William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest author in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramaturge. He is often named England's national poet and the Bard of Avon.
Stephen Edwin King is an American writer and movie director of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His works have sold more than 350 million copies, which have been adapted into a number of feature movies, TV films and comic works.
Anthony Craig Horowitz is an English novel writer and screenwriter. He has written many children's stories, including The Power of Five, Alex Rider and The Diamond Brothers series and has written over fifty works.
Richard Russell Rick Riordan, Jr. is an American writer well known for composing the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. He also created the Tres Navarre mystery series for adults and helped to edit Demigods and Monsters, a collection of essays on the topic of his Percy Jackson series.
Hans Augusto H. Rey , worked with his wife Margret Rey as writers and illustrators of books for kids. They were well known for their Curious George series.
Hans and Margret were both Jewish and of German birth.
Rene Goscinny was a French comics editor and author, who is well known for the comic book Asterix, which he produced with artist Albert Uderzo, and for his work on the comic series Lucky Luke with Morris and Iznogoud with Jean Tabary.
For the Tv series of the same name, see Geronimo Stilton.
Geronimo Stilton is a best-selling children's book series released by Edizioni Piemme of Milan, Italy, since 2000. Scholastic Corporation has released the English version of the series since February 2004.
John Tolkien was an English author, poet, philologist, and high school professor, well known as the writer of the classic high fantasy books The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.
Frank Miller is an American comic book artist, author and movie director well known for his dark, movie noir-style comic book novels and graphic stories Ronin, Daredevil: Born Again, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City and 300.
Rachel Caine is a pseudonym of Roxanne Longstreet Conrad, an American author of science fiction, fantasy, mystery, suspense, and horror stories. She also publishes media tie-in stories as Julie Fortune.
Caine grew up in west Texas and finished Socorro university in El Paso, Texas, in 1980.
Duncan is well known for her stories of suspense for teenagers. Some of her books have been adapted for the screen, the most famous example being the 1997 movie I Know What You Did Last Summer, adapted from her novel of the same title.
Joanne Jo Rowling, Obe , better known as J. Rowling , is a British writer well known as the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series, the idea for which was conceived on a train trip from Manchester to London in 1990.
Robert Jordan was the pseudonym of James Oliver Rigney, Jr. , under which he was well known as the writer of the bestselling The Wheel of Time fantasy series. He also created under the pseudonyms Reagan O'neal and Jackson O'reilly.
Roald Dahl was a British novel writer, short story author, fighter pilot and screenwriter.
Born in Llandaff, Cardiff, to Norwegian parents, he served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, in which he became a flying ace and intelligence agent, rising to the rank of Wing Commander.
Alan Oswald Moore is an English author primarily known for his work in comic works, a medium where he has created a number of critically acclaimed and popular series, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell.
John Locke , widely known as the Dad of Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers.
Theodor Seuss Geisel was an American author, poet, and cartoonist most widely known for his books for kids written under the pseudonyms Dr. Seuss, Theo Lesieg and, in one case, Rosetta Stone.
Eoin Colfer is an Irish writer. He is most famous as the writer of the Artemis Fowl series, but he has also written other successful works. His stories have been compared to the books of J. Rowling.
Meg Cabot is an American writer of romantic and paranormal fiction for teens and adults and used to write under several pseudonyms, but now writes exclusively under her real name, Meg Cabot.
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