William Brinkley
William Clark “Bill” Brinkley was an American writer and journalist, best known for his novels Don’t Go Near the Water...
Sid Caesar
Isaac Sidney “Sid” Caesar was an American comic actor and writer, best known for two pioneering 1950s live television series:...
David Letterman
David Michael Letterman is an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer. He hosted a late night television talk show...
Josh Spector
Josh Spector is a digital marketing consultant, writer, and “idea guy” who, as he states on his website, is obsessed...
Jess C. Scott
Jess C. Scott is an author / artist / non-conformist who loves original stories and seeking the truth. She writes...
Jerry Seinfeld
Jerome Allen “Jerry” Seinfeld is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, producer, and director. He is widely known for playing...
Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker was an American poet, writer, critic, and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks and eye for 20th-century...
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was an American writer. In a career spanning over 50 years, Vonnegut published 14 novels, three short...
Marthe Troly-Curtin
Marthe Troly-Curtin is best remembered as the author of the Phrynette novels, the first one of which, in an advertisement...
John Dalberg-Acton
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton was an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer. He was the only son...
William Edward Hickson
William Edward Hickson, commonly known as Richman Hopson and W. E. Hickson, was a British educational writer. He was the...
Thomas Fuller
Thomas Fuller was an English churchman and historian. He is now remembered for his writings, particularly his Worthies of England,...
Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, his translation of Homer and...
Saint Augustine
Augustine of Hippo was an early Christian theologian and philosopher from Numidia whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity...
Charles-Guillaume Étienne
Charles-Guillaume Étienne was born in Chamouilley, Haute Marne. He held various municipal offices under the Revolution and came in 1793...
Steve Maraboli
An ardent academic student of Business and Behavioral Science, Steve Maraboli has become a highly sought-after Consultant and Speaker. Recognized...
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and...
Elie Wiesel
Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel was a Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He was the...
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction writer. Often called the “dean of science fiction writers”, his sometimes controversial...
Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer. His books and stories have been bestsellers in Japan as well as internationally, with...
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...
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...
Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde was an American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil rights activist. As a poet, she is best known...
Jim Gaffigan
James Christopher Gaffigan is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer. He was raised in Chesterton, Indiana and his...
Rita Rudner
Rita Rudner is an American comedian, writer and actress. Beginning her career as a Broadway dancer, Rita Rudner noticed the...
Kahlil Gibran
Khalil Gibran was a Lebanese writer, poet and visual artist. (Source + full bio: Wikipedia.org)
Joseph Campbell
Joseph John Campbell was an American mythologist who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects...
John Updike
John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only three...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and statesman. His works include epic and lyric poetry; prose and verse...
Henry Miller
Henry Valentine Miller was an American writer, expatriated in Paris at his flourishing. He was known for breaking with existing...
G. K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian,...
Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Green Hubbard was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as...
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic theologian. He was a child prodigy who was educated...
André Breton
André Breton was a French writer, poet, and anti-fascist. He is known best as the founder of Surrealism. His writings...
A. A. Milne
Alan Alexander Milne was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various...
Megan McArdle
Megan McArdle is a journalist and blogger based in Washington, D.C.. She writes mostly about economics, finance and government policy...
Stuart Wilde
Stuart Wilde was a British writer. Best known for his works on New Age, self-empowerment, and spirituality, he was also...
Denis Waitley
Denis E. Waitley is an American motivational speaker, writer and consultant. He has been recognized as the best-selling author of...
William Arthur Ward
William Arthur Ward is one of America’s most quoted writers of inspirational maxims. More than 100 articles, poems and meditations...
Will Durant
William James “Will” Durant was an American writer, historian, and philosopher. He is best known for The Story of Civilization,...
Cynthia Heimel
Cynthia Heimel (née Glick) is a feminist humorist writer from Oakland, California. She is a columnist and the author of...
Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as...
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder was an American writer known for the Little House on the Prairie series of children’s books released...
Groucho Marx
Julius Henry Marx, known professionally as Groucho Marx, was an American comedian, writer, stage, film, radio, and television star. He...
Stephen Colbert
Stephen Tyrone Colbert is an American comedian, television host, actor, and writer. He is best known for hosting the satirical...
Steven Wright
Steven Alexander Wright is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and Oscar-winning film producer. He is known for his distinctly...
