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...
Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker was an American poet, writer, critic, and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks and eye for 20th-century...
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer, known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages....
T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot was a British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and “one of the twentieth century’s major...
George Herbert
George Herbert was a Welsh-born poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England. Herbert’s poetry is associated with the...
William Congreve
William Congreve was an English playwright and poet of the Restoration period. He is known for his clever, satirical dialogue...
Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray was an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is widely known for...
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was immensely popular...
Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, his translation of Homer and...
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has...
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and...
Jean de La Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th...
Paul Valéry
Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. In addition to his poetry and fiction (drama...
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño, usually referred as Pedro Calderón...
Emily Brontë
Emily Jane Brontë was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now...
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry was a French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist, and pioneering aviator. He became a...
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult...
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, inventor, and environmental activist. She is a winner of...
Robert Browning
Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost...
Ted Kooser
Ted Kooser is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from...
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...
Kahlil Gibran
Khalil Gibran was a Lebanese writer, poet and visual artist. (Source + full bio: Wikipedia.org)
John Updike
John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only three...
Herman Hesse
Hermann Karl Hesse was a German-born poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass...
G. K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian,...
André Breton
André Breton was a French writer, poet, and anti-fascist. He is known best as the founder of Surrealism. His writings...
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria’s reign and...
John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow was an American poet and essayist, a cattle rancher, and a cyberlibertarian political activist who had been...
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He...
C. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist....
Robert Frost
Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in America....
W. H. Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden was an English-American poet. Auden’s poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with...
