Famous Writers
Famous novelists, poets, playwrights, and journalists whose words changed minds and moved hearts.
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Adam Small
b. 1936
Adam Smith
b. 1723 — d. 1790
Adelaide Casely-Hayford
b. 1868 — d. 1960
Adelbert von Chamisso
b. 1781
Aelred of Rievaulx
b. 1110
Alan Clark
b. 1928
Alan Dershowitz
b. 1938
Alan Dugan
b. 1923
Alexander Pope
b. 1688 — d. 1744
Alfred Döblin
b. 1878
Alice Munro
b. 1931 — d. 2024
Amyr Klink
b. 1955
Angela Davis
b. 1944
Ann Biderman
b. 1951
Anna Sewell
b. 1820 — d. 1878
Anne Frank
b. 1929 — d. February 1945
Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans
b. 1627 — d. 1693
Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier
b. 1627
Annie Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany
b. 1891
Anthony Swofford
b. 1970
Antoine Arnauld
b. 1612
Antonia Forest
b.
Aram Saroyan
b. 1943
Arnold Fitz Thedmar
b. 1201
Arthur Conan Doyle
b. 1859 — d. 1930
Arthur Võõbus
b.
Assia Djebar
b. 1936 — d. 2015
August Bielenstein
b. 1826
August Strindberg
b. 1849 — d. 1912
Augustine of Hippo
b. 354
B. S. Johnson
b. 1933
Banjo Paterson
b. 1864
Barry Siegel
b. 1949
bell hooks
b. 1952
Ben Oakland
b. 1907
Bennet Wong
b. 1930
Bertrand Russell
b. 1872 — d. 1970
Betty Friedan
b. 1921
Bill Simmons
b. 1969
Billy Barnes
b. 1927
Bob Dylan
b. 1941
Booker T. Washington
b. 1856 — d. 1915
C. J. Henderson
b. 1951
Carlos Monsiváis
b. 1938 — d. 2010
Cecelia Ahern
b. 1981
Charles Clémencet
b. 1703
Charles Gondouin
b. 1875
Charles Krauthammer
b. 1950 — d. 2018