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Writers

Anton Chekhov: Add brief definition or description
Fyodor Dostoevsky: (1821-81) Russian writer; wrote Crime and Punishment, The Possessed, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov along with other well-known works. ^[e]
Alexander Pushkin: Add brief definition or description
Leo Tolstoy: (1828-1910) A Russian author, often called the "greatest of all novelists"; wrote War and Peace. ^[e]
Matsuo Bashō: (1644-94) Japanese haiku poet, widely considered to be the most accomplished practitioner of the art form. ^[e]
Yasunari Kawabata: Japanese novelist (1899–1972) who won the Nobel Prize for Literature. His works include Snow Country and The Sound of the Mountain. ^[e]
Robert Frost: (1874-1963) American lyric poet who drew his inspiration from nature and the New England countryside. ^[e]
Ernest Hemingway: (1899-1961) American writer, author of The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms. and For Whom the Bell Tolls. ^[e]
Edgar Allan Poe: (1809–1849) American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist, and one of the most prominent figures in the American Romantic Movement in literature. ^[e]
Mark Twain: (1835-1910) Pen name of Samuel Clemens, a leading American novelist and humorist of the late 19th century. ^[e]
Walt Whitman: (1819-92) American poet and essayist, famous for his flowing free verse in Leaves of Grass, including 'A Noiseless Patient Spider' ^[e]
Robert Burns: The National poet of Scotland (1759-96); writer of Auld Lang Syne. ^[e]
Bertolt Brecht: (Feb. 19, 1898 - Aug. 14, 1956) Playwright and theatre theorist known for elucidating the alienation effect and who was persecuted for what was perceived to be a Marxist slant to his plays. ^[e]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: (1749 - 1832) German writer, poet, and philosopher; still considered the greatest writer of German literature ^[e]
Victor Hugo: Victor-Marie Hugo (1802-1885), poet, novelist and playwright, was the dominant French writer of the 19th century, and also a considerable political figure. ^[e]
Henrik Ibsen: (1828-1906) Norwegian dramatist regarded as the founder of modern prose drama; wrote A Doll's House and An Enemy of the People. ^[e]
John Milton: English 17th-century poet, author of Paradise Lost. ^[e]
Walter Scott: (1771-1832) A prolific Scottish poet and novelist, considered the originater of the genre of historical fiction. ^[e]
George Bernard Shaw: (1856 - 1950) Irish playwright, writer, socialist propagandist, and art, music and drama critic who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1925. ^[e]
Jane Austen: English novelist (1775-1817), author of Pride and Prejudice and other novels. ^[e]
William Blake: (1757-1827) was an English poet and artist, posthumously seen as one of the leading figures of the Romantic Movement. ^[e]
Giovanni Boccaccio: Add brief definition or description
Geoffrey Chaucer: (1345-1400) English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales. ^[e]
Charles Dickens: (1812-70) English novelist and social critic; wrote the semi-autobiographical David Copperfield. ^[e]
Dante Alighieri: (1265-1321) Italian poet who wrote the monumental epic the Divine Comedy. ^[e]
George Eliot: Add brief definition or description
T.S. Eliot: (1888-1965) British-American 20th century poet who wrote The Waste Land and Four Quartets. ^[e]
William Faulkner: (1897-1962) US writer who wrote about the American South; wrote The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom!. ^[e]
Robert A. Heinlein: (1907–88) American author of science fiction; wrote Stranger in a Strange Land. ^[e]
Sherlock Holmes: Add brief definition or description
Aldous Huxley: Add brief definition or description
James Joyce: Add brief definition or description
Jack Kerouac: Add brief definition or description
Toni Morrison: Add brief definition or description
Petrarch: Add brief definition or description
Thomas Pynchon: Add brief definition or description
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Add brief definition or description
Virginia Woolf: Add brief definition or description
William Wordsworth: Add brief definition or description

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