- translated the Capital |
| H.L. Menchen | American author of "The American laguage", known as the "Sage of Baltimore |
| Herman Melville | American author best known for his novel "Moby Dick"-not recieved horrible reviews upon release today is considered one of the all time great American novels by some. also authored "Typee" "Omoo" "Mardi" "Redburn" "White Jacket" "Pierre" |
| John Edward Masefield | English author of "Salt-Water Ballads"-including "Sea Fever" "Cargoes" both poems. "Reynard the Fox"- long Narrative Poem |
| James Michener | American author of "Tales of the South Pacific" winner of the Pulitzer Prize 1949 "The Fires of Spring" "The Bridge at Tako-Ri" "The Floating World" "The Bridge at Anau" "Hawaii" "The Source" "Iberia" "Centennial" "Sports in America" |
| Edgar Lee Masefield | American author of such works as "A book of Verses" "Spoon River Anthology" "Starved Rock" "Mitch Miller" "Domesday Book"-collection of poems "Across Spoon River Anthology"-autobiography "Licoln, the Man" "Pomes of the People" "Illinois Poems" " |
| Cotton Mather | Aauthor of "Wonders of the Invisible World in 1693 |
| Richard Mather | author ot the first book ever bound in America, The Bay Psalm Book |
| William Henry Mauldin | American author of "Up Front" "Brass Ring" winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1939 and 1943 |
| Margrret Mead | American author of "Coming of Age in Soma" "Frowing up in New Guinea" |
| H.L. Menchen | American author of "The American laguage", known as the "Sage of Baltimore |
| Herman Melville | American author best known for his novel "Moby Dick"-not recieved horrible reviews upon release today is considered one of the all time great American novels by some. also authored "Typee" "Omoo" "Mardi" "Redburn" "White Jacket" "Pierre" |
| James Michener | American author of "Tales of the South Pacific" winner of the Pulitzer Prize 1949 "The Fires of Spring" "The Bridge at Tako-Ri" "The Floating World" "The Bridge at Anau" "Hawaii" "The Source" "Iberia" "Centennial" "Sports in America" |
| Jon Stuart Mill | English author of "On Liberty"-treatise "Uilitarianism"-treatise "Representative Government" |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | American authro of "Renascence and Other Poems" "Euclid Along Has Hooked on Beuty Bare" "The Harp Weaver and Other Poems" "Wine From These Grapes" |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | American authro of "Renascence and Other Poems" "Euclid Along Has Hooked on Beuty Bare" "The Harp Weaver and Other Poems" "Wine From These Grapes" |
| Arthur Miller | American play write who was blacklisted by McCarthy report works included "The Crucible" "Death of a Salesma" "A View from the Bridge" "After Fall" |
| Henry Miller | American author of "Tropic of Cancer' "Tropic of Capricorn""Colossousof Maroussi" "Rosy Crucifixtion trilogy"- Sexus, Plexus, Nexus |
| A.A. Milne | English author of "When We Were Very Young" "Winnie-The-Pooh" "Now We Are Six" "The House at Pooh Corner" "Toads of Toad Hall" |
| John Milton | English poet authored works such as "L'Allegro" "Lycidas" "On the Morning of CHrist's Ntivity"-ode "When I Consider How My Light is Spent" "Paradise Lost"-twelve books "Paradise Regained" "Samson Agonistes" "On His Blindness" |
| Margret Mitchell | American author and Pulitzer prize winner for her novel "Gone With the Wind" |
| Molier | French play write real name was Jean-Baptiste Poquelin works include "Le Tartuffe"- The Prisoner "Teh Misantrope" "The Miser" The Imaginary Invalid" |
| Scott Momaday | Native American author won Pultizer Prize in 1968 for novel The House Made of Dawn, also authored "The Way to Rainy Mountain" "Ancient Child" "Ancestral Voices" "Angle of Grease" "The Grourd Dancer" "TH Ancient Child" |
| Lucy Maud Montgomery | Canadian author of "Anne of Green Gables" "Anne of Avonlea" "Chronicles of Avonlea" "Anne of the Island" "Anne of Windy Poplar" "Anne's House of Dreams" "Emily of New Moon" "Pat of Silver Bush" |
| Scott Momaday | Native American author won Pultizer Prize in 1968 for novel The House Made of Dawn, also authored "The Way to Rainy Mountain" "Ancient Child" "Ancestral Voices" "Angle of Grease" "The Grourd Dancer" "TH Ancient Child" |
| Baron de Montesquieu | French pen name for French author Charles Louis de Secondat author of "The Spirit of the Laws" |
| Baron de Montesquieu | French pen name for French author Charles Louis de Secondat author of "The Spirit of the Laws" |
| Clement Clarke Moore | American author of "A Visit from St. Nicholas" also called "Twas the Night Before Christmas" |
| St. Thomas More | English author of "THe History of Richard III" and most notably "Utopia: |
| St. Thomas More | English author of "THe History of Richard III" and most notably "Utopia: |
| Toni Morrison | American author of "Beloved" "The Bluest Eyes" "Sula" "SOng of Solomon" "Tar Baby" "Jazz" "Paradise" and "Love" won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 |
| Toni Morrison | American author of "Beloved" "The Bluest Eyes" "Sula" "SOng of Solomon" "Tar Baby" "Jazz" "Paradise" and "Love" won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 |
| Hector Hugh Munro | English author of "Reginald" "The Unbearable Bassington" "Beast and Super-Beats" "The Open Window" |
| John Muir | American author of such works as "The Mountains of California" "Our National Parks" "The Yosemite" "A THousand Mile Walk to the Gulf" |
| John Muir | American author of such works as "The Mountains of California" "Our National Parks" "The Yosemite" "A THousand Mile Walk to the Gulf" |
| Vladimir Nabokov | Author of such works as "THe Real Life of Sebastian Knight""Lolita" "Pale Fire" "The Defense" |
| Ralph Nader | American politician and author multiple time Presidential canidate authore "Unsafe at Any Speed" in 1965 |
| Ralph Nader | American politician and author multiple time Presidential canidate authore "Unsafe at Any Speed" in 1965 |
| Howard Nemerove | American author of "Mirrors and Windows" "THe Blue Swallows" "Western Approaches" "Collected Poems" "War Stories" |
| Howard Nemerove | American author of "Mirrors and Windows" "THe Blue Swallows" "Western Approaches" "Collected Poems" "War Stories" |
| John Henry Newberry | English author published Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes and Little Goody Two Shoes |
| John Henry Newberry | English author published Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes and Little Goody Two Shoes |
| Cardinal John Henry Newman | American author of "IDea of a University Defined" |
| Issac Newton | English scientist and inventor authored "Pricipia" |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | German author fo "The Birth of Tragedy from Spirit of Music" "THus Spoke Zarathustra" "Beyond Good and Evil" "Ecce Homo" |
| Charles Nordoff | American author of "Hurricane" "Botany Bay" "Mutiny on the Bounty" "Pitcairn Island" "Men Against the Sea" |
| Frank Norris | American author of "McTeague" and the unfinishe Trilogy "The Epic Wheat" "The Octopus" "The Pit" "Wolf"-unfinished |
| Dean O'Casey | Irish author works inlcude the plays "The Shadow of a Gunman" "Juno and the Paycock" "THe Plough and the Stars" "THe Silver Tassic" "Within the Gates" "THe Bishop's Bonfire" |
| Mary Flannery O'Connor | AMerican author of "Wise Blood" "A Good Man is Hard to Find" "The Displaced Person" "The Violent Bear it Away" "Everything That Rises Must Converge" "The Atificial Nigger" "The Good Country People" "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" |
| Eugene O'Neill | American play write of "Beyond the Horizon" "Emperor Jones" "Anna Christies" "THe Hairy Ape" "Desire Under the Elms" "THe Great God Brown" "Lazarus Laughed" "Strange Interlude" "Mourning Becomes Electra" |
| Barness Orczy | English author of "The Scarlet Pimpernel |
| George Orwell | English pen name for author "Eric Arthur Blair works include most notabley "Keep the Aspidistra Flying" "Animal Farm" "1984" |
| Ovid | Roman author of "Amores" "The Art of Love' "Matamorphoses" |
| Robert Owen | Weksg aytgir if "A New View of Society" " |
| Thomas Paine | American political philosopher works inlcude the pamphlet "Common Sense" "The American Crisis" "Th RIghts of Man" "The Age of Man" "The Age of Reason" |
| Robert Pinsky | American author of "Sadness and Happiness" "Poet Laurete of the United States" |
| Sylvia Plath | American author noted for her works including the novels, "The Bell Jar" Ariel" well as poems such as "The Colossus" a book of poetry. and the her Pullitzer Prize winning "The Collected Poems" |
| Plato | Greek philosopher authored "The Republic" "The Academy" "Apology" "Crito" "Euthyphro" "Laws" "Phaedo" aslo founded academy in 387 B.C.E. |
| Pliny the Elder | Roman philosopher Historia Naturalis translated Natural History |
| Alexander Pope | English intelectual penned "An Essay on Criticism" "The Rape of the Lock" "The Dunciad" "An Essay to Dr. Arbuthnot" also translated the Illiad and the Odysssey |
| Eleanor Hodgmann | American author of "Pollyanna" "Pollyanna Grows Up" |
| Katherine Anne Porter | Americna author of short novels and stories short novels inclued "Flowering Judas" "Noon Wine" "Old Morality" "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" "The Leaning Tower" "Ships of Fools"-only major novel "Collected Stories"-winner of Pulitzer Prize |
| William Sidney Porter | American author of "Whistling Dick's Christmas Story" "THe Four Million "THe Gift of the Magi" "THe Last Leaf" "The Voice of the City" "A Retrieved Reformation" :TH Ransom of Red Chief" |
| Beatrix Potter | English author of works inclucing, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, THe Tail fo Gloucester "Bejamin Bunny" "Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle " "Pigling Bland" |
| John Wesley Powell | American "Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages" "Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States" "Canyons of Colorado" |
| Marcel Proust | Remembrand of Things Past" (Swann's Way included) |
| Ezra Loomis Pound | American poet and author whors include "Personae" "Cathay" "Cantos" "Exultation" "The Spirit of Romance" "Provenca" "Canzoni" "THe Pisan Cantos" "THe Fifth Decade of Cantos" "Cantos LII-LXXI" |
| Ptolemy | Egyptian penned "Almagest"-stated the sun revolves around the Earth |
| Joseph Pulitzer | American journalist wrote for St. Louis Post-Dispatch New York World founded the Jounalism School at Columbia University which awards the Pulitzer Prize |
| Alexanr Pushkin | Russian author and idealist "Ode to Liberty"-caused his exile "Boris Godunov" "Little Trafedies" "Eugene Onegin" "THe Queen of Spades" "The Bronze Horseman" |
| Mario Puzo | American author best known for his novel "The Godfather" alos authored "The Sicilian" and "The Last Don" |
| Thomas Pynchon | American autor of the novels "V" "The Crying of Lot 49" "Gravity's Rainbow" |
| Francois Rabelais | French author penned "Gargantua and Pantagruel" |
| Ayn Rand | Pen name of Alice Rosenbaum authored novels such as "The Fountainhead" "Atlas Shrugged" "Anthem" |
| Marjorie Rawlings | American author of "South Moon Under" "Golden Apples" "THe Yearling" "The Sojourner" "Cross Creek" |
| Wilson Rawis | American author of "Where the Red Fern Grows" "Summer Monkeys" |
| John Reed | American author of "Ten Days that Shook the World"- Ameicna buried in the Kremlin |
| Erich Maria Remarque | German author best known for the novel "All Quiet on the Western Front" |
| David Ricardo | English author of "Principles of Political Economy and Taxation" |
| Anne Rice | American author best known for her Vampire series which includes the books "Interview with the Vampire" "The Feast of All Saints' "The Vampire Lextat" "Queen of the Damned" Tale of teh Body Thief |
| Samuel Richardson | English author of "Pamela"or Virtue Rewarded and "Clarissa Harlowe |
| Conrad Richter | American author of works including "Sea of Grass" "The Trees" "The Fields" "Alwasy Young and Fair" "THe Town" "The Light in the Forest" "The Mountains and the Deserts" "THe Water of Kronos' "The Awakening Land" |
| Jacob August Rilis | American author fo "How the Ohter Half Lives" a book about New York City Tenement Conditions |
| James Whitcomb Riley | AMerican author known as the "Hoosier Poet" poems include "THe Old Swimmin' Hole" "The Raggedy Man" "Little Orphant Annie" |
| Edwin Arlington Robinson | Pulitzer Prize winning poet works include "THe Man Who Died Twice" "Tristam" "Richard Cory" "Miniver Cheevy" "Mr. Flood's Party' |
| Theodore Roethke | American author fo "The Waking" "Words in the Wind" "My Papa's Waltz" |
| Ole Edwart Rolvaag | American author best know for works such as "Giants in the Earth" "Peder Gold" "Their Father's God" "THe Book of Longing" |
| Edmond Rostand | French author of Cyrano de Bergerac |
| Philip Roth | American author of "Goodbye Columbia" "Portnoy's Complaint" "American Pastoral"-trilogy "I Married a Communist" "The Human Strait" "The Dying Animal" |
| Jean Jacques Rousseau | French philosopher and author best know for "Social Contract" also penned "Hemoise" "Emile" "Confessions"-autobiography |
| Cornelius Rayn | American author of "The Longest Day" "A Bridge to Far" "The Last Battle" |
| Antonine De Saint-Exupery | French author of "The Little Prince" |
| J.D. Salinger | American author of "Nine Stories"- a collection of fiction stories and "Franny and Zooey" a short novel best known for his only published full length novel "The Catcher in the Rye" in 1951 author was noted for his reclusive nature and was rarely seen |
| Siegmund Salzmann | Author of the works "Bambi" |
| Geroge Sand | French author of "Indiana" "The Haunted Pool" |
| William Saroyan | American author and play write works include "THe Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze" "The Time of Your Life"-play- rejected the Pulitzer Prize, "My Nmae is Aram" |
| Jean-Paul Sarte | French author of "The Wall" "The Flies"-play "Being and Nothingness" "No Exit" "The Respectful Prostitute" refused the Novel Prize in Literature |
| Jack Schaefer | American author of "Shane" and "First Blood" |
| Friedrich Schiller | German author of "The Maid of Orleans" |
| Arthur Schlessigner Jr. | American author of The Age of Jackson" and "A Thousand Days" |
| Sir Walter Scott | Scottish author of "Marmion" "THe Lady of the Lake" "Rob Roy' "The Heart of Midlothian" "Ivanhoe" "Kenilworth" "Waverly Novels" "The Tailsman |
| Erich Segal | American author of "Love Story" "Oliver's Story" "THe Class" |
| Maurice Sendak | American author "Kenny's Window" "Where the Wild Things are" |
| Robert William Service | Canadian author known as Canadian Kipling" "Song of a Sourdough" "THe Shooting of Dan McGrew" |
| Theodor Seuss Geisel | American author better known as Dr. Seuss works include "The Cat in the Hat" "The Lorax" "Hop on Pop" "The Grinch who stole Christmas" "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish Blue Fish" |
| Anne Sewell | English author "Black Beauty: The autobiography of a Horse" |
| William Shakespeare | English play write works include "Henry VI" "THe Comedy of Errors" "Othello" "A Much Ado About Nothing" "King Lear" "Macbeth" "The Tempest" |
| George Benard Shaw | Irish play write works include "Arms and the Man" "THe Devil's Disciple" "Caesar and Cleopatra" "Candida" "John Ball's Other Island" "Major Barbara" "Man and Superman" "Androcles and the Lion" 'Pygmalion" "Heartbreak House" "Saint John" |
| Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | English author and wife of Percy Shelley best known work "Frankenstien" or the Modern Prometheus" and "The Last Man" |
| Percy Shelley | English author mostly poems and plays "Queen Mab" "The Revolt of Islam" "Ozymandias" "The Cloud" "To a Skylark" "Epipsychidoion" |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan | English play write works include "The Rival" "The School for Scandal" |
| Robert Emmet Sherwood | American play write plays include "The Petrified Forest" "Idiot's Delight" "Abel Lincoln in Illinois" "THer Shall Be No Night" |
| Murasaki Shikibu | Japanese author of "The Tale of Genji |
| William Shirer | American author of "The Rise and Full of the Third Reich" "THe Sinking of the Bismark" |
| Upton Sinclair | American author of "The Jungle" "Dragon's Teeth" |
| B.F. Skinner | American author of "Walden Two" "Beyond Freedom and Dignity" |
| Jane Smiley | American author of "The Age of Grief" "Greenlanders" "Ordinary Love and Goodwill" "A Thousand Acres" "Duplicate Keys" "Barn Blind" "At Paradise Gate and "Moo: A Novel" |
| Adam Smith | Scottish author of "A Wealth of Nations" |
| Betty Smith | American author of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" |
| Joseph Smith | AMerican theologist and founder of Mormanism |
| W.D. Snograss | Amerian author of "Heart's Needle" "The Remains"-wrote under the name S.S. Gardons and Selected Poems |
| Alexander Solzhenitsyn | Russian author of "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" "The First Circle" "Cancer Ward" "August, 1914" "The Gulag Archipeligo" |
| Sophocles | Greek philosopher wrote Electra a trilogy "Oedipus Rex" "Oedipus at Colonus" "Antigone" |
| Albert Speer | German author of Inside the Third Reich |
| Edmund Spenser | English author of "The Faire Queene" and Eoithalamion |
| Dr. Benjamin Spock | American psychologist author of "Baby and Child Care" and "Bringing Up Children in a Difficult Time" |
| Sir Richard Steele | Irish author of "The Tatler" "The Spectator" |
| Gertude Stein | American author "Tender Buttons" "THe Making of Americans" "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" |
| John Steinbeck | American author of "The Pearl" "The Grapes of Wrath" "Of Mice and Men" "THe Red Pony" "East of Eden" |
| Stendhal | French author "The Red and the Black" "The Chaterhouse of Parma" |
| RObert Louis Stevenson | Scottish author works include "The Treasure Island" "Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes" "A Child's Garden Verse "Prince Oto" ""The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' |
| Bram Stocker | Irish author best known for his novel "Dracula" |
| Irving Stone | American author of "Lust for Life" "Sailor on Horseback" "Immortal Life" "Adversary in the House" "THe Passionate Journey" "The Presidents Lady" "The Agony and the Ectasy" "Those Who Love' "THe Passion of the Mind" "THe Greek Treasure" "THe Origin" |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | American author of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Edward Stratemeyer-Adams | American Author works include "THe Bobbsey Twins" "Two Swift" |
| William Styron | American author of "Lie Down in Darkness" "THe Confession's of Nat Turner" "Sophie's Choice" 'Visible Darkness" |
| Jonathan Swift | Englsih author woks include most notably "Gulliver's Travel" "A Modest Proposal" "THe Battle of Books" "The Tale of a Tub" |
| J.M. Synge | Irish play writer aurhor of "Riders of teh Sea" and "THe Playboy of the Western World" |
| Ida Tarbell | American author of "History of the Standard Oil Company" |
| Booth Tarkington | American author of "Penrod" "Seventeen" "THe Magnificent Ambersons" "Alice Adams" |
| Alfred Tennyson | English poet works include "The Lady of Shalott" "THe Lotus-Eater" "Ulysses" "In Memoriam" "Morte De' Arthur" "Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington" "Charge of the Light Brigade" "Idylls of the Kng" "Crossing the Bar" |
| `William Maekpeace Thackeray | Enclish author of "The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon" "Vanity Fair" "The History of Pendennis" "The History of Henry Edmond, Esquire" "THe NEwcomes |
| Enest Lwrence Thayer | American author of "Cassy at the Bat" |
| Dylan Thomas | Welsch author fo "Do not go gentle into the good night" "An death shall have no dominion" "Portrait of an Artist as a Young Dog" "Fern Hill" "Collected Poems " and "Under Milk Wood" |
| Kay Thompson | American author of "Eloise" "Eloise in Paris " "Eloise at Christmas: " "Eloise in Moscow" |
| Henry David Thoreau | American author and editor of the Dial "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack River" "Civil Disobedeance" "Walden" "The Maine Woods" |
| Thucydides | Greek who wrote "Peloponnesian War" |
| James Thurber | Aemrican author of such works as "The Unicorn in the Garden" "Is Sex Necessary" "The Middle Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze" |
| Henry Timrod | American autho known as "Poet Laureate of the South also known as "Laureate of the Confederacy |
| Alexis de Tocqueville | Frech author of "Democracy in America" |
| Alvin Toffler | American author of "Future Shock" "The Third Wave" |
| J.R.R. Tolkien | English author of the books "THe Hobbit" and the entire Lord of the Rings Series; "Fellowship of the Ring" "Two Towers" "Return of the King" |
| Leo Tolstoy | Russian author bestknow for "War and Peace" other works include "Anna Karenina" 'A Confession" "The Death of Ivan Illyich" "What is Art" "The Resurrection' |
| Pamela Lyndon Travers | Austrailian author of Mary Poppins |
| Barbara Tuchman | American author of "The Guns of August" and "THe Zimmermann Telegram" |
| Mark Twain | American author best known for his works "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin" "A Conneticut Yankee in King Aurths Court" "Prince and the Popper" "THe Gilded Age" "The American Claimant" "The Mysterious Stranger" |
| John Updike | American author of "Rabbit Run" "Rabbit Redux" "Rabbit is Rich" "The Beloved" "THe Witches of Eastwick" "Th Counterlife" "Rabbit at Rest" "Golf Dreams" "Bech at Bay: A Quasi-Novel" "Bech: A Book" "Bech is Back" "Toward the End of Time" |
| Leon Uris" | American author of "Battle Cry" "Exodus" "Mila 18" "Topaz" "QB VII" "The Angry Hills" "Trinity" "Mitla Pass |
| Thortien Veblen | Amerian author fo "The Theory of the Leisure Class |
| Lopa de Vaga | Spanish founder of Modern Spanish Drama |
| Jules Verne | Frech author of "Journey to the Center of the Earth" "The Mysterious Island" "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" "Around the World in Eighty Days" |
| Gore Vidal | American author of "Williwan" "The City and the Pillar" "The Best Man" "Myra Breckinridge" "BUrr" "Creation" "Lincoln" "Julian" "1876: A Novel" "Empire" "The American Presidency" |
| Francois Villon | French author of "Songs of the Vagabonds" "THe Ballad of the Women Yesteryear" |
| "Virgil | Roman philosopher and author of "Ecogues" "Georgics" "Bucolica" "THe Aeneid" |
| Kurt Vonnegut | AMerican author works include "Player Piano" "The Sirens of Titans" "Cat's Cradle" "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" "Welcome to the Monkey House" "Slaughter-House Five" "Breakfast of Champions" "Mother Night" "Jailbird" "Deadeye Dick" "Galapogos" "Bluebeard |
| Alice Walker | American author of "Once" "The Third Life of Grange Copeland" "Meridian" "You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down" "The Color Purple" "The Temple of My Familiar" "Possessing the Secret of Joy" |
| Lew Wallace | American author of "Ben Hur (A Tale of Christ) |
| Izaak Walton | English author of The Compleat Angler" |
| Robert Penn Warren | Americna author of "All The Kings Men" "Now and Then" "A Place to Come to" "Life a Fable" "New and Selected Poems |
| Booker T. Washington | American author of "Up From Slavery" |
| James Watson | English author of "Double Helix" |
| Evelyn Waugh | English author of "Decline and Fall" "Vile Bodies" "A Handful of Dust" "Scoop" "Robbery Under Law" "Brideshead Revisited" "The Loved One" |
| Max Weber | German author of "The Protestant Ethic adn the Spirit of Capitalism"-book coined the term sociology |
| Noah Webster | American author of "An American Dictionary of the English Language |
| H.G. Wells | American autor of "The Time Machine" "The ISland of Dr. Moreau""The Invisible Man" "The War of the Worlds" "The First Men in the Moon" "Kipps' "A Modern Utopia" "Tono-Burgay" "The History of Mr. Polly" "Outline of History" |
| Eudora Welty | American author of "The Robber Bridegroom" "The Wide Net" "Delta Wedding" "The Ponder Heart" "Losing Battles" "THe Optimist's Daughter' "The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty" "One Writer's Beginnings" |
| Nathanael Weston | Author of works such as "the Dream Life of Balso Snell" "Miss Lonelyhearts" "A Cool Million" "The Day of the Locust" |
| Edith Wharton | American author of "Touchstone" "In the House of Mirth" "Ethan Froem" "The Custom of th COuntry' 'THe Age of Innocence" "THe Old Maid"-play" |
| E.B. White | English author of "Stuart Little" and "Charlotte's Web" |
| T. H. White | American author of Making of the President; 1960" "Making of the President: 1964" "Making of the President: 1968" "Making the President: 1972" |
| Walt Whitmann | American author of "Walden" "Song of Myself" "Leaves of Grass" "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" "Song of the Open Road" "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" "O Captain My Captain" "Drum-Taps" "Sequal to Drum-Taps" "When Lilacks Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" |
| John Greenleaf Whittier | American poet works include "Ichabod" "Maud Miller" "The Barefoot Boy" "Skipper Ireson's Ride" "Telling the Bees" "Barbara Friechtie" "Snowbound" |
| Walt Whitman | American author of "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm |
| Richard Wilbur | Aemrican author of "Beautiful Changes"-volume of poetry "THings of Tis World" "Advice to a Prophet" "I'm Walking to Sleep" |
| Oscar Wilde | Irish play write and author of the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray" play's include "Lady Windermere's Fan" "A Woman of No Importance" "THe Importance fo Being Earnest" "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" |
| Laura Ingalls Wilder | Americna author of "Little House in the Big Woods" "Little House on the Prairie" "Little Town on th Prairie" "Farmer Boy" "On the Banks of Plum Creek" |
| Thorton Wilder | Americna autho fo "THe Bridge of San Luis Rey" "Theophilus North" "Our Town " "TH Skin of OUr Teeth" "The Ides of March" "The Matchmaker" "Hello Dolly" |
| Tennessee Williams | American play write works include "The Glass Menagerie" "A Street Car Named Desire" "Summer and Smoke" "The Rose Tattoo" "Camino Real" "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" "Orpheus Descending" "Suddenly Last Summer" "The Sweet Bird of Youth" "The Night of th Iguana" |
| William Carlos William | American author of "In the American Grain" "Paterson" "Pictures from Bruegel" |
| Owen Wister | American author of "The Virginian" |
| Thomas Clayton Wolfe | Aemrican author of "Look Homeward, Angel" "Of Time adn the River" "The Web and the Rock" "You Can't Go Home Again" |
| Tom Wolfe | American author of "The Kandy-Kolored Tangeine-Flake Catchers" "The Painted Word" "Mauve Gloves and Madmen" "The Right Stuff" "In Our Time" "From Bauhaus to Our House" "THe Purple Decades: A Reader" "The Bonfire of the Vanities" |
| Virginia Woolf | English author "Jacob's Room" "Mrs. Dalloway" "To the Lighthouse" "Orlando" "A Room of One's Own" "The Wave" "Between the Acts" |
| William Wouk | American author of THe Canine Mutiny "Majorie Morningstar" "The Winds of War" "War and Remembrance" "This in My God" "THe Hope" |
| P.C. Wren | English author of "Beau Geste" |
| Richard Wright | American author of "Native Son" "Black Boy" |
| J.R. Wyss | Swiss author of "The Swiss Family Robinson" |
| William Butler Yeats | Irish author of poems and plays works include "The Countess Cathleen" "THe Celtic Twilight" "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" "Easter 1916" "The Wild Swans at Coole" "The Second Coming" "October Blast" "The Herne's Egg" "Purgatory" "Under Ben Bulbew" |
| Paul Zindel | American author fo "The Pigman" "Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball" "The Pigman's Legacy" "The Undertaker's Gone Bananas" "Confessions of a Teenage Baboon" "I Never Loved Your Mind" "Mr. Darling, My Hamburger" "Harry and Horense at Hormone High" |
| Emile Zola | French author of "Therese Raquin" "The Dram-Shop" "I Accuse" "Nana" "Germinal" |
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