Authors & Poets
39 entries in the Authors & Poets compendium.
Lord ByronBritish Romantic poet and satirist, known for Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.Marcel ProustFrench novelist who pioneered stream of consciousness.Mark TwainAmerican writer, humorist, and essayist, author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.Matsuo BashōThe greatest master of haiku and a wandering poet of the Edo period.Maya AngelouAuthor and poet, best known for her autobiographies.Mikhail LermontovRussian Romantic poet and prose writer, key figure after Pushkin.Natsume SōsekiJapanese novelist, poet, and scholar of English literature.Omar KhayyamPersian poet and polymath who revolutionized algebra and astronomy.Ousmane SembèneFather of African film and one of Africa's greatest authors.Percy Bysshe ShelleyEnglish Romantic poet and radical thinker.Rabindranath TagoreThe Bard of BengalRoald DahlBritish author of children's literature whose works were controversially expurgated by Puffin Books in 2023.Leo TolstoyRussian writer acclaimed as one of the greatest novelists of all time.Lewis CarrollEnglish author, poet, mathematician, photographer, and Anglican deacon known for Alice's Adventures in…Luís de CamõesPortuguese poet, author of the epic Os Lusíadas.Lu XunChinese writer who pioneered modern vernacular literature.LucretiusRoman poet and philosopher, author of De rerum natura.Luigi PirandelloItalian dramatist awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature.Machado de AssisFounder and first President of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.Margaret AtwoodCanadian author of The Handmaid's Tale and inventor.Mary ShelleyEnglish novelist who wrote Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), an early science fiction work.Maxim GorkyRussian and Soviet writer, journalist, and socialist advocate.Mikhail BulgakovRussian and Soviet novelist and playwright whose posthumous novel reshaped his reputation.Mikhail SholokhovSoviet Russian writer, author of And Quiet Flows the Don.MolièreFrench playwright, actor, and poet, master of comedy.Muhammad IqbalIslamic philosopher and poet whose vision inspired the Pakistan MovementMurasaki ShikibuHeian-era novelist and lady-in-waiting, author of The Tale of Genji.Naguib MahfouzEgyptian author of the 1947 novel Midaq Alley, set in a Cairo back street as a microcosm of the world.Nikolai GogolRussian writer of Ukrainian origin, master of the grotesque.Nizami Ganjavi12th-century Persian poet, master of romantic epic.Orhan PamukTurkish novelist and 2006 Nobel laureate in literature.Oscar WildeIrish author, poet and playwright; key figure in Aestheticism; known for The Picture of Dorian Gray and his…OvidRoman poet exiled for a poem and a mistake.Pablo NerudaChilean poet-diplomat and Nobel laureate.PremchandPioneer of Hindi and Urdu social fiction.Qu YuanChinese poet and aristocrat of the Warring States period.Rainer Maria RilkeAustrian poet known for Duino Elegies and Sonnets to OrpheusRay BradburyAmerican author who wrote the story he considered the essence of his work.Raymond ChandlerAmerican-British novelist and screenwriter, creator of Philip Marlowe.
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