Famous Writers
Famous novelists, poets, playwrights, and journalists whose words changed minds and moved hearts.
21 biography pages
Alice Munro
b. 1931 — d. 2024
Anna Sewell
b. 1820 — d. 1878
Bob Dylan
b. 1941
Booker T. Washington
b. 1856 — d. 1915
Corrie ten Boom
b. 1892 — d. 1983
Eudora Welty
b. 1909 — d. 2001
Graham Greene
b. 1904 — d. 1991
Hans Christian Andersen
b. 1805 — d. 1875
Harper Lee
b. 1926 — d. 2016
Ian Fleming
b. 1908 — d. 1964
Karl Marx
b. 1818 — d. 1883
Maya Angelou
b. 1928 — d. 2014
Milan Kundera
b. 1929 — d. 2023
Roger Ebert
b. 1942 — d. 2013
Samuel Beckett
b. 1906 — d. 1989
Seamus Heaney
b. 1939 — d. 2013
Thomas Jefferson
b. 1743 — d. 1826
Tina Fey
b. 1970
Tom Clancy
b. 1947 — d. 2013
Tom Wolfe
b. 1930 — d. 2018
William Shakespeare
b. 1564 — d. 1616