Erica Jong
Erica Jong is an American novelist, satirist, and poet, known particularly for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying. The book...
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure...
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac, born Jean-Louis Kérouac (though he called himself Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac) was an American novelist and poet of...
Chuck Palahniuk
Charles Michael Palahniuk is an American novelist and freelance journalist, who describes his work as “transgressional” fiction. He is the...
Terry Pratchett
Sir Terence David John Pratchett, better known as Terry Pratchett, was an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works....
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was an American writer. In a career spanning over 50 years, Vonnegut published 14 novels, three short...
Alice Walker
Alice Malsenior Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist. She wrote the novel The Color Purple...
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was immensely popular...
Zelda Fitzgerald
Zelda Fitzgerald was an American socialite, novelist, painter and wife of author F. Scott Fitzgerald. (Source + full bio: Wikipedia.org)
Emily Brontë
Emily Jane Brontë was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now...
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, inventor, and environmental activist. She is a winner of...
Rainer Maria Rilke
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke—better known as Rainer Maria Rilke—was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, “widely recognized as...
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he...
John Updike
John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only three...
James Baldwin
James Arthur “Jimmy” Baldwin was an American novelist and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native...
Honore de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac, born Honoré Balzac, was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie Humaine, which presents...
Herman Hesse
Hermann Karl Hesse was a German-born poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass...
Henry Miller
Henry Valentine Miller was an American writer, expatriated in Paris at his flourishing. He was known for breaking with existing...
Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed is an American memoirist, novelist, essayist and podcast host. The author of four books, her award-winning writing has...
George Sand
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, best known by her pseudonym George Sand, was a French novelist and memoirist. She is equally...
C. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist....
