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Writers Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
English author of many famous novels including Oliver Twist, David
People have written things down for thousands of years. Copperfield, and A Tale of Two Cities.
Writing can include books, poems, or plays. It can tell a Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855)
story or record facts. English author of Jane Eyre and other novels. Her sisters Emily (1818–
1848, author of Wuthering Heights) and Anne (1820 –1849) are also
Homer (around 800 bce) well-known writers.
Legendary blind author of the Greek epic poems the Iliad and the
Odyssey, set at the time of the Trojan War. Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
French poet whose subjects include city life and the unhappy side of
Sappho (around 630 bce) emotions. He was a big influence on later poets.
Greek poet famous for her passionate love poetry. Only a small amount
of her work now survives. Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)
Russian author of the famous novels Anna Karenina and War and Peace.
Qu Yuan (around 340–278 bce)
Ancient Chinese poet and public servant. His most famous poem is called Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
The Lament. American poet whose deeply felt, personal poems only became well
known after her death.
Virgil (70–19 bce)
Roman author of the epic poem the Aeneid, which tells the legendary Lewis Carroll (1832–1898)
story of the creation of the city of Rome. English author and mathematician. His real name was Charles Lutwidge
Dodgson. He wrote the stories Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and
Imru’ al-Qais (around 500) Through the Looking-Glass.
Arabian poet whose works are full of passionate feeling. He is
sometimes called the father of Arabic poetry. Mark Twain (1835–1910)
American author, whose real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. His
Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) many works include the novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The
Italian author of the Divine Comedy, a three-part epic poem describing Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
hell, heaven, and purgatory (a place in between heaven and hell). Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
Geoffrey Chaucer (around 1343–1400) Irish author whose works include the play The Importance of Being
English author of The Canterbury Tales, entertaining stories told in the Earnest and his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray.
voice of different pilgrims (people traveling to a sacred place). Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941)
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Indian poet, novelist, composer, and thinker who wrote mainly in the
Spanish writer whose comic book Don Quixote, about the adventures of Bengali language. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.
a well-meaning but silly knight, is often described as Europe’s first novel. H. G. Wells (1866–1946)
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English author and thinker. He wrote works of science fiction such as
English playwright and poet whose many famous plays include Hamlet, The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds.
Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. James Joyce (1882–1941)
Molière (1622–1673) Irish author of famous novels including Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.
Famous French actor and author of funny comic plays. Molière was his
stage name, his real name was Jean-Baptiste Poquelin. Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
English novelist whose works feature a style of writing called stream-of-
Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694) consciousness where you read a person‘s thoughts as they think them.
Japanese poet, a master of the short type of Japanese poem called a
haiku, which contains just 17 syllables (single sounds in words). T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)
American–English poet whose works include The Waste Land. His
Voltaire (1694–1778) humorous poems about cats became the inspiration for the musical Cats.
French writer and thinker, whose real name was François-Marie Arouet. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948.
He attacked old-fashioned ideas in his funny and controversial writings. Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) American author whose books include A Farewell to Arms and For Whom
German writer, poet, and thinker, whose wide-ranging works include the Bell Tolls, both set in wartime. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature
Faust, a long drama finished just before his death. in 1954.
Robert Burns (1759–1796) George Orwell (1903–1950)
Scotland’s national poet. He wrote or revised the words for hundreds of English novelist and essay writer. He wrote the famous political novels
Scottish songs including Auld Lang Syne. Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014)
English poet who used nature as a source of inspiration. Colombian author whose novels, originally written in Spanish, include
Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. He won
Scottish writer and poet. He was the first great historical novelist, with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.
works including Ivanhoe, Old Mortality, and The Heart of Midlothian. Wole Soyinka (born 1934)
Jane Austen (1775–1817) Nigerian playwright, poet, and novelist whose works often deal with
English author whose funny and clever novels, including Emma and African political and social issues. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature
Pride and Prejudice, are still popular today. in 1986.
Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) J. K. Rowling (born 1965)
Danish writer best known for his children’s stories including The Ugly British author of the hugely successful Harry Potter series of books
Duckling, The Little Mermaid, and The Snow Queen. about a young wizard.

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