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Australian poet and essayist

British classical scholar and poet (1859-1936)

Canadian-American science fiction writer (1912–2000)

British writer, 1964–present

French novelist (1697–1763)

Abd al-Rahman al-Majdoub

Moroccan poet, Sufi and mystic (1506–1568)

Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz

Abbasid prince,Poet,Politician,Governor

Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan

Mughal court poet and minister (1556–1627)

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Novelist and Nobel laureate (born 1948)

17th-century English writer

Arab poet of the Abbasid period

8th century Arabic poet

Muslim Arab poet of Abbasid era (died 850)

Achim von Arnim

German poet and novelist

Adam Lindsay Gordon

British-Australian poet, horseman, police officer and politician

Adam Mickiewicz

Polish national poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator, and political activist

Adelaide Anne Procter

English poet and songwriter

Arab poet (550-600)

Syrian poet, writer and translator (born 1930)

5th century B.C. Athenian author of Greek tragedy

Russian poet (1820–1892)

Agatha Christie

English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)

Agha Hashar Kashmiri

Poet, playwright and dramatist

Agrippa d'Aubigné

Ahlam Mosteghanemi

Algerian writer

Ahmed Ali (writer)

Pakistani novelist and poet

Ahmed Fouad Negm

Egyptian politician and poet

Martiniquais writer, poet and politician

Alain Robbe-Grillet

French writer and film director (1922–2008)

Al-Akhtal al-Taghlibi

Iraqi poet (640-708)

English playwright (born 1939)

New Zealand writer

Alan Hollinghurst

English writer, translator and poet

Physicist, science writer, essayist, novelist

English comic book author

Australian journalist and war correspondent

Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair

Scottish poet, lexicographer, political writer and memoirist

French philosopher and writer (1913–1960)

Albert Cohen (novelist)

Swiss writer (1895-1981)

Australian writer and World War I veteran (1894-1982)

Contemporary Samoan poet and writer

Alberto de Oliveira

Brazilian writer

Alberto Moravia

Italian writer and journalist (1907-1990)

Greek lyric poet

Ancient Greek lyric poet from Sparta

English writer and philosopher

Alejo Carpentier

Cuban novelist (1904 - 1980)

Aleksandr I. Kuprin

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Russian writer and historian

Aleksei Kruchyonykh

Russian futurist poet and artist

Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy

Count, Russian poet, novelist and playwright

Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Aleksey Pisemsky

Russian novelist

Aleksey Remizov

Russian writer (1877-1957)

National writer of Finland (1834–1872)

Alessandro Manzoni

Italian poet and novelist (1785–1873)

Alessandro Striggio the Younger

Italian opera librettist

American writer

Alexander Belyaev

Alexander Fadeyev (writer)

Soviet writer and politician

Alexander Griboyedov

Russian diplomat, playwright, poet and composer (1795-1829)

Alexander Herzen

Russian author, philosopher, revolutioner (1812-1870)

Alexander Karasyov

Alexander Kielland

Norwegian writer

Alexander Ostrovsky

Russian playwright

English poet (1688–1744)

Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Radishchev

18th century Russian author and social critic

Alexander Sumarokov

Russian poet, playwright

Alexandre Dumas

French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)

Alexandre Dumas fils

French writer and dramatist (1824–1895)

Norwegian singer-songwriter and author (1914–1970)

Alfonsina Storni

English poet (1835–1913)

Alfred de Musset

French writer (1810 – 1857)

Alfred de Vigny

French poet, playwright, and novelist

German novelist, essayist, and doctor (1878–1957)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

British poet and Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland (1809–1892)

al-Hariri of Basra

Arab poet and Scholar of later Abbasid era

Alice de Chambrier

Swiss poet (1861–1882)

Canadian short story writer (1931–2024)

American author and activist

Ali-Shir Nava'i

Turkic poet and politician (1449-1501)

American author, professor (born 1980 or 1981)

Alistair MacLean

Scottish writer

Allan Ramsay (poet)

American poet and writer (1926–1997)

Arab philosopher and poet (973–1057)

Arab poet (c. 915 – 965)

Pre-Islamic Arab poet

Aloysius Bertrand

Alphonse Daudet

French novelist

Alphonse de Lamartine

French author, poet and statesman

Aluísio Azevedo

Brazilian writer and diplomat (1857–1913)

American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist

English novelist and abolitionist

Indonesian poet

Indian poet, writer, singer and scholar

Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual (1939–2018)

Amr ibn Kulthum

Knight and the leader of the Taghlib tribe

American novelist (born 1952)

Ancient Greek lyric poet

Writer of novels, short stories.

French author and journalist (1844–1924)

French writer and poet, co-founder of Surrealism (1896–1966))

André Chénier

French poet 1762–1794

French author and Nobel laureate

French winemaker (1766–1832)

André Pieyre de Mandiargues

French novelist

Russian poet, writer and critic (1880-1934)

Andrei Platonov

English Metaphysical poet, satirist and politician

English poet and writer (born 1952)

Andrew Neiderman

Àngel Guimerà

Spanish Catalan author

American writer of children's literature

English author and a pioneer of the Gothic novel (1764-1823)

American true crime writer (1931–2015)

Russian-Soviet poet (1889–1966)

Anna Laetitia Barbauld

English author (1743–1825)

English novelist

Anne Bradstreet

Anglo-American poet

English novelist and poet

Diarist and Holocaust victim (1929–1945)

American-Irish science fiction writer, famous for the Pern series

English author (1938–2023)

American author (1941–2021)

American poet (1928–1974)

American novelist

American author

Annie M.G. Schmidt

Dutch writer (1911–1995)

Anrakuan Sakuden

Japanese writer

Antarah ibn Shaddad

Arabian warrior and poet

Anthony Burgess

English writer and composer

English novelist (1905–2000)

Anthony Trollope

English novelist (1815–1882)

Antiochus Kantemir

Russian academic

Antoine de Rivarol

French writer (1753-1801)

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

French writer and aviator (1900–1944)

Antoine Galland

French orientalist, numismatist and translator (1646–1715)

Russian dramatist and author

Bulgarian writer

French dramatist, actor and theatre director

Antonio García Gutiérrez

Antonio Ghislanzoni

Italian journalist, poet, and novelist (1824-1893)

Antonio Machado

17th century British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer

Apollonius of Rhodes

3rd century BC Greek epic poet

Indian journalist and author

Ancient Greek lyric poet

5th-century B.C. Athenian comic playwright

Ariwara no Narihira

Japanese writer, courtier and waka poet

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Russian brothers, writer duo

Occitan troubadour

Norwegian writer

Italian librettist and composer (1842-1918)

Swedish-American cartoonist

Arthur C. Clarke

British science-fiction writer (1917–2008)

Arthur Conan Doyle

British writer and physician (1859–1930)

British-Canadian writer

Arthur Koestler

Hungarian-British author and journalist (1905–1983)

American playwright

French poet (1854–1891)

Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Spanish writer and journalist

Indian novelist, essayist, and activist (born 1961)

Buddhist priest and writer

Association of European Schools of Planning

Astrid Lindgren

Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays

2nd century Buddhist Indian poet and philosopher

South African playwright

Hungarian poet (1905–1937)

American writer and feminist activist (1934–1992)

August Strindberg

Swedish writer and painter (1849-1912)

American playwright (1945–2005)

Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

Augusto dos Anjos

Brazilian poet and teacher

Russian-American writer and philosopher

Ancient Greek lyric poet

Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani

Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty (772-846)

Baldassare Castiglione

Italian Renaissance author (1478–1529)

Bāṇabhaṭṭa

7th-century Sanskrit writer

Australian journalist, author, and poet (1864–1941)

Chinese poet and official

Barbara Cartland

English writer and media personality (1901–2000)

American writer

Barbara Kingsolver

American author, poet and essayist

Australian author and playwright

English novelist (1930–2012)

Bayram al-Tunisi

British children's writer and illustrator (1866–1943)

Bengali feminist writer and social reformer

American author, feminist, and social activist

17th-century English playwright, poet, and actor

Nigerian writer

Benito Pérez Galdós

Spanish realist novelist

Benjamin Zephaniah

British poet and author (1958–2023)

Bernardine Evaristo

English author and academic (born 1959)

Bernhard Schlink

German writer (born 1944)

German poet, playwright, and theatre director (1898–1956)

Bertran de Born

Occitan troubadour

Bettina von Arnim

19th-century German writer

American writer

Indian linguist, poet and writer

Indian playwright in Sanskrit

Indian scholar, poet, and playwright

American comic strip and comic book writer

Senegalese poet, storyteller and diplomat

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Norwegian writer (1832–1910)

Blaise Cendrars

Swiss-born novelist and poet

Poet, literary critic, editor, teacher

Czech novelist and writer

Polish prose writer, novelist and columnist of the period of positivism

Booth Tarkington

American novelist

Boris Pasternak

Russian and Soviet writer (1890–1960)

Iranian scientist

Božena Němcová

Czech writer (1820-1862)

Bradley Trevor Greive

Australian author (born 1970)

Irish author (1847–1912)

Branwell Brontë

British artist (1817-1848)

Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright

Bret Easton Ellis

American author, screenwriter, and director (born 1964)

American writer and poet

Brian Michael Bendis

American comic book writer and artist

19th-century literary family

German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers, folklorists and authors

Australian poet

Polish novelist and painter (1892-1942)

Nigerian writer

Arab poet of Abbasid period (821–897)

American science fiction and fantasy author

Australian poet

British Christian apologist, writer, and medievalist

Caecilius Statius

Roman comic poet (c. 220 BC – c. 166 BC)

An Ancient English poet

Ancient poet and librarian

American novelist

Camilo José Cela

Spanish novelist

Candace Bushnell

American author

Chinese writer during the Qing dynasty

State of Cao Wei prince and poet (192-232)

Captain Charles Johnson

18th-century literary pen name

American writer and editor

Swiss writer (1845–1924)

Italian writer and politician (1819-1892)

Italian playwright (1707–1793)

Italian playwright (1720-1806)

Mexican writer (1928 - 2012)

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Carol Ann Duffy

Scottish poet and playwright (born 1955)

Caroline Lee Hentz

American author and educator

House pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate

Carson McCullers

American writer

Caryl Churchill

British playwright (born 1938)

Catherine Cookson

British novelist

Catherynne M. Valente

American writer

Latin poet of the late Roman Republic (c. 84 – c. 54 BC)

Cecil Day-Lewis

Irish, Poet Laureate, and also mystery writer

Cecília Meireles

Brazilian writer

Cecily von Ziegesar

American author (born 1970)

Cesare Sterbini

Italian writer and librettist

Charles Baudelaire

French poet and critic (1821–1867)

Charles Bernstein

American writer

Charles Brockden Brown

American novelist, historian and editor

Charles Bukowski

American writer (1920–1994)

English poet and writer (1630–1687)

Charles Dickens

English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)

Charles Paul de Kock

French novelist

French poet, essayist, and editor (1873–1914)

Charles Perrault

Charles Reznikoff

American Jewish Objectivist poet (1894-1976)

Charles Warren Stoddard

American writer

Charlotte Brontë

English novelist and poet (1816–1855)

Charlotte Elliott

English poet, hymn writer, and editor

Chart Korbjitti

Author, memoirist, podcaster

Chikamatsu Monzaemon

Japanese playwright (1653–1725)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nigerian writer

Chinghiz Aitmatov

Soviet and Kyrgyz author (1928-2008)

Nigerian author and literary critic (1930–2013)

Chinese romance novelist based in Taiwan

North Korean poet

Chrétien de Troyes

12th century French poet and trouvère

Christina Rossetti

Christina Stead

Australian writer

Christine de Pizan

Court writer in medieval France

Christopher Fry

English poet and playwright

Christopher Isherwood

English and American novelist (1904–1986)

Christopher Marlowe

16th-century English dramatist, poet, and translator

Christopher Okigbo

Christopher Pike (author)

US author of young adult and children's fiction

Christopher Smart

Chuck Palahniuk

American novelist (born 1962)

Clarice Lispector

Ukrainian-born Brazilian writer (1920–1977)

Jamaican American writer, poet

Clemens Brentano

German poet and novelist (1778-1842)

Clement Clarke Moore

American writer and Professor of Literature

French poet (1495-1544)

Cleveland Amory

American writer

Clifford Irving

American author and investigative reporter

American playwright, screenwriter, director and actor (1906–1963)

English author, film director and visual artist (born 1952)

American adventure novelist and underwater explorer

French novelist

Australian author (1920–2006)

Colleen McCullough

Australian author

English actor-manager, playwright, and poet laureate

Irish novelist and writer (born 1955)

Colson Whitehead

American novelist

Compton Mackenzie

Scottish writer, cultural commentator, raconteur and nationalist (1883-1972)

Comte de Lautréamont

Uruguayan born French poet, Isidore Ducasse (1846-1870)

Constantine P. Cavafy

Greek poet (1863–1933)

Spanish romantic novelist

Cormac McCarthy

American writer (1933–2023)

German author of children's fiction

Cornell Woolrich

American author and screenwriter

American author (1903–1946)

Anglo Saxon poet

Polish poet (1821–1883)

Cyrano de Bergerac

French novelist and dramatist (1619–1655)

Czesław Miłosz

Polish-American poet and Nobel laureate (1911–2004)

English writer and poet

Dafydd ap Gwilym

Daigaku Horiguchi

Japanese writer

American writer and lecturer

Dambudzo Marechera

Zimbabwean writer (1952-1987)

American writer

17/18th-century English trader, writer and journalist

American romance novel writer (born 1947)

Russian writer (1905-1942)

Dante Alighieri

Florentine poet, writer and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

British poet, illustrator, painter and translator

Daphne du Maurier

English novelist (1907–1989)

Italian actor, playwright, comedian, singer-songwriter, director, painter and politician

Dashiell Hammett

American writer (1894–1961)

American author

American theatrical producer, impresario, director, and playwright

Russian artist, poet and publicist (1882–1967)

American novelist

David Foster Wallace

American writer (1962–2008)

David Ireland (author)

Australian writer

Australian writer

American playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and film director

David Mitchell (author)

English novelist and screenwriter

British writer (1933-2017)

David Williamson

Australian playwright

Australian author (born 1961)

American writer and screenwriter (born 1945)

Debbie Macomber

American writer

Dee Brown (writer)

American writer

Denise Levertov

American poet (1923–1997)

English crime writer

Saint Lucian poet and playwright (1930–2017)

American author

English jockey and crime writer (1920–2010)

Dick King-Smith

English writer of children's books

Bulgarian dramatist, novelist and veterinarian (1909-1966)

Bulgarian author

American Modernist writer, poet and artist (1892-1982)

Russian artist and writer

Dmitry Glukhovsky

Russian-Israeli author and journalist (born 1979)

Dmitry Merezhkovsky

Russian novelist (1866–1941)

American novelist, playwright, and essayist

American humorist

Donald Barthelme

American writer, editor, and professor

American novelist and writer

Donna Woolfolk Cross

American novelist

British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer, short story writer, and Nobel Laureate

Dorothea Mackellar

Australian poet

Dorothy Heyward

American playwright, lyricist

Dorothy L. Sayers

English novelist, translator and Christian writer (1893–1957)

American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

American writer (1907-1998)

English author and humourist

Malagasy writer (1913-1978)

American writer and illustrator (1904–1991)

Chinese Tang dynasty poet

Chinese calligrapher, poet and politician (803–852)

American novelist, playwright, poet (1885-1940)

Welsh poet and writer (1914–1953)

American writer

American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894-1962)

English novelist and writer

English author and poet

E. Phillips Oppenheim

English novelist (1866–1946)

E. T. A. Hoffmann

German Romantic author (1776–1822)

Earl Derr Biggers

American novelist and playwright

Ebrahim Hussein

Tanzanian playwright and poet (born 1943)

Eça de Queiroz

Portuguese writer and diplomat (1845–1900)

American writer

Edgar Allan Poe

American writer and critic (1809–1849)

Edgar Rice Burroughs

American writer

British poet and critic (1887–1964)

Edith Södergran

American novelist, short story writer, designer

19th/20th century French poet and dramatist

American librarian, non-fiction crime writer

16th-century English poet

American novelist, short story writer and playwright

Irish writer (1930–2024)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Japanese writer

Eduard Uspensky

Slovenian writer

American playwright

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

British statesman and writer (1803–1873)

Edward Faragher

Edward FitzGerald (poet)

English poet and translator

British artist, illustrator, author and poet

Edward Thomas (poet)

British poet and novelist

Edward William Lane

British orientalist, translator, lexicographer and peacemaker

Edwin Abbott Abbott

British theologian and author

Singaporean poet and academic (born 1933)

Chinese-American writer and screenwriter

Finnish poet and journalist

Elbazduko Britayev

Ossetian playwright (1881–1923)

Eleanor Alice Burford

English author (1906-1993)

New Zealand novelist and screenwriter

Pseudonymous Italian writer

Elfriede Jelinek

Austrian playwright and novelist

Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer

Finnish polymath and poet (1802–1884)

Elie Rajaonarison

Writer (1951-2010)

Romanian-born American writer and Nobel laureate

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

English poet, author

Elizabeth Bishop

American poet and short-story writer

Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland

English poet and dramatist, 1585–1639

Elizabeth Gaskell

English novelist, biographer, and short story writer (1810–1865)

Elizabeth Wurtzel

American writer and journalist

American playwright

Else Lasker-Schüler

Jewish German poet

Emanuel Schikaneder

German actor and singer

French writer (1820-1889)

Émile Verhaeren

Belgian poet (1855–1916)

French novelist, journalist, playwright, and poet (1840–1902)

English novelist and poet (1818–1848)

Emily Dickinson

American poet (1830–1886)

Emmanuelle Arsan

Thai writer, model and actress

Sumerian priestess and poet

English children's writer (1897–1968)

Irish author of children's books

Epicharmus of Kos

Late 6th/early 5th century BC Greek dramatist and philosopher

American author and illustrator (1929–2021)

American novelist and poet (born 1942)

Erich Maria Remarque

German novelist

Erik Axel Karlfeldt

Erle Stanley Gardner

American writer and lawyer

Argentine novelist, essayist, painter and physicist

Erskine Caldwell

American novelist, short story writer, travel writer, essayist

Erskine Childers (author)

Irish nationalist and author (1870-1922)

Esteban Echeverría

Argentine poet, fiction writer, cultural promoter, and political activist

Esther Razanadrasoa

Malagasy novelist

Australian writer

American short story writer, novelist and photographer

Eugène Ionesco

Romanian-French playwright

American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature

French dramatist and librettist

French writer (1804-1857)

Eugenio Montale

Italian poet (1896-1981)

Euphorion (playwright)

Ancient Greek playwright

5th-century BC Athenian playwright

American author and screenwriter (1926-2005)

American playwright, performer, feminist, activist and artist

English novelist

American poet and critic (1885–1972)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

American novelist and screenwriter (1896–1940)

Federico García Lorca

Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director (1898–1936)

Austro-Hungarian author and literary critic

Persian poet, author of Shahnameh

Hungarian-born dramatist and novelist

Fernando Pessoa

Portuguese poet, writer, and philosopher (1888–1935)

Flannery O'Connor

American writer (1925–1964)

Florence Van Leer Earle Coates

American writer and poet

Ford Madox Ford

English writer and publisher (1873–1939)

Forugh Farrokhzad

Iranian poet (1935-1967)

France Prešeren

Slovene national poet, and Romantic poet

Frances Hodgson Burnett

English-American children's author

Frances Sargent Osgood

Francesco Maria Piave

Italian opera librettist

Francis Beaumont

English playwright (1584-1616)

Francis Quarles

Francis Scott Key

American lawyer and poet

François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)

French author of maxims and memoirs (1613–1680)

François de Malherbe

(1555–1628) French poet, critic, and translator

François Mauriac

French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist

François Rabelais

16th-century French writer and humanist

François Villon

French poet and criminal

Françoise Sagan

French writer (1935-2004)

François-René de Chateaubriand

French writer, politician and historian (1768–1848)

Frank G. Slaughter

American novelist

Irish-American writer, journalist and publisher

American science-fiction author (1920–1986)

Topics referred to by the same term

American poet, art critic and writer

Franklin W. Dixon

House pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate

Frans Eemil Sillanpää

Austrian and Czech writer (1883–1924)

Austrian-Bohemian writer

Frédéric Dard

French crime writer

Frédéric Mistral

Provençal writer, poet, lexicographer and founder of Le Félibrige

Frederick Marryat

British naval officer and novelist (1792-1848)

American science fiction writer and editor

Friedrich Schiller

German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian (1759–1805)

Fujiwara no Shunzei

Poet and court noble

Fujiwara no Teika

Poet and court noble (1162–1241)

Azerbaijani poet (1483–1556)

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Russian novelist (1821–1881)

Russian symbolist writer

Fyodor Tyutchev

Russian poet (1803-1873)

G. K. Chesterton

English author and Christian apologist (1874–1936)

Ğabdulla Tuqay

Tatar poet (1886–1913)

Gabriel García Márquez

Colombian writer and Nobel laureate (1927–2014)

Gabriela Mistral

Chilean poet, diplomat, writer, educator, and feminist

Gabriele D'Annunzio

Italian writer (1863–1938)

Writer, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty editor from Russian Empire

Chinese poet and playwright (c.1305–1370)

Chinese novelist and playwright (1940- )

French author and journalist

Gavrila Derzhavin

Russian poet (1743–1816)

Unknown medieval poet

American science fiction and fantasy writer

Geoffrey Chaucer

English poet and author (c. 1340s – 1400)

Geoffrey Grigson

English poet, writer, critic and naturalist

German dramatist (1813–1837)

George Bernard Shaw

Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)

16th/17th-century English dramatist, poet, and translator

English poet, surgeon, and clergyman (1754–1832)

English novelist and poet (1819–1880)

English poet, orator and Anglican priest

British writer (1691-1739)

George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

British politician

George MacDonald

Scottish author, poet and Christian minister

George Meredith

British novelist and poet of the Victorian era

English author and journalist (1903–1950)

George R. R. Martin

American writer and television producer (born 1948)

George S. Kaufman

American playwright, theatre director and producer

French novelist and memoirist (1804–1876)

George Saunders

American writer of short stories and other literature

Georges Bernanos

French writer (1888 – 1948)

Georges Feydeau

French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist

Georges Simenon

Georgia Douglas Johnson

American poet and playwright (1880–1966)

Gérard de Nerval

French writer, poet, essayist and translator (1808–1855)

Gérard de Villiers

French writer (1929–2013)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

English poet and Catholic priest (1844–1889)

Gerhart Hauptmann

German dramatist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912 (1862-1946)

Germaine de Staël

American author (1874–1946)

Géza Gárdonyi

Hungarian writer and journalist

Indian Urdu poet (1797–1869)

Giacomo Casanova

Venetian adventurer and writer (1725–1798)

Giacomo Leopardi

Italian poet, philosopher, and writer (1798–1837)

Italian writer and journalist

American writer

Giles Cooper (playwright)

British playwright (1918–1966)

Gillebríghde Albanach

Medieval Scottish poet and crusader

Giorgos Seferis

20th-century Greek poet and diplomat

Giosuè Carducci

Italian poet and teacher

Giovanni Boccaccio

Italian author and poet

Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti

Italian opera librettist

Italian writer (1840–1922)

Italian opera librettist (1878-1946)

Giuseppe Giacosa

Italian writer and librettist (1847–1906)

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Sicilian writer and prince

Giuseppe Ungaretti

Italian poet and writer

Ancient Roman dramatist

Singaporean writer

American writer (1925–2012)

Japanese manga artist

Gottfried von Strassburg

Medieval German poet

Graciliano Ramos

Brazilian writer and mayor (1892-1953)

British writer, playwright and literary critic (1904–1991)

Scottish comic book writer, and playwright

Italian writer (1871-1936)

South Korean writer (born 1976)

Chinese playwright and poet

Italian librettist

Guillaume Apollinaire

French poet and writer

Guillaume de Lorris

French scholar and poet from Lorris

Guillermo Prieto

Mexican writer and politician

Swedish writer (1907-1968)

German author, visual artist and sculptor (1927–2015)

Gustave Flaubert

French novelist

Guy de Maupassant

French writer (1850–1893)

Gwendolyn B. Bennett

American writer and journalist

Gwendolyn Brooks

American writer (1917–2000)

Children's illustrator and writer

H. P. Lovecraft

American author (1890–1937)

American poet and novelist (1886–1961)

Persian poet and mystic (1325–1390)

American evangelist and Christian writer (born 1929)

Halldór Laxness

Icelandic author

South Korean writer (born 1970)

North Korean author

Chinese poet of the Tang and Min dynasty

Ancient Chinese writer, essayist and poet (768-824)

Hans Christian Andersen

Danish writer (1805–1875)

Chinese monk and poet

American writer (1934–2018)

English playwright (1930-2008)

American author

Harold Schechter

American true crime writer (born 1948)

American novelist

Harriet Beecher Stowe

19th-century American abolitionist and author

Harry Martinson

Haruki Murakami

Japanese writer (born 1949)

Hector-Jonathan Crémieux

French playwright and librettist

German poet, writer and literary critic (1797–1856)

English novelist and screenwriter

Australian author

Henri Charrière

French writer (1906–1973)

French dramatist and opera librettist (1830–1897)

Belgian-born French poet, writer and painter

Norwegian playwright (1828–1906)

Henrik Pontoppidan

Writer, Nobel Laureate

American writer and painter

Henry de Montherlant

English novelist and dramatist (1707–1754)

Henry Handel Richardson

Australian author

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

16th-century English nobleman

American and British writer (1843–1916)

Henry James Pye

English Poet Laureate

Australian writer and poet

American novelist

Welsh metaphysical poet

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

American poet and educator

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Polish journalist, novelist, philanthropist and Nobel Prize laureate

American writer and poet

Herman Melville

19th-century American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet

American writer

German writer (1877–1962)

German writer and Nobel Prize recipient (born 1953)

Ancient Greek poet

French playwright and librettist (1789-1855)

Ancient Greek poet

Japanese manga artist (born 1960)

Traditional author of the Iliad and Odyssey

Topics referred to by the same term

North Korean writer

Honoré de Balzac

French novelist and playwright (1799–1850)

Honoré d'Urfé

French writer (1568-1625)

Roman lyric poet (65–8 BC)

English politician, writer, historian and antiquarian (1717–1797)

American novelist (1832–1899)

Howard Jacobson

British author and journalist

English children's writer

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist (1874–1929)

Norwegian writer and politician

Scottish writer (1954–2013)

English author, journalist and naval intelligence officer

English novelist and screenwriter

Ibn al-Muqaffa'

8th-century Persian author and translator

6th century BC Greek lyric poet

American writer and pimp

Ichiyō Higuchi

Japanese writer

Ignacio Manuel Altamirano

Mexican writer, journalist, teacher and politician (1834–1893)

Igor Severyanin

Japanese writer

Soviet writing duo

Austrian writer

Hungarian author (1929-2016)

Arab king and poet (496–544)

Pakistani dramatist

American poet laureate, writer, and librarian (1841–1928)

Innokenty Annensky

Russian poet, critic and translator

Irish writer and philosopher

Scottish novelist (born 1958)

American writer

American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)

Russian writer and journalist

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Polish-American author (1903–1991)

Isaac Rosenberg

Japanese poet and playwright (1886–1960)

Albanian writer

Hungarian writer (1900 - 1970)

Italian author (1923–1985)

Italian writer (1861-1928)

Slovene writer and political activist (1876–1918)

Russian novelist and official (1812–1891)

Russian writer (1769–1844)

19th-century Russian writer

Bulgarian writer and poet (1850-1921)

Yugoslav writer and Nobel laureate (1892–1975)

J. B. Priestley

American writer (1919–2010)

J. E. Casely Hayford

Gold Coast journalist, lawyer and politician

English writer (1930–2009)

British writer (1935–1979)

J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur

French writer (1735-1813)

British author and philanthropist (born 1965)

British novelist and playwright (1860–1937)

Acclaimed writer and scholar

J. M. G. Le Clézio

French writer and Nobel Prize winner

J. R. R. Tolkien

English writer and philologist (1892–1973)

Jacinto Benavente

Spanish writer (1866-1954)

British novelist

American writer

American author, journalist and social activist (1876–1916)

Malawian writer and poet (born 1944)

American mystery and speculative fiction writer

English novelist (1937–2015)

Jackson Mac Low

American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright

German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist

Jacqueline Susann

American novelist and actress

Jacqueline Wilson

English novelist (born 1945)

Jacques Prévert

French poet and screenwriter (1900-1977)

Jacques Rabemananjara

Malagasy politician, playwright, and poet

Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz

Jalil Mammadguluzadeh

Azerbaijani satirist and writer

James A. Michener

American author (1907–1997)

American writer

American writer and activist (1924–1987)

James Beattie (poet)

Scottish poet, moralist and philosopher (1735-1803)

18th-century Scottish lawyer, diarist, and author

American novelist, short story writer, essayist, memoirist

James Fenimore Cooper

American writer (1789–1851)

American writer

British poet and novelist (1770–1835)

James Jones (author)

American writer

Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)

Scottish writer

American novelist, short story writer, journalist (1892-1977)

James Patterson

American author

James Russell Lowell

American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat

James T. Farrell

American writer

James Thomson (poet, born 1700)

Scottish poet (1700–1748)

James Thomson (poet, born 1834)

Scottish writer (1834-1882)

American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright

James Weldon Johnson

American writer and civil rights activist

James Whitcomb Riley

American poet from Indianapolis (1849–1916)

15th-century Persian poet

Czech poet, theater reviewer, publicist, journalist and writer

English novelist (1775–1817)

American writer (1944-2013)

New Zealand author (1924 - 2004)

Jarir ibn Atiyah

Arab poet and satirist (c. 650 – c. 728)

Jaroslav Hašek

Czech humorist, satirist, writer and anarchist

Jaroslav Seifert

Czechoslovak poet, Nobel prize laureate

American author of young adult novels

American writer

Vaishnava Sanskrit poet

French playwright (1910–1987)

Jean de La Fontaine

French poet, fabulist and writer (1621-1695)

French author (1240–1305)

French novelist, playwright, poet and political activist

French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright

French dramatist

Novelist from Dominica

Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray

French writer and diplomat (1760–1797)

Jean-François Regnard

French writer (1655-1709)

Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo

Malagasy writer

American playwright and crime novelist (born 1952)

English author and former politician

Jeffrey Eugenides

American novelist and short story writer (born 1960)

Jerome K. Jerome

English writer and humorist (1859–1927)

American co-creator of Superman

Jerzy Andrzejewski

Polish author (1909–1983)

American writer

American author, poet, and punk musician

Hong Kong writer (1924 - 2018)

Japanese novelist

Joachim du Bellay

French poet, critic, and member of the Pléiade

American writer

João Guimarães Rosa

Brazilian novelist, short story writer, and diplomat

João Ubaldo Ribeiro

Brazilian writer, journalist, screenwriter and professor

English playwright and author

American comic book writer, artist, editor, and publisher

Johan Ludvig Runeberg

Johann Peter Hebel

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German writer, artist and politician

Johannes Pfefferkorn

German theologian

Johannes V. Jensen

Danish author (1873-1950)

Irish writer, also writes as Benjamin Black (born 1945)

English poet (1906–1984)

English Christian writer and preacher

American novelist and short story writer

British writer (1709-1789)

English writer (1908–1973)

John Dickson Carr

American mystery novelist and playwright

16th- and 17th-century English poet and cleric

John Dos Passos

American novelist

17th-century English poet and playwright

Welsh Church of England cleric, poet and painter

John Fletcher (playwright)

English Jacobean playwright

John Ford (dramatist)

17th-century English poet and playwright

John Galsworthy

English novelist and playwright (1867–1933)

English poet and playwright

14th/15th-century English writer

John Gray (American author)

American family therapist, lecturer, and author (Born 1951)

American author, vlogger and philanthropist

John Greenleaf Whittier

American Quaker poet and abolitionist (1807–1892)

American author

American novelist and screenwriter

English Romantic poet

John Kennedy Toole

American novelist

British novelist and former spy (1931–2020)

John Luther Long

American lawyer and writer

English monk and poet (c.1370–c.1451)

John Marston (playwright)

16th/17th-century English poet, playwright, and satirist

English poet and writer (1878–1967)

Canadian poet and physician (1872–1918)

John Millington Synge

Irish writer and collector of folklore (1871–1909)

17th-century English poet and civil servant

Anglican cleric, hymn-writer, and abolitionist (1725–1807)

American novelist and short story writer (1905–1970)

English playwright

John Owen (epigrammatist)

Welsh epigrammatist

John Sinclair (poet)

American writer

American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic

John W. Campbell

American science fiction writer and editor

16th/17th-century English playwright

John William Polidori

English writer and physician

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

English poet, and peer of the realm (1647-1680)

Jonas Lie (writer)

Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright

Jonathan Carroll

American fiction writer

Jonathan Franzen

American writer

Jonathan Lethem

American novelist, essayist, short story writer

Anglo-Irish satirist and cleric (1667–1745)

Joost van den Vondel

Dutch poet and writer (1587-1679)

Brazilian writer (1912–2001)

Jorge Luis Borges

Argentine writer (1899–1986)

Colonel of the Royal Spanish Army, author, poet, playwright and essayist

José de Alencar

Brazilian writer (1829–1877)

José de la Cruz

Filipino writer (1746–1829)

José Echegaray

Spanish statesman

José Hernández (writer)

Argentine writer (1834-1886)

José Lins do Rego

Brazilian writer

Argentine journalist, politician, librarian and writer

Cuban poet, writer, philosopher and nationalist leader

Portuguese writer and 1998 Nobel Literature lareate

Russian poet (1940–1996)

Polish-British writer (1857–1924)

Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff

German poet and novelist (1788-1857)

Australian writer (1843-1912)

American writer

Austrian novelist and journalist

Joyce Carol Oates

American author (born 1938)

Hungarian writer (1791-1830)

Juan Pérez de Montalbán

Spanish Catholic priest, dramatist, poet and novelist

Juan Ramón Jiménez

Mexican writer (1917-1986)

Juana Inés de la Cruz

Nun, scholar and poet in New Spain

American writer

Australian poet, environmentalist and Indigenous rights campaigner

American children's writer

Jules de Goncourt

Jules Supervielle

19th century French writer

1st/2nd century Roman noble woman and poet

Julia de Burgos

Puerto Rican poet

Julian of Norwich

English anchoress and mystic (1343 – after 1416)

French writer (1910-2007)

Julio Cortázar

Argentine writer (1914–1984)

Juliusz Słowacki

Japanese screenwriter, lyricist, and composer (born 1975)

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Japanese author (1886–1965)

Junji Kinoshita

Japanese writer

Dominican-American writer and academic (born 1968)

Junpei Gomikawa

Japanese novelist and writer (1916-1995)

15th-century Indian poet and saint

Japanese writer

Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer

Kakinomoto no Hitomaro

Classical Sanskrit poet and playwright

Algerian writer and journalist

Japanese Noh actor, author, and musician

Czech science fiction writer and playwright (1890–1938)

Danish writer (1885–1962)

Karl Adolph Gjellerup

Karl Kraus (writer)

Austrian writer and journalist (1874–1936)

German author (1842–1912)

American author

Algerian writer (1929-1989)

Katherine Mansfield

New Zealand author

Katherine Paterson

Chinese-born American writer (born 1932)

Katherine Philips

Anglo-Welsh poet and translator

Kathleen Winsor

American author (1919-2003)

American writer and forensic anthropologist

Kazi Nazrul Islam

Bengali poet, writer and musician (1899–1976)

British writer and Nobel Laureate (born 1954)

British bestseller novelist

American writer and countercultural figure

Kenneth Grahame

Kenneth Slessor

Australian poet and journalist

Japanese Writer and Nobel Laureate

Keorapetse Kgositsile

South African poet and political activist (1938–2018)

New Zealand writer

Khachatur Abovian

Ethnic Armenian writer, activist, academic

Khaled Hosseini

Afghan-American novelist

Khamsing Srinawk

Ki no Tsurayuki

Japanese writer

South Korean writer

English author, critic and teacher (1922–1995)

Norwegian novelist

South Korean poet (born 1933)

Ghanaian poet and author

Ghanaian author, novelist and poet (1946-2017)

Konstantin Balmont

Korney Chukovsky

Kosta Khetagurov

Ossetian poet (1859-1906)

Kulap Saipradit

American author (1922–2007)

Kyotaro Nishimura

Japanese novelist (1930–2022)

American author of children's books (1856-1919)

Sahabah and poet

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

English writer and poet (1689–1762)

Writer and translator (1850–1904)

American playwright

Langston Hughes

American writer and social activist (1901–1967)

American playwright

American science fiction writer

László Krasznahorkai

Hungarian novelist and screenwriter

Laura Ingalls Wilder

American writer, teacher, and journalist

Laurence Eusden

English actor-manager, playwright, and poet laureate

Laurence Sterne

Anglo-Irish writer and cleric (1713–1768)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

American artist, writer and activist

Leconte de Lisle

French poet (1818–1894)

Brazilian writer and poet

American playwright

Russian writer, author of "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina"

French Guiana politician (1912-1978)

American writer

Leonid Andreyev

Russian playwright, author and poet (1871-1919)

Cameroonian author (born 1973)

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Austrian author (1836–1895)

Leopoldo Lugones

Argentinian lyricist and storyteller

Les Murray (poet)

Australian poet and critic (1938-2019)

English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer

Chinese poet (701–762)

Chinese Song Dynasty poet, known as "the most talented woman in all ages"

Chinese poet and writer

Australian author

Lillian Hellman

American dramatist and screenwriter

Brazilian writer (1881-1922)

Chinese science fiction writer

Chinese writer (773-819)

Livius Andronicus

Greco-Roman dramatist and epic poet

Lloyd Alexander

American writer

American writer

Spanish playwright and poet

English poet (1788–1824)

Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist (1878–1957)

Lorenzo Da Ponte

Italian opera librettist, poet and Roman Catholic priest (1749–1838)

Lorine Niedecker

American poet 1903 - 1970

Lorraine Hansberry

African-American playwright and author (1930–1965)

French poet (1897–1982)

Louis de Bernières

English novelist

Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon

American novelist and short story writer (1908–1988)

Australian poet, writer, publisher, suffragist, and feminist

Louisa May Alcott

American novelist

American author (born 1954)

American poet and Nobel laureate

American author (1926–2017)

French poet of the Renaissance, born in Lyon

Louise Rennison

English author and comedian

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Louis-Honoré Fréchette

Canadian politician and writer (1839–1908)

Chinese novelist and essayist (1881-1936)

Chinese historian and poet (1125–1210)

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues

French writer, a moralist (1715-1747)

2nd-century satirist and rhetorician

1st-century BC Roman poet

Lucy Mack Smith

American religious leader (1775-1856)

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Canadian author

Ludovic Halévy

French writer (1834–1908)

Ludovico Ariosto

Ludwig Bemelmans

Austrian and American writer (1898–1962)

Italian librettist

Luigi Pirandello

Luís de Camões

Portuguese poet

Brazilian lawyer, poet, abolitionist and journalist (1830-1882)

American writer

Lygia Fagundes Telles

Brazilian novelist and writer (born 1923)

Lyudmila Petrushevskaya

Russian writer, novelist and playwright (born 1938)

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

M. F. K. Fisher

American food writer

Machado de Assis

Brazilian writer

MacKinlay Kantor

American journalist

Madame d'Aulnoy

Madame de La Fayette

French writer (1634– 1693)

Maddox (writer)

American blogger

Madeleine L'Engle

American writer (1918–2007)

Hungarian novelist

English poet and novelist

Manuel Ortiz Guerrero

Paraguayan poet

Chinese writer (1896-1981)

American playwright (1890-1980)

French novelist, critic and essayist

English-born Australian novelist, journalist and poet

Margaret Atwood

Canadian writer (born 1939)

Margaret Laurence

Canadian novelist and short story writer (1926-1987)

Margaret Mitchell

American novelist and journalist (1900–1949)

Margaret Walker

American poet and writer

Margery Williams

Writer (1881-1944)

Marguerite Henry

American writer

Marguerite Yourcenar

French novelist and essayist (1903–1987)

Japanese writer (1903-1987)

Swedish children's writer

American poet (1887–1972)

Marianne Wiggins

American author

Marijane Meaker

American writer (born 1927)

Marina Tsvetaeva

Russian poet (1892 – 1941)

Mário de Andrade

Brazilian writer, musicologist and photographer

Italian American author, screenwriter, and journalist

Mario Vargas Llosa

Peruvian novelist and writer (1936–2025)

Marion Zimmer Bradley

American novelist and editor

Marjane Satrapi

Iranian-French graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author

Russian writer and critic

Scottish comic book writer (born 1969)

American author and humorist

Marlon James (novelist)

Jamaican novelist

Marquis de Sade

French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works (1740-1814)

1st-century Latin poet from Hispania

English novelist (1949–2023)

Martin McDonagh

British-Irish film director and playwright

Polish-American playwright

Australian poet (1865–1962)

Mary Higgins Clark

Novelist, writer

American Poet and Essayist

Mary Mapes Dodge

American children's writer (1831-1905)

Mary McCarthy (author)

American writer

English novelist

Mary Rowlandson

American woman captured by Native Americans during King Philip's War

English writer (1797–1851)

Guadeloupean, French-language author

Japanese poet, author, and literary critic

Mateiu Caragiale

Poet, short story writer, novelist, visual artist, heraldist, civil servant (1885-1936)

Japanese poet (1644–1694)

Matteo Maria Boiardo

English poet and cultural critic (1822–1888)

17th/18th-century English diplomat and poet

Australian action thriller writer (born 1974)

Maurice Leblanc

French writer (1864–1941)

Maurice Maeterlinck

Belgian playwright and essayist (1862–1949)

American children's book author and illustrator (1928–2012)

Russian and Soviet writer (1868–1936)

Maximilian Voloshin

Russian poet (1877-1932)

Maxwell Anderson

American playwright and writer (1888–1959)

American poet, author, and civil rights activist (1928–2014)

South African playwright and musician (1955–2023)

American novelist

Athenian comic playwright (c. 342/341 – c. 290 BC)

Mendele Mocher Sforim

Yiddish-Hebrew writer (1836-1917)

Menotti Del Picchia

Brazilian poet, journalist, and painter

Nurse, poet and artist (born 1959)

English author and illustrator

Bulgarian-born British writer (1895–1956)

American author and Pulitzer Prize winner

Michael Crichton

American author and filmmaker (1942–2008)

Michael Jackson (writer)

Beer and whisky expert

Michael Moorcock

English writer, editor, critic

Michael Ondaatje

Canadian novelist and poet

American writer

French writer (1926–2016)

Michel de Montaigne

French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman (1533-1592)

Michel Houellebecq

Michelle McNamara

American writer

Mickey Spillane

American crime novelist

Miguel Ángel Asturias

Guatemalan writer and poet-diplomat (1899-1974)

Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish writer (1547–1616)

Finnish writer (1908–1979)

Mikhail Bulgakov

Russian and Soviet author (1891–1940)

Russian writer (1872-1936)

Mikhail Lermontov

Russian writer, poet and painter (1814–1841)

Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

Russian writer, journalist, plawright and satirist

Mikhail Shishkin (writer)

Russian-Swiss writer

Mikhail Sholokhov

Czech author of Czech and French literature

Australian writer and feminist

Military citadels under London

British writer, poet, playwright, novelist, painter, designer of lamps (1882-1966)

Mughal Indian Urdu language poet

16th-century Hindu mystic poet, saint and devotee of the god Krishna

Mirza Fatali Akhundov

Iranian Azerbaijani author

Japanese manga artist

Chinese novelist, author, and Nobel Laureate

Brazilian writer and physician (1937–2011)

Mohamed Choukri

Moroccan author (1935–2003)

Mohammad-Taqi Bahar

Iranian poet and scholar

French playwright and actor (1622–1673)

Mongane Wally Serote

South African poet and writer

Monteiro Lobato

Brazilian writer

Hungarian writer (1825–1904)

Japanese general and novelist (1862-1922)

American dramatist and conservative activist

Australian writer (1916-1999)

American playwright, librettist, and theatre director (1904-1961)

South Asian Islamic philosopher and poet (1877–1938)

Muhammed Said Abdulla

Tanzanian novelist (1918–1991)

Muireadhach Albanach Ó Dálaigh

Gaelic poet and crusader

Indian English writer

Dutch author (1820–1887)

Murasaki Shikibu

Japanese novelist and poet

Scottish author (1918–2006)

American science fiction and fantasy writer

Nadezhda Mandelstam

Russian writer and educator

Nadine Gordimer

South African writer (1923–2014)

Egyptian writer

Anglo-Irish poet and playwright

Bhakti sant-poet of Hinduism

English novelist, biographer and journalist

Naomi Mitchison

Scottish novelist and poet

American writer and screenwriter (1903–1940)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

American novelist and short story writer

Nathaniel Parker Willis

American magazine writer, editor, and publisher

Natsume Sōseki

Japanese novelist (1867–1916)

English writer (born 1960)

American playwright, writer, academic

American novelist, librarian, nurse

Jewish German-Swedish poet and playwright. Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate

American writer

English writer (1899–1960)

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Kenyan writer and academic (1938–2025)

Hong Kong writer (1935–2022)

Nicholas Bourbon (the elder)

French neo-Latin poet; called " the elder"; grand uncle to "the younger"

Nicholas Rowe (writer)

English poet, writer

Nicholas Sparks

American writer and novelist

Writer (1950-2003)

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

French poet and critic (1636–1711)

Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne

Ukrainian-Russian writer (1809–1852)

Nikolai Gumilev

Russian poet (1886-1921)

Nikolai Ostrovsky

Ukrainian-Russian writer (1904-1936)

Nikolay Nekrasov

Russian poet, writer, critic, editor and publisher

Nikos Kazantzakis

Greek writer and philosopher (1883–1957)

English novelist

Persian poet (c. 1141 – 1209)

Noah Gordon (novelist)

American writer

Nobutsuna Sasaki

Tanka poet and scholar of Japanese literature.

English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer

American romance writer

Norman Bridwell

American author (1928-2014)

American writer (1923–2007)

Norman Vincent Peale

American minister, author, and positive thinking proponent

German poet and writer

Ny Avana Ramanantoanina

Malagasy author, playwright, and poet (1891–1940)

American short story writer

Mexican writer, poet and diplomat

Odysseas Elytis

Greek poet and art critic

British novelist and philosopher

Brazilian Parnassian poet, journalist and translator

Russian and Soviet poet

Polish writer and activist

Oliver Goldsmith

Anglo-Spanish-Irish writer (1728–1774)

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Poet, essayist, physician

Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer

Oodgeroo Noonuccal

Aboriginal Australian poet, artist, teacher and campaigner for Indigenous rights

Turkish writer, academic, and Nobel laureate

Orson Scott Card

American science fiction novelist (born 1951)

British writer; baronet (1892-1969)

Ōshikōchi no Mitsune

Japanese writer

Osip Mandelstam

Russian poet and essayist (1891-1938)

Oswald de Andrade

Brazilian poet novelist and cultural critic

Ōtomo no Yakamochi

Japanese writer (718–785)

Oton Župančič

Slovenian poet, writer (1878-1949)

Ottavio Rinuccini

Italian poet (1562-1621)

Chinese poet, historian and statesman (1007–1072)

Japanese writer

English crime writer

P. G. Wodehouse

English writer (1881–1975)

English writer and broadcasting administrator

Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist (1899–1996)

Finnish poet and writer (1931-2008)

Chilean poet and diplomat (1904–1973)

Ancient Roman poet (-219--129)

South Korean novelist

Pär Lagerkvist

South Korean writer

Parvin E'tesami

English writer and novelist

Patricia A. McKillip

American fantasy and science fiction author

Patricia Cornwell

American crime writer

Patricia Highsmith

American novelist and short story writer (1921–1995)

Patrick Chamoiseau

Martiniquais writer

Patrick Modiano

Patrick Rothfuss

American fantasy writer

Patrick Süskind

German writer and screenwriter

English-born Australian writer

American writer and film director

American writer

Paul Blackburn (poet)

American writer

French diplomat, poet and playwright (1868-1955)

French writer (1810–1875)

Paul Jennings (Australian author)

Australian author

Paul Laurence Dunbar

American writer and poet

Paul Lomami-Tshibamba

Congolese writer

French poet and dramatist

Paul Scott (novelist)

English novelist, playwright and poet

American travel writer and novelist (born 1941)

French poet, essayist, and philosopher (1871–1945)

Brazilian lyricist and novelist (born 1947)

American writer (1892–1973)

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Spanish playwright, poet, and writer (1600-1681)

Penelope Fitzgerald

Penelope Lively

British novelist

British novelist (1946-2011)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Early 19th-century English Romantic poet

Pêro Vaz de Caminha

Portuguese knight (c. 1450 – 1500)

Peter Carey (novelist)

Australian novelist

Peter Dickinson

English children's writer

Austrian Nobel laureate novelist (born 1942)

Peter Matthiessen

American novelist

Peter Porter (poet)

Australian, British based poet (1929-2010)

14th-century Italian scholar and poet

Philip Francis Nowlan

American science fiction writer who created Buck Rogers

American science fiction author (1928-1982)

English writer, jazz critic and librarian

American novelist

English poet, courtier, and diplomat

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

18th-century British statesman and man of letters

Phillis Wheatley

African-born American poet (1753–1784)

One of the originators of ancient Greek comedy

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

French novelist, official and army general

Pierre Corneille

French tragedian

Pierre de Marivaux

French novelist and dramatist (1688-1763)

Pierre de Ronsard

Belgian writer and poet (1870–1925)

Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais

French playwright and diplomat (1732–1799)

English-American writer

Pietro Metastasio

Italian poet and librettist

Roman comic playwright of the Old Latin period

Pliny the Younger

Roman lawyer, author and magistrate (61 – c.113)

Pontus de Tyard

French poet and bishop

American writer

Ancient Greek tragic poet

Indian writer of Hindustani language (31 July 1880 – 8 October 1936)

Italian Holocaust survivor and writer (1919–1987)

Prosper Mérimée

French writer, archaeologist and historian

Chinese scholar and writer (1910-1998)

Ancient Chinese poet

English raconteur (1908–1999)

13th-century Volga Bulgarian poet

British playwright and screenwriter

American writer and producer

Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet, philosopher, writer and novelist (1861–1941)

Rachel de Queiroz

Brazilian writer and journalist (1910-2003)

American poet (born 1947)

Raimundo Correia

Brazilian writer and judge (1859-1911)

Rainer Maria Rilke

Austrian poet and writer

Indian-born English writer

American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer (1913-1994)

Probably the most famous poet writing in the Avar language (1923-2003)

Brazilian writer

American author and screenwriter

American writer and poet

Raymond Chandler

American novelist and screenwriter

Raymond E. Feist

American novelist

Raymond Queneau

French novelist and poet (1903–1976)

American writer

British feminist and author

Italian opera librettist

René Belbenoît

French criminal and author (1899–1959)

French comic book writer (1926–1977)

American writer (1886-1975)

Ricardo Güiraldes

Argentine novelist and poet

Richard Aldington

English writer and poet (1892–1962)

Richard Brautigan

American writer (1935–1984)

Richard Crashaw

Richard Flanagan

Australian novelist

Austrian librettist, playwright and composer (1823–1895)

Richard Peck (writer)

American young adult novelist

Richard Price (writer)

American novelist and screenwriter (born 1949)

Author and illustrator from the United States

Richard Wright (author)

African-American writer

Richard Yates (novelist)

American writer

American author

British writer and poet (1916–1990)

Robert A. Heinlein

American writer

British poet (1844-1930)

Robert Browning

English poet and playwright

Scottish poet and lyricist (1759–1796)

Robert Duncan (poet)

American poet (1919-1988)

Robert E. Howard

American author

Robert E. Sherwood

American writer

Robert Fergusson

Scottish poet and writer

English poet and novelist

Robert Greene (American author)

American author (born 1959)

Robert Henryson

15th-century Scottish makar (poet)

Robert Herrick (poet)

English poet and cleric (1591–1674)

Robert Kiyosaki

American finance author and investor

Robert Louis Stevenson

Scottish novelist and poet (1850–1894)

American poet (1917–1977)

American novelist

Austrian philosophical writer (1880–1942)

Robert Penn Warren

American poet, novelist, and literary critic

Swiss writer (1919-1997)

English romantic poet (1774–1843)

Robert Southwell (priest)

Robert W. Chambers

American artist, novelist, short story writer

Roberto Bolaño

Robin Cook (American novelist)

American physician and novelist

American poet and writer

Irish author and screenwriter

Roger Hargreaves

British author (1935–1988)

Roger Martin du Gard

Canadian sailor

American writer

Nicaraguan poet, periodist and writer

Persian poet, the founder of Persian poetry

Rudyard Kipling

English writer and poet (1865–1936)

13th-century Persian poet

English poet (1887–1915)

Indian-Canadian poet (born 1992)

New Zealand-Australian writer

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

German-born British-American author (1927-2013)

Ryōtarō Shiba

Japanese writer

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Japanese writer

American writer

Iranian writer (1903–1951)

Japanese poet (1118–1190)

Saint-John Perse

French poet and diplomat

Salah Ahmed Ibrahim

Sudanese literary writer, poet and diplomat

Egyptian poet and cartoonist

Indian-born British American novelist

Salvadore Cammarano

Italian librettist and playwright

Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian writer (1901-1968)

American playwright and actor (1943–2017)

Irish writer (1906–1989)

Samuel Butler (poet)

Poet and satirist

English poet, biographer, essayist, and lexicographer

Samuel Richardson

English writer and printer (1689–1761)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian

Sándor Petőfi

Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary

Sanmao (writer)

Taiwanese novelist, translator and writer (1943-1991)

Japanese poet and artist

Ancient Greek lyric poet from Lesbos

American writer and poet

Sarah Josepha Hale

American writer and editor

English playwright (1971–1999)

Russian poet, satirist and children's writer

Canadian-American writer

American cartoonist

Irish poet, playwright, and translator (1939–2013)

Irish dramatist and memoirist

Sebastian Faulks

British journalist and novelist

Japanese author and court lady

Seiichi Morimura

Japanese novelist and author (born 1933)

Selma Lagerlöf

Swedish author (1858–1940)

Semonides of Amorgos

Ancient Greek poet

Soviet Mari poet

Sergei Lukyanenko

Russian poet (1895–1925)

Sergey Mikhalkov

Russian and Soviet writer (1913–2009)

Shaaban bin Robert

Tanzanian writer

Shel Silverstein

American poet, cartoonist, writer, and songwriter (1930–1999)

Chinese poet, statesman, and historian (441–513)

Sheridan Le Fanu

Irish Gothic and mystery writer (1814–1873)

Sherwood Anderson

American writer

Shin Kyung-sook

South Korean writer (born 1963)

Shirley Jackson

American novelist, short-story writer (1916–1965)

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Israeli writer and Nobel laureate

Sholem Aleichem

Russian Jewish author and playwright (1859–1916)

Indian king and playwright

Japanese writer

American writer

Siegfried Sassoon

English poet, diarist and memoirist

Norwegian writer (1882–1949)

Poet and writer

Simin Daneshvar

English poet, playwright, novelist

Simonides of Ceos

Ancient Greek lyric poet

American writer and playwright (1885–1951)

Icelandic writer

Sławomir Mrożek

Polish dramatist and writer (1930-2013)

Iranian poet and painter (1928-1980)

Chinese poet of the Chu State (the Warring States Period)

Sony Lab'ou Tansi

Writer (1947-1995)

Ancient Athenian tragic playwright

Srečko Kosovel

Stan and Jan Berenstain

American author and illustrator duo

American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer

Polish science fiction author and futurologist (1921–2006)

Stanisława Przybyszewska

Polish playwright (1901-1935)

Stanley Middleton

Australian writer

Steen Steensen Blicher

Danish writer (1782-1848)

Austrian writer (1881–1942)

19th century French writer

Stéphane Mallarmé

French Symbolist poet

American novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist

American writer

Stephen Rodefer

American poet and painter

Stephen Spender

English poet and man of letters

Stephenie Meyer

American author

Ancient Greek lyric poet

American comic writer

American writer

Sully Prudhomme

Sulpicia (satirist)

1st century Roman poet and satirist

Indian writer, poet and singer

Susan Brownmiller

American feminist and author

American poet, scholar, essayist, and critic

American writer, critic and public intellectual (1933–2004)

Susanna Centlivre

English actor and writer

American author (born 1948)

Syl Cheney-Coker

Sierra Leonean writer

American poet, novelist and short story writer

English author (1906-1964)

Poet, essayist and playwright (1888–1965)

Egyptian academic, (1889–1973)

Japanese writer (1878-1923)

Takiji Kobayashi

Japanese writer

Japanese novelist in the late Edo period (1767-1848)

American writer

Chinese playwright (1550-1616)

German poet, composer and musician

American novelist (born 1983)

Chinese poet (365–427)

Taras Shevchenko

Ukrainian poet, artist, scholar, and political figure

Bangladeshi poet, columnist, novelist

Sudanese novelist and short story writer (1929–2009)

English poet and children's writer (1930–1998)

Japanese writer

Temistocle Solera

Italian opera librettist

Tennessee Williams

American playwright

Roman comic playwright

Terrence McNally

American playwright

American writer of fantasy fiction

Terry Pratchett

English fantasy author

American writer

Thakin Kodaw Hmaing

Burmese poet and politician (1876–1964)

20th century sibling writers and literary personas

Australian novelist (1925-2004)

3rd-century BC Greek poet

Theodor Fontane

German journalist, novelist and poet

Théodore de Banville

French writer (1823-1891)

Theodore Dreiser

American novelist and journalist (1871–1945)

Theodore Roethke

Pulitzer Prize winning American poet (1908–1963)

Théophile de Viau

French poet (1590-1696)

Théophile Gautier

French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic

Danish writer (1876-1957)

Thomas Alexander Browne

Australian author (1826–1915)

English polymath (1605-1682)

Thomas Campbell (poet)

18th/19th-century Scottish poet

Thomas Chatterton

English medieval-style poet (1752–1770)

Thomas De Quincey

English essayist, 1785-1859

Thomas Dekker (writer)

English dramatist and pamphleteer (c. 1572–1632)

Thomas Dixon Jr.

American Baptist minister, writer, lawyer, politician, and white supremacist

English poet and historian

English novelist and poet (1840–1928)

Thomas Holley Chivers

American poet (1809-1858)

Thomas Keneally

Australian novelist

Thomas Love Peacock

English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company

15th-century English writer

German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate

American Trappist monk (1915–1968)

Irish poet, singer and songwriter (1779–1852)

English politician, author and philosopher (1478–1535)

16th-century English pamphleteer and poet

Thomas Overbury

16th/17th-century English poet and essayist

American novelist

Thomas Shadwell

17th-century English poet and playwright

Thomas Traherne

An English poet, clergyman, theologian, and religious writer

American novelist

Thomas Wyatt (poet)

English poet and diplomat (1503–1542)

Thornton Wilder

American playwright and novelist (1897–1975)

American entrepreneur, investor, author, and podcaster

Australian writer

Tirso de Molina

Spanish writer c. 1583-c.1648

American author (1947–2013)

American author and journalist (1930–2018)

Tomas Tranströmer

Swedish poet, psychologist and translator

Nigerian-American novelist (born 1993)

French illustrator and writer

American novelist, professor, Nobel Laureate, and Pulitzer Prize winner

American playwright and screenwriter

American motivational speaker (born 1960)

Italian poet (1544–1595)

Finnish children's writer and illustrator (1914-2001)

Tristan Corbière

Romanian-French poet (1896–1963)

American author

American internet personality; blogger; author (born 1975)

17th-century Varkari Sant and Poet

16th century Hindu saint and poet

Japanese author, scholar and poet (1734–1809)

Italian writer, revolutionary and poet

Umar ibn Abi Rabi'ah

Italian semiotician, philosopher, and writer (1932–2016)

20th-century American novelist, writer, journalist, political activist

Ursula K. Le Guin

American fantasy and science fiction author (1929–2018)

American novelist (1923–1986)

Trinidadian-British writer (1932–2018)

Valentin Rasputin

Soviet and Russian writer (1937-2015)

Russian poet (1873–1924)

French writer and poet (1881-1957)

Second wife of President Jefferson Davis and First Lady of the Confederate States

Varlam Shalamov

Soviet writer, journalist, poet and Gulag survivor

Soviet and Belarusian writer

Vasily Aksyonov

Soviet-American writer (1932-2009)

Vasily Trediakovsky

Russian poet, translator, philologist

Vasily Zhukovsky

Russian poet (1783-1852)

Velimir Khlebnikov

Verner von Heidenstam

Swedish writer (1859-1940)

Vicente Aleixandre

Spanish poet (1898-1984)

French writer and politician (1802–1885)

Victorien Sardou

French dramatist (1831–1908)

Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy

French writer (1764-1846)

Vinicius de Moraes

Brazilian poet and lyricist (1913–1980)

1st-century-BC Roman poet

English modernist writer known for use of stream of consciousness

Indian writer 3 c. BCE

Vittorio Alfieri

Italian noble, dramatist and poet (1749–1803)

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Russian poet (1893–1930)

Vladimir Nabokov

Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor

Vladimir Sorokin

18th-century French writer, historian, and philosopher

Vũ Trọng Phụng

Vietnamese writer

Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939)

German writer and academic (1944-2001)

Anglo-American poet

19th-century English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator

W. Somerset Maugham

English playwright and writer

American novelist

Wallace Stevens

Wallace Thurman

American novelist

American writer (1915-1989)

Walter Kennedy (poet)

Medieval Scottish poet

Walter Savage Landor

English writer, poet, and activist (1775–1864)

Scottish novelist (1771–1832)

Walther von der Vogelweide

Medieval German minstrel singer

Chinese playwright

Wang Wei (Tang dynasty)

Tang-dynasty Chinese poet, musician, painter, and statesman

English comics and prose fiction writer

Washington Irving

American writer, historian, and diplomat (1783–1859)

Royal Marines general (1758-1833)

Wendy Wasserstein

American playwright (1950–2006)

British author and vicar (born 1911–1997)

British novelist

English poet and soldier (1893–1918)

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

English poet and essayist (1840–1922)

English novelist and playwright (1824–1889)

American writer (1873–1947)

Willem Bilderdijk

Dutch historian, linguist, poet and lawyer

Willem Frederik Hermans

William Allingham

19th-century Irish poet and scholar

English poet and artist

British merchant and author active in India (1738-1808)

William Carlos Williams

American poet (1883-1963)

William Congreve

English playwright, poet and politician (1670-1729)

English poet and hymnodist (1731–1800)

William Dean Howells

American author, critic, and playwright

William Faulkner

American writer (1897–1962)

American novelist

American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist

William Gilmore Simms

American writer

William Golding

British novelist, poet, and playwright (1911–1993)

William Goldman

American novelist, screenwriter and playwright

William Harrison Ainsworth

English novelist

William Hill Brown

18th-century American novelist

American playwright and novelist (1913-1973)

William IX, Duke of Aquitaine

Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and Count of Poitou

William Langland

Fourteenth century English poet

William M. Hoffman

American playwright, theatre director, editor, and professor

William Makepeace Thackeray

English novelist and illustrator (1811–1863)

William Manchester

American author, journalist and historian

William McGonagall

Scottish-Irish extremely bad poet (1825-1902)

William Moulton Marston

American psychologist, lawyer, inventor and writer (1893–1947)

William Neill (poet)

William Roughead

British criminologist

William S. Burroughs

American writer

William Shakespeare

English playwright and poet (1564–1616)

American cartoonist, illustrator and writer

American writer

William T. Vollmann

Novelist, short story writer, essayist

William Whitehead (poet)

18th-century British Poet Laureate and playwright

William Wycherley

English dramatist of the Restoration period

Winston Churchill (novelist)

American novelist

Wisława Szymborska

Polish poet, Nobel Prize winner

Władysław Reymont

Polish novelist

Nigerian playwright, poet and novelist

Wolfram von Eschenbach

German knight and poet

Chinese novelist and poet of the Ming Dynasty

Chinese playwright

English painter, writer and critic (1882-1957)

Chinese writer (1911-1942)

Jin Dynasty poet

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Canadian author

Kurdish writer and human rights activist (1923–2015)

Yasunari Kawabata

Japanese author

Japanese writer

Yevgeny Baratynsky

Yevgeny Zamyatin

South Korean writer

Japanese poet and painter

Japanese tanka poet

Chinese poet of the late Tang dynasty

Japanese author (1925–1970)

Poet (1917-1987)

American poet and literary critic

Zachris Topelius

Finland Swedish author, poet, historian, professor and rector of Helsinki University

British novelist

Zakhar Prilepin

Russian writer and politician (born 1975)

Zamenga Batukezanga

Congolese writer and philanthropist (1933–2000)

American novelist (1872–1939)

Japanese aesthetician and playwright

Zhang Hu (poet)

Chinese poet in mid-Tang dynasty.

Song dynasty poet

Zinaida Gippius

Russian poet (1869–1945)

Zora Neale Hurston

American author, anthropologist, filmmaker (1891–1960)

Zuhayr bin Abi Sulma