Literary Giants
29 entries in the Literary Giants compendium.
Literary Giants — Era Chart
Robert Louis StevensonScottish novelist and poet, author of *Treasure Island* and *Jekyll and Hyde*.Rudyard KiplingEnglish writer, Nobel laureate — best known for tales of empire.Ryūnosuke AkutagawaJapanese short story writer and namesake of the Akutagawa Prize.Salman RushdieIndian-born novelist whose work sparked global debate on censorship and religious violenceSamuel BeckettIrish playwright, novelist, and poet; key figure in the Theatre of the Absurd.Saul BellowAuthor of *Henderson the Rain King*, a 1959 novel ranked number 21 on Modern Library's lisSelma LagerlöfSwedish writer, published in Ukrainian translation by Vydavnytstvo Zhupanskogo in the NobeStendhalFrench writer and pioneer of psychological realism.Stephen KingAmerican author known for horror and other genres.Stéphane MallarméFrench Symbolist poet whose work inspired early 20th-century avant-garde movements.Sylvia PlathAmerican poet, Fulbright scholar at Cambridge, and wife of Ted Hughes.T. S. EliotAnglo-Catholic poet linked to the broader Catholic literary revival.Toni MorrisonAuthor of *Beloved*, winner of the NYTBR's 2006 poll for best American fiction of 1980–200Tristan TzaraRomanian-French avant-garde poet and Dada co-founder.Umberto EcoItalian medievalist, semiotician, and novelist of *The Name of the Rose*.Ursula K. Le GuinAmerican author of speculative fiction and fantasy.V. S. NaipaulTrinidadian-born British writer, Nobel laureate 2001, known for perceptive narrative and iVictor HugoFrench Romantic author, poet, and human rights activist.Virginia WoolfEnglish modernist writer, feminist essayist.Vladimir NabokovRussian and American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist.VoltaireFrench Enlightenment writer, philosopher, satirist, and historian.W. B. YeatsIrish poet, dramatist, and Nobel laureate.Walt WhitmanAmerican poet, author of Leaves of Grass, wrote poems on Abraham Lincoln's death.Walter ScottRomance writer as defined by Walter Scott.William BlakeEnglish poet, painter, and printmaker of the Romantic Age.William FaulknerAmerican novelist, journalist, and college professor; winner of the 1975 National Book AwaWilliam GoldingBritish novelist, Nobel laureate, author of Lord of the Flies.William WordsworthEnglish Romantic poet who co-launched the Romantic Age with *Lyrical Ballads*.Wole SoyinkaNigerian Nobel laureate whose works explore culture and politics.
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