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.
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.
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.
Margret Elizabeth Rey , born Margarete Elisabeth Waldstein, was , the co-author and artist of books for kids, the most famous of which are the Curious George series.
Margarete Waldstein started life in Hamburg in 1906; her dad was a member of the Reichstag.
Susan Eloise Hinton is an American writer well known for her young adult novel The Outsiders.
while still in her teens, Hinton became a household name as the writer of The Outsiders, her first and most popular novel, set in Oklahoma in the 1960s. She began composing it in 1965.
Jules Verne was a French writer from Brittany who pioneered the science-fiction genre. He is well known for stories such as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , A Journey to the Center of the Earth , and Around the World in Eighty Days.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pseudonym Mark Twain, was an American writer and humorist. He is most noted for his stories, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer , and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , the latter often named the Great American Novel.
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novel writer, poet, essayist and travel author. His best-known works include Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. was an American author. He is widely known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden and the novella Of Mice and Men.
Sophocles is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus, and earlier than those of Euripides.
The Catcher in the Rye Nine Novels.
Jerome David Salinger was an American writer, well known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, as well as his reclusive nature. His last original released work was in 1965; he gave his last interview in 1980.
Nelle Harper Lee is an American writer known for her 1960-pulitzer-prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which deals with the issues of racism that were observed by the writer as a child in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama.
Ezra Jack Keats , Caldecott-winning writer of The Snowy Day, was one of the most important children's literature writers and illustrators of the 20th Century.
keats is well known for introducing multiculturalism into mainstream American children's literature.
Elaine Lobl Konigsburg is an American writer and artist of books for kids and young adult fiction. She is the only writer to win the Newbery Medal and a Newbery Honor in the same year, 1968, with her second and first works respectively: From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E.
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American writer of stories and short novels, whose books are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American authors of the 20th century.
Tennessee Williams was an American author who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater. He also created short novels, stories, poetry, essays, screenplays and a volume of memoirs.
Alice Dalgliesh was an American writer and book editor who created over 40 books for kids, mostly illustrated by Katherine Milhous.
alice Dalgliesh immigrated to America in 1912 where she studied at the Pratt Institute.
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was an American writer, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her epic novel Gone with the Wind, her only major publication. This novel is one of the most popular works of all time, selling more than 30 million copies.
Pat Conroy , is a New York Times bestselling writer who has written several acclaimed stories and memoirs. Two of his stories, The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini, were made into Oscar-nominated movies.
Dame Agatha Christie Dbe was a British crime author of stories, short novels, and plays. She also created romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 66 detective stories and 14 short story collections , and her successful West End plays.
Ralph Waldo Ellison was an American novel writer, literary critic, scholar and author. He started life in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Ellison is well known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Prize in 1953.
Ellen Ermingard Raskin was an American author, artist and fashion designer. She started life in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and grew up during the Great Depression. She was educated at the High school of Wisconsin at Madison.
August Wilson was an American playwright. His literary legacy is a series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Each is set in a different decade, depicting the comic and tragic aspects of the African-american experience in the twentieth century.
George Macdonald was a Scottish writer, poet, and Christian minister.
known particularly for his poignant fairy tales and fantasy stories, George Macdonald inspired many writers, such as W. Auden, J. Tolkien, C. Lewis, E. Nesbit and Madeleine L'engle. It was C.
Geoffrey Chaucer , known as the Dad of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey.
Sir William Gerald Golding was a British novel writer, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate, well known for his novel Lord of the Flies.
Anthony Robert Tony Kushner is an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993 for his play, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, and co-authored with Eric Roth the screenplay for the 2005 movie, Munich.
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder was an American writer who created the Little House series of works based on her childhood in a pioneer family. Laura's daughter, Rose, inspired Laura to write her works.
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American writer and journalist. His distinctive composing style, characterized by economy and understatement, influenced 20th-century fiction, as did his life of adventure and his public image. He created most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s.
Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren , 14 November 1907 28 January 2002) was a Swedish writer and screenwriter who is the world's 25th most translated writer and has sold roughly 145 million copies worldwide.
Anne Evelyn Bunting , better known as Eve Bunting, is an American writer who has written more than 250 works. Her work covers a broad array of subjects and includes fiction and non-fiction works. Her stories are primarily aimed at children and young adults, but her books also include picture works.
John Knowles was an American novel writer well known for his novel A Separate Peace. He passed away in 2001 at the age of seventy-five.
Knowles started life in Fairmont, West Virginia, the son of James M.
Sir Robert Harling was an early member of the landed gentry, soldier and political strongman. The Norfolk villages of East Harling, West Harling, Harling Market and Larling were greatly under his control.
Frederick Benjamin Gipson was an American writer. He is well known for composing the 1956 novel Old Yeller, which became a popular 1957 Walt Disney movie. Gipson started life on a farm near Mason in the Texas Hill Country, the son of Beck Gipson and the former Emma Deishler.
Elizabeth Becker Beth Henley is an American dramaturge and actress. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1981 for her play, Crimes of the Heart.
her most famous play, Crimes of the Heart, was her first created professionally.
Christopher Marlowe was an English dramaturge, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. As the foremost Elizabethan tragedian, next to William Shakespeare, he is known for his blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his mysterious death.
John Griffith Jack London was an American writer, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction authors to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.
Daniel Defoe , born Daniel Foe, was an English author, journalist, and pamphleteer, who gained fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped to popularise the form in Britain and is among the founders of the English novel.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a Russian author of realist fiction and essays. He is well known for his stories Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov.
Christopher Paul Curtis is an American writer of children books and a Newbery Medal winner who created The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 and the critically acclaimed Bud, Not Buddy. Bud, Not Buddy is the first novel to receive both the Coretta Scott King Prize and the Newbery Medal.
Aristophanes , son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, was a prolific and much acclaimed comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete.
William Wilkie Collins was an English novel writer, playwright, and writer of short novels. He was very popular during the Victorian era and created 30 stories, more than 60 short novels, 14 plays, and over 100 non-fiction pieces.
Suzan-lori Parks is an African American playwright and screenwriter. She received the Macarthur Foundation Genius Grant in 2001, and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play, Topdog/underdog.
Mario Gianluigi Puzo was an American writer and screenwriter, known for his stories about the Mafia, including The Godfather , which he later co-adapted into a movie with Francis Ford Coppola. He won the Academy Prize for Best Adapted Screenplay in both 1972, and 1974.
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, Om was a Scottish writer and dramaturge, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. The child of a family of small-town weavers, he was educated in Scotland. He moved to London, where he developed a career as a novel writer and playwright.
Alfred Fox Uhry is an American playwright, screenwriter, and member of the Fellowship of Southern Authors. As of 2009, he remains the only individual to receive an Academy Prize, Tony Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for dramatic composing.
Richard George Adams is an English novel writer who is well known as the writer of Watership Down. He studied modern history at high school before serving in the British Army during World War Ii. He completed his studies after the war and joined the English Civil Service.
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