📚 Authors Index
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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
September 22, 1872 – June 4, 1958
Achmed Abdullah
May 12, 1881 – May 12, 1945
Andy Adams
George Ade
February 9, 1866 – May 16, 1944
Aesop
~ 620 BC – ~ 546 BC
Anna Akhmatova
June 23, 1889 – March 1966
Louisa May Alcott
Nov 29, 1832 – Mar 6, 1888
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
1836 – 1905
Horatio Alger
January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899
Dante
1265 – 1321
Joseph A. Altsheler
April 29, 1862 – June 5, 1919
Hans Christian Andersen
April 2, 1805 – August 4, 1875
Sherwood Anderson
September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941
Leonid Andreyev
August 21, 1871 – September 12, 1919
Maya Angelou
April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014
Anonymous
Victor Appleton
1862 – 1930
Aristotle
384 BCE – 322 BCE
T.S. Arthur
June 6, 1809 – March 6, 1885
Peter Christen Asbjornsen
January 15, 1812 – January 6, 1885
Isaac Asimov
January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992
Machado de Assis
June 21, 1839 – September 29, 1908
Gertrude Atherton
October 30, 1857 – June 14, 1948
Margaret Atwood
November 18, 1939
W.H. Auden
February 21, 1907 – September 29, 1973
Stacy Aumonier
1877 – 1928
Jane Austen
Li Bai
701 – 762
James Baldwin
1841 – 1925
Sullivan Ballou
March 28, 1829 – July 29, 1861
Honore de Balzac
May 20, 1799 – August 18, 1850
Ralph Henry Barbour
November 13, 1870 – February 19, 1944
Robert Barr
September 16, 1849 – October 21, 1912
James M. Barrie
May 1860 – June 1937
Clara Barton
December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912
Matsuo Basho
1644 – November 28, 1694
Frédéric Bastiat
1801 – 1850
Katharine Lee Bates
August 12, 1859 – March 28, 1929
L. Frank Baum
May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919
Rex Ellingwood Beach
September 1, 1877 – December 7, 1949
Nancy Bell
Edward Bellamy
March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898
Francis Bellamy
May 18, 1855 – August 28, 1931
Arnold Bennett
May 22, 1867 – March 27, 1931
Robert Hugh Benson
November 18, 1871 – October 19, 1914
E.F. Benson
July 24, 1867 – February 29, 1940
J.D. Beresford
March 17, 1873 – February 2, 1947
Irving Berlin
May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989
Ambrose Bierce
June 24, 1842 – 1914
Jerome Bixby
January 11, 1923 – April 28, 1998
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
8 December 1832 – 26 April 1910
R. D. Blackmore
7 June 1825 – 20 January 1900
Algernon Blackwood
March 14, 1869 – December 10, 1951
Albert F. Blaisdell
1847 – 1927
William Blake
28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827
Robert Albert Bloch
April 5, 1917 – September 23,1944
Giovanni Boccaccio
1313 – December 21, 1375
James Boswell
Ray Bradbury
August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012
Loretta Ellen Brady
Vera Brittain
December 29, 1893 – March 29, 1970
Charlotte Bronte
April 21, 1816 – March 31, 1855
Emily Bronte
July 30, 1818 – December 19, 1848
Fredric Brown
October 29, 1906 – March 11, 1972
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861
Robert Browning
7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889
William Cullen Bryant
November 3, 1794 – June 12, 1878
Pearl Buck
June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973
Ivan Bunin
October 22, 1870 – November 8, 1953
Henry Cuyler Bunner
August 3, 1855 – May 11, 1896
John Bunyan
1628 – August 31, 1688
Frances Hodgson Burnett
24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924
Robert Burns
25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796
Amelia Josephine Burr
November 19, 1878 – June 15, 1968
Edgar Rice Burroughs
September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950
Ellis Parker Butler
December 5, 1869 – September 13, 1937
Lord Byron
22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824
Truman Capote
September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984
Lewis Carroll
Guy Wetmore Carryl
March 4, 1873 – April 1, 1904
Raymond Carver
Willa Cather
December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947
Margaret Cavendish
1623 – 1673
Miguel de Cervantes
29 September 1547 – 22 April 1616
Robert W. Chambers
May 26, 1865 – December 16, 1933
George F. Chambers
October 18, 1841 – May 24, 1914
Geoffrey Chaucer
1343 – October 25, 1400
Anton Chekhov
January 29, 1860 – July 15, 1904
Charles W. Chesnutt
June 20, 1858 – November 17, 1932
G.K. Chesterton
May 29, 1874 – June 14, 1936
Gerald Chittenden
Kate Chopin
February 8, 1850 – August 22, 1904
Agatha Christie
September 15, 1890 – January 12, 1976
Marcus Clarke
George M. Cohan
July 3, 1878 – November 5, 1942
Sara Coleridge
December 23, 1802 – May 3, 1852
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
October 21, 1772 – July 25, 1834
Wilkie Collins
January 8, 1824 – September 23, 1889
C. Collodi
November 24, 1826 – October 26, 1890
Cornelia A. P. Comer
Confucius
Richard Connell
October 17, 1893 – November 22, 1949
Joseph Conrad
3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924
Grace MacGowan Cooke
1863 – 1944
James Fenimore Cooper
September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851
Wendy Cope
1945
A. E. Coppard
1878-01-04 – 1957-01-13
Stephen Crane
November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900
J. Hector St. John de Crevoecoeur
December 31, 1735 – November 12, 1813
Richmal Crompton
15 November 1890 – 11 January 1969
Roald Dahl
13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990
Richard Harding Davis
April 18, 1864 – April 11, 1916
Daniel Defoe
September 13, 1660 – April 24, 1731
Ethel M. Dell
August 2, 1881 – September 19, 1939
Thomas De Quincey
15 August 1785 – 8 December 1859)
Aubrey Thomas de Vere
January 10, 1814 – January 20, 1902
Philip K. Dick
December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982
Charles Dickens
February 7, 1812 – June 9, 1870
Emily Dickinson
December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886
William Donahey
October 19, 1883 – February 1, 1970
John Donne
24 January 1572 – 31 March 1631
John Dos Passos
January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970
Fyodor Dostoevsky
November 11, 1821 – February 9, 1881
Frederick Douglass
February 1818 – February 20, 1895
Ernest Dowson
August 2, 1867 – February 23, 1900
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930
Theodore Dreiser
August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945
W.E.B. Du Bois
February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963
Alexandre Dumas
24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870
Alexandre Dumas, fils
Paul Laurence Dunbar
June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
July 19, 1875 – September 18, 1935
Walter A. Dyer
October 10, 1878 – August 20, 1943
Edith Maude Eaton
Mar 15, 1865 – Apr 7, 1914
Johnathan Edwards
Amelia B. Edwards
7 June 1831 – 15 April 1892
T.S. Eliot
September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965
George Eliot
November 22, 1819 – December 22, 1880
Ralph Waldo Emerson
May 25, 1803, Boston – April 27, 1882, Concord
Daniel Decatur Emmett
October 29, 1815 – Jun 28, 1904
Olaudah Equiano
1745 – March 31, 1797
Evelyn Everett-Green
17 November 1856 – 23 April 1932
William Faulkner
Edna Ferber
August 15, 1885 – April 16, 1968
Parker Fillmore
1878 – 1944
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
February 17, 1879 – November 9, 1958
F. Scott Fitzgerald
September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940
Edward FitzGerald
March 31, 1809 – June 14, 1883
Gustave Flaubert
December 12, 1821 – May 8, 1880
Mary Hallock Foote
November 9, 1847 – June 25, 1938
Ford Madox Ford
17 December 1873 – 26 June 1939
E.M. Forster
January 1, 1879 – June 7, 1970
George Fox
July 1624 – January 13, 1691
Benjamin Franklin
January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790
Miles Franklin
14 October 1879 – 19 September 1954
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
October 31, 1852 – March 13, 1930
R. Austin Freeman
April 11, 1862 – September 28, 1943
Robert Frost
March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963
Margaret Fuller
May 23, 1810 – July 19, 1850
Zona Gale
August 26, 1874 – December 27, 1938
John Galsworthy
August 14, 1867 – January 31, 1933
Ruth Stiles Gannett
August 12, 1923
Vsevolod Garshin
February 14, 1855 – April 5, 1888
Elizabeth Gaskell
29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865
Swarnakumari Ghosal
1855 – 1932
Kahlil Gibran
January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935
Patrick Gilmore
December 25, 1829 – September 24, 1892
George Gissing
November 22, 1857 – December 28, 1903
Susan Glaspell
July 1, 1876 – July 27, 1948
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
March 31, 1809 – March 4, 1852
Mother Goose
Elizabeth Gordon
1866 – 1922
Maxim Gorky
28 March [O.S. March 16] 1868 – 18 June 1936
C. Houston & Alberta Goudiss
Kenneth Grahame
8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932
Ulysses S. Grant
April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885
Robert Graves
July 24, 1895 – December 7, 1895
Zane Grey
January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939
The Brothers Grimm
Woody Guthrie
July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967
Edward Everett Hale
April 3, 1822 – June 10, 1909
William D'Arcy Haley
May 1828 – March 1890
Alexander Hamilton
January 11, 1755 – July 12, 1804
Thomas Hardy
June 2, 1840 – January 11, 1928
Francis Watkins Harper
September 24, 1825 – February 22, 1911
Bret Harte
August 25, 1836 – May 6, 1902
W. F. Harvey
1885 – 1937
Nathaniel Hawthorne
July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864
Lafcadio Hearn
June 27, 1850 – September 26, 1904
Ernest Hemingway
July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961
William Ernest Henley
1849 – 1903
O. Henry
Sep 11, 1862 – Jun 5, 1910 (age 47)
Oliver Herford
December 2, 1860 – July 5, 1935
Robert Welch Herrick
April 21, 1868 – December 23, 1938
Robert Herrick
August 24, 1591 – October 15, 1674
Hermann Hesse
July 2, 1877 – August 9, 1962
Violet Moore Higgins
November 28, 1886 – July 28, 1967
E.T.A. Hoffmann
January 24, 1776 – June 25, 1822
Oliver Wendell Holmes
August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894
Mary Jane Holmes
April 5, 1825 – October 6, 1907
Homer
Livingston Hopkins
July 7, 1846 – August 21, 1927
A. E. Housman
26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936
Julia Ward Howe
May 27, 1819 – October 17, 1910
William Dean Howells
March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920
Langston Hughes
February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967
Louis Hughes
1832 – 1913
Victor Hugo
26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885
Evan Hunter
October 15, 1926 – July 6, 2005
Zora Neale Hurston
January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960
Aldous Huxley
July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963
Henrik Ibsen
March 20, 1828 – May 23, 1906
Washington Irving
April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859
Shirley Jackson
Dec 14, 1916 – Aug 8, 1965
Joseph Jacobs
August 29, 1854 – January 30, 1916
W. W. Jacobs
Sep 8, 1863 – Sep 1, 1943
Grace James
1864 – 1930
Henry James
April 15, 1843 – February 28, 1916
M.R. James
August 1, 1862, Goodnestone – June 12, 1936, Eton
Francis De Haes Janvier
1817 – 1885
Thomas Jefferson
April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826
Jerome K. Jerome
May 2, 1859 – Jun 14, 1927
Sarah Orne Jewett
September 3, 1849 – June 24, 1909
James Joyce
Feb 2, 1882 – January 13, 1941
Franz Kafka
3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924
John Keats
31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821
Mrs. E.E. Kellogg
Jack Kerouac
March 12, 1922 – March 21, 1969
Francis Scott Key
August 1, 1779 – January 11, 1843
Alexander Kielland
February 18, 1849 – April 6, 1906
Joyce Kilmer
December 6, 1886 – July 30, 1918
Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968
Charles Kingsley
June 12, 1819 – January 23, 1875
Rudyard Kipling
December 30, 1865, Mumbai – January 18, 1936, Middlesex Hospital
Joseph Martin Kronheim
October 26, 1810 – 1896
Aleksandr I. Kuprin
September 7, 1870 – August 25, 1938
William James Lampton
1917
Perceval Landon
March 29, 1869 – January 23, 1927
Ring Lardner
March 6, 1885 – September 25, 1933
W.B. Laughead
1882 – 1958
D. H. Lawrence
September 11, 1885 – March 2, 1930
Henry Lawson
June 17, 1867 – September 2, 1922
Emma Lazarus
July 22, 1849 – November 19.1887
Stephen Leacock
30 December 1869 – Died 28 March 1944
Edward Lear
May 12, 1812 – January 29, 1888
Harper Lee
April 28, 1926 – February 19, 2016
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873
Giacomo Leopardi
June 29, 1798 – June 14, 1837
Gaston Leroux
6 May 1868 – 15 April 1927
C.S. Lewis
November 29, 1898 – November 22, 1963
Sinclair Lewis
Natalie Sumner Lincoln
John Locke
August 29, 1632 – October 28, 1704
Hugh Lofting
January 14, 1886 – September 26, 1947
Jack London
Jan 12, 1876 – Nov 22, 1916
Julius Long
1907 – 1955
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882
Henrik Willem van Loon
January 14, 1882 – March 11, 1944
H. P. Lovecraft
August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937
James Russell Lowell
February 22, 1819 – August 12, 1891
Lucretius
October 15, 99 BCE – 55 BCE
Arthur Machen
3 March 1863 – 15 December 1947
Niccolo Machiavelli
May 3, 1469 – June 21, 1527
James Madison
March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836
Katherine Mansfield
14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
March 6, 1927
George R.R. Martin
September 20, 1948
William Somerset Maugham
January 25, 1874 – December 16, 1965
Guy de Maupassant
Aug 5, 1850 – Jul 6, 1893
John McCrae
November 30, 1872 – January 28, 1918
Walter McRoberts
Herman Melville
August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891
H.L. Mencken
September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956
Prosper Merimee
September 28, 1803 – September 23, 1870
Judith Merril
Januay 21, 1923 – September 12, 1997
George Henry Miles
July 31, 1824 – July 23, 1871
John Stuart Mill
May 20, 1806 – May 8, 1873
A.A. Milne
January 18, 1882 – January 31, 1956
John Milton
December 9, 1608 – November 8, 1674
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (Moliere)
January 15, 1622 – February 17, 1673
Lucy Maud Montgomery
November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942
C.L. Moore
January 24, 1911 – April 4, 1987
Thomas Moore
May 28, 1779 – February 25, 1852
W.C. Morrow
7 July 1854 – 1923
H.H. Munro (SAKI)
18 December 1870 – 13 November 1916
Vladimir Nabokov
April 22, 1899 – July 2, 1977
E. Nesbit
August 15, 1858 – May 4, 1924
Friedrich Nietzsche
October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900
Florence Nightingale
May 12, 1820 – August 13, 1910
Arabian Nights
Kathleen Norris
Jul 16, 1880 – Jan 18, 1966
Frank Norris
1870 – 1902
Solomon Northup
July 1808 – after 1857
Andre Norton
February 17, 1912 – March 17, 2005
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
March 22, 1808 – June 15, 1877
Fitz-James O'Brien
31 December 1828 – 6 April 1862
Flannery O'Connor
March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964
Liam O'Flaherty
28 August 1896 – 7 September 1984
James O'Keefe
Eugene O'Neill
October 18, 1888 – November 27, 1953
George Orwell
25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950
Ovid
March 24 43 BCE – 17 CE
Wilfred Owen
March 18, 1893 – November 4, 1918
Thomas Nelson Page
April 23, 1853 – November 1, 1922
Thomas Paine
February 9, 1737 – June 8, 1809
Dorothy Parker
August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1969
Banjo Paterson
Elia W. Peattie
January 15, 1862 – July 12, 1935
Samuel Pepys
February 23, 1633 – May 26, 1703
Charles Perrault
January 12, 1628 – May 16, 1703
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
August 31, 1944 – January 28, 1911
Clara Dillingham Pierson
March 11, 1868 – 1952
Plato
428–427 BC – 348–347
Edgar Allan Poe
January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849
John William Polidori
September 7, 1795 – August 24, 1821
Alexander Pope
May 21, 1688 – May 30, 1744
Katherine Anne Porter
May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980
Melville Davisson Post
April 19, 1869 – June 23, 1930
Beatrix Potter
July 28, 1866 – December 22, 1943
Ezra Pound
30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972
Marcel Prevost
1 May 1862 – 8 April 1941
Alexsander Pushkin
Jun 6, 1799 – February 10, 1837
Howard Pyle
March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911
Arthur Quiller-Couch
November 21, 1863 – May 12, 1944
Ayn Rand
February 2, 1905 – March 6, 1982
Laura E. Richards
Katherine Rickford
James Whitcomb Riley
October 7, 1849 – July 22, 1916
James Riley
October 27, 1777 – March 13, 1840
Mary Roberts Rinehart
August 12, 1876 – September 22, 1958
Edward Payson Roe
March 7, 1838 – July 19, 1888
George Frederick Root
August 30, 1820 – August 6, 1895
Isaac Rosenberg
November 25, 1890 – April 1, 1918
J.K. Rowling
July 31, 1965
Bertrand Russell
May 18, 1872 – February 2, 1970
Arnaba Saha
J.D. Salinger
January 1, 1919 – January 22, 2010
Carl Sandburg
January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967
Dorothy Sayers
June 13, 1893 – December 17, 1957
Sir Walter Scott
August 15, 1771 – September 21, 1832
S.T. Semyonov
March 28, 1868 – December 3, 1922
Anna Sewell
30 March 1820 – 25 April 1878
William Shakespeare
1564 – 1616
Bernard Shaw
July 26, 1856 – November 2, 1950
Mary Shelley
August 30, 1797 – February 1, 1851
Percy Bysshe Shelley
August 4, 1792 – July 8, 1822
Harold M. Sherman
July 13, 1898 – August 19, 1987
M.P. Shiel
July 21, 1865 – February 17, 1947
Dora Sigerson Shorter
August 16, 1866 – January 6, 1918
Upton Sinclair
September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968
Samuel Francis Smith
October 21, 1808 – November 16, 1895
Adam Smith
5 June 1723 – 17 July 1790
Evelyn E. Smith
July 25, 1920 – July 4, 2000
Clark Ashton Smith
January 13, 1893 – August 14, 1961
Sophocles
498 BC – 406 BC
John Philip Sousa
November 6, 1854 – March 6, 1932
Thomas Sowell
1930
Harriet Prescott Spofford
April 3, 1835 – August 14, 1921
Johanna Spyri
12 June 1827 – 7 July 1901
Wilbur Daniel Steele
March 17, 1886 – May 26, 1970
Gertrude Stein
February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946
John Steinbeck
February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968
Carl Stephenson
November 3, 1893 – after 1960
Robert Louis Stevenson
13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894
R.L. Stine
October 8, 1943
Frank Stockton
April 5, 1834 – April 20, 1902
Bram Stoker
8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912
Harriet Beecher Stowe
June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896
Lytton Strachey
March 1, 1880 – January 21, 1932
Edward Stratemeyer
October 4, 1862 – May 10, 1930
Ruth McEnery Stuart
May 21, 1849 – May 6, 1917
Jesse Stuart
August 8, 1906 – February 17, 1984
Edna St. Vincent Millay
February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950
Kate Dickinson Sweetser
1939
Jonathan Swift
November 30, 1667 – October 19, 1745
Netta Syrett
17 March 1865 – 15 December 1943
Rabindranath Tagore
7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941
Ida Tarbell
November 5, 1857 – January 6, 1944
Booth Tarkington
July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946
Sara Teasdale
August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933
Alfred Lord Tennyson
August 6, 1809 – October 6, 1892
William Makepeace Thackeray
18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863
Ernest Lawrence Thayer
August 14, 1863 – August 21, 1940
Dylan Thomas
October 27, 1914 – November 9, 1953
Henry David Thoreau
July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862
Harold Titus
February 20, 1888 – October 1967
Alexis de Tocqueville
July 29, 1805 – April 16, 1859
J.R.R. Tolkien
January 3, 1892 – September 2, 1973
Alexei Tolstoy
5 September 1817 – 10 October 1875
Leo Tolstoy
September 9, 1828 – November 20, 1910
P.L. Travers
Anthony Trollope
April 24, 1815 – December 6, 1882
Tristram Tupper
1884 – 1954
Ivan S. Turgenev
October 28, 1818 – September 3, 1883
Ethel Turner
25 January 1873 – 8 April 1958
Mark Twain
November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910
Sun Tzu
544 BC – 496 BC
Henry van Dyke
November 10, 1852 – April 10, 1933
Jules Verne
February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905
Voltaire
Nov 12, 1694 – May 30, 1778
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007
Edgar Wallace
April 1, 1875 – February 10, 1932
Horace Walpole
September 24, 1717 – March 2, 1797
Booker T. Washington
April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915
Weaver & LeCron
Stanley Weinbaum
April 4, 1902 – December 14, 1935
Ida B. Wells
July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931
H.G. Wells
21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946
Anne Hollingsworth Wharton
December 15, 1845 – July 29, 1928
Edith Wharton
January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937
Phillis Wheatley
1753 – December 5, 1784
Stewart Edward White
E.B. White
July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985
Walt Whitman
May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892 (aged 72)
John Greenleaf Whittier
December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892
Margaret Widdemer
September 30, 1884 – July 14, 1978
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Sep 28, 1856 – Aug 24, 1923
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
November 5, 1850 – October 30, 1919
Oscar Wilde
October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900
Margery Williams
Jul 22, 1881 – Sep 4, 1944
William Carlos Williams
September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963
P. G. Wodehouse
15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975
Tobias Wolff
June 19, 1945
Mary Wollstonecraft
27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797
Virginia Woolf
25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850
Madeline Yale Wynne
September 25, 1847 – January 4, 1918
J.D. Wyss
May 28, 1743 – January 11, 1818
William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939
Anzia Yezierska
1885 – November 21, 1970
Charlotte M. Yonge
11 August 1823 – 24 May 1901
Emile Zola
2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902