Adams, Andy
Adams, Henry - American author, autobiographer, & historian
Adams, Samuel Hopkins
Aesop - Greek slave & fable author
Alcott, Louisa May - American juvenile novelist
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
Alger, Horatio
Alighieri, Dante - Italian national epic poet
Allen, Grant
Altsheler, Joseph A.
Andersen, Hans Christian - Danish poet & fairy tale author
Anderson, Sherwood
Andreyev, Leonid N.
Anonymous
Appleton, Victor
Aristophanes - Greek Athenian comic dramatist
Aristotle - Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist
Arnim, Elizabeth von
Arthur, T.S.
Artzybashev, Mikhail Petrovich
Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
Augustine, Saint
Austen, Jane - English novelist
Bacheller, Irving
Bailey, Arthur Scott
Balzac, Honore de - French realist novelist
Bangs, John Kendrick
Barbour, Maynard
Barbour, Ralph Henry
Barr, Amelia E.
Barr, Robert
Barrie, James M. - Scottish dramatist & novelist
Baum, L. Frank
Beach, Rex Ellingwood
Bierce, Ambrose - American author & satirist
Blackmore, R.D.
Blake, William - English engraver, illustrator, & poet
Bower, B.M.
Bronte, Anne - English novelist and poet
Bronte, Charlotte - English novelist
Bronte, Emily - English novelist and poet
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett - English poet
Browning, Robert - English poet
Buchan, John - Scottish author & politician
Bulfinch, Thomas - American writer
Burgess, Thornton W.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson - English-American playwright and author
Burns, Robert - Scottish national poet
Burroughs, Edgar Rice - American author, creator of Tarzan
Butler, Samuel - English composer, novelist, & satiric author
Byron, Lord George Gordon - English poet & satirist
Caesar, Julius - Roman author, general, & politician
Carlyle, Thomas - Scottish author, essayist, & historian
Carroll, Lewis - English author, mathematician, and photographer
Cather, Willa - American novelist
Cervantes, Miguel de - Spanish adventurer, author, & poet
Chaucer, Geoffrey - English author, poet, & philosopher
Chekhov, Anton - Russian dramatist & short story author
Chesnutt, Charles W.
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith - English author & mystery novelist
Christie, Agatha - English mystery author
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - English critic & poet
Collins, Wilkie
Collodi, Carlo
Congreve, William - English dramatist
Connor, Ralph
Conrad, Joseph - English (Polish-Ukrainian-born) novelist
Cooper, James Fenimore - American writer
Crane, Stephen - American novelist, short story writer, poet and journalist
Crawford, F. Marion
Darlington, Edgar B. P.
Darwin, Charles - English biologist
Davis, Richard Harding
Defoe, Daniel
Dickens, Charles - English novelist
Dickinson, Emily - American poet
Donne, John - English clergyman & poet
Dostoevsky, Fyodor - Russian novelist
Douglass, Frederick - American abolitionist
Doyle, Arthur Conan - British mystery author & physician
Dryden, John - English dramatist & poet
Dumas fils, Alexandre
Dumas pere, Alexandre - French dramatist & novelist
Ebers, Georg
Edgeworth, Maria
Eliot, George - English novelist
Eliot, T. S. - British (US-born) critic, dramatist & poet
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - American essayist & poet
Farnol, Jeffrey
Finley, Martha
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - American novelist
Flaubert, Gustave - French realist novelist
Fletcher, J.S.
Foote, Mary Hallock
Forster, E.M. - British novelist
Fox Jr., John
France, Anatole - French novelist
Freeman, R. Austin
Frey, Hildegard G.
Frost, Robert - American poet
Fuller, Henry B.
Gaboriau, Emile
Galsworthy, John
Gaskell, Elizabeth
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Gissing, George - English novelist
Glyn, Elinor
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist
Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich - Russian author & humorist
Goldsmith, Oliver - British-Irish author
Gorky, Maxim
Gracian, Baltasar
Grahame, Kenneth
Green, Anna Katharine
Gregory, Eliot
Grey, Zane
Haggard, H. Rider - English novelist
Hale, Edward Everett - American author & Unitarian clergyman
Hardy, Thomas
Harte, Bret - American author
Hawthorne, Julian
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - American author
Henry, O - American short story author
Henty, G. A.
Hesse, Hermann - Swiss (German-born) author
Holmes, Oliver Wendell - American author & physician
Homer - Greek epic poet
Hope, Anthony
Hope, Laura Lee
Hornung, E. W.
Hubbard, Elbert - American author
Hudson, W. H. - English critic & naturalist
Hugo, Victor - French dramatist, novelist, & poet
Hume, Fergus
Huxley, Aldous - English critic & novelist
Ibsen, Henrik - Norwegian dramatist
Irving, Washington - American essayist, historian, & novelist
Jacobs, W. W.
James, Henry - British (US -born) author
Jerome, Jerome K. - British humor writer
Johnson, Samuel - English author, critic, & lexicographer
Johnston, Annie Fellows
Joyce, James - Irish author
Kafka, Franz - Austrian (Czechoslovakian-born) author
Keats, John - English lyric poet
Khanna, Nishank - American (Indian-born) author & entrepreneur
King, Basil
Kingsley, Charles - English Anglican clergyman & novelist
Kipling, Rudyard - British (Indian-born) author
Kuprin, Aleksandr Ivanovich
Kyne, Peter B.
Lamb, Charles - English critic & essayist
Lang, Andrew - Scottish author & scholar
Lardner, Ring - American author
Lawrence, D.H. - English novelist
Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
Leacock, Stephen - Canadian economist & humorist
Leroux, Gaston
Lie, Jonas
Lofting, Hugh
London, Jack - American adventurer, author, & sailor
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth - American poet
Luther, Martin - German religious reformer
MacDonald, George - Scottish novelist & poet
MacGrath, Harold
Machiavelli, Niccolo - Italian dramatist, historian, & philosopher
Marlowe, Christopher - English dramatist & poet
Marx, Karl - German economist & Communist political philosopher
Maugham, William Somerset - English dramatist & novelist
Maupassant, Guy de
McElroy, John
Melville, Herman - American novelist & sailor
Millay, Edna St. Vincent - American poet
Milton, John - English poet
Moliere, Jean Baptiste Poquelin - French actor & comic dramatist
Montgomery, Lucy Maud - Canadian novelist
More, Thomas
Morley, Christopher - American author & journalist
Munro, H. H.
Nesbit, Edith
Norris, Frank
Norris, Kathleen
Oppenheim, E. Phillips
Orczy, Baroness Emmuska
Orwell, George - English essayist, novelist, & satirist
Packard, Frank L.
Parker, Gilbert
Patchin, Frank Gee
Pedler, Margaret
Perkins, Lucy Fitch
Phillips, David Graham
Plato - Greek author & philosopher in Athens
Poe, Edgar Allan - American short story author, editor, & poet
Porter, Eleanor H.
Potter, Beatrix
Pushkin, Alexander
Pyle, Howard
Quiller-Couch, Arthur
Radcliffe, Ann
Raine, William MacLeod
Ralphson, G. Harvey
Reade, Charles
Reed, Myrtle
Reeve, Arthur B.