📚 Authors Index
Explore classic American and international authors
from Edgar Allan Poe to contemporary masters
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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
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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
E.F. Benson
July 24, 1867 – February 29, 1940
Robert Hugh Benson
November 18, 1871 – October 19, 1914
J.D. Beresford
March 17, 1873 – February 2, 1947
Irving Berlin
May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989
