Famous Authors / Writers / Novelists / Playwrights

Famous Authors / Writers / Novelists / Playwrights

Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)

English writer

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

English writer and actor

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)

American author and poet

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)

American writer

Anne Frank

Anne Frank (1929 - 1945)

German-Dutch author and Holocaust victim

J. K. Rowling

J. K. Rowling (58)

British writer

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

German writer and philosopher

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

Irish writer and playwright

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass (1818 - 1895)

American author and activist

Stephen King

Stephen King (76)

American writer

Mark Twain

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

American author

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)

English author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)

American writer

George R. R. Martin

George R. R. Martin (75)

American writer and TV producer

Jeff Kinney

Jeff Kinney (53)

American author

Jane Austen

Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)

English author

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870)

French writer

Stan Lee

Stan Lee (1922 - 2018)

American writer, publisher, producer, and actor

Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)

Russian-American author and philosopher

George Orwell

George Orwell (1903 - 1950)

English author

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)

French author, poet, and playwright

Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl (1916 - 1990)

British writer

Kevin Smith

Kevin Smith (53)

American writer, comic book writer, actor and director

Beverly Cleary

Beverly Cleary (1916 - 2021)

American writer

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)

English writer

Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou (1928 - 2014)

American writer

Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)

Russian writer

Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks (58)

American author

Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994)

German-American writer and poet

C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)

Irish author and poet

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)

Indian writer

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)

English author and critic

Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969)

American writer

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie (76)

Indian author

Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)

Czech writer and novelist

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

American author and poet

Harper Lee

Harper Lee (1926 - 2016)

American author

John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968)

American writer

Scott Cawthon

Scott Cawthon (52)

American game designer and writer

Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman (63)

English writer and graphic novelist

H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937)

American writer

Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe (1930 - 2013)

Nigerian writer

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881)

Russian writer and philosopher

Dan Brown

Dan Brown (59)

American author

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)

Scottish author of Sherlock Holmes

James Joyce

James Joyce (1882 - 1941)

Irish novelist and poet

Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho (76)

Brazilian writer

Ian Fleming

Ian Fleming (1908 - 1964)

English author

Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)

English author

Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)

American writer

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

Irish writer

Katie Piper

Katie Piper (40)

English philanthropist, writer and TV host