Authors & Poets
39 entries in the Authors & Poets compendium.
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Leo TolstoyRussian writer acclaimed as one of the greatest novelists of all time.Lewis CarrollEnglish author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Victorian nonsense.Lord ByronBritish Romantic poet and Greek War of Independence folk hero.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.Luís de CamõesPortuguese poet, author of the epic Os Lusíadas.Machado de AssisFounder and first President of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.Marcel ProustFrench novelist who pioneered stream of consciousness.Margaret AtwoodCanadian author of The Handmaid's Tale and inventor.Mark TwainAmerican writer, humorist, and essayist, author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.Mary ShelleyEnglish novelist who wrote *Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus* (1818), an early scieMatsuo BashōEdo-period poet, master of haiku and collaborative renku.Maxim GorkyRussian and Soviet writer, journalist, and socialist advocate.Maya AngelouAuthor and poet, best known for her autobiographies.Mikhail BulgakovRussian and Soviet novelist and playwright whose posthumous novel reshaped his reputation.Mikhail LermontovRussian Romantic poet and prose writer, key figure after Pushkin.Mikhail SholokhovSoviet Russian writer, author of *And Quiet Flows the Don*.MolièreFrench playwright, actor, and poet, master of comedy.Muhammad IqbalIslamic philosopher and poet who inspired the Pakistan Movement.Murasaki 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 microcosmNatsume SōsekiJapanese novelist, poet, and scholar of English literature.Nikolai GogolRussian writer of Ukrainian origin, master of the grotesque.Nizami Ganjavi12th-century Persian poet, master of romantic epic.Omar KhayyamPersian polymath who advanced algebra, astronomy, and poetry.Orhan PamukTurkish novelist and 2006 Nobel laureate in literature.Oscar WildeIrish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories.Ousmane SembèneSenegalese filmmaker who directed *Black Girl* (1966), a landmark of African cinema.OvidRoman poet exiled for a poem and a mistake.Pablo NerudaChilean poet-diplomat and Nobel laureate.Percy Bysshe ShelleyEnglish Romantic poet and radical thinker.PremchandPioneer of Hindi and Urdu social fiction.Qu YuanChinese poet and aristocrat of the Warring States period.Rabindranath TagoreBengali author, Nobel laureate, and composer of national anthems of India and Bangladesh.Rainer Maria RilkeAustrian poet known for mystical, subjective verse.Ray BradburyAmerican author who wrote the story he considered the essence of his work.Raymond ChandlerAmerican-British novelist and screenwriter, creator of Philip Marlowe.Roald DahlBritish author of children's literature whose works were controversially expurgated by Puf
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