Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was a prominent American sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer f …
George Eliot (1819-1880) was a humane freethinker, whose insightful psychological novels paved way to modern character portrayals - contemporary of Do …
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), American short-story writer and novelist, known for his depictions of the Jazz Age (the 1920s). With the glamorous Ze …
Aristophanes (ca. 446 – ca. 386 BC), the literary activity of the famous Greek comedy writer, covered a period of forty years. He was a prolific and m …
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), French novelist of the realist school, was best-known for Madame Bovary, a story of adultery and unhappy love affair of …
John Jeffery Farnol (1878-1952), was an English author, known for his many romantic novels, some formulaic and set in the English Regency period, and …
Daniel Defoe (1659-1731) was an English writer, journalist, and pamphleteer, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. He is notable for …
Christopher Morley (1890-1957), American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet, who produced stage productions for a few years and gave college lect …
Georg Moritz Ebers (1837-1898), German Egyptologist and novelist, discovered the Egyptian medical papyrus, of ca 1550 BCE, named for him at Luxor in t …
Robert Browning (1812–1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the fo …