Authors Flashcards
Boris Pasternak Old
Hans Christian Andersen
Jean-Paul Sartre
Phillipa Gregory
Born: 9 January 1954 (age 65 years), Nairobi, Kenya
Movies and TV shows: The Other Boleyn Girl, The White Queen, The Last Days of Anne Boleyn, Mary Hays in Love
Truman Capote
Truman Garcia Capote was an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s and the true crime novel In Cold Blood, which he labeled a “nonfiction novel”.
A. A. Milne
A. E. Housman
Aesop
Agatha Christie
Albert Camus
Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
Island
Point Counter Point
The Doors of Perception
The Perennial Philosophy
The Devils of Loudun
Aleksandr Pushkin
Alexander Pope
Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
Alice Walker
Alistair McLean
Anne Rice
Anne Rice[2] (born Howard Allen Frances O’Brien, October 4, 1941) is an American author of gothic fiction, Christian literature, and erotic literature. She is best known for her series of novels The Vampire Chronicles, which revolve around the central character Lestat. Books from The Vampire Chronicles were the subject of two film adaptations—Interview with the Vampire (1994) and Queen of the Damned (2002).
John Anthony Burgess Wilson,
25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993), who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer.
dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange remains his best-known novel.[ Burgess produced numerous other novels, including the Enderby quartet, and Earthly Powers. He wrote librettos and screenplays, including the 1977 TV mini-series Jesus of Nazareth.
Anton Chekhov
Arthur C Clarke
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Hailey
Arundhati Roy
Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961)[1] is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997
Astrid Lindgren
Swedish: née Ericsson; 14 November 1907 – 28 January 2002) was a Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays.[3] She is best known for several children’s book series, featuring Pippi Longstocking,
Barbara Cartland
Baroness Emma Orczy
full name: Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orci) (/ˈɔːrtsiː/; 23 September 1865 – 12 November 1947), usually known as Baroness Orczy (the name under which she was published) or to her family and friends as Emmuska Orczy, was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright. She is best known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel, the alter ego of Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English fop who turns into a quick-thinking escape artist in order to save ill-fated French royalty from “Madame Guillotine” during the French revolution, establishing the “hero with a secret identity” in popular culture.[1]
Beatrix Potter
Helen Beatrix Potter (/ˈbiːətrɪks/,[1] US /ˈbiːtrɪks/,[2] 28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943) was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist; she was best known for her children’s books featuring animals, such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
Bram Stoker
Brothers Grimm
The Brothers Grimm (die Brüder Grimm or die Gebrüder Grimm, German: [diː ɡəˈbʁyːdɐ ɡʁɪm] (listen)), Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Carl Grimm(1786–1859), were German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers and authors who together collected and published folklore during the 19th century. They were among the first and best-known collectors of German and European folk tales, and popularized traditional oral tale types such as “Cinderella”, “The Frog Prince, “The Goose-Girl”, “Hansel and Gretel”, “Rapunzel”, “Beauty and the Beast”, “Little Red Riding Hood”, “The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats”, “Rumpelstiltskin”, “Sleeping Beauty”, “Snow White”
C. S. Lewis
Catherine Cookson
Dame Catherine Ann Cookson, DBE (née McMullen; 20 June 1906 – 11 June 1998) was a British author. She is in the top 20 of most widely read British novelists with sales topping 100 million,
Charles Dickens
Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English poet who wrote romantic, devotional, and children’s poems. “Goblin Market” and “Remember” remain famous. She also wrote the words of two Christmas carols well known in the UK: “In the Bleak Midwinter”, later set by Gustav Holst and by Harold Darke, and “Love Came Down at Christmas”, also set by Darke and by other composers. She was a sister of the artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and features in several of his paintings.
Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe (/ˈmɑːrloʊ/; baptised 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593), was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era.[nb 1] Modern scholars count Marlowe among the most famous of the Elizabethan playwrights; based upon the “many imitations” of his play Tamburlaine, they consider him to have been the foremost dramatist in London in the years just before his mysterious early death
Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr.,[1] July 20, 1933) is an American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter. He has written ten novels, two plays, two screenplays, and three short-stories, spanning the Southern Gothic, Western, and post-apocalyptic genres.
The Road, No COuntry for Old Men, All the Pretty Horses
David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English writer and poet. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. Lawrence’s writing explores issues such as sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity, and instinct. His works include Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love and Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
Daniel Gerhard Brown (born June 22, 1964) is an American author best known for his thriller novels, including the Robert Langdon novels Angels & Demons(2000), The Da Vinci Code (2003), The Lost Symbol (2009), Inferno (2013) and Origin (2017). His novels are treasure hunts that usually take place over a period of 24 hours.[3] They feature recurring themes of cryptography, art, and conspiracy theories. His books have been translated into 57 languages and, as of 2012, have sold over 200 million copies.
Daniel Defoe (/dɪˈfoʊ/; c. 1660 – 24 April 1731),[1] born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, which is claimed to be second only to the Bible in its number of translations
Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel (born August 14, 1947) is an American writer, best known for her romance novels. She is the bestselling author alive and the fourth bestselling fiction author of all time, with over 800 million copies sold[citation needed]. She has written 179 books, including over 146 novels.
Dante Alighieri (Italian:, probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri c. 1265 – 1321), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered the most important poem of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language.
Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, DBE (/duː ˈmɒrieɪ/; 13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English author and playwright.
Although she is classed as a romantic novelist, her stories have been described as “moody and resonant” with overtones of the paranormal. Her bestselling works were not at first taken seriously by critics, but have since earned an enduring reputation for narrative craft. Many have been successfully adapted into films, including the novels Rebecca, Frenchman’s Creek, My Cousin Rachel, and Jamaica Inn, and the short stories The Birds and Don’t Look Now/Not After Midnight.
Doris May Lessing CH OMG (née Tayler; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British-Zimbabwean (Rhodesian) novelist. She was born to British parents in Iran, where she lived until 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia(now Zimbabwe), where she remained until moving in 1949 to London, England. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–1969), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983).
Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, screenwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist. Adams was author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which originated in 1978 as a BBC radio comedybefore developing into a “trilogy” of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime and generated a television series, several stage plays, comics, a video game, and in 2005 a feature film. Adams’s contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy’s Hall of Fame.[2]
Adams also wrote Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
Theodor Seuss “Ted” Geisel March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991)[5] was an American children’s author, political cartoonist, illustrator, poet, animator, and filmmaker. He is known for his work writing and illustrating more than 60 books under the pen name Dr. Seuss. His work includes many of the most popular children’s books of all time, selling over 600 million copies and being translated into more than 20 languages by the time of his death.
Geisel adopted the name “Dr. Seuss” as an undergraduate at Dartmouth Collegeand as a graduate student at Lincoln College, Oxford.
Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953)[1] was a Welshpoet and writer whose works include the poems “Do not go gentle into that good night” and “And death shall have no dominion”; the “play for voices” Under Milk Wood; and stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child’s Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. He became widely popular in his lifetime and remained so after his premature death at the age of 39 in New York City.By then he had acquired a reputation, which he had encouraged, as a “roistering, drunken and doomed poet”.
Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales, in 1914.
Dylan Thomas
Edward Estlin (E. E.) Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), often styled as e e cummings, as he is attributed in many of his published works,[1] was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright.
Edna Ann Proulx (/ˈpruː/; born August 22, 1935) is an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. She has written most frequently as Annie Proulx but has also used the names E. Annie Proulx and E.A. Proulx.[1]
She won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her first novel, Postcards. Her second novel, The Shipping News (1993), won both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction[2]and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction[3] and was adapted as a 2001 film of the same name. Her short story “Brokeback Mountain” was adapted as an Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe Award-winning motion picturereleased in 2005.
Ecclesiastes
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American speculative fiction writer, best known for his prolific output in the adventure, science fiction and fantasy genres. His most well-known creations include Tarzan of the Apes, John Carter of Mars (Barsoom series) and Carson Napier of Venus (Amtor series).
He is also known for the hollow Earth–themed Pellucidar series, beginning with At the Earth’s Core (1914); and the lost world–themed Caspak trilogy, beginning with The Land that Time Forgot (1918).
Edgar WallacRichard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 – 10 February 1932) was an English writer.
More than 160 films have been made of Wallace’s work. In addition to the creation of King Kong, he is remembered as a writer of ‘the colonial imagination’, for the J. G. Reeder detective stories, and for The Green Archer serial. He sold over 50 million copies of his combined works.
The Four Just Men (1905)
Edith Wharton born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider’s knowledge of the upper class New York “aristocracy” to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Literature, for her novel The Age of Innocence.
Josephine Edna O’Brien DBE (born 15 December 1930) is an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short story writer.
Erika Leonard (née Mitchell; born 7 March 1963),[1][2] known by her pen name E. L. James, is a British author. She wrote the bestselling erotic romance trilogy Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, and Fifty Shades Freed,[3][4] along with the companion novels Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian and Darker: Fifty Shades Darker as Told by Christian.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett, /ˈbraʊnɪŋ/; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (née Stevenson; 29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865), Among Gaskell’s best known novels are Cranford (1851–53), North and South (1854–55), and Wives and Daughters (1865)
EM FORSTER
Emily Jane Brontë (/ˈbrɒnti/, commonly /-teɪ/;[2] 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848)[3] was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights
She published under the pen name Ellis Bell.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Little known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry
Enid Mary Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was an English children’s writer whose books have been among the world’s best-sellers since the 1930s, selling more than 600 million copies. Blyton’s books are still enormously popular, and have been translated into 90 languages. As of June 2018, Blyton is in the 4th place for the most translated author. She wrote on a wide range of topics including education, natural history, fantasy, mystery, and biblical narratives and is best remembered today for her Noddy, Famous Five, Secret Seven, and Malory Towers.
Ernest Hemingway
“Indian Camp” (1924)
The Sun Also Rises (1926)
A Farewell to Arms (1929)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
The Old Man and the Sea (1951)
Euripides Greek: Εὐριπίδης Eurīpídēs, pronounced c. 480 – c. 406 BC) was a tragedian of classical Athens.
Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
A Handful of Dust
Scoop
Decline and Fall: The adventures of an innocent in London society
Vile Bodies
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetrymovement, and a fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem, The Cantos (c. 1917–1962).
F(rancis) Scott Fitzgerald
September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940
This Side of Paradise (1920)
The Beautiful and Damned (1922)
The Great Gatsby (1925)
Tender Is the Night (1934)
The Last Tycoon (1941),
rancis McCourt (August 19, 1930 – July 19, 2009) was an Irish-Americanteacher and writer. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his book Angela’s Ashes, a tragicomic memoir of the misery and squalor of his childhood
Franz Kafka[a] (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speakingBohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His best known works include “Die Verwandlung” (“The Metamorphosis”), Der Process (The Trial), and Das Schloss (The Castle).
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche German: 15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Gabriel García Márquez (American Spanish: 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo [ˈɡaβo] or Gabito [ɡaˈβito] throughout Latin America. awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985).
Geoffrey Chaucer c. 1340s – 25 October 1400)
The Canterbury Tales.[1] He has been called the “father of English literature”, or, alternatively, the “father of English poetry”.He was the first writer to be buried in what has since come to be called Poets’ Corner, in Westminster Abbey.[
The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Legend of Good Women, and Troilus and Criseyde.
Geoffrey Chaucer (/ˈtʃɔːsər/; c. 1340s – 25 October 1400) was an English poet and author. Widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages, he is best known for The Canterbury Tales.[1] He has been called the “father of English literature”, or, alternatively, the “father of English poetry”.[2] He was the first writer to be buried in what has since come to be called Poets’ Corner, in Westminster Abbey.[3] Chaucer also gained fame as a philosopher and astronomer, composing the scientific A Treatise on the Astrolabe for his 10-year-old son Lewis. He maintained a career in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier, diplomat, and member of parliament.
Among Chaucer’s many other works are The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Legend of Good Women, and Troilus and Criseyde. He is seen as crucial in legitimising the literary use of Middle English when the dominant literary languages in England were still French and Latin.
George Bernard Shaw 26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950, known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion(1912) and Saint Joan (1923).
1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian[1]), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels, Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–63), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–72) and Daniel Deronda (1876).
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair
25 June 1903
Animal Farm
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Homage to Catalonia
Down and Out in Paris and London
The Road to Wigan Pier
Germaine Greer (/ɡrɪər/; born 29 January 1939) is an Australian writer and public intellectual, regarded as one of the major voices of the radical feminist movementin the latter half of the 20th century.
The Female Eunuch (1970
Henry Graham Greene OM CH (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991), Balliol College, Oxford
Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter, and The End of the Affair;[5] which have been named “the gold standard” of the Catholic novel.[6] Several works, such as The Confidential Agent, The Quiet American, Our Man in Havana, The Human Factor,
Gustave Flaubert
French; 12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880
debut novel Madame Bovary
H. G. Wells 21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946
The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau(1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898) and the military science fiction The War in the Air (1907). Wells was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.
Kipps and The History of Mr Polly
Harold Robbins (May 21, 1916 – October 14, 1997) was an American author of popular novels. One of the best-selling writers of all time, he wrote over 25 best-sellers, selling over 750 million copies in 32 languages.
His first book was Never Love a Stranger (1948). The Dream Merchants (1949) was a novel about the American film industry, from its beginning to the sound era. As usual, Robbins blended his own life experiences with history, melodrama, sex, and glossy high society into a fast-moving story. His 1952 novel, A Stone for Danny Fisher, was adapted into a 1958 motion picture King Creole,
Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926 – February 19, 2016) 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. It won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize Lee published only two books, yet she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007 for her contribution to literature. She assisted her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood (1966). Capote was the basis for the character Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Henrik Johan Ibsen Norwegian: 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll’s House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, When We Dead Awaken, Rosmersholm, and The Master Builder. He is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll’s House was the world’s most performed play in 2006.
Henry David Thoreau July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher.[3] A leading transcendentalist,[4] he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay “Civil Disobedience” (originally published as “Resistance to Civil Government”), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American writer and artist. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new type of semi-autobiographical novel that blended character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, stream of consciousness, explicit language, sex, surrealist free association, and mysticism. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, Tropic of Capricorn and The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy, which are based on his experiences in New York and Paris (all of which were banned in the United States until 1961)
Herman Melville (né Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851), Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia, and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella.
Hermann Karl Hesse (German: 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game, each of which explores an individual’s search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Honoré de Balzac French:20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8 December 65 – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace (/ˈhɒrɪs/), was the leading Roman lyric poetduring the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian).
Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was a British writer, journalist and naval intelligence officer who is best known for his James Bond series of spy novels.
Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE 15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999 was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net, was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library’s 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Her 1978 novel The Sea, the Sea won the Booker Prize. In 1987, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to literature.
Her other books include The Bell (1958), A Severed Head (1961), The Red and the Green (1965), The Nice and the Good (1968), The Black Prince (1973), Henry and Cato (1976), The Philosopher’s Pupil (1983), The Good Apprentice (1985), The Book and the Brotherhood (1987), The Message to the Planet (1989), and The Green Knight (1993).
Isaac Asimov (/ˈæzɪmɒv/;[b] c. January 2,[a] 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.
Asimov’s most famous work is the “Foundation” series,[3] the first three books of which won the one-time Hugo Award for “Best All-Time Series” in 1966. His other major series are the “Galactic Empire” series and the Robot series.
He also wrote hundreds of short stories, including the social science fiction novelette “Nightfall”, which in 1964 was voted the best short science fiction story of all time by the Science Fiction Writers of America.
Joanne Rowling CH, OBE, born 31 July 1965, better known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author and philanthropist. She is best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series, which has won multiple awards and sold more than 500 million copies, becoming the best-selling book series in history. She also writes crime fiction under the pen name Robert Galbraith.
Jerome David Salinger January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010 .1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye. Prior to its publication, Salinger published several short stories in Story magazine[1] and served in World War II. In 1948, his critically acclaimed story “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” appeared in The New Yorker, which became home to much of his later work.
The Catcher in the Rye was an immediate popular success. Salinger’s depiction of adolescent alienation and loss of innocence in the protagonist Holden Caulfieldwas influential, especially among adolescent readers
John Maxwell Coetzee[a] (born 9 February 1940) is a South African-born novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language.[2][3][4][5] He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Prize (thrice), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and holds a number of other awards and honorary doctorates.[2][6]
Coetzee moved to Australia in 2002[7] and became an Australian citizen in 2006.[2][8] He lives in Adelaide.
Coetzee was the first writer to be awarded the Booker Prize twice: for Life & Times of Michael K in 1983, and for Disgrace in 1999
Summertime, named on the 2009 longlist,[24] was an early favourite to win Coetzee an unprecedented third Booker Prize.[25][26]It made the shortlist, but lost to bookmakers’ favourite Wolf Hall, by Mantel.
On 2 October 2003, Horace Engdahl, head of the Swedish Academy, announced that Coetzee had been chosen as that year’s recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the fourth African writer to be so honoured[29] and the second South African, after Nadine Gordimer.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac[1] (/ˈkɛruæk/,[2] March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), often known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist[3] of French Canadian ancestry,[4][5][6] who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.[7]
his second novel, On the Road, in 1957. On the Road made Kerouac a beat icon
John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney;January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916)American novelist, journalist, and social activist.
The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories “To Build a Fire”, “An Odyssey of the North”, and “Love of Life”. He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as “The Pearls of Parlay”, and “The Heathen”.
London was part of the radical literary group “The Crowd” in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, workers’ rights, socialism, and eugenics.[7][8]He wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam.
ames Augustine[1] Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, teacher, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer’s Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, most famously stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, his published letters and occasional journalism.
Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898)
Pamela Lyndon Travers
Mary Poppins
Philip K. Dick
Robert Frost
Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar and Ariel
married to ted hughes
Victor Hugo
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a Russian-born novelist, poet, translator and entomologist. His first nine novels were in Russian, but he achieved international prominence after he began writing English prose.
Voltaire
W. H. Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden was an English-American poet. Auden’s poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form and content.
Walt Whitman
Wilkie Collins
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale and The Moonstone. The last is considered the first modern English detective novel
William Blake
William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served as a Senator of the Irish Free State for two terms.
William Golding
William Wordsworth
Boris Pasternak Old
Trueman Capote
Truman Garcia Capote was an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s and the true crime novel In Cold Blood, which he labeled a “nonfiction novel”.
William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served as a Senator of the Irish Free State for two terms.
Wilkie Collins
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale and The Moonstone. The last is considered the first modern English detective novel
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a Russian-born novelist, poet, translator and entomologist. His first nine novels were in Russian, but he achieved international prominence after he began writing English prose.
Ernest Hemingway
Charles Dickens
A E Houseman
Elizabeth Gaskell Old
Aldous Huxley
Evelyn Waugh
Sylvia Plath
John Anthony Burgess Wilson,
25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993
