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Eugene O'Neill Biography: American Playwright and Poet, Famous for The Iceman Cometh

Octavio Paz Biography: Mexican Poet, Writer and Diplomat, 1990 Nobel Laureate

William Hazlitt Biography: English Essayist, Critic, and a Biographer, Known for Table Talk

Arnold Bennett Biography: English Novelist and Playwright, Best Known for The Old Wives' Tale

Friedrich von Schiller as Writer: German Philosopher, Poet and Playwright, Known for Ode to Joy

Vladimir Mayakovsky Biography: Russian Poet and Playwright, Famous for Mystery Bouffe

Michel de Montaigne Biography: French Essayist and Philosopher who Invented the Essay

Samuel Beckett Biography: Irish Playwright, Poet and Novelist, Famous for Waiting for Godot

Knut Hamsun Biography: Norwegian Novelist Famous for The Growth of the Soil

Edward Lear Biography: English Children's Author and Artist, Famous for A Book of Nonsense

Jean de La Fontaine Biography: French Poet Influenced by Fables of Aesop and Boccaccio

Francesco Petrarca Biography: Italian Poet of Early Renaissance, Scholar, Father of Humanism

A.A. Milne Biography: English Children's Writer Famous for Winnie-the-Pooh

Lillian Hellman Biography: American Playwright Famous for The Children's Hour

Jean-Paul Sartre Novelist and Playwright: French Philosopher and Existentialist, Famous for Play No Exit

Charles Baudelaire Biography: French Poet, Best-known for Poems Les Fleurs du Mal

Pedro Calderón de la Barca Biography: Spanish Playwright and Poet, Famous for Life's a Dream

Dante Alighieri Brief Biography: Italian Poet Famous for The Divine Comedy

Robert Burns Brief Biography: Scottish Poet, Famous for Auld Lang Syne and A Red, Red Rose

Carson McCullers Brief Biography: American Novelist, Famous for The Member of the Wedding

Alexander Pope Brief Biography and Poems: English Poet Famous for An Essay on Criticism

Ovid Brief Biography and Poetry: Ancient Roman Poet, Famous for His Masterpiece Metamorphoses

Greek Poet Sappho Biography: Regarded Most Famous Love Poetess in European Literature History

Gaius Valerius Catullus Poetry: Ancient Roman Poet Best Known for Latin Love Poems

James Baldwin Brief Biography: American Novelist, Short-Story Writer, Essayist and Playwright

Jack Kerouac Life and Works: American Novelist and Poet, Famous for On the Road

William S. Burroughs Bio and Works: American Novelist and Short-Story Writer Famous for Naked Lunch

Hans Christian Andersen Biography: Brief Bio of Danish Writer, Famous for Children's Fairy Tale Books

Anna Akhmatova Brief Bio and Works: Russian Poet, Famous for Requiem and Poem Without a Hero

Sir Stephen Spender Brief Biography: English Poet and Writer, Best-Known for Poems and World Within World

Harper Lee and Her Only Published Novel: American Author of Classic Book To Kill a Mockingbird

Alexandre Dumas Père Brief Biography: Writer Famous for The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo

Christopher Isherwood Brief Biography: English-American Novelist Famous for Goodbye to Berlin

John Galsworthy Biography: English Novelist and Playwright, Famous for the Forsyte Family

Ben Jonson Brief Biography: English Playwright, Actor and Poet, Famous for Comedy Volpone

Kazuo Ishiguro Brief Biography: Japanese-Born British Novelist, Famous for The Remains of the Day

Truman Capote Biography and Works: American Literary Classics Writer Best-Known for In Cold Blood

Heinrich Heine Biography: German Poet and Prose Writer, Famous for Book of Songs

Allen Ginsberg Life and Poetry: American Poet of the Beat Generation and Famous for Poem Howl

The Brothers Grimm and Fairy Tales: German Writers Famous for Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella

Oliver Goldsmith Brief Bio and Works: British Author of The Vicar of Wakefield and She Stoops to Conquer

Horace Brief Biography and Poetry: One of the Greatest Ancient Roman Poets in Latin, Famous for Poetry

Daphne Du Maurier Works and Brief Bio: Famous for Rebecca, The Birds, Jamaica Inn and Frenchman's Creek

John Dryden Brief Biography and Works: English Poet, Playwright, Translator, Famous for Play All for Love

John Gay Brief Biography: English Poet and Playwright, Famous for The Beggar's Opera

Gerard Manley Hopkins and His Poetry: English Poet, Best-known for The Windhover and Pied Beauty

Agatha Christie Brief Bio and Works: English Crime Writer Best-known for Poirot, Marple, and Mousetrap

Geoffrey Chaucer Brief Bio and Works: English Poet of the Middle Ages, Famous for The Canterbury Tales

American Short-Story Writer O. Henry Biography: Famous for Short Story Collections including The Four Million

James Fenimore Cooper Biography: American Novelist Famous for The Last of the Mohicans

French Writer George Sand: Novelist and Playwright Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin

Marguerite Duras Biography: French Novelist, Screenwriter, Filmmaker and Playwright

Anthony Burgess Brief Biography: English Novelist and Critic, Famous for A Clockwork Orange

Kingsley Amis Biography: English Novelist, Poet, Teacher and Critic, Famous for Lucky Jim

Maurice Maeterlinck Biography: Belgian Playwright, Poet and Essayist, Famous for Symbolism

Biography of Spanish Writer Lope de Vega: Playwright, Author and Poet, Famous for Fuente Ovejuna and Arcadia

Homer and His Two Epic Poems: Greek Poet Famous for Iliad and Odyssey

John Milton Life and Works: English Poet and Essayist Famous for Paradise Lost

Robert Frost Life and Works: American Poet With Four Pulitzer Prizes

Omar Khayyam Life and Rubaiyat: Persian Poet, Mathematician and Astronomer, Famous for Poetry

André Breton and Surrealism: French Poet and Novelist, Dadaist, Surrealist

Bertolt Brecht Biography: German Playwright and Poet Who Wrote Mother Courage and Her Children

Jack London Biography: American Novelist Famous for Call of the Wild, Sea Wolf, White Fang

Sophocles Life and Plays: Greek Playwright, Famous for Oedipus and Antigone

Edna Ferber Biography: American Novelist, Short Story Writer and Playwright

Desiderius Erasmus Biography: Dutch Humanist and Scholar Best Known for In Praise of Folly

Beaumarchais Biography: Playwright of The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro

Robert Graves Biography: English Writer Famous for "Goodbye to All That" and "I, Claudius"

Ralph Ellison Biography: African-American Novelist and Essayist, Famous for the Invisible Man

Henry Fielding Biography: English Novelist and Playwright Famous for Tom Thumb

Jonathan Swift Biography: Irish Writer Famous for Gulliver's Travel and Satirical Essays

Mark Twain Biography: The Creator of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn is Famous For His Quotes, Humor

Brief Biography of Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish Poet, Novelist and Playwright Famous for Don Quixote

Daniel Defoe Brief Biography: English Author Famous for Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders

Giovanni Boccaccio Biography: Italian Renaissance Writer Famous for The Decameron

Ancient Greek Playwright Aristophanes: Famous for Plays The Clouds and The Frogs

Ancient Greek Playwright Aeschylus: Tragic Dramatist Known for Oresteia Trilogy and Eumenides Quotes

Washington Irving Biography: Writer Famous for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle

Stephen Crane Biography: American Novelist, Short-Story Writer, Poet, Journalist

Kenneth Grahame Biography: Scottish Children's Writer Famous for The Wind in the Willows

John Buchan Life and Works: Scottish Novelist and Biographer

Edward Albee Biography: American Playwright Famous for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Lewis Carroll Life and Works: Children's Writer, Famous for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Charles Lamb Biography: English Essayist and Poet

John Steinbeck and His Works: American Novelist and Short-Story Writer

Philip Roth Biography and Books: American Novelist, Famous for Portnoy's Complaint

J.M. Barrie Biography: Scottish Children's Writer, Novelist and Playwright

R.D. Blackmore Biography: English Novelist and Poet, Famous for Lorna Doone

Vladimir Nabokov Brief Bio and Works: Russian-born American Novelist, Famous for Lolita

Frances Hodgson Burnett Biography: English-American Children's Writer, The Secret Garden Fame

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Biography: Famous Poet in American Literature

Joseph Heller Biography: American Novelist and Playwright, Famous for Catch-22

Sinclair Lewis Biography: American Novelist Best Known for Arrowsmith

L.M. Montgomery Biography: Canadian Children's Writer Famous for Anne of Green Gables

Tennessee Williams Biography: American Playwright, Novelist, Poet, famous for The Glass Menagerie

Love Comedy Plays from Great English Playwrights: William Shakespeare, William Congreve, and Colley Cibber

William Congreve Biography: English Playwright and Poet

Wilkie Collins Biography: English Crime Writer, Considered First Detective Writer

Carl Sandburg, Poems and Biographies: American Poet and Biographer of Lincoln, Pulitzer Prize Winner

J.D. Salinger Biography: American Novelist and Short Story Writer

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